A while back, I wrote an article about Shakespeare’s own gore-fest, Titus Andronicus, which was never taught to us in high school English class, but certainly would have been the ideal play to actually generate enthusiasm for the bard’s works amongst bored students. So, continuing with the theme of trying to make Shakespeare interesting, one of the more intriguing factoids about the playwright states that [...]
Although it would be possible to write this entry in an even more unsavoury colour, there’s a reason why I picked this one. This text (HTML colour hex code #FF91AF) is a particularly infamous shade called Baker-Miller Pink, which would often be found painted on the walls of smaller holding rooms of jails and psychiatric wards starting in the 1980’s, as [...]
Whenever I go out to eat at a restaurant, I will generally have room left for dessert after the main course, but I always had a feeling that this part of the menu seemed wildly overpriced. Usually, regardless of how piquantly tempting the photograph in the menu appears, or how mouth-watering sounds the sugar-enraptured descriptions provided by the waitress, my [...]
During the weekend before last, I experienced a variety of tastes, from a delicious array of well-seasoned barbecued delights in the depths of Ontario cottage country (topped off with the roasting of marshmallows around a campfire), to much more unfamiliar food territory later on in Toronto. While walking back to where my vehicle was parked after the fun was finally [...]
I appear to have a tendency to go for losers. Why? Well, in the case of sports, now that the concluding days of the European soccer season are upon us, I thought I would look back to the post I wrote last summer, and provide a necessarily sardonic update on the status of my stated teams of preference. Though I am a fairly [...]
During a reconnaissance tour of Toronto’s splendid Annex area last weekend, I couldn’t help but be drawn to what is probably my favourite retail music store anywhere, Sonic Boom (almost directly adjacent to the intersection of Bathurst and Bloor Streets). With a vast floor area consisting of a well-organized collection of predominantly used and inexpensive music in all known formats, [...]
In the realm of guitar playing, I can get by with a few chords. It’s not my musical instrument of choice, although it is likely one of the most popular ones out there, and there are several fairly obvious reasons why: it is much more portable than a piano, has a versatile range of sound, and keeps one’s mouth [...]
I heard a rumour around the office that beloved theme park Canada’s Wonderland, north of Toronto since 1981, was relocating to the London, Ontario area, about 180 kilometers southwest of its current location. In the absence of any official sources, I tend to be a little more skeptical, and decided to consult the ultimate database of [...]
I was having some fun with the digital camera during my lunch hour recently, snapping photos of interesting sites while roaming around a certain section of the trainyards near the downtown. I had to get some photographs showcasing my recently gained knowledge for an assignment in a digital photography course I had enrolled myself in.
And as it turned out, this one actually went over [...]