Watched WrestleMania 29 last night. I know, hipster kryptonite – akin to admitting you listen to Nickelback on your Zune. It’s the Superbowl of wrestling (they’re already booking for WrestleMania XXX in New Orleans) and the 80,000 fans at the MetLife stadium in New York would agree. It also means that in the past month [...]
Macbeth is my favourite Shakespearian play. O’erleaping ambition and the consequences of an unfettered ego. Karma’s a bitch man. I’ve been hooked since the first time I saw it on the Stratford stage. I had done a perfunctory reading for my high school class and was fully prepared to bitch about the antiquated language live. [...]
No sooner does our daughter becomes a teenager and she’s off on a date …or whatever you call an unchaperoned movie with a boy. I’ve been repeatedly told this isn’t a date. Whatever you want to call it, this co-ed cinematic experience is giving Chris the vapours. Maybe I should be freaked out, but frankly [...]
It’s Halloween for adults. I’m juggling a glass of Dobel in one hand, a Padron in the other, while hefting a bag that is quickly filling with cigars. It’s my first Cigar Aficionado: Big Smoke at the Mirage in Vegas. I’m here with Jason and his parents and we’ve decided early on to divide and [...]
Set in the beautiful CIGI Campus, Ignite Waterloo once again delivers a solid show in another unique #KWAwesome venue. I worry it’s getting to be a bit, “been there done that” with overall tweets down over the evening and over 60 no shows. Still, I find something to enjoy everytime. OK, fair warning I’m going [...]
I thought it’d be bigger. Buffalo plays host to an NHL and NFL team after all. It’s the home of the chicken wing, Irv Weinstein and Commander Tom. And yet trip in the core and you’ll find yourself in the crunchy outskirts. Boarded up shops, street front churches, WWII era homes with sagging roofs. Chris [...]
The previous owners had a green thumb. We’ve been working to obliterate any evidence. We’ve cleared away the vines that obscured the sunroom. The crumbing bower in the back has been hacked away. So when the vines at the side of the house threatened to sneak in under the soffits we knew it was time [...]
It’s been a bit of a love-in as far as reading goes around here. Turns out the internet – oft decried as the antithesis to long form reading – is largely responsible for my ravenous consumption. Reading has always been a solitary pursuit. It is the perfect introvert pastime. But it turns out Oprah was [...]
From grade 6 through to the end of highschool I had one music teacher. From our inauspicious start in primary school, through the awkward middle school years, right up until the end of highschool, he endured our earnest, squawking stabs at music. He’s due to retire this year. Music, specifically strings, was primarily the purview [...]
I’ve known Lori and her husband Kevin since grade school. They were the first to welcome us to the new neighborhood when we moved back to Kitchener 2 years ago. Good people. She organized the first of many neighborhood poker games which became our monthly piss up. She was the common thread that brought a [...]