Day 281: Concepting The Car

originally published October 7, 2012 I am totally not a car guy. I don’t know how many horsepower I have under the hood, I have no clue what a limited-slip differential is, and I haven’t the faintest idea how car manufacturers and enthusiasts calculate a vehicle’s torque, or even what that is. I suspect it […]

Day 280: Big Rock Beer – Alberta’s Delicious Medal Of Honor

originally published October 6, 2012 Many of my regular readers will remember that this website is sponsored by Rogue Ales, a fine purveyor of delicious delicacies out of Newport, Oregon. By ‘sponsored’, I mean that I receive no money for them, nor do they endorse anything I write or post. I do, however, write many […]

Day 279: Take Out The Trash Day, Volume II

originally published October 5, 2012 Once again it’s time to take out the trash. Today I’m going to sift through the slop-bucket of unfinished ideas and unexplored topics I’ve been served by Ms. Wiki’s fickle tray of barely edible morsels of factual (I hope) consumption. These are hits on Wikipedia’s wild wheel of randomness that […]

Day 278: The Secret Origins Of Office Supplies

originally published October 4, 2012 I look around this office and a few things occur to me. Why so much beige? Who looks at these motivational posters and finds inspiration from advice like “eat an ice cream cone upside down”? And where did all this office crap come from? That last question will serve as […]

Day 277: Humming A Tune Of Paraguay

originally published October 3, 2012 History has shown – and by ‘history’ I mean my arbitrary interpretation of history for the purpose of having an introductory sentence that sounds like I actually did research – that the most poignant and important music has come from the urban centers. Folk dances and country music may pocket […]

Day 276: So Mnany Mnemonics To Remnemnber

originally published October 2, 2012 If you’re like me, then you probably… dammit, I had something here… right, you probably have trouble remembering things. If you’ve ever found yourself uttering “30 days hath September…” or “I before E, except after C…” or “if you stuff a monkey’s armpit with oatmeal…”, then you have employed a […]

Day 275: Skimming The Crud – Worst Video Games Part 1

originally published October 1, 2012 In our continuing effort to enlighten the masses (or what minimal masses may read this site) of the worst of the world, today marks our fourth entry in what has become our only regular feature. We have looked at some of the worst movies, worst television, and worst movies again. […]

Day 274: Slumming On Cinema’s Poverty Row

originally published September 30, 2012 Making a low-budget movie with today’s technology is easy. Point your cell phone at your buddy on the garage roof while he wields a fake wooden sword and let the magic happen. This wasn’t always the case, which is why Hollywood once contained a structural hierarchy of low-fi pictures, from […]

Day 273: WUUW-FM Public Radio Presents – Experimental Music In The Afternoon

originally published September 29, 2012 Good afternoon. You’re listening to WUUW, public access radio. I’m your Saturday afternoon substitute host, Yemini Apollodopolis, and this is “Saturday Clanking”. Normally on my show, which you can hear Tuesdays and Saturday nights between midnight and three I tickle your eardrums with the greats of classic jazz: the Monks, […]

Day 272: Neighbor, My Neighbour

originally published September 28, 2012 Many of my more astute readers will no doubt have noticed that I tend to favor the American spelling system above the British / Canadian system I grew up with. A number of people (and here I’m assuming we can utilize zero as a number) have asked why that is. […]