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- Joan Baez – non-violence in action
- Paul Yarrow – News Raider
- Student Journalist – bends a US senator right over
- Vegetables – committing suicide
- What English Sounds Like – a 1972 song by an Italian, written to sound like it’s English
- You see a beaver in the distance – best randomly connected internet chat ever
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Longinius Howard Archive
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So insufferably precious
Posted on July 23, 2010 | 2 CommentsPrecious – the movie that had champagne socialists all gooey in 2009 – finally found its way to my DVD drive the other night. It was disappointing. -
I so miss them
Posted on May 31, 2010 | No CommentsMan, how I miss Richard Pryor and George Carlin. -
Must have an irony deficiency
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsIn an old Looney Tunes cartoon, Daffy Duck, playing a sheriff, holds a gun to a crim’s face who proceeds to bite the gun in half. “Must not have had his iron today,” Daffy says. He pronounced iron EYE-run. That always made me laugh. So... -
We don’t really know
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsLast Sunday at around 6pm I was sitting in a fish and chip shop in Tairua waiting for my order. It was humid and everyone in the place was wilting. A few flies buzzed around. The late day sun was pouring in through the front... -
A person, albeit a man, states his case.
Posted on February 2, 2010 | 1 CommentAvoid gender-specific language unless it is necessary. In particular, avoid terms such as "man", "men" or "mankind" to refer to people in general. -
Governor General Michaëlle Jean
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsA clip of the Canadian Governor General on the earthquake in her birthplace. -
Wait Two Years
Posted on January 18, 2010 | 1 CommentWithin minutes of my son being born — December 18 2009 after a forty minute labour and a harrowing drive to the hospital — I asked the doctor, only somewhat in jest, if I could hop on the table and have her right then and...
