Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm

How cold does the temperature have to drop before you’ll put on a hat that makes you look stupid?

Okay, my favourite brother, you were right.
When you called on Saturday morning, the snow was not that bad. After you hung up, you washed your car in Ottawa; I watched the snow fall and fall and fall.

The storm hit us full force and dumped a whack-load of snow on our usually rainy Vancouver landscape.
A […]

Do you sometimes feel like life is all for naught? Check out these girls and then ask yourself that question again.

Pleace: A kinder, gentler plea for peace (Typically used by young kids still learning their ABCs and often misunderstood by adults to mean, ‘Cookies now, please … before I throw a screaming hissy fit […]

A story about Rusty and his dog Patches — satire with a dark edge to it.

Happy, Happy Birthday Tara! Now that you’re on the other side of 23, you know why us old folks get cranky some times.
I’ve posted before about Tara’s music — not because I’m her pseudo-uncle, I give you my unbiased thumbs way up to her music.
(Photo caption: Tara on right, Faye in middle, Chi on […]

Canadian sitcom Corner Gas has been picked up for syndication in the States.

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If I could put time in a bottle. All the old cliches just jump right out with this Saturday’s theme.
So here I am blowing dandelion seeds in the wind. The picture was taken at Loon Lake, British Columbia in 1997. It was the […]

I’ve always loved language especially the “well turned phrase” á la Margaret Atwood.
Her novel, Cat’s Eye, made me go “darn, why couldn’t I write just one sentence like that” every second page I read.
I also like writers who give me a smack on the side of the head like Timothy Findlay did in his […]

The folks at this site have some neat time wasters.
If you want to make dots explode at zero gravity, try out Draw Dots.
Which one was I drawn to immediately?
My all time favourite toy that drove me crazy as a kid now re-incarnated as the Online Etch-a-Sketch
And I still can’t etch-a-sketch worth a darn. Time […]

Saw this over at Mel’s Just A Girl weblog.
It’s a list of 150 statements asking the question: “HAVE YOU EVER?”
If you want to play it’s easy. Put the entire list on your blog and if you’ve ever done any of the following things, BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE DONE.
And yes, I was truthful and only bolded […]