Not so long ago, I had to have my photo taken for my drivers license renewal. I rummaged around in my purse, found some lipstick, and put it on. I have never been particularly photogenic and things have not improved with age, so I decided to take whatever help I could get. The lipstick was there only…
Here is the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities…
Yes, I know this review is about 35 years overdue, but this is a book I somehow never got around to reading before (nor did I see the TV series or the recent Korean film). Now that I am educating myself about Australian “culture” I decided it was time to request a library copy of…
[If you get bored partway through this post, please go straight to the end and click on the link to the clip from the Carol Burnett show. It is not to be missed.] A few days ago, I showed up at my dentist’s office at 7:30 a.m., to deal with an aching tooth. He promptly referred to…
“Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005” I wouldn’t give him any prize for this depressing book. It was certainly skillful, and the language impressive. Good vocabulary exercise, for example… leporine proscenium declivities of my shoulders concave integument below his breast-bone an interior succubus a clear ichor glinted pharaonic nostrils [I can guess this one]
I am very pleased with myself this evening, given that the day didn’t start so well. When I got up, I remembered that last night my computer was infected, as I watched, with a fake Security Protection malware bug. I just turned the computer off since it was late and I knew I needed a clear…
Yes, it has been hot in Toronto this week (over 37 degrees plus humidity) but that is true all over the continent except for the west coast, where we’ve scarcely had the opportunity to remove our winter jackets. I went for a 20 minute stroll, not too fast. Here is what I found on the…
This week I spent some time in Niagara Falls. Having grown up in Canada, outside Ontario, I always KNEW that Niagara Falls was not a desirable place to go – impossibly tacky, commercialized, only visited by foreign tourists, and disappointing.
Seeing Clarely 