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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 […]

The Hubbub

The Oscars are next weekend and who cares? Usually I would be the first to say, “not me” but this year it has me intrigued. The nominees for best picture are an interesting bunch. Usually I would be lucky to have seen even one of the nominated but after this weekend I have now seen… […]

Come Fix My Problem

This past weekend I saw a great romantic comedy to get me into the whole Valentine’s day mood. There was a boy and a girl, then another boy, then another girl, then a mom, a dad, a rival, and then another boy. It was all gloriously complicated and had a happy loving awwwwww-inspiring ending. It… […]

Not Again

I was going to try and write a Valentines’s Day post but time ran out and I never finished. Plus I wasn’t sure where I was going when I started: It is here again. That day that single people despise, husbands forget, and lovers indulge. I am pessimistic about love most of the… …more

Pretentious or kind of cool?

As I was saying in the last post I went to an art show last Saturday. It was in the heart of hipster-metropolis (hiptropolis? hipsterolpolis?) in Queen West at the Gladstone Hotel. The show is called Come Up To My Room or CUTMR where the hotel gives over a few rooms to artists and… …more

Teppanyaki? No, Teppanyumi!

I had a very busy week last week, I got to experience what it is like to be a social butterfly for just a little while. I don’t know how people keep up with it, it is so tiring. I was at a charity event on Wednesday, then Thursday and Friday I had going away… […]

More spastic than usual

I am not talking about colon problem, I am talking about posting of articles (can I call them that?) I have good news, I got a promotion!!!!! I am finally no longer in a front-line position where you end up just being the bitch of the office and bored a substantial amount of the time… […]

The Sidekick does all the work

Yeah yeah I lied. I know it. But I told you I would be back. It wasn’t easy but I made it. I know it isn’t the day directly adjacent to the day I posted my last entry (it is not even the day adjacent to that day, or the day adjacent to the day… […]

Hello

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and everything in between. It’s been a while since the last time I wrote anything. I really didn’t mean for the last post of the year to be about writer’s block and a really bad movie, it just kinda happened that way. Writer’s block will do that to you… …more

What am i trying to say?

Lately I have been having a lot of problems putting what I am thinking in written form. I know what I want to write about, what I feel about the topic, I do a little run through in my head but when I finally get the blank page open and have my fingers hovering over… […]

Call me Crazy

Being a receptionist is not an easy task, although many people like to think it is, they only answer the phone, they only sit on their ass’ all day well I’ll tell you this – it’s not for everyone because it’s not as easy as we professionals make it look. I can handle all the… […]