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All Things End

The past couple of weeks have been interesting as several pop-culture phenomenon have concluded all at the same time. We have seen the end of stories about a fantasy world, political satire, superheroes, and some nerds who eat together, that have captured the collective hearts and imaginations of millions of people around the world in… […]

Weird words we use everyday

To tell you the truth I think all words are weird. Language in general is a very peculiar thing. It is just grunts and sounds arranged in a particular pattern or sequence that we have all collectively agreed has some sort of meaning. English in particular is complex and hard to learn as in it’s… […]

MET Gala 2019

I know this is a little late but I had to do a post about this year’s MET Gala. Every year the beautiful and the rich get together in an extravagant display of excess and wealth for…some reason. They choose a theme, people prepare, they make a scene, and stop for lots and lots of […]

Some Stuff

As you know, I stopped posting for over a year and started again just recently. But during that time it wasn’t that I was not writing, I just didn’t complete anything that I wrote. Currently I have 18 draft posts just sitting there waiting to be re-examined and maybe posted. Well this is one of […]

Bad Trek

The last post I wrote for this blog before I went on a ridiculously long break was about Star Trek Discovery. The show had just started, airing the first 2 episodes which created and destroyed the world I thought this story was to take place in. I had enjoyed the episodes but because I hadn’t… […]

Product placement

I still have friends that complain about product placement in movies. It used to be something that got to me as well but many years ago I kinda just got over it. Why? Because it properly reflects a realistic version of the world we live in. Look down at your clothes, look at your desk, […]

Until

Music is a strange thing. It is a series of strung together sounds that are pleasing to the listener. Unless of course you are an old crotchety man waving his stick at the damned youth of today. But music has a way of instilling emotions, making you move fast, or slowing you down for just… […]

Get untethered

I don’t like horror movies. As a young child I was afflicted with night terrors and that combined with an over active imagination did not bode well for an evening’s slumber. As I grew older the terrors waned but my dislike for horror persisted. But every once in a while a horror movie catches my… […]

If you liked the Manga…

Every once in a while I have the audacity to let someone else pick the movie I am going to watch. That is just crazy! But the other day my friend begged me to go see Alita: Battle Angel. Despite my reservations and due to him offering to pay, I said yes. This was a movie I… […]

Stop Living in the Past

Nostalgianoun a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal association something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia I get why nostalgia sells. For the most part it just makes people feel good. It is a familiarity taking you back to a […]

People are…

Assholes. One of the other reasons why I have been spending so much time at home is that I hurt myself. I have a penchant for incurring injury from the knees down. That may not seem like much possible injury but it can be heavily crippling. I severely sprained my ankle just over 3 weeks ago. Which means… …more

Sparkles

I know I mentioned this in yesterdays post but the weather has gone crazy. On Jan 30 it there was a high of 15 degrees with a substantial amount of rain. As of the morning of Jan 31 it is -3 with a wind chill of -14. If you take into consideration the wind chill… […]

A lot of time on the Couch

The weather in Toronto has become…spastic over the last little while. It is not the typical winter weather we have become used to in the city. Sure there are still the cold blustery days with varying intensity of snowfall but we are also getting these random “warm” days that are turning the streets into rivers… […]

Dividing Line

It took me much too long to come up with a name for this post. I have to figure out some sort of naming scheme for the Nailed it! posts. Or maybe like everything else I do I will have to come up with something as creative as the published content. Anyways, on to this… […]

Nailed It!

The title of this post is also the title of the new category that I mentioned I would be starting. And no it is not about my achievements (there aren’t enough for a whole category) but they are about nails. Finger nails. Pretty painted ones. You would know this if you had read the updated “About”… …more

2012 is so last year

Can you believe its over? It’s been over for 2 weeks now! Time is just flying by. Oh! There goes another moment. So with 2012 ending but not the world, 2013 is a blank canvas for us to paint with experiences and wonderment. The problem is I have no idea what kinds of colour I […]

I feel fine

I woke up this morning 45 minutes later than usual. This was done on purpose as I went to bed kind of late (finished watching the first season of “Girls”. I have to say I like it but Hannah is such an idiot and I didn’t expect to like Adam so much!) and I was… […]

It comes to this or possibly that

I was going to try to end this year on a high note as last year’s last post was somewhat…depressing? Heavy? Melancholy? But I am not sure if that is going to happen or if we are even going to make it to the end of the year, you know, with doomsday approaching and everything… …more

Don’t get so excited

This is kind of a cop-out post. I have been trying to write something on a variety of topics for the last little while and for some reason it seems to be very difficult right now. It is not just because the topics are somewhat meandering, depressing, or unspecific but because my mind doesn’t seem… […]

Stuff

Sorry to have left you so long with that last post. I know it wasn’t uplifting or particularly fun but it had to be said. As predicted I did get calls from friends, even visits, insisting that what I said isn’t true but (there is always a but) I should try to wear more fitted… […]