Top ten time. Gonna make it short and snappy this year. Lots of quiet and/or instrumental stuff. And minimal colour palettes, interestingly....

Just a small one, but I think it looks pretty nice...

Hey, check out these cool belated birthday gifts I got in the mail today from my sister. Tintin cap (from the upcoming movie, I presume?), s...

Speaking of Christmas cards, I just found out about these great ones you can order online. Wish I'd known in time to send some out — ma...

Although this is the time of year for a freelancer when work slows to a trickle (soooo broke right now!), it's also when I get to be my ...

Forgot to ever mention that I finished watching the entire first season of The Bionic Woman . The final episode was the one I remembered as ...

I went to Halifax's ninth Pecha Kucha event on Wednesday night. It's a semi-regular series of informal presentations, usually in a ...

I had a weird congruence of unrelated readings recently. Pema Chödrön 's When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times has b...

Here's an idea that came to me yesterday for a photo series. I was thinking about the growth of plants as a pulling, rather than a pushi...

Just want to share a pretty funny article from this week's New Yorker . I guess this is the kind of thing popular online life ruiner Fa...

Well, a sunny day, spontaneous brunch with a friend, and a bit of birthday shopping, and the world suddenly seems like a much more appealing...

Sometimes I feel like life is light and full of wonder, like a dream. But lately it just seems hard and mostly pointless. And people, those ...

It's 11.22.11, and I turn 44 today. Seems like there must be some significance to that. A dramatic start to the day supports this theory...

I just finished Alan Watts's The Wisdom of Insecurity , a book I've been meaning to read for years. Boy, did I need it, and boy, is ...

I just finished recording this song today for a friend of mine who's making a compilation of 80's pop covers for his wife as a Chris...

Has anyone ever read Lila , the sequel to Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that came out 17 years later? I pic...

Remember in the early 80's when prom-rock band Journey had its own video game? It was pretty cool, right? Each of the five band members ...

Lately I've been reading Simon Reynolds's latest book of rock commentary, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past . ...

... thought you should see the jack-o-lantern I carved in record time yesterday. I kept it pretty classic this year — it looked nice with a ...