oh, inverted world chutes too narrow wincing the night away know your onion! fighting in a sack phantom limb I picked a good time to leave my iPod on a plane. I returned to work today in a new office that my boss promised he'd…
Date Archives September 2008
Start the machine
I powered on my mobile after a week off and received a belated text from Ben. —I just saw some juggalos Uhhh…stop the presses? I wish I had a fake student ID. While I appreciate being able to drink and gamble easily, I'd much rather…
Dispatch Five
That's a wrap. C'est une synthèse. Except for JCVD, which finished screening before I arrived, I saw every film I wanted to see. Sauf pour JCVD, qui a pris fin le dépistage avant mon arrivée, j'ai vu tous les films que je voulais voir. Slumdog…
Dispatch Four
You know who I hate? The women in the Pizza Hut commercials who are shocked their pasta came from Pizza Hut. They're voting for Palin. [source] The streetlight posts are the stops. See, I was looking for benches and shelters! TIFF Leaderboard: 1. The Wrestler…
Dispatch Three
I've been trying to figure out where to board the cable cars in Toronto. I haven't seen any stops outside of Spadina. TIFF Leaderboard: 1. The Wrestler 2. Goodbye Solo 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Brothers Bloom 5. A Film With Me In It 6….
The Peanut Gallery
It's not usually considered "polite", "prudent", or "smart" to edit the words of your sites back-end administrator; It turns out that your back-end administrator can do whatever he wants to your site. You're lucky if all you get is a poorly written rebuttal. It could…
Dispatch Two
Adam Riff™ turns eight today. Our eighth anniversary…jeez. How long is too long? McKern e-mailed me. —You clod. Why didn't you just drop down a star and stay someplace with free wifi? McKern, July 5: —you can get a room in a four-star hotel with…
Dispatch One
Hello from Toronto. I'm writing from rainy Yonge-Dundas Square because my hotel charges $19 for 24 hours of Internet. It's also somehow sucking my mobile's (charged) battery dry while I sleep, rendering the alarm useless. I saw Danny Glover on my outbound flight eating a…
Beady Little Eyes
This trip is turning out to be a stressful money pit, but you only live once, right? Before I board: » My little pony! John McCain's mother is still alive? » If John McCain won and died, and the 25th Amendment didn't allow a VP2P…
The man with the plastic suns
I desperately need to unload a ticket for a screening of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler this Sunday night in Toronto. Anyone? Josh messaged me at work this morning. —i was watching tv last night —saw a trailer for bangkok dangerous —while it was on —there…