Back in August 2006, I posted (what I felt to be) a relatively neutral entry about the sudden spike in incidences of graffiti stencilling I had noticed in an area nearby. Well, this past April 23rd, a defensive comment was inserted in the article from “Fubar” who appeared to be standing up on behalf of Bimo’s unique ability, as well as [...]
For those of you that are regulars here but have never met me, and are trying to put a face to the words (and felt that this entry didn’t quite provide the necessary detail), I have decided to provide a list of the actors whom I’ve been told that I resemble, to aid your visualization. Whether [...]
For fun, in some upcoming posts, I’ll share some of my personal favourites in the sphere of Sunday morning church music. There are some pieces which just seem to me a perfect combination of both melody and lyrics.
I’ll start by mentioning the hymn O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, written by Samuel David Francis, an English preacher, in 1875. You can listen to a [...]
My friends Brian and Dave are taking a two-week road trip through the United States. They just left days ago, and are intending to update All Those Who Use The Internet with their experiences. I know that those two together have a penchant for getting themselves into unexpected adventures, so it should be interesting:
Duffy’s Dubious Dictate
The first entry [...]
Bureaucracy is generally marked by the mindless enforcement of rules without the use of discretion. Whether it emerges when dealing with the minutae of a bank’s loan policy, trying to obtain a permit or certificate of approval from a government body, or figuring out how to get the overpayment you made on your final cell phone bill back from [...]
We all know Detroit, Michigan as the headquarters of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers. This is also made fairly clear in other ways; one look at the ubiquity of expressways on a map of its downtown (see here) shows how fixated on the car the city’s planners were (though believe it or not, it apparently could have been [...]
In the summer, I posted a quick succession of articles with plenty of accompanying inset photos, about the prevalence of a particular style of stencil graffiti in a section of the downtown (read those two posts here and here). Ever since I wrote those pieces, no additional ”artwork” had been added, although a fair number of them have since been [...]
The sport utility vehicle, the profitable darling of so many auto manufacturers, has for a long time received the brunt of a great deal of criticism. Much of it is well-founded; to many, this car category represents the epitome of wasteful consumerism, a position that is difficult to disagree with when presented with obnoxiously large vehicles like GM’s Hummer. So, [...]
Though I am not an avid watcher of the cartoon ‘South Park’, I do find their style of animation and simplistic character drawing overly amusing in and of itself. A while back, I was sent the link to a site which allows one to construct a depiction of themself as a character from the show.
Originally, South Park was [...]
It has been twelve days since my most recent post, and I intend to correct this inelegant reprieve from writing in the immediate future. Though of little excuse (since the Internet’s tendrils invade any geographic area with a phone line), I have been travelling frequently; in the last week, the Ontario cities of both Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie have exhilarated [...]