Author: Michael Murray

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi our Miniature Dachshund. ****************************************** Heidi have bit of a head cold last few days. Not feel like doing much. Heidi have very large sinus cavity and whenever chase squirrels everything slosh in Heidi face and hurt very much! Squirrels think they fast, but just Heidi not…

At the Annex Hodgepodge a large middle-aged woman sat at a table, her face glowing faintly from her tiny laptop. She had a sheaf of papers beside her, all marked with a surprisingly girlish script and it looked like maybe she was tracing her family ancestry, or at least, looked like a woman who might…

Christopher Hitchens has died, and although this was expected, it’s still a demoralizing shock. Weirdly, his death seems almost contradictory to me. He was not a man to bested. Cancer, even late stage cancer, hardly seemed a match for him. His back would stiffen, he’d stare it down, outthink the disease, take a sip of…

I thought Madonna did pretty well in her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. Obviously, she was going to be subject to heavy criticism. She’s 53 now, the majority of the athletes on the field had no idea who she was and given the nature of how she’s framed her career, she was obliged…

Unfortunately, when I saw Peewee Herman on the subway I was drunk. I think I would have just liked to watch him, to observe how the people around him reacted to his presence (he was in full costume), but like a moron I shouted out his name, pointed and then started to do the Tequila…

Although I live in Toronto, I grew-up in Ottawa and last week I was invited to a party in that city at Chez Lucien, my favourite bar on the planet. It was impossible for me to make it back for the event, so I decided to see if I could arrange to be there via…

It’s only been in the last couple of years that I’ve started on-line banking. It’s fun. My favourite part of the experience isn’t the convenience, but the security questions I get to answer. I always get excited, like I’m taking a test or am on a game show where I might win fun and exciting…

Last night Rachelle and I watched the documentary Bill Cunningham New York. It’s an excellent movie that follows New York fashion photographer Bill Cunningham as he chronicles the life that flows through the city. It’s all fashion-based, of course, but it’s done with an artist’s mandate rather than a commercial one, capturing the life of…