cmkl

Hurt locker: CSI goes to Iraq and sweats a lot

cmkl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:09 +0000

This must have been a really bad year for movies. Or maybe the Academy wanted to reward a director for making a low-budget film where normally one would have expected them to blow more than the GNP of a populous, earthquake-ravaged Caribbean island to make 90 minutes of eye candy. Or maybe they thought 'this is the year that we finally give best picture to a woman'.

In the mind of a four year old

cmkl — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:37:40 +0000

Mallory and I were scrambling to get out the door this morning – well, I was scrambling, Mallory was evidently elsewhere mentally speaking – and we have the following conversation:

The ballad of Push Push

cmkl — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:17:47 +0000

Mallory and Push Push by cmkl

We have the outrageous fortune to live near the Rideau Canal, the world's longest skateway. And as patriotic Canadians we've always believed we needed to skate and to pass on this skill to our progeny. Because skating is at the essence of our cultural identity. Sorry I'll stop now. Actually, for me, it's just that I don't want my child to feel like a goof later in life because her parents never taught her to skate. It's not a life and death thing like swimming, but it's just… well, you have to do it. We were out skating with Mallory a few times last year, and she even got going unassisted for brief stints, but mostly it was a stroll on the ice in skates or stroller on ice.

Pinworms. Or, How Wikipedia spared my child nights of agony

cmkl — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:04:53 +0000

So Mallory has pinworms. That explains a lot. What does it explain you may ask.

Surging cost of Stephen Harper likely to play role in your future ill health

cmkl — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:23:05 +0000

A more appropriate headline for this Tory trial balloon trussed up as a Globe and Mail piece.

How to lose popularity and still keep power

cmkl — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:50:58 +0000

So there's this EKOS poll out today that has the Tories and the Liberals statistically equal in terms of voter intention.

December 6 depoliticized

cmkl — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:24 +0000

I will own the cliché nature of this post: yes, for many people my age, Dec. 6 is our Kennedy assassination moment. Most people I know remember where they were and what they were doing when first they heard that a man had separated the men from the women in a Montréal University engineering class, screamed “you're all feminists” then opened fire, killing 14.

Nortel execs give themselves raises

cmkl — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:59:05 +0000

Are they effing kidding? Their only function right now seems to be to parcel up chunks of the former corporate behemoth and sell it off garage sale like.

Algonquin Park trip report: how I spent my weekend away

cmkl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:13:29 +0000

It's been two years since I've been in a canoe for any longer than an afternoon. But this September I spent four excellent days with my friend Martin paddling through the north-central part of Algonquin Park, starting at Brent. Read Cedar-Hogan-Catfish.

Lansdowne Live should be put in a medically induced coma

cmkl — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:12:16 +0000

I just sent this letter to Ottawa city council, Larry O'Brien et al at Let's get it right. You should send one too.