If the Irish start partying on Portugal Day, then I'll start partying on St. Patrick’s Day. In the meantime, I'll leave St. Patrick’s Day to the Irish. :-B
Yesterday, we took care of our granddaughter (or step-granddaughter) all evening: we babysat while mom and dad went out for the first time in months.
It was fun, I spent the evening flashing back to the time when my daughter was tiny. But the po…
We went and saw Mary Timony last week. Really enjoyable show but also prompted me to listen to her new record. And I proclaim it to be very good. Super solid writing and playing.
I can't say I was a fan outside of enjoying Helium back in the day. S…
Did I mention she's coming back here at the end of the month and not telling her family?
Did I mention I'll probably be going to NYC for 2 or 3 weeks this June?
No you didn't. But now that you did, I must say we're all pretty happy for you, know…
I cooked butter chicken from scratch a few times, but then laziness took over. We like the butter chicken paste made by a company called Kitchens of India: quite spicy, but not too much. That, plus naan bread, home-made lassi and a big salad, and …
Jeff, remember what I told you about escaping the stench of far-right demagoguery?
Well, there was a general election in Portugal. The far right party got 18% of the vote, they're now the 3rd largest Portuguese political party.
No one got en…
I understand you wanting to leave the US, Jeff. But I don't think you'll escape the stench of far-right demagoguery if you move somewhere else... Unfortunately, that kind of bullshit is everywhere these days.
And then, there's the random posts by friends of friends of friends that somehow percolated down to you. Like this:
"Ultimately, if the only way to make porn
harder to access is ending #NetNeutrality **
I'm cool with ending it. I will sacrifice
#N…
Brian Mulroney died. He was Canada's progressive conservative (that's not a joke) prime minister from 84 to 93. He was the guy in charge when I moved to Québec, so I remember his tenure as PM quite vividly.
He passed free trade agreements with…