Signs

This latest production of M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) is a brilliant work. If you haven’t seen it you should do yourself a favour and go. Humourous, nailbiting, and profound. I, for one, am going to pay to…

Rapturous Sinners

There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen many times and every time I’ve seen it, something about it has rubbed me the wrong way.  You’ve probably seen this bumper sticker too, as it seems to be staggeringly popular: “Warning! In case…

Collecting thoughts

I collect things. Or perhaps ‘collect’ isn’t the right word. I keep things. You see, I’ve got a terrible memory. Sometimes I feel like the guy from the movie Memento who has lost his capacity for short term memory and…

Solidarity Sisters

Not being one of the chosen people myself, I don’t have the inside scoop on these kinds of things, but what with the recent kafuffel regarding the Canadian national anthem and the drive to rename things like manhole to personhole…