What Senators Fans and Spouse Had to Say About the Game

Both Kidkawartha (via Twitter) and MattBlack (via the Pension Plan Puppets FTB links roundup) recommended to all Leaf fans a reading of the comments in the Silver Seven Sens game thread. It is sage and wise advice, gratefully accepted and immediately productive this morning of several out-loud guffaws hereabouts.  The game thread is a written [...]

Menagerie: Rogue Snake Department

Let’s play a little game, shall we?  Why don’t you tell me what species of reptile you see coiled in the leaves in the picture below.  I should mention that the little cretin was, um, what’s the word, “rattling” his tail when discovered.   By “discovered”, of course, I mean “nearly trod upon” during a brief [...]

Talkin’ Bout a Revolution, it Sounds Like a Twitter

There’s a revolution coming, people. Not the “We’d like to sell you some mutual funds by incorporating music that used to be subersive into our otherwise non-threatening and highly establishment-based  television ad” kind of revolution.  Not the kind that requires a lot of marching with torches, either (which is good, because it’s been a [...]

Portrait of the Artist as a Wrung Man

I have been working all day on a writing project that is due shortly.  The “writing process” (by which I mean “staring at the screen wondering what the hell I’ve gottem myself into”)  was going painfully slow a bit earlier,  so Spouse convinced me to take a break to go into town.  We had dry [...]

Passive Aggressive Sign Language

Not far from the friendly confines of Juniorvania, there used to be a Rona store.  Careful and attentive readers may remember this store making a cameo appearance in a home improvement saga related to the making of shelves from last year. I think I went in to that store the day I was looking for [...]

Spiritual Advice from Personal Care Products

On the edge of the sink in our bathroom stands a bottle of liquid hand soap.
“LIVE CLEAN,” announces the label.  Appearing below the brand name, in slightly smaller type, are the words “Sweet Pea.”  I choose to read the label – each and every time I use the bathroom – as an exhortation to adopt [...]

Pierre McGuire: He’s Barking, I’m Mad

I  think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato
It ain’t a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you’re talking about.
- Kin Hubbard
I had the inestimable pleasure of watching Game [...]

Class Act Cervidae

In an effort to pay the bills around here, Heroes in Rehab: the blog has decided to run the occasional advertisement.   Management has resolved to ensure that the commercial content is tasteful, minimally intrusive and discreet.  In addition, we are determined to endorse only those products and services that we here at HiR:tb can in [...]

May Day: Let the Chores Begin

Saturday was spent recuperating from the demands of another work week in my usual fashion:  in the manner of a cultured and intelligent philosopher king.  Specifically, I was camped out on the couch in front of the television soaking in about seven hours of NHL hockey.
Dedicating myself to torpor and sloth meant for the most [...]

Field and Fountain, Moor and Mountain

I meant to post about this right after Christmas, but I kept forgetting to take the necessary photograph.  Once I finally took the picture, the immediacy of the holiday season had passed and  I found myself hemming and hawing about whether this was still of interest.  Better late than never, says the old aphorism, so [...]

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