Mulder chewed thoughtfully on a sunflower seed, then carefully spat the shell into his hand, languidly letting it drop to the floor, where it joined the mound that had already been accumulating. Scully pursed her lips in disapproval.
“Scully …,” he began.
“If we’re going to take another cross-country drive, and end up in some cornfield, I’d [...]
X-Fan Files
A Computer Story
It was a Friday evening, around 10 o’clock, when I got home from an interesting and chaotic Japanese dinner at Katsu on the Danforth, with a bunch of classical music fans and amateur musicians. Time to check my email one more time, but, with horror, I realized the screen was so dark I could barely [...]
Six String Nation
The Six String Nation guitar made a stop at our workplace today. This is a guitar made by George Rizsanyi, a custom luthier who incorporated 60 or so artifacts from Canadian history and culture into its design. It has already been played by a number of Canadian folk musicians, and civilians are also having their [...]
A Red Green Moment
I had a Red/Green moment today when I tore my skirt while bending over a filing cabinet to retrieve some CD-cases that had fallen behind the bottom drawer, onto the floor. I had on a narrow gray skirt that I’d bought just after Christmas, a cheap designer bargain issue. (I needed to wear a long [...]
Faces
I hate watching faces get unmade. When I’m watching TV, and they’re running a video which has been through the heads of the tape player numerous times, causing it to deteriorate and the faces of people to start breaking up into squares and lines, I experience some sort of primal fright. As a kid. I [...]
Water
Some people are followed around by fire – I’m followed around by water in the various places I’ve lived and worked. Aside from the usual dripping taps and leaking toilets, I’ve experienced a major flood. While living in a basement apartment many years ago, water accumulated in the window wells and came in through the [...]
Identity
In a recent TV interview on the subject of Andy Warhol, whose exhibit at the AGO he curated, David Cronenberg said something to the effect that “To maintain an identity is a creative act, an act of will. Not everyone does it well.” In his view, Warhol created an identity for himself so compelling that [...]
Anger Management
”When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.” Mark Twain
You rarely see the word ‘anger’ without ‘management’ tacked on to it these days. Well, with Zidane headbutting an insulting opponent (no street cred with that one), and now a jockey headbutting his horse… Does ripping up superseded documents count as anger management? It works [...]
Heat Rash or Allergies – You Decide
I am covered with a lovely rash like the one in the picture, thanks to: either an afternoon out in the sun, or, eating raspberries which were probably not organic, or using a popular brand of detergent which includes fabric softener. Purists will say that I shouldn’t use either with three alternatives – I say, let [...]
Boredom
I’m so very bored that I feel numb all over, as if I’m floating in a pool of warm water. I’ve got the white noise of my computer fans humming in the background, along with some real, stand-up portable fans as the AC doesn’t work very well on really hot days, and different times blinking [...]
