The Over-The-Air HD TV signal reception in the basement of our new place is pretty weak, but Natasha likes watching “The Amazing Race” on Sundays. I thought I’d surprise her with a proper antenna, the $39 “ANT1400 Flat Antenna” from RCA. It looks cool, can be hung on a wall or laid flat on a [...]

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I don’t know if it’s that games were hard to come by when I was a kid or that I’m infinitely patient, but I’m philosophically opposed to starting a new game while leaving one incomplete, which Call of Duty 2 makes particularly frustrating. (Yes, I recognise that I’m a full 5 years behind)
The problem with [...]

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We rented a romantic movie for the Valentine’s Day long weekend, but before I left the rental place I snuck G.I.Joe into the pile. I’m not really huge on movies that glorify military action or violence, but I grew up with G.I.Joe action figures undertaking daring missions in my sandbox, so I thought it might [...]

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Apparently I’m the last person to read Elizabeth Hay’s “Late Nights on Air”, it’s already a #1 Canadian Bestseller and it picked up the 2007 Giller Prize. For the two of you who haven’t read it yet, I offer this glowing review.
Elizabeth Hay’s depiction of  life at Yellowknife’s remote CBC radio station is lyrical – [...]

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One more flick to add to this flurry of reviews – while we were in Winnipeg last week we caught 2012, still playing (for only $2!)  at the cheapy theatres on McGillivray. Thank you Winnipeg, for your outrageously affordable movie houses.
As a connoisseur of disaster flicks, I can say that 2012 is an epic masterpiece [...]

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Natasha and I took my very awesome god-daughter out to see Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 this afternoon, which was a lot of fun. Sortof disappointed that they didn’t sing more, but the story was cute and made a weird sort of “chipmunks go to highschool” sense even though I never saw the first one.
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Every time I saw the cover to Gregory Maguire’s sequel to Wicked, “Son of a Witch”, I’d start hearing the cowbells and baseline to Nazareth’s ‘Hair of the Dog‘. That’s about the only pleasure I got out of reading this 300+ page piece of dreck. While “Wicked” was the brilliant story of the Wicked Witch [...]

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I was listening to Q on CBC late one night as Natasha and I often do while getting ready for bed, and there was a panel of people (who I thought were “Canada Reads” panelists) discussing books. One panelist, with only a few seconds to pitch “The Book of Night Women” by James Marlon, described [...]

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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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