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The Good Family @ The Dakota Tavern

Last night I went to see The Good Family, a band comprised of: Mike Belitsky (of The Sadies) Sean Dean (of The Sadies) Dallas Good (of The Sadies) Dallas’s brother, Travis Good (of The Sadies) Travis’s uncle, Larry Good (of The Good Brothers) Larry’s brother, Bruce Good (of the Good Brothers) Bruce’s wife, Margaret Good Margaret’s niece, D’arcy Good That’s a lot of band members, and lots of family. The show made me remember why I used to love the Sadies so much. I haven’t seen them since 2007 or so, and can’t imagine the number of amazing shows I must’ve missed. I also shot this video. I didn’t do… Read More »The Good Family @ The Dakota Tavern

Travis and Bruce Good

The Good Family Preview

Here’s a little photo preview from tonight’s show at The Dakota Tavern. The Good Family. I’ll post more later.

La Ronde

I went to see Soulpepper’s performance of La Ronde last night and I really didn’t know what to expect from their description: First published privately at the turn of the last century, due to its frank sexual content, Schnitzler’s La Ronde was sensationally banned for obscenity, securing the play a place in dramatic immortality. Taking a circuitous route through ten interconnected sexual liaisons, La Rondequestions the nature of human contact, love, and fidelity. Contains explicit sexual content and nudity – recommended for audiences 18+ It doesn’t really say much. Basically the play is a series of ten scenes which are interconnected. We start off in a bedroom with a soldier Charlie (Stuart Hughes) and… Read More »La Ronde

Bond 01: Casino Royale vs. Bond 21: Casino Royale

I’ve decided to slowly read all the James Bond novels, then rewatch the film, review the two. The first James Bond novel is “Casino Royale,” while there are numerous films based on this novel, I’m going to focus on the Daniel Craig one. The novel isn’t very good. It’s a quick read, that’s certainly positive, however the negatives are great in this book, such as numerous chapters devoted to informing the reader how to play baccarat, something that’s never interested me. To the point that when I think of baccarat, I think of the scene in A Hard Day’s Night where Paul’s grandfather steal’s Ringo’s casino invite. The book’s portrayal of… Read More »Bond 01: Casino Royale vs. Bond 21: Casino Royale

Database disk image is malformed

I really like Google Drive. I’ve been using Google Docs for years, and when they modified it to Google Drive, I celebrated. Free syncing, all the features of Docs plus Dropbox… sweet. One of my coworkers started using it intensely, and over the Christmas break it didn’t sync for two weeks. When he got in, Google Drive just plainly didn’t work. He was getting the error message “database disk image is malformed.” Huh? We tested it on another machine, it worked. Reinstalled Google Drive. Disassociated the account, reassociated it. etc etc. Nothing worked. Even deleted the com.google.drive.plist files in the ~/Library/Preferences folder. When I was on the phone with Google… Read More »Database disk image is malformed

2012

What happened in 2012? Let’s take a look at picutres… I spelled a word right: My bathroom was torn apart, but eventually put back together: A cute child celebrated her first birthday: I got the best fortune, ever: I went to Ottawa with Helen: I also went to Ottawa with Emily C. & Joseph and toured Canada’s Parliament: We went to the Diefenbunker… the coolest museum, ever! Cari wore a hat: I went to an Apple conference: I don’t recall why I was playing with Cookie Monster, but I played with Cookie Monster: There was a byelection in my riding: I saw Mike O’Neill: I made pizza with the Millers… Read More »2012

William Lyon Mackenzie King

On this, the birthday of William Lyon Mackenzie King, I thought I’d celebrate with a quote from the man’s diary… There is something in a Jew’s nature which is detestable. The sucking of blood. Uh…

Nostalgia Machine

Last night at Lee’s Palace, The Super Friendz reunited and brought the house down. Holy shit. That was truly one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. I had never seen The Super Friendz in the ’90s, or during their first reunion tour in 2003 or 2004. When they announced they would be playing Halifax Pop Explosion in October, I debated going… all the way to Halifax… for a single band. Fortunately they announced a Toronto date, and those two shows were the entirety of this tour. I’m very happy they decided to come to Toronto. While I had never seen The Super Friendz, this is… Read More »Nostalgia Machine

The Onion Paywall

Update (2014/04/01):  This doesn’t seem to work anymore, check out this updated post, or see comments…. I’m not a big fan of advertisements. I’m also not a big fan of paywalls. Seeing as I do want companies to make money from their content, I’m a horrible person for finding ways around both these things. I’m worse because I’m sharing. AdBlock for Google Chrome does a great job at removing ads from everything. However, the Onion paywall is still a problem. I’m also worried about how Canadian newspapers are about to begin paywalls. I had a workaround to The Onion’s paywall, that worked well, until a few months ago. With some… Read More »The Onion Paywall