THE RULES: You are giving hypothetical three gifts. One gift will make the recipient HAPPIER. One gift will make the recipient HEALTHIER. One gift will make the recipient SMARTER. You don’t need to say who you’ll give them to (unless you want — and you can link to the recipient to [...]

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) *Asterisk and Italicize any items you’d be interested in trying but have not yet.*
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. [...]

All that pomp about reading and reading lists has strung me onto a reading meme, courtesy Jess. I’d claim (a) ignorance of the tag (but technorati splashed it in my face the moment I logged in), or (b) indifference (but what fun is that) or even (c) lack of time (but really, I’m just [...]

so. there it is. i’m letting the minutes stretch out before me until when i need put on my shoes and go for another cup of coffee. then, return to this reality. i think the cracks have been fewer. the simulation of me has been much better behaved lately. it has been more careful, ensuring [...]

Eschewing fascination with a view askance of the plighte of moderne morality, transcending a somewhat troglodyte decline of soul, et plus contradictory of the favoure of mere memetic sensibilities relating towards electronic vanities and such related, as they might be named here at a later date. Elegance of forme and function, spirit and soul, life [...]

I retreated to the safety of the bookstore last night, and plugged through the aisles with some abandon, it would seem. Usually I just like to walk there, pick through books I would never buy, open them to some random insight and absorb the half-thought that is hidden there. Or, picking through the [...]

It’s been snowing…. just in case you don’t live here or can’t be bothered to look out your window. Heaps of the white stuff are falling from the sky, filling spaces that just a week ago were drying the last puddles from the remains of deepest winter. It’s been snowing for days. And [...]

It is a place of contrasts. Large. Vast.
Imagine a fold of individuality, stacked, squared, boxed, shuffled, linked, spun, and woven into a delicate hive.
Where once, perhaps, there was simplicity, lisps of light and dark organic matter stretched in ubiquitous harmony across a field of shapes and rolling hillsides of ancient foundations, there is [...]

Riding the Skytrain home last night I happened to pick up a copy of The Buzzer, the infamous transit literature published by the bus company, Translink, on a semi regular basis. Usually the trifolded pocket sheet is filled with such interesting articles as “How to Keep your Transit Pass Safe and Clean”, “Ten Simple [...]