Will the Human Hater’s please shut-up? We aren’t a horrible, screwed up species, we aren’t a scourge to this Earth and if you loath your fellow man then here’s hoping you get reincarnated as a dung beetle, I’m sure we’ll all be happier.

Nothing irks me more then the person who despises humanity. No one is more public enemy number 1 for this ( Read more... )

 On June 14th, 2004 I began what I called The Robertson Report, an online column and blog right here on livejournal. Weeks prior to beginning what would be a three year journey here I received pressure from friends to start up an online thing and resisted, only to have a headstrong American by the name of Amanda decide to skip the convincing and ( Read more... )

Dear John,

I got to meet your wife and daughters yesterday and instantly I could see why you are always so proud of them, always telling me stories about them beaming with pride.

I met your wife and your children and I saw your nieces, your sisters and brother. I listened John to all of them, all of them as well as former colleagues, ( Read more... )

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An Incandescent Truth
by Derek Robertson

2012 AD - Buffalo, New York

Satchel Philby gazed at the aisles and aisles of goods that lay before him. Adjusting his thick framed glasses he searched for the row he needed. A methodical man most days, Satchel was nothing less then a bundle of nervous tics and a sweat coated forehead today. Around him ( Read more... )

Canadians are known to be funny.... on purpose I mean, they aren't laughing at us. Well they might be, but at least they are waiting until we leave the room ( Read more... )

Dear Reader,

So things in this little corner of the internet have come to a state of disrepair. While working on my movie (plug time: Love Squared, premiering in a Toronto theater circa March I believe) the weekly status of The Robertson Report became a distant memory and in that time the RR’s life beyond livejournal readership died out and looking ( Read more... )

I am not going to lie, I am a bit forgetful. In fact this is not even the topic I set out to write about, but after several hours of brainstorming on the other topic I went to the fridge to suck back some pineapple juice and totally forgot the purpose of this column.

It may have been about anniversaries.

Nope, no that was something else I was ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed that there are two sorts of holidays, those that involve chocolate and those that do not?

A few of those without chocolate have found their way into our heart with fireworks, but some holidays have chosen to go in different directions with their traditions, a less tasty, less explosive tradition. I’m thinking of course of New ( Read more... )

Around this time some five or six years ago, I was walking through the lobby of one of Toronto’s classier hotels. The air was filled with the cheerful tones of one Christmas song or another, with garland and grand pine trees adorning the already beautiful lobby ( Read more... )