Top 10 Reasons Why the Opposition's Plans are Crazy

So it's Dec. 1, 2008, and the opposition parties in Canadian parliament are moving ahead to bring down the current Conservative government as a reaction to their recently unveiled mini-budget. Here's why that's the craziest idea ever:

10. Because you don't bring down a …

A few notes on online fundraising for non-profits

As of November 4, 2008, the future of non-profit fundraising has been sealed: it's on the web. I am sensing a frenzied agitation and excitement amongst business leaders who are CRAVING the type of raging success demonstrated by Obama's online fundraising campaign, and …

Music and Life

If you're an animator, you should challenge yourself to take up this pet-project: re-do the video below, so that the visuals are actually awesome instead of lame. This clip is a clever little visualization of a speech/routine/lecture by Alan Watts, called "Music and …

November negligence

If this blog were a car, I'd be about 10,000 kilometers overdue for an oil change. If negligence in blog maintenance was a criminal offence, I'd be like pre-Las Vegas O.J. Simpson, guilty in the eyes of the public, but still roaming free. If this blog were a child and I …

Writing for Publication: How I Married My Freshman Sweetheart

This piece is part of a blog series called Writing For Publication, wherein two bantam Canadian bloggers, sick of writing into a vacuum, attempt to change their lives by navigating the high-stakes world of writing, publishing and syndication. Follow along, as

The Pianimal: Episode 2 - Nineties Pop Music

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Why not induce some premature nostalgia? This episode of The Pianimal unearths forgotten pop songs of the yester-decade, and gives them a pianamalistic makeover. Cher's "Believe" leaves the dance-hall behind, and becomes an earnest, folksy song about jaded love, while …

The Pianimal: Episode 1 - Tom Waits Covers

The Pianimal is a bi-weekly, one-take, four-song, piano-based podcast, each song chosen to suit a new theme each episode. In the debut episode, I brandish my fingers, dust my ivories, and polish up my vocal cords to deliver a performance that critics are calling …

Super Disco Breakin'

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Somewhere south of the year 2000, a trio of loud-mouthed white dudes from NYC called the Beastie Boys finished up fighting for their rights to party, and released an album called Hello Nasty. The opening track was a blitzkrieg of hip-hop and hollering that went by the …

Wall*E wants you to stop wallowing

Drifting without direction, crippled by convenience and firmly affixed to the furniture, the hamster-like humans featured in Pixar's recent animated epic are meant to remind us of ourselves - those of us still inhabiting this obsolete orb called Earth. It's a …

Private Vinyl Showroom

FLEA MARKET START

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How we didn't spend our weekend

An avalanche on the Coquiihalla got in the way of our plans to spend the weekend in Kelowna, so instead, Kendra and I made this movie:

Credits:

* Drawings of people: Kevan

* Drawings of food, mountains, airplanes and luggage: Kendra

* Subtitles & live motion: Kendra

Please Begin Dancing Now (A YouTube Playlist)

At work, I sometimes find myself wishing for the convenience of my home music collection in order to select some suitably fantastic tunes. Without a portable music contraption to carry my music along with me, I instead rely on the web for my daily allotment of musical …

Transportation's Got Me Down

You probably couldn't guess it from the long, lazy lapses that occur between posts here, but this blog actually means a whole bunch to me. I consider my website's launch last February to be one of my highlights of 2007. Yet for some reason, this pride and joy of mine …

Movie Review: Juno

Sometimes, when an episode of Gilmore Girls shows up on my TV (I'm not sure how they keep doing that, although I'm starting to suspect my wife might have something to do with it), I find it hard to focus on all the Stars Hollow drama. It's not that Luke's Diner doesn't …

Best Christmas ever: yuletide podcast & website remix

Dear friends and readers, real and imaginary:

I hope that 2007 has brought you a satisfactory sequence of months and weeks. For me, this year has been like attending an auction on the roof of a train: mile-a-minute decisions and actions proceeding with dangerous speed, …

New UGM site on the way

This is only a test, but anybody who accidentally sees this can start getting excited about the new ugm.ca that is coming our way.

The Mystery of 645 East Hastings

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is home to an army of unsolved, unsolveable mysteries. I work there now, in the relative safety of a third-floor office building, and my daily transit commute is peppered by question marks from station to station. Each day I ride past the …

Ground beef curry with Kevan and Kendra!

First Annual Readership Survey

I need your feedback. Yes, you, the person reading this. Whether you're tuning in from Xanga, through RSS or live on the site, whether you read this site all the time or even if it's your first time here, I need you to help me: How can I make this site better? I'd love …

Problems in paradise: an update

You may have noticed that this site was "borked," or down, or inaccessible, or busted, for the bulk of yesterday. I was doing some technical tweaking to try and stop a sickening flood of referral spam, but accidentally knocked out my website. Ugly timing on that one, …