Hello again, Well, November has come and gone, and with nary a sound from this corner of the ‘web… except that perhaps of gently falling snow. And that pleasant clatter of hail on a tin roof, and — hark! — the warm whine of tires … Read More →
Category Archives: Observed
Gold Fever
I learned today that it is in fact Blog Action Day. And the theme this year is “the environment” — not far off our usual fare. * * * Well, the water levels are low around here these days. Just take a look at the … Read More →
Oh the Humanities!
A while back I attended a conference at the university on the subject of censorship. The plenary speaker began her paper by reading a particularly explicit passage, one that had evidently irked censors past. It was truly salacious, and I certainly won’t reproduce it here. … Read More →
Birds, Boats, and Baths
We woke this morning to the sound of gunfire. This happened to coincide with the uproarious sound of geese calling; I think we can figure out what was going on here. We saw a big group of turkeys the other day too — it’s the … Read More →
C’est La Ville
Well, Ottawa’s been the capital for 150 years now. And nobody knows how to commemorate quite like our dear friends at Canada Post: Of course, as far as Ottawa’s status as the national capital goes, it was touch and go there for a while. Anyhow, … Read More →
One Year Ago
It occurred to me a little whlie ago that it’s been about a year since I started posting on this here weblog. I’ve averaged about 4.5 posts a month… which works out to roughly one per week. As the months passed by, I hoped that … Read More →
Pigeons Come Calling
Lately I’ve noticed an increase in the number of pigeons around the place. While their cooing is pleasant enough, they seem to think it’s okay if they just go ahead and poop on the balcony — which is not so pleasant. ‘Specially when you go … Read More →
Sports Car Factory
To my delight, I had a chance to snoop around Hallville’s Sports Car Factory this morning. The place is a veritable trove of automotive awesomeness. Now, we’re not talking about the car as a mode of transportation, but as an art-form. Of course, with old-school … Read More →
The Shivery House
Well, according to the OED, a “charivari” (or “shivaree”) is “a serenade of ‘rough music’, with kettles, pans, tea-trays, and the like, used in France, in mockery and derision of incongruous or unpopular marriages, and of unpopular persons generally; hence a confused, discordant medley of … Read More →
Hermits, Scamps, and Rebels
Spring is a scamp, and fickle these days to be sure, but it is back with enough wherewithal to end this hermit-blogger’s hibernation. And after a winter of fierce highs and lows, he cannot help but welcome a kind bit of mud, and that foreign, … Read More →