Earlier this month I took advantage of the “50% of custom framing” offer at Michael’s to get a frame put on the large Michael Zulli oil painting, “Na Tire Finne”, that I mentioned previously. I picked it up today, and I think it looks great in the frame: Apparently the frame the canvas is stretched on (as opposed to the… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Busy Weekend
It’s the Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada, and I am too busy with my family to be blogging about Cheney’s latest fearmongering, the connections between private industry and counter-terrorism, excellent mockings of the crazy christian lobby, fine insults, or the lessons of Soviet history. Instead, I’m spending my time on stuff like this: (Yes, that is her first time riding.… Read more →
A Portrait of the Blogger As A (Very) Young Man.
My mom recently sent me some photographs from my childhood, and they are amusing the hell out of me–not least because having now made it through the first two years of parenthood the notion that I was once a baby has some more visceral meaning for me. Anyway, I present Mr. McLaren, age six weeks: And, the slightly less demure… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 12: Updates & Unhung
And this will bring to a close (at least for now), the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. It’s hard to believe that the first of these was posted around 18 months ago. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and… Read more →
Sunday Night
On Sunday night I was invited to join the aforementioned comic creators, the people from Strange Adventures who had worked the booth, and Toronto comic scene Svengali Christopher Butcher, for dinner at the Economy Shoe Shop. Much fun was had by all, and after we had all eaten (and drank) on Cal‘s tab, several of us ended up visiting a… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 11: Laundry Room & Garage
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
Blowing my own horn
I don’t do this often, but I feel a fever coming on and I’m hoping a little ego self-gratification will make me feel better. Please allow me to quote from Joel Spolsky’s article “Finding Great Developers“: …you can go through thousands of job applications and quite frankly never see a great software developer. Not a one. Here is why this… Read more →
Latest acquisition
If you’ve been following the “Hanging Around The House” postsMan, I should really finish that…two more posts should bring us up to date., you have a pretty good sense of what kind of stuff decorates the walls around here. New stuff is coming in at a slow, but constant rate–indeed at the moment I have a small Barry Windsor-Smith print,… Read more →
Also, Wow.
My daughter is 2 years old. We have conversations. Time flies. Read more →
Hanging Around The House 10: Master Bedroom
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
I, Roadie
I have survived my little temporary excursion into the rock-and-roll world, and I really enjoyed myself. Stories later, once I’ve cleared up the work that piled up while I was off playing roadie. The really short version is that I had tremendous fun, but I suspect that a significant part of the reason I could enjoy myself was because I… Read more →
What I’m doing this weekend: On Tour
I’m taking Thursday and Friday off work this week, so that I can spend three days following consummate musician Danny Michel on his mini-tour of the Maritimes. Read more →
What I did on Friday: Birth Of Serfs
Friday night, at midnight, I was at the Oxford Cinema (yes, the same Oxford Cinema that was recently featured in Brian Wood’s comic Demo) to catch the “sort of secret” premiere of Mirco Chen’s movie The Birth Of Serfs. Read more →
No, really, it’s funny. I swear.
In an old photo album, amongst images of 16-year old Chris, and his various journeys around the world, there is a comic strip. It has clearly been torn out of the colour Sunday comics and pasted into the book. For the last sixteen years or so, this has been the reigning champion in my personal list of best single comic… Read more →
Offered Without Comment
“They called me the Reverend when I entered the Church unstained”… Man, my scanner is dusty. Read more →
