the flying squirrel

And a Happy Boxing Day too. I got into Belleville Christmas Eve, and I’ve probably been eating ever since. Since my grandmother died, my mom has made it a tradition to have people over to her house for Christmas Eve. This, of course, involves lots of food. Christmas was nice. After presents and so forth, [...]

I stumbled upon an interesting little factoid from a webcomic today. It’s generally assumed that the modern Zombie apocalypse trope (disease/radiation/whatever turns people into brain-munching monsters, spreading the infection with each brain that gets munched) was started by George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Not so! Yeah, les Schtroumpfs! The Smurfs! In the [...]

I’m starting to think Canada needs to elect a president. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like our current system. I think it works reasonably well. But I think there’s a serious and growing problem: people don’t understand it. In our current system, people vote for a local representative in parliament. And that’s all they’re [...]

AMK introduced me to the Kitchener Christkindl Market a few years ago. It’s neat! It’s a German Christmas festival and sale. There’s some neat stuff there. I’ve got lots of Christmas presents for my mom in past years. There’s also a lot of good food. That’s probably the biggest draw for me. I took Ellen [...]