Browsing All Posts published on »January, 2012«

All hail ze Burger Kaiser!

January 29, 2012

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Good day faithful readers.  Today I’d like to announce something very special – German fast food chain Burger Kaiser has a new Twitter feed!  Check it out here.  It’s going to be a rather funny little feed, I hope.  Not that I have anything to do with it, of course… Here’s the Burger Kaiser logo. […]

Complete Insanity From the Newsstands of Yore

January 26, 2012

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I love comic books something powerful.  I always have and I always will.  When I was little I would get a whopping dollar to spend on comics and I would journey up to Bookland and buy comics whenever I could.  I loved Batman more than almost anything, but good Batman comics were just slightly out […]

A week marinating in murder

January 20, 2012

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I have to consult a calendar to learn what day of the week it is.  I’m proud of the fact that I’m sitting upright while typing this.  I have eaten a half dozen bowls of mom-prepared custard, and it’s not nearly enough.  This is the aftermath. Obviously this web log thing is an account of […]

Parson Brown, please go to rehab

January 4, 2012

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Ottawa’s much maligned Dundonald Park is actually pretty nice.  However, being located as it is across from the Beer Store* it is often populated with folks who are perhaps a little over lubricated (and most people don’t even know what it’s actually called, since everyone just calls it the Beer Store Park, or the sketchy […]

Chess makes me destroy a little girl

January 3, 2012

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Chess is easily the best game ever devised by man.  Why?  The rules are incredibly simple – you can teach any child to play in an afternoon – but the game is so strategically and tactically rich that you can never master it, and you will never ever be bored by it.  It’s a game […]