the woodshed

Much of the total traffic on this blog once came from an early posting of the video for the Asylum Street Spankers song "Stick Magnet...

Stolen from Jennifer over at Runesmith's Canadian Content , who stole it from Skwib stolen from Scott over at The Tattered Sleeve ...

I've been living in Japan for a dozen years and I've only been home to Ontario a handful of times, so obviously I don't miss my ...

While I have a professional vested interest in stylish writing and rhetorical eloquence, I still think content is more important than form. ...

There ought to be a law that allows directors and writers to chop off the hands of greedy studio execs who chop up and repackage their work ...

I don't read Kos on a regular basis, but he tweeted a few choice quotes from this bit of prize-winning hate mail he received. Glenn Beck...

I want to print a stack of these up to leave by the door to swap for copies of The Watchtower. They might make a nifty companion piece to th...

Let's see, today we have Border fail , which sounds like a bit like Boehner fail , which was about energy, which lead us to this Nomencl...

Sky Saxon, lead singer of seminal garage rock band The Seeds died yesterday . He was a lot cooler than Michael Jackson, though to the best ...

I hope the Old Perfessor and Treason-In-Defense-Of-Slavery Yankee and the gang at the Corner all have good alibis.

Hal Turner has been an odious little pustule of hate for many years now, but you can't arrest someone for that. You can arrest them for ...

Yet another thug in uniform gets treated with kid gloves for an offense that would have gotten a civilian tasered, beaten and jailed for a l...

sent by reader and artist extraordinaire Theo Nelson , who does this twice a year (!!!), which makes me very happy.

Please give a warm Woodshed welcome Our Man in Abiko , newly-added to the blogroll . He made the Woodshed his blog of the week with a sterli...

Poor Dick Cheney, we can't be told what he had to say about outing CIA secret agent Valerie Plame after her husband contradicted the Whi...

Yeah, because ideas like this have worked so well elsewhere in the world where there have been disputes between ethnic groups. I used to wor...

Having followed the Twitter frenzy over events in Iran and having read whatever else I could find (I would especially reccommend a few of th...

105 years ago today..... " STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor...

but it sure as hell is being tweeted . I am ashamed to admit that my initial kneejerk reaction to seeing the first messages on Twitter abou...

There are certain individuals who used to be with the union who have since chosen to go it alone. This despite the fact that without the uni...