Author: Michael Murray

The Road takes place under the blasted grandeur of a world once blue. The movie, portrayed by critics as relentlessly bleak, is actually beautiful to look at. Spare and gray, the landscape is a looming, awesome portent, one that suggests, rather than contains eternity. It was mesmerizing to look at, reminding me of the visual…

On Tuesday night, Rachelle and I went up to Younge and Eglinton to see the movie The Road. I was wearing a rather wide-brimmed gray Stetson, and as we walked down the sidewalk, a young Hasidic teen who was waiting for a bus approached me, ” excuse me, are you Jewish?” he asked. Slightly startled…

He’s interesting and handsome looking, like somebody you might have see on TV. He’s probably about 20 years too old for her, but it’s clear from the way she looks at him that she doesn’t’ care. Every day they sit together at The Dark Horse. She snuggles against him with her café au lait, while…

  Sunny sun clean blue wind day. Four-eye-two-legged food giver take me out to chase little roll balls that no smell of life. It fun! I run and run and kill ball! I also roll in bones of chicken, so that other dog think I kill the chicken, but I no kill the chicken! I…

Unfortunately, the investment fund that I manage on behalf of Rachelle and I, has not been doing as well as I would like. Normally, my fantasy sports team– A Fury of Pigeons– finishes in the money, but for the last little while my teams have been underachieving, and the revenues I had hoped to be…

Dear Paul McCartney: I just wanted to write you in heaven to let you know how much all of us here on Earth miss you. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since you were shot down in cold blood in front of your New York apartment while watering the plants. I know…

There are all sorts of people who say that they couldn’t care less about the Tiger Woods scandal. From their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages, they announce this to the world, extolling it as if it was some sort of moral virtue. Wanting to appear as effortlessly sophisticated as Pierre Elliott Trudeau, they hover above…

  On Saturday, for the first time in my life, I played the Wii game Rock Band. Rachelle and I were over at some friends for coffee, and after an hour or so, our hosts decided that it might be kind of fun to play this game. In another era they might have broken out…

The number one bus pulls up in at the corner of Beechwood and the Vanier Parkway. The driver looks mean, like he’s seen hard times in his life and doesn’t expect anybody to do him any favours, so you shouldn’t expect any from him. You got it? Now move to the back of the bus.…