Category: Blog

Behind the apartment where Rachelle and I live is an abandoned public school where I take our dog for her daily sessions of “fetch.” It’s the perfect dog park because it’s fenced in, protected from the speeding industry of Queen Street and not very well known. However, Captain America and his show-off Doberman have been…

Over the last dozen years or so, Christopher Hitchens became an unlikely kind of hero to me. On Friday, a debate on whether religion was a force of good in the world, took place between Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. As the 2,800- seat venue was sold out, and…

As I get an awesome and overwhelming amount of fan mail, I find it very difficult to respond to each letter. However this week, I decided to respond to one, just to stay in touch with my admirers. The email came from Luis Ramirez Gallego. “Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones I was…

Michael Murray has give the Blog over to Heidi, his Miniature Dachshund for the day. ******************* Bad days for Heidi, very dark days. Weather cold and two-leggers I protect in den have gone crazy. They bring new Alpha into pack. Strong two-legger who no smell of fear. He come into den twice a week and…

Rachelle and I live in a building on Queen Street East that’s over 100 years old. It used to be a hotel, but is now home to four apartments, one of which is ours. For whatever reason, the landlord has been unable to arrange any sort of mailbox system for his tenants, and so our…

From a postcard found on the streets of Little India in Toronto on November, 15, 2010 Somewhere off in the distance somebody is strumming a guitar. I can hear it through my open window. Softly, it drifts in beneath the hum of the fan, as if with breath held and shoes in hand. Looking across…

Session #5 with my Personal Trainer ************************** Not much seems to have changed. I’m still incapable of running abound the block, doing a boy push-up, and I still lose my balance whenever Matchitehew, my trainer, looks me in the eyes. Earlier in the day– after the moron I pay to destroy my life– had made…

Last week, Rachelle and I went to see a performance of The Toronto Choral Society that was held at Riverdale Collegiate Institute in Toronto. Although I love choral music, I very rarely make the effort to go out and see it, but in this case was motivated to do so when I discovered that a…

Shael, a friend of mine who runs a web site devoted to movies at http://filmbutton.com/mainpage asked me if I would appear on his radio show on CKLN 88.1 at the Ryerson College station on Thursday. Fun! Sure I would! The studio, located in downtown Toronto, was a typical College venture, which meant that the music…