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Bicycle commuting year-round, venting about random topics and writing in general all help me to behave better when at work and in public. I usually post once a week, on Monday mornings.

Latest Blog Posts

  • A Place For All of Your Awkward Family Moments on Nov 20, 2009 in bemusing commercial

    Feeling some family tension this Holiday Season? Estranged daughter? Desperate Dad? There's a place that can help.Is there some really big demographic that I don't know about that will be inspired to go get a Festive Special after seeing this? It cre...

  • I've Got a Question on Nov 19, 2009 in parking tickets bike lanes

    image source: torontoist.com I recently read a post on ibiketo.ca that spoke of some new promises to crack down on people who park in bike lanes. I've got nothing against bike lanes where they are practical, but I don't think it is as simple as paint...

  • Trauma - A Dude Licked My Mo on Nov 18, 2009 in Monate

    At the Dog's Breakfast show I was promoting a few days ago, the other Dog in the act started suggesting to our audience that people could touch my Mo for a 50 cent donation. That was fine with me, and some nice ladies did exactly that after they got...

  • Transit Strike Spawns Wild Ninja Salmon! on Nov 17, 2009 in ninja salmon transit strike

    There is currently a transit strike underway here in London Ontario. As a result, many people are having to find alternate ways to get around. You see a lot more people walking and cycling, and oh, the cycling you'll see!What happens when people who...

  • Encounters with Rantwick, episode nine: I Couldn't Scare a Squirrel on Nov 16, 2009 in squirrel bike car

    Squirrels are smart in their own squirrely way. The squirrel you will see here has an excellent sense of the relative dangers posed by an automobile and a bicycle.Maybe he would have been afraid of me if I had been sporting my new Mo... difficult to...

  • Losing My Identity Rocks! on Nov 12, 2009 in music

    Over the past few days I've been intentionally slipping on maintaining my anonymity. It all started with my Movember fundraising efforts. Then I signed up for the evil facebook using my real name to promote that event to my friends. So, after about a...

  • Remembrance Day on Nov 11, 2009

    It's coming up on Eleven AM as I post this. Please take two minutes of silence at 11 to remember and give thanks for the veterans who have fallen in wars great and small.In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on...