This Makes Me Nervous
They say it’s a new installation in the Sculpture Garden. They say it’s got something to do with Space Crystallization, transforming the space to interact with the observer’s consciousness. That’s what they say. But really. Isn’t it clear that somewhere, a giant intelligent spider is lurking, waiting for lunch to come wandering by? p.s. Happy…
Highly Entertaining TV
As you may have figured by now, there hasn’t been much going on here at Casa de Looneytunes. Basically, it’s been all about angst, medication, pain, hiding from the worry and reality shows. Reality shows really are a blessing for those times when your mental acuity is significantly lower than normal. And speaking of the…
Tink TV, Tears & Thoughts of Plenty
Yesterday, the Tinks did their annual television appearance (hey, they did it last year and twice is a tradition) at the telethon for McMaster Children’s Hospital – yes, I forgot to tell you on Friday. I should be whipped with a wet noodle – and I watched for about an hour. And as usual, I…
Being A Tortoise
Back in the days of my misspent youth – which admittedly could’ve been a lot more misspent and I plan to make up for that in my next life – I was a hare. A sprinter of sorts. Someone who approached life with an all or nothing kind of attitude. I wrote 99.99% of my…
Sick & Tired
It’s the unpredictability that gets to me. Which, given that I’ve lived with not knowing how I’m going to feel the next day for over 40 years, seems a fair indication that I just can’t be taught. To be fair, I know how to live with a certain amount of unpredictability – the daily kind,…
50
All families have their myths of creation and building, myths that are retold, over and over again. All families have shorthand expressions, part of the fabric that binds them together. Expressions that, for the initiated, tell everything in a few words, but leaves everyone else baffled. For me, these three words sum up the perfect…
Imperial Life
Kurt Vonnegut died this week and despite not knowing him personally and not having read any of his works for a decade and a half, I feel oddly bereft. It was good to know he was out there and now, he isn’t. I bought his last book, A Man Without a Country a few years…
That Old Double Standard
Can we talk about Heather Mills? The – what do you call it? – estranged wife of Paul McCartney is currently dancing her arse off on Dancing with the Stars and many people on both sides of the Atlantic have decided opinions about her. Most of which appear to be negative, along the lines of…
What Would Your Mother Say?
I’m big on etiquette. I realize this makes me sound as if I am an aging retainer to the Queen, but I grew up in a country where children are raised in such a way that should they at some point in their life be invited to have dinner with royalty, they can without embarrassing…