The Artsaypunk

Last week, when I was in the hospital awaiting diagnosis for the aforementioned meeting of my mind with a concrete wall, there was a lot of time to kill. My wife was super sweet and offered to read to me, which I readily accepted. I found it soothing and although it was tough to maintain [...]

Lately, I’ve been in an awkward position, and not in any sexual way… not this time.  No, I find myself feeling shame, actual shame, based on what I’m reading.  Personally, I think it’s uncalled for, not to mention untoward.  However, toward or not, I still catch myself shifting my book into skewed reading positions that [...]

The last few days have been so damn hot that I finally went on the internet to find out just how hot it really was. As of 7:00 PM it was still 34 degrees Celsius (stinkin’ hot, Fahrenheit). Now, that’s not so bad for the middle of a desert, but I think the 56% humidity [...]

I know that this isn’t the type of blog to have embedded video. And I know that you need a pretty speedy connection for this to work properly. But still, I wanted to see if this would work, and it’s by far one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen this week. Ah, sweet nostalgia.

Well, this is a new one on me. A while back, I was at the local veterinarian’s office with the Soph-Star. She had rescued a tiny, abandoned kitten from the middle of the road, and I had tagged along to ask about my animal-magnetism, which seemed to be flagging of late. The vet assured us [...]

You know, one thing we all take for granted in Canada is the ole, life-sustaining double-Hydrogen-single-Oxygen cocktail. Our massive, snowbound country has 60% of the world’s fresh water, although our determined efforts are certainly straining the definition of “fresh” these days. I can almost guarantee that anyone who pours a glass of water straight from [...]

You know, just when I was starting to think that I was getting a handle on this teaching thing… just when I thought that maybe, just maybe, these apathetic adolescents were starting to listen… just when I started to hope that maybe I was getting through to them……. Last night, I was marking some homework, [...]

To all my well-meaning and otherwise, very intelligent friends: If you think that the email forward you are sending me is a hoax, but you’re sending it anyway, just in case, I’ll let you in on a little secret: It’s a hoax. There is absolutely no way that Microsoft, were it even possible to track, [...]

A recent conversation en route to what eventually became a night of drunken dumb charades: Journey: Hey you know those massage guys with the oil that stand on the side of the road? Me: Yeah Journey: I just found out recently that they’ll do anything… anything… if you ask them. Me: I just took that [...]

Know what I love about kids? They’re so funny. You just never know what outrageous statement is coming next. Kind of like Fox News, except, you know, truthful. At school the other day, I was asked to stand in for a teacher who was absent. It was a Grade 5 Urdu class, so I knew [...]