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Long absence, small press and three little girls

2012-05-09T06:03:18Z

It's a little hard to believe how far I have fallen as a Livejournaler (Dreamwidther?). Oh hell, call it personal blogger and be done with it.

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Review: Penny Plain, by Ronnie Burkett

2012-03-23T18:13:54Z

I did something I seldom do Wednesday night: went out to the theatre. To the National Arts Centre, no less, having spent a full day's wages on the tickets to take the chance — as the artist put it during a post-performance question and answer session — of being badly disappointed, but guaranteed a unique experience.

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State of the unions

2012-03-20T04:11:03Z

It's difficult to believe, but it's been two years and close on two days since that fateful night early morning I mastered my fears, dropped my arm across the shoulders of Raven as we sat close watching a movie, then offered her a kiss when she turned to look at me.

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Review: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris

2012-03-14T19:24:43Z

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Why I will never (ever) be President (of anything)

2012-03-09T03:40:18Z

Saddam he didn't die.

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Reflections of a working still #5 - When man meets truck

2012-02-09T22:44:41Z

I got to the office early yesterday, because I thought I might need to spend some time debriefing the boss on the Great Big Gaping Hole now grinning from the rear left door of one his vehicles — the one I had been driving the day before.

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Young Geoffrey now pushing 50

2012-02-06T06:39:57Z

Thanks to those of you who wished me a happy anniversary of birth — it was.

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Joke, Overheard or, the Co-Pilot's Lament (Reflections of a working stiff, #4)

2012-01-22T08:15:54Z

Driving a group of five (one pilot, one co-pilot, three flight attendants) to Montreal the other day, I was privileged to over-hear the following conversation.

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Woulda, coulda, shoulda (What was she thinking department)

2012-01-17T09:53:41Z

Among my passengers there seems little in the way of consensus about my status. Professional, like a Greyhound driver, and so beyond tipping, or more like a long-haul cab driver and thus, deserving of a cash thank-you?

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Report from the Great White North

2012-01-16T05:07:34Z

Well, that was a first for me: my bicycle chain froze.

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Reflections of a working-stiff

2012-01-15T06:23:24Z

You know, by and large, I'm liking my job. The pay's not to far north of minimum wage, but a day's hours (usually) are south of a full eight. Door-to-door is probably about seven hours, which I don't mind at all. Also, I like driving and my passengers range from distant to friendly; thus far, only one whom I would qualify as an actual prick (though most of them could use some lessons about tipping).

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Review: Well of Sorrows, by Benjamin Tate

2012-01-12T06:00:05Z

So I've struggled with this review, and not only because I have been "friends" with the author (or rather, with his pseudonym) on Livejournal for a while, but because it became clear in the reading that Benjamin Tate's heart is very much in the right place.

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Blistering barnacles! The Adventures of Tintin, reviewed!

2012-01-06T05:46:12Z

Remind me, please, if ever I get the urge to spend good money on a "major motion picture" from out Hollywood way, that I shouldn't get my hopes up too high.

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Christmas, Canadian style

2011-12-27T19:02:21Z

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Maybe there is such a thing as wind-chill after all

2011-12-17T09:11:33Z

To say I now understand how Scott and company felt while on the return leg of their Antarctic holiday would be both crass (as crass as calling that fatal voyage a holiday) and untrue.

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Catching up

2011-12-07T04:01:56Z

Seems like only yesterday I was making an ass of myself by forgetting how to Bcc people, but it was in fact actually about a month and a half ago.

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On the stupidity of Young Geoffey

2011-10-27T15:04:19Z

Sometimes Young Geoffrey isn't near as smart as he likes to think he is.

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Heroes in the family

2011-10-26T22:24:19Z

The past couple of weeks have offered some stark reminders of how small the world can seem.

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Review - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was

2011-10-20T05:01:26Z

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And now for something completely personal ...

2011-10-15T23:44:51Z

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Review - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer

2011-10-13T04:21:07Z

There is but a single story left to tell before The Sarah Jane Adventures is done.

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Lessons to be learned

2011-10-12T21:54:12Z

I don't actually enjoy speaking ill of the dead, nor do I enjoy blaming the victim.

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Review - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Sky

2011-10-12T03:54:09Z

Pretentious is a dangerous word for a critic, one I try to avoid and one which (I hope) I use with judicious deliberation when I do press it into service.

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Review - Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song

2011-10-07T18:41:49Z

Every so often a famous writer gets taken down for plagiarism. Usually it's something pretty blatant, words and concepts lifted almost verbatim from a well-known work, as if it had improbably never occurred to the culprit that he or she might get caught.

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Review - Doctor Who: Closing Time

2011-10-02T17:12:32Z

Well, here we are. The last episode of Doctor Who's 2011 series has gone to air and I have it in a thermos, hoping to keep it warm while I scrabble to polish up my impressions of the penultimate episode, the unfortunately-titled Closing Time.

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