The Eagle & Child

England posts are forthcoming, just as soon as I weed through and edit any pictures that need editing.  In the meantime, here is a brief conversation I had with a guy at my bank’s credit card department about $80 in long-distance charges for a couple of short calls from Denver to BC: Me: “Hi, yes. [...]

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(I should add, by way of making sense of this conversation, that we are flying first class, where we will enjoy a variety of complimentary things.) Me: [with some excitement] “I wonder what movies they’ll have on the airplane.” Dixie: “How many times are you going to ask that? I don’t know the answer to [...]

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It won’t be long before I’m attending one of these concerts (just audio): (via Failblog. A new favourite fail.)

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Remember that time that I posted about how much I like melancholic maritime fiction?  No, well, I did.  Today Rilla posted this on my Facebook wall.  It is both AWESOME and hilarious, mostly because it’s an incredibly accurate summary of the genre. In other words, it’s funny ’cause it’s true.  Of course, if you’ve never read [...]

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I’m a fan of the movie…mashup? re-edit? re-cut? A particularly good one was the Mary Poppins re-cut into a trailer which made it look like it would be a horror film.  I have to say, though, that I think this Seinfeld recut may be my favourite so far, because it works on so many levels: [...]

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So, listen.  I don’t know if you realize this, but I haven’t posted for nearly two weeks. That’s pretty bad.  I’ve been busy with other things, OK?  Things such as: soaking up some rays on an Okanagan beach, diving for my brother’s eye-glasses in Okanagan Lake, sleeping, playing Canasta with my mom, driving. And so [...]

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This is an awesome satire on every toy commercial I saw as a kid. It follows the template perfectly: (via Angela via Dixie via Becky)

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I’m fascinated with how one language relates to another and what that looks like in translation.  One of the special features on Monty Python’s Holy Grail special edition is a scene from the film which was dubbed (i.e. translated) into Japanese with English subtitles translated from the Japanese dub.  It’s fascinating what happens to words [...]

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Am I doing some kind of cyber cross-pollination by suggesting you read @XIANITY on Twitter?  I just found him/her via @boydston and it’s absolutely gold material. GOLD, I tell you!  I’ve just started reading the nearly 600 Tweets.  Here’s my favourite so far (they’re posted as news items by various categories): PURITANS: Jonathan Edwards to [...]

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