I’m gradually, and in reverse chronological order, migrating over the posts from my old website. This page gathers most of my essayistic output from January 2002 – August 2008.
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Dream journal: Ahmadinadream.
Fri, 15 Aug 2008
Arbuckle Avenue, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene.
Wed, 13 Aug 2008
Confusingly (to some), 300 isn’t an anti-war movie.
Thu, 26 Jun 2008
An interactive map of my Texas vacation.
Wed, 4 Jun 2008
George Romero’s Diary of the Dead.
Thu, 28 Feb 2008
Letters from Texas: The Houston Rockets and Lakewood Church.
Thu, 14 Feb 2008
Right-wing blowhards and the ’08 election.
Tue, 12 Feb 2008
An evening at the races.
Mon, 20 Aug 2007
Deric Ruttan: Workin’ in a coal mine, or possibly a salt mine.
Tue, 03 July 2007
The ink ghost: Gravity’s Rainbow.
Sat, 5 May 2007
Alfonso Cuarón’s ideological Children of Men.
Mon, 30 Apr 2007
Dream journal: The hyperlink crossword and the mile-high skyscraper.
Sun, 25 Feb 2007
On being, deep down, a Liberal.
Sat, 02 Dec 2006
The Decemberists’ “Sixteen Military Wives” gets on my nerves.
Tue, 21 Nov 2006
Pandora and Malcolm Gladwell.
Mon, 06 Nov 2006
On reading Faulkner’s “The Bear”.
Thu, 26 Oct 2006
Old phone number.
Thu, 19 Oct 2006
The Conspiracy Artists: Syriana and V For Vendetta.
Sun, 24 Sep 2006
Right deviationism: My evolving position on Iraq.
Sun, Sep 24 2006
Heading for the exit in Afghanistan.
Tue, 12 Sep 2006
Something funny in Nezahuacoyotl: Mexico’s “stolen” election.
Fri, 08 Sep 2006
Mike Judge’s Idiocracy and my Revised Low Birthrate Theory.
Tue, 05 Sep 2006
Jon Stewart and that hilarious Kurdistan.
Tue, 22 Aug 06
X-Men: The Last Stand: Not as terrible as reported.
Thu, 06 Jul 2006
America unbound. (Visits to Wall, South Dakota; Santa Fe; Mesa Verde; Las Vegas; and Salt Lake City.)
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 – Mon, 26 Jun 2006
Da Ali G Show & Stephen Colbert’s speech.
Mon, 06 May 2006
More about low birthrates and the impending death of liberalism.
Thu, 16 Mar 2006
I can tell when I’m not wanted.
Wed, 15 Mar 2006
A tour of the Regional Psychiatric Centre.
Fri, 03 Mar 2006
Bring on the jellyfish babies.
Tue, 28 Feb 2006
Voting day, 2006.
Mon, 23 Jan 2006
Conservative forecasts: Mark Steyn and the decline of the West.
Fri, 13 Jan 2006
Did you stop peeing because of me?
Mon, 28 Nov 2005
My archnemesis, Kevin Chong.
Wed, 23 Nov 2005
Trudeau, the CBC miniseries.
Mon, 24 Oct 2005
Witness for the prosecution.
Mon, 12 Sep 2005
Plague vs. plague: The accidental conquest of the Americas.
Thu, 08 Sep 2005
Oot and aboot: Peter Jennings’ “Canadian accent”.
Mon, 08 Aug 2005
Nathan (the band).
Thu, 04 Aug 2005
Dickens – Chesterton – Waugh.
Fri, 15 Jul 2005
Spielberg’s War of the Worlds.
Mon, 04 Jul 2005
Do we still need the Batmobile?
Mon, 27 Jun 2005
The boring Royal Family at the boring Saskatchewan Centennial Gala.
Fri, 20 May 2005
Seashells on a beach: Our aging brains.
Fri, 13 May 2005
On “The Harvey Pekar Name Story” and American Splendor (the movie).
Sat, 07 May 2005
GM mango.
Sat, 16 Apr 2005
Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and non-crappy comic book adaptations.
Thu, 07 Apr 2005
Hotel Rwanda and humanitarian intervention.
Thu, 31 Mar 2005
H.G. Wells’ Outline of History.
Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Warren Beatty, Deborah Kerr: Reds, Bulworth, and The King and I.
Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Bono, President of the World Bank.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Michael reviews the weekend: 3 books. (Alongside Night, A Kiss Before Dying, and The Man in the High Castle.)
Mon, 07 Mar 2005
Michael reviews the weekend: 6 movies. (Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shadow of a Doubt, Tea and Sympathy, and End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.)
Mon, 07 Mar 2005
The Man clamps down.
Thu, 03 Mar 2005
9000 kilometres. (Visits to Chicago, Buffalo, New York City, and Shelburne Falls, MA; an evening with Dr. Dirty, and the U.S. debut of Dr. Science.)
Tue, 18 Jan 2005
Groucho in Canada.
Mon, 29 Nov 2004
Plato and Dion: A play.
Thu, 18 Nov 2004
Tuesday Weld: Thoughts on the ’04 election.
Wed, 03 Nov 2004
Birds falling from the sky: Iraq and the ’04 election.
Mon, 01 Nov 2004
Laurence Olivier is dead, dead, dead: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Tue, 19 Oct 2004
Super-Size Me: Before and after.
Mon, 19 Jul 2004
The accidental wedding band.
Mon, 28 Jun 2004
Dream journal: Bee cereal.
Thu, 24 Jun 2004
Michael dreams the final episode of “Friends”.
Thu, 06 May 2004
An encounter with Black Francis.
Mon, 19 Apr 2004
Plato’s The Republic.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
The great Third World tourism debate.
Tue, 29 Mar 2004
Dream journal: Exercise bike.
Fri, 12 Mar 2004
The dreadful, dreadful 2004 Academy Awards.
Mon, 01 Mar 2004
List-making.
Tue, 24 Feb 2004
Rumsfeld’s “known knowns” and the Plain English Campaign.
Monday, December 01, 2003
Scenes from the 2003 Saskatchewan leaders’ debate.
Wed, 29 Oct 2003
The unkillable Saskatoon public school board trustee.
Fri, 24 Oct 2003
Jungle Gym.
Fri, 22 Aug 2003
John Milton and the power of positive thinking.
April 7, 2003
Early Iraq war casualties.
Thu, 20 Mar 2003
Atom Egoyan’s Ararat.
Thu, 13 Mar 2003
Good and bad metaphor: Robert Graves and Preston Sturges.
Fri, 28 Feb 2003
The (sigh) anti-war demonstrations.
Tue, 18 Feb 2003
Anti-Americanism.
Wed, 18 Dec 2002
Adam and Eve: A work story.
Wed, 18 Dec 2002
Signs: God versus the aliens.
Fri, 06 Dec 2002
He is the stockboy that gathers the carts.
Mon, 02 Dec 2002
The argument from design.
Tue, 22 Oct 2002
My infamous work history: On revising my resumé.
Fri, 11 Oct 2002
Carfree.
Tue, 08 Oct 2002
M. Night Shyamalan.
Tue, 01 Oct 2002
Rezkallah and Bergstrom and Sumner and Bugg.
Mon, 23 Sep 2002
Rewriting Steinbeck: A parody.
Mon, 23 Sep 2002
Yo! Bum rush the Pope! (A scene from World Youth Day celebrations in Toronto.)
Sat, 03 Aug 2002
No sense of history.
Fri, 02 Aug 2002
Dream journal: I am Jesus.
Mon, 29 Jul 2002
RIP newts 1984-2002.
Tue, 02 Jul 2002
Crossroads: A short story.
Wed, 26 Jun 2002
Ta-ta, y’all: A Canadian accent in England.
Mon, 03 Jun 2002
Dendrochronology – A boon to archaeology!
Wed, 20 Mar 2002
Steve McQueen: A stay-at-home adventure.
Fri, 31 Jan 2002
Song of the splake.
Mon, 07 Jan 2002
