Archive for the 'Aside' Category

Aside: The start of the avalanche

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

The details of the story might not be all I am hoping for, but seeing a headline that says “Cheney and Gonzales Indicted for Prisoner Abuse” is certainly a step in the right direction. Let’s hope it’s one of the first pebbles in an avalanche.

Aside: Top Songs

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I’m normally not much for ordered lists, and especially not ordered lists of “favourites”. I tend to break things down into relatively low resolution buckets and am happy with that. For instance, with music I tend to assign a song to one of {Awesome, Good, OK, Tolerable, Terrible, OH MY GOD MAKE IT STOP} and [...]

Aside: Talking To God

Friday, November 14th, 2008

So, if someone told me I would enjoy reading a short fiction piece entitled Talking To God, I would be skeptical. If they told me it was found on a site entitled “The Ragged Trousered Philosopher“, I might be more inclined to believe them. And I would have been right to do so. Good piece. [...]

Aside: Late

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I’m glad I stayed up to hear Obama’s speech. I do have one unresolved question for California at this point: what the hell is up with Proposition H8? California? Hello? You’re letting me down over there.

Aside: They called it

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I believe I just heard around 52% of Americans and THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD breath a huge sigh of relief.

Aside: Nemi II

Friday, October 31st, 2008

You may also remember my pleasant surprise at how much I enjoyed Titan’s first collection of Nemi strips. I’ve been reading the strips online fairly religiously since. The second collection of strips also showed up today, and I’m quite looking forward to going through it to see which, if any, of the strips collected in [...]

Aside: Wrightson’s Frankenstein

Friday, October 31st, 2008

You may recall me marvelling at some of the images from Berni Wrightson’s Frankenstein portfolio. Well, today I picked up Dark Horse’s new big, beautiful hardcover edition of Frankenstein that’s lavishly illustrated with Wrightson’s images. It is a thing of beauty, and a steal at a $30 retail. There’s a preview online that gives you [...]

Aside: I live in Keystone

Monday, October 27th, 2008

You remember when I was making fun of the headline: “Another prisoner mistakenly released in N.S.“? Well, today’s top stories includes this choice headline “Halifax police mistakenly release man before court appearance”. Handsome devil, isn’t he?
Apparently I am living in Keystone.

Aside: Disch Reviews

Monday, October 20th, 2008

While we’re talking about reviews… You may recall me mentioning how much I was enjoying Tom Disch’s Word Of God. I noted this weekend that Paul Witcover–himself a gifted novelist–has written a particularly good review. Until I get off my butt and write my thoughts on the book out, allow me to point you to [...]

Aside: CAN DMCA

Friday, October 17th, 2008

So, I guess we’re going to have to go through that whole Canadian DMCA thing again, aren’t we? Sigh.

Aside:Polls

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

OK, that’s some of the only good news I’ve read lately.

Aside: Osama is winning

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

You know, watching all this news about the U.S. financial crisis, I’m forced to wonder if Osama isn’t winning after all.

Aside: Presidential Debate 1

Friday, September 26th, 2008

So, I didn’t get the complete and utter McCain meltdown or doddering that I was hoping for, but if the numbers at MediaCurves are right Obama grabbed the biggest slice of the undecideds on every issue. That makes me feel better.

Aside: Wisdom

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” That’s one of many, many tidbits to be found at the site for Andrew Zuckerman’s new book, Wisdom. Go there. Watch the clip. Then see if you can resist the urge to buy the book.

Aside: ABC

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I love that the Progressive Conservative Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is spearheading an “Anything But Conservative” anti-Conservative campaign in the election. I wish it was more because of the ReformConservatives’ scary policies, and less because of them screwing over the Atlantic provinces on resource revenues, but I’ll take it anyway.