Shit happened.

Had a birthday today. Shut up. I’m definitely getting old, as demonstrated by writing blog posts about how old I’m getting. I also like to ramble in list form: Music these days. It’s not quite what I feared would happen — that I wouldn’t “get” it or I’d feel old because contemporary music trends offended [...]

Every day on my way to work, I pass a little strip mall in a fairly busy part of town. The mall contains the following businesses, in order: A convenience store A payday loans place A sex toys shop Another payday loans place Another sex toys shop A porn shop A convenience/liquor store There’s a [...]

I’ll be attending the season opener for the Oilers tonight, which will be the fourth consecutive home opener I’ve been to. In previous years, we got a free “rally towel” with the Oilers logo and the logo of some random sponsor (the Journal, Scotiabank, Crazy Wojtek’s Perogy Hut), and last year’s had a random player [...]

Last night I had a dream about the upcoming Vice Presidential debate between Caribou Barbie and Joe Whatshisnuts, except in the dream it was a debate between Daniella A. Apple and Lord Edmund Bryll. They both basically talked non-stop without concern for each other, the audience, or the moderator (Anson Williams). At one point Lord [...]

Woke up with a catastrophic migraine this morning. How’s that for a great way to start your first day back at work? Actually, I was way too clobbered by this thing to even think about going in to work. If migraines were ranked like hurricanes, this would be a Category 4: extremely nasty, but not [...]