Turning 25 this year: The Pixies’ “Doolittle”

12 years ago

Here's an album that turns 25 this year: The Pixies' second studio album, Doolittle, released in April 1989. Here's the whole…

Chinese New Year image #2: It’s good eatin’!

12 years ago

I'm a firm believer in the Chinese rule for food: anything with four legs that isn't the table is fair…

Chinese New Year image #1: The proper term is “sex worker”

12 years ago

Click the photo to see the source. Homonyms: a closed captioner's worst enemy. I suppose that this is a good…

“Decisions were made”, the sequel

12 years ago

In case you missed part one, here it is.

A Royal Bank branch would like to issue a “rebuttle” to your RRSP loan objections

12 years ago

My friend James walked past a branch of the Royal Bank today (and yes, I've been a customer of theirs…

Facebook post of the day

12 years ago

Click to see the post at full size. Here's a post that appeared in my Facebook feed quite recently. Still.…

Justin Bieber’s defenders: Rob Ford and the Rob Ford’s skeevy sometimes-driver’s lawyer

12 years ago

As I keep saying: there's a suitable Family Guy picture for every Rob Ford story. So it's come to this:…

The Rob Ford roundup

12 years ago

And now, some news about our Mayor, Rob Ford... Jailhouse Rob More evidence for my theory that there's a Family…

A history of Dungeons and Dragons in 12 objects

12 years ago

Role-playing game historian Jon Peterson, who wrote Playing at the World and has a blog with the same name, gave…

With great grocery shopping comes great reminder that with great power comes great responsibility

12 years ago

By now, even most non-comic book fans know that what drives Peter Parker to help people as Spider-Man is that…