Beyond the Rhetoric

“When I look at the net, I don’t see a goalie.” As with so many other people around my age group in Vancouver, I fell in love with the game of hockey during the 1993-94 NHL season. This was when the Vancouver Canucks went on one of the most epic playoff runs in franchise history, [...]

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) This is not Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man. Even though that trilogy ended not too long ago, Hollywood thought it was time to reboot the franchise with everyone’s favorite webslinger. And despite the very short passage of time, I actually don’t think it was such a bad idea. To be fair, the new [...]

The first round of the NHL playoffs this year has come to a close and there was no shortage of surprises. I originally predicted that the Canucks would have a rematch with the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals, but I changed that to a Canucks-Pens final just before the playoffs started. Well, neither one [...]

And so we find ourselves at another Wednesday. That means it’s time once again to go on a tour of the blogosphere (do people still use that term?) and see what other bloggers have had to say in the last few days. We start with Darren Barefoot who writes in praise of walking. Living in [...]

Every Wednesday, I gather together a collection of blog posts from around the Internet. This week’s selection roughly focuses on the broad subject of summer. There should be a little something for everyone here. We start out with our friend Raul Pacheco, who participated in the mainstream media game at Five Hole for Food 2011. [...]