Beyond the Rhetoric

Sunshine Cleaning Strange independent films with strange premises (are there any other kind?) are oftentimes hit or miss. You can have fantastic movies like Juno, and then you can have terribly obscure titles that no one should have ever watched in the first place. Thankfully, Sunshine Cleaning leans toward the former rather than the latter. [...]

You could say that my writing career started with Now That’s Entertainment, but that link will stop working in a few short months. I received an email from Yahoo! yesterday informing me that they will be closing their Geocities service as of October 26, 2009. How’s that for a horrible birthday present? It is the [...]

For this edition of Grammar 101, we consider a suggestion from Shawn Knight, the same guy who won my E3 swag contest last month. This also happens to be one of the most common errors that people make with a set of homonyms homophones. Do you know the difference between there, their, and they’re? Based [...]

For last week’s What’s Up Wednesday, we celebrated Canada Day. This week, turn our attention to the worlds of art and entertainment. I’ve compiled a series of blog posts that are all about keeping ourselves entertained and soaking in a little bit of culture along the way. The weekly speedlink that I do here is [...]

Many cities are named after famous people whose names sound normal enough. For example, the City of Vancouver was named after some British explorer named George Vancouver. However, there are also many towns and cities around the world that just so happen to have, let’s say, more creative names. Some of these are partly on [...]