(I ruined my own surprise today, by accident. More on this in a bit.)
Thank you, Siobhan! I’m sorry Canada Post took so long to deliver it, but it is no less appreciated and it’s still a happy surprise!
Illustration by Relentlesstoil.

Xena, MUST YOU?
These two have a complicated relationship. Some of the time Xena barely tolerates Beano, hissing at him when he gets near. Sometimes she lets him lick her face. Sometimes they share ends of an airline blanket, not daring to stretch out lest they actually touch each other. At least once a day they [...]

I was talking to a friend last night about Googling, and the conversation reminded me that I have this little cache of odd screen captures from one of my webstats programs. Here’s a gem from Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago:

I don’t know what’s more bizarre: the query itself or the impression that my website [...]

I’m happy to report that after last night’s abandonment of Project Injection, a full 150mls was successfully and subcutaneously applied to The Old Bean today. There was some protesting and a few attempts at running away (the needle even popped out once), and I had to pump the line a few times, but at least [...]

September 4, 2006
Was that a terrible pun or what? If you look closely, Arliin’s holding a My Little Pony bag (that I’m sure belongs to Jumpin’ J II). Arliin loved horses, too — the live kind.
I’m slowly but surely working my way through some photos of Arliin that were submitted for her memorial on January [...]

View On Black and you can see his eyes are as round as saucers. He gets such a big kick out of this!
Seriously, this cat gives me a mild heart attack whenever he decides to go hiding for long periods of time. Like this morning, when he crawled into a drawer full of clothes. Like [...]

This is MEDIUM!
My favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Toronto recently relocated, thankfully only upstairs from where they were before, on Spadina Avenue just south of Dundas Street. Their former location was far too small for the number of regular patrons, and it was getting so run down and dark that even a coat of paint wouldn’t [...]

Someone had an idea to have another board games Sunday, after a successful one in December that I missed (because I was short filmmaking? I can’t remember). It’s easy in the winter to stay at home most of the time, and yesterday I wanted to have a boring Saturday after last week’s shenanigans of getting [...]

Volubilis, Morocco
November 2007
View On Black
I’m adding to the Morocco set, which can be browsed using the Pictobrowser:

Whatever Beano did to his leg, it’s all better now. He’s running around the house without a limp, leaping and bounding without stiffness or creakiness.
He looks bigger than Xena in this picture, but it’s an illusion — he’s actually smaller. They don’t usually lie this close together, Xena hisses him away. She doesn’t seem to [...]