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On Friday night I went down to the Roger’s Center with a friend to watch the Blue Jays play the Orioles. I think my favourite part of the game took place in the sixth or seventh inning. It was at this point of the game that it was announced that “The World’s Fastest Grounds Crew”…

Celebrities such as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Starr Jones, Wendel Clark and Amy Winehouse have all reported seeing UFO’s, as have two members of my Friends of Flying Saucers Club( FFSC). The existence of Flying Saucers and Extraterrestrials can no longer be considered in doubt. The FFSC, which I started in 2002, has been having…

All of the water pipes in our street are currently being replaced. This means there are construction workers everywhere, and so, when I took our dog out for her walk around noon, there were about a half a dozen of them arrayed on and around the end of our path leading to the sidewalk. Built…

For a whole variety of reasons, this summer has been shaping up to be a world of stress. Unfortunately, this has made increasingly irritable. This is a rough glimpse of my weekend: Irritant: For nearly two hours, while eating brunch in a tiny, yet expensive restaurant, Rachelle and I sat next to a table of…

Rachelle seems to think that watching me fire up the barbeque is pretty much the height of entertainment. Oh, the hilarity! Sometimes, when I’m busy igniting the thing, I’ll look back and catch her face, beaming with delighted expectation, from the window. A few years ago I had a little accident while lighting the barbeque,…

Upstairs, between BMV Books and the Subway restaurant on Bloor Street, there’s psychic studio. There’s a little sandwich board in front of the place, festooned with exotic and colourful figures from the zodiac, and there’s a few things stenciled onto the door leading up the place, but there’s not much else to make you want…

On Monday night, when Rachelle and I were at the Masonic Temple for the taping of a TV show, I recognized one other member of the audience. Sitting two rows ahead of us, in a sliver and black disco shirt, was a 75 year-old man named Salvatore. We had worked as volunteers together at the…

On Monday night, Rachelle and I went to the Masonic Temple to see a taping of the Bravo show Live at the Rehearsal Hall. Montreal’s Patrick Watson was to be performing, but before that, the stage manager of the show took the floor. Used to being unloved, it was her job to suck all the…

Sometimes, when we’re out on a walk, my dog just sort of freaks-out. She’ll get all anxious and shivery, and starts pulling on the lead, desperate to cross the road and head home. It’s always a mystery to me, and I find it spooky. Animals, of course, can see, smell and hear things that we…