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When it’s Sunday in the fall, it’s football.

Even when it’s Riot Fest. Even when I’m tired and just want to sleep. Even when there’s still some work to do, or to be thought out.

In Montréal, for years, it was wake up, get a coffee, go to Brian’s. We’d watch the first game, a bit of the second, and then I’d leave. Occasionally we’d go to a bar, but it was always better at his place, with a dog to clean the dropped chips up off the floor and a different meal every week: Bagels, cream cheese and lox from St-Viateur; Greek food; pizza; rotisserie chicken.

Once, we watched the 1:00 games, the 4:15 games, broke for dinner, watched the night game, and then watched the all-time worst movie in the history of movies just because it was on and we were enjoying each other’s company. Read the rest of this entry »

Montréal, you are in my heart and on my mind today.

After last night’s election win by the PQ, and the subsequent nutcase-with-a-gun drama that left one dead, I can’t help but think of all of the years I spent living in Montréal, and in Québec. And despite my desire to wax political in this space — because I really do believe the PQ getting elected is a terrible thing and that trying to kill someone (only to kill someone else) is worse, and indicative of various things — I’m going to wax poetic and nostalgic instead.  Read the rest of this entry »

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One more time, please.

Thanks. This will make sense as of my next post.

The few regular readers/visitors here will probably by now have realized that I haven’t posted anything in a few days. There was actually method to this madness. As some of you know, I teach a course at George Brown College on Social Media Marketing. By and large, a lot of the students in said class are new to the world of blogging, or, rather, the world of having a strategy behind their blogging. I preach regularity, or, put another way, that they should figure out how often they want to blog and stick to it. Every day, every other day, three times a week — whatever. Doesn’t matter to me. Just pick one and stick to it. I wanted to accurately demonstrate what happens when you start out like a house on fire and then taper off.

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Hey all.

While I have been blogging primarily at my Tumblr for a while now, I wanted a richer experience that I could exert more control over, so I switched up to WordPress. I think this platform allows me to offer a more text- and idea-based blogging platform than my Tumblr does. The rationale was essentially this: I don’t want to rebrand my Tumblog; I want it to be the wicked depository of awesome that it’s been since its inception until time stops and we all turn to dust (or, like, a year from now). I did, however, want a place that I could write critically and seriously about things in the spirit of the kinds of posts, on my Tumblog, that were a little more serious and thoughtful than the rest.

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