Beyond the Rhetoric

I realize that you should take national surveys with a serious grain of salt, but they can sometimes provide some rather interesting information. A little while back, the local newspaper reported that about half of Canadians aged between 20 and 30 are still living at home with their parents. Falling under this category, I let [...]

No, today’s post isn’t about some barber shop quartet that has suddenly lost a member. Instead, I’m taking a look at three movies that have been produced by Judd Apatow: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and most recently, Superbad. All three films are known to be a little on the sicker side of [...]

Society seems to place writers — particularly freelance writers — on a lower plane than respectable professions like accountants, computer programmers, and dentists. Sure, we love people like Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, but characters like these are few and far between. The same can be said when comparing a blue-collar worker like a plumber [...]

I don’t know about the rest of the guys, but I think I’m reasonably recovered from our dot com diet yesterday, despite the fact that we each consumed probably two days worth of calories in that one sitting. It was greasy, it was fatty, and it was delicious. I’m a little surprised that we’re already [...]

While not all of us are pulling down truckloads of cash like a certain evil panda slayer and fake Hong Kong star, dot com moguls and dot com wannabes like to indulge in some rather ridiculous food sometimes and today was just that kind of occasion. Eight of us got together on a cloudy Tuesday [...]