I freely admit that I’m jumping, gleefully I might add, onto the viral bandwagon here. Yesterday I discovered Ylvis: After the initial “what the fuck…?” during the first verse, I got it. I got that Ylvis are possibly the most brilliant and surreal musical comedy peformers – IN THE GALAXY. (Or they might just have…
Or at least that’s what I thought the physiotherapist said it was. It’s actually SuPRAspinatus. Supra – Latin for above and Spinatus from the Latin ‘spina’ which means thorn – which really has nothing to do with the spine, other than the vertabrae to which the muscle attaches look kind of spiny I guess, but…
“BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAA!“ Rissa was laughing… maniacally… behind my back. We were waiting for our luggage to be pulled from the storage room so that we could all pile into the van and head back home from our girls’ dance weekend in Toronto. “What are you doing?” “I just totally licked your elbow and you didn’t notice!”…
For all you parents dropping off your children (of all ages) at school this week… an excerpt from More Work Than a Puppy (or what your mother never told you about procreation). I was told by the mother of a university-aged daughter that I’d missed an important demographic. I added this particular monologue in 2005 with a…
There were two girls, seven, maybe eight years old, on the sidewalk a couple of blocks ahead of us. They had a stick. They were moving something onto the road with the stick. Having walked down the road earlier that day, I knew that the thing they were moving into the road was a dead…
We didn’t realize for the longest time. She was masking it so well. She was coping, but it became apparent this morning that our daughter has… she has… dishwasher blindness. (sob) Comparable to night blindness, dishwasher blindness tends to hit at a much younger age. Early signs of dishwasher blindness seem innocuous. Dinnerware might be…
Wait! It’ll come to me! Some people do Sudoku. For others it’s crosswords. Still others, brain teasers. All to keep their minds sharp – build their reserves against dementia. My Dad, whose own father succumbed to Alzheimer’s, has a vested interest in keeping his brain in gear. He has a simple plan. It all centres…
Yes, you’re the #1 trending thing today, and you’re probably going to be getting all sorts of requests for late-night TV, so it’ll blind you for a bit to how extensive all this really was. And you’ll even say that you won’t lurk online and read stuff about yourself sweetie, but you will. …
WARNING: This is about MENSTRUATION and shit – well not actually shit, really just other female-centric issues that go hand in uterus with menstruation. There will be blood. I might also talk about vaginas. from quickmeme.com Why couldn’t I have just let it fade away quietly? After months and months of erratic menstruation, a la…
I have to ask. When someone you love suddenly becomes completely enamoured with an… uh… we’ll call it an appliance… to the exclusion of their other toys… Should you do something about it? Or should you just let them have their moment and hope that they’ll eventually move on and not hurt themselves in the…