Archive for June, 2008

A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off (Part 12)

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

227. Summer vacation is about to start. I swear to God, I’d better not catch any of the kids in my neighbourhood laying around or goofing off. My tax dollars pay their salary.
228. George Carlin died on Sunday. He was seventy-one years old and he had a history of unhealthy behaviour, so I guess he [...]

A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off (Part 11)

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

202. Toronto is a great city. I’m proud to live here, and I can’t think of any other place in the world that I’d rather call home. But if you’re so enthralled with it that you can’t walk down the street without your neck craned upward in amazement, totally oblivious to what’s going on around [...]

A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off (Part 10)

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

187. Why is there glitter all over the floor of the men’s room? I hate being presented with a mystery that I could never possibly solve. I’m an inquisitive man, damn it! Did a unicorn blow up in here? I can’t get on with my day until I know what happened!
188. On a patio yesterday, [...]

Plenty of Fish in the Sea: Vol 2

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Maybe it was your smile. Teeth just crooked enough to be distracting. Just yellow enough to cause one a moment’s pause. How the peppery tang of your breath was noticeable regardless of proximity.
Maybe it was the way that you punched me in the kidneys and insistently shouted “No!” when I asked you if you had [...]

A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off (Part 9)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

172. How does a city go from winter to summer in less than a week? Was that week basically Spring? What’s going on?
173. Mike Myers has another half-assed wacky character-driven comedy coming out later this month.
174. So does Adam Sandler.
175. Part of the reason why both of their upcoming movies look so lame is because [...]