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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 […]

Mo

No, not “Please sir, can I have some mo.” And not “That isn’t metro, its mo.” More like “What’s that on your lip?” “Its a mo.” Mo as in Mo-stache (Yeah I know it is “technically” spelled wrong but go with me on this). Moustache (spelled right this time) is defined as an unshaven… …more

Meh-lonk-olee?

I made it to the movies this weekend. YEAH! I actually wasn’t sure I would. I had a birthday party to go to on Friday night. We went out to a bar, ate, had a few drinks, then…karaoke. KARAOKE! And this is not a room with just your friends, no this is a large bar… […]

Not just a day to remember …. But a life

Remembrance Day is around the corner and it’s time once again to listen to these people who in my opinion, have a little to much time on their hands, people who want to change the colour of poppies from Red to white. Their stance is that Red is representative of violence and war while white… […]

Choking hazard.

This weekend we were invited out to diner with friends to a family birthday at the Keg. The drinks were flowing and the food was delicious. Appetizers appeared before our eyes and we ate contented to wait for our entrée’s.  The conversation flowed as much as the drinks and diner arrived. Everyone was enjoying the… […]

Check yourself before you Wreck Yourself

I made it back, back into the packed, juvenile filled, sticky floored, oasis that is the movie theatre. After 2 weeks of not seeing something new the combined smells of cheap cologne, teen funk, nacho cheese, and popcorn was simply heavenly. There was an electricity in the air, that anticipation of seeing something new, having… […]

Tiredness + Laziness = Lateness

So as you can see by the title I know this is late. It shouldn’t have been cuz i watched something I was very excited about but it was Halloween on the weekend. I did a bit of partying, had a couple of late nights in my “non-costume”. (I was dressed as a nerd and… […]

Boredom – Blessing or curse?

Is a lack of anything to do a blessing or a curse, I can’t decide. I should say that it isn’t that I don’t have ANYTHING to do just a lack of enthusiasm or initiative to do it.  How many times have you said – I’m bored?  In my life I’ve said it too many… […]

Under the Dome: A review

Yesterday I finished reading Stephen King’s novel, “Under the Dome”. This is the first novel I’ve actually finished reading from him in a while – last one being “The Cell”. I generally find his writing either hit or miss with me – this book is reminiscent of his earlier Bachman books, which I did enjoy… […]

…Braaaaaaaaaaaains!

Ok, so this weekend I didn’t see a new movie. Total sad face. My movie night seems to be becoming a bi-weekly thing cuz there just isn’t much good stuff coming out. There were only 2 movies that I could have been talked into paying to see; Paranormal Activity 2 and Hereafter. I know I… […]

All I want for Halloween

Is a Christmas carol? I can’t believe it – Halloween hasn’t even come and gone and the retail sector is already setting up Christmas if it hasn’t already finished. It  looks like Christmas threw up  all over the front end of the store I work at but that’s not even the worst of it –… […]