Quite a lot’s been said about Avatar this week – but I had an opportunity to go check it out for myself last night and it greatly surpassed my expectations. Go see it!
Plotwise, it felt like James Cameron lifted pages directly from “Dances with Wolves” and “The Last Samurai”, and then threw a bunch of [...]

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I’ve seen a meme going around on facebook where people post their favourite Christmas movies, so I thought I’d mention a few of mine where I usually put my reviews:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas: One of the defining Christmas landmarks of my childhood – when the Grinch came on TV you knew that Santa was [...]

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Natasha and I payed a visit to our favourite sushi spot on the weekend and after the meal was over the chef came out and chit-chatted for a bit, sharing some stories about working in the Teppanyaki industry – you know, where you go for dinner and the chef puts on a big show and [...]

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The new management in our apartment building has decided that the new low-flow toilets we had installed last year by our previous management company had to go – not low-flow enough! So they ordered in a truckload of new toilets and installed them in a hurry – not stopping to realize that the countertop shelf [...]

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