the woodshed

Christmas movies have been a thing since there have been movies. Some, like the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim or F...

  “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of b...

It must seem like Armageddon has arrived on Canada's west coast. After last week's flooding and landslides, the province is now faci...

Reading a story like this one https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/toddler-with-spina-bifida-another-lesson-for-health-minister natural...

With apologies to Frank Oz, whom I'm sure smells good and has a light touch. This made me laugh a lot https://www.newyorker.com/magazin...

I've been off work for a a couple of days due to an eye injury (scratched cornea, if you -like my employer - feel you must know) but I w...

Tweet I'm watching Casablanca for the elevntry-seventh time and I'm reminded of the profound conversation I had with my unilingual...

Tweet I've been laid up with an eye injury for a few days and this has been stuck in my head. I'm not sure which version is better...

After all, if one if one is going to to drink, one might as well do it right.   This is great book of stories of famous drunken hellraising ...

Well, it appears I've been kicked off Twitter, so I guess it's goodbye micro-blogging and hello again macro blogging -- or as we use...

I'm a big fan of Larry Wilmore and the Nightly Show, but tonight they totally pissed me off, mostly by punching me repeatedly in an old ...

Having spent most of the last 30 years as a journalist and editor I am now wondering why I didn't go and do something useful like become...

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Just in time for the Oscars!

Ignore the dust and cobwebs in the corners of the blog, it has been a long time since I've spent much time around here and obviously the...

RIP RCMP Constable David Wynn Constable Wynn was murdered while performing his duties as a sworn officer of the law and by all accounts wa...

We are told again and again by various right-wing fantasists and push-button death machine fetishists that the oppressive near-fascist-marxi...

I think I can say with confidence that you can still get a laugh out of anyone in my family by singing " A little song, a little dance...