There's no real "versus" happening between Mr. Cage and Ms. Austen, but they are battling in my brain, and it's noisy.

Every night for the past month and a half, I've been recording 'Pride and Prejudice' live on YouTube, one chapter at a time, and this usually takes place either directly after or right before watching an episode of the new Luke ( Read more... )

Let's pretend I posted this on the last day of March, as I was supposed to do.

Hey! It's March 31st! Happy birthday, godeater! Many happy returns. You will receive my most excellent birthday gift of groovy retro stereophonic equipment when I see you next ( Read more... )

Bollocks. Alastair contacted me last night to inform me that our Friday shindig, the U of T Saints & Sinners Club 1940s-themed Comic Book Villains Ball, has been canceled due to lack of interest! Fucking tragic. As always, I have tried to find the silver lining in this situation: given the recent popularity of comic book films, I was beginning to ( Read more... )

edwud lured me through the bitter cold to his library yesterday with the cryptic message "Can you come to FIS after work? I need to show you a few things ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time in three years, I went to see a film at the Bloor Cinema. It was just as I remembered it from the days of 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' screenings when I went festooned in pleather and tutus, bearing rolls of toilet paper, pockets of rice and a high-powered water pistol. The popcorn still smelled delicious, the crowd was ( Read more... )

First, a happy birthday wish to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, The Angriest Cat On Earth. Happy thirteenth, buddy. Please stop trying to mangle my left ankle when I walk into the bathroom on a morning: scar tissue is starting to form above my talus. You're a rotten bastard, but I'll hug you when I get home anyway. Kisses ( Read more... )

Friday after work I ran in the snow, had a delicious supper with friends (and ate most of godeater's martini olives), then swooped over to Alastair's with my best Nigella Lawson impersonation at the ready to help create his signature nutrition-free whipped-cream-chocolate-wafer log as a break from reading about Hobbes. I got a chance to "play" (read: lie ( Read more... )

I went out after work and had a nice meet-up and a drink with aboveaveragejoe and tapeheads and our friend Mark Askwith. It was good to see J&J, since they've both been laying low lately and are taking off on an adventure in a few weeks. Also really nice to see Mark, who is such a genuinely nice person and a good storyteller. I don't get to hear industry talk much now ( Read more... )

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I know, I know - I can’t believe I have this much to say about my weekend, either. Bear with me, one more and I’m done. Since the Redhead Gallery trip was a bust, the three of us trudged off in search of oversized burritos, then pushed on through the sudden attack of chilly rain to Pages on Queen, where I spent money on books that I will have to ( Read more... )