Posts Tagged as ‘christmas’

December 8, 2008

Big Weekend // Small Weekend

Good stuff this weekend.  Friday saw me hanging out with my Missus doing a little Christmas shopping in the evening after a lovely curry.  (Taj Mahal in the north hills.)  After many episodes of The X Files on DVD, we went to bed too late and woke up too early.  We had a bit of running around to [...]

December 4, 2008

NERDLINGER!!!

As December rolls on I find myself re-discovering my inner nerd.  (He never left, of course…it’s just that now it’s OVERT.)  Evenings at home read like a Kevin Smith daydream…watching hockey, reading graphic novels, watching movies about graphic novels. 
…Yeah…I know. 
I’ve always LOVED the idea of the superhero Dare Devil.  He is the man without fear, after [...]

December 20, 2007

Happy Soulstice, (Never Trust a Hippie)

There is a soulstice upon us.  No one can refute the fact.  It’s the shortest day of the year, soon, and then we begin the long, slow crawl back to sun drenched (and at the point where three rivers meet) humidity of a summer about eight months from now.  This is science, folks, not hippie [...]

November 29, 2007

Christmas: attacks and sonic attacks

I was generally unaware, until a few days ago, that the so-called “attack on Christmas” was still raging.  Indeed, I thought it was over.  “Like, that’s soooo 2005.”  At any rate, it’s not.  Focus on the Family, Dobson and company, and plenty of others are still drumming up the fight.  If you really want an [...]