Montreal Simon: Blogging and the Planet of the Apes
A few weeks ago I ran this video by Bruno Mars, The Lazy Song. I can't remember why, except that it had something to do with comparing Stephen Harper's Thousand Year Majority to the Planet of the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Time to Say Goodbye For Now
I realize it's probably not the best time to leave Canada. Canadian summers are so short eh?But the truth is I can't wait to leave, because politically speaking this has been the worst summer EVAH....
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Life, Summer, and the Death of Amy Winehouse
Lordy. If it wasn't for one glorious day at the beach, I don't know how I would have made it to Sunday.Because it was a brutal week. The suffocating heat, the old lady with her head in the fridge, the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Summer and the Bug’s Life
(click pic to enlarge) It's still warm and sunny during the day, but in the evening down by the lake, when you're wearing just a t-shirt, the coolness in the air tells you it will soon be over. The...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats…Sometimes
(1) What could match the grateful look of a faithful hound for taking him to his favourite place, the beach? Especially when it's 40 degrees on the humidex scale, and he knows how to keep cool. But you...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Me, SOPA, and the Internet Revolution
This graphic speaks for itself eh? The day before and the day after the internet revolution. Then Wednesday happened, and suddenly everyone seemed to understand how serious this was. Wikipedia went...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Me, Vic, and the Internet Snooping Bill
Oh boy. Sometimes it’s not easy to be a blogger in the growing darkness of Stephen Harper’s Canada. You can feel the fear in the air. My computer is humming like a toaster, and I don’t know whether...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Coping With the Horror of Harperland
Sometimes when I stare at the horror of Harperland, like Simon in the Lord of the Flies stared at the head of the pig, I get a bit depressed eh? I don't know how I'm going to make it to the next...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Beating the Doggie Called Depression
I went for a walk the other day through the leafy lanes of The Shire, with a friend of mine who has suffered from severe depression from about this time last year.It was such a beautiful fall day. He...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Felix, Joe, and the Big Jump
I'm too tired to blog tonight, but I just want to say that I thought this big jump was awesome.Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first man to break the sound barrier in a...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Mourning the Death of an Old Friend
It's been almost a week since I last blogged, and since I left so abruptly some of you have been wondering where I went.And no doubt some may have feared that I had reread my last post, taken a second...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Ikea Monkey and the Harper Kong
Gawd. If my protest calendar for December wasn't booked solid. And if I hadn't got plastered at the office Christmas party.I might have been walking around today with a sign reading "Free Darwin...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Valentine’s Day in Harperland
Well today was Valentine's Day and I didn't really feel like writing about it this year.For starters, if I saw another cellophane rose, tacky card, or other pinky thing coming at me I'd probably...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Disastrous Decline of the Con Regime
It was such a beautiful day, the first real day of Spring, that I spent hours pedalling around my magic island, out of touch with the rest of the world.So it wasn't until I met the three four bears at...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Saving of Far Enough Farm
Two years ago I first told you the story of Far Enough Farm, the beautiful little hobby farm on the Toronto Islands. A gentle story book place if ever there was one. I told you how the brutish Con...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Harperland and the Progressive Journey to Victory
It's been pretty grey and wet where I live. It gets dark before you know it. Soon it will be winter in Harperland. In all its grim horror.But on the positive side I have a few days off, so I can take...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Lou Reed, My Dad, and the Tennis Racquet Guitar
There aren't too many artists who can bridge the generational divide, or the straight/gay divide, but one of them was Lou Reed. Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter whose darkly poetic recordings as...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: What Christmas Means to Me. Again.
I wrote this post a few years ago, after somebody questioned how an atheist like me, could celebrate Christmas. And I've run it every year since then on this day, because with some minor revisions to...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Lost Animals of Far Enough Farm
Well although he personally believes that crack addicts should be jailed not pampered, I see Rob Ford is finally in rehab.His monstrous Fordzillamobile is in the pound.Earlier this week, Ford's...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Scottish Independence and the Search for the New Left
OK. So it's probably not the best time to leave Canada. Not in the middle of that tragically short warm period we call summer in the Great White North.But politically it's the dead season here, or...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Violence Against Women: Why We All Need to Look in the Mirror
I'm ashamed to admit that when the stories about the ghastly harassment of women in this country began to emerge, first at the CBC and then on Parliament Hill, I was shocked and horrified.But because...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: My Full, Frank, and Totally Sober Defence of Elizabeth May
I didn't think I'd have to ride to the defence of Elizabeth May again. I thought one post was enough. But since she has been mercilessly pilloried, and some are actually suggesting she should resign,...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: David Bowie and the Lighthouse of the Different
It was amazing to see so many people all over the world saying the same thing yesterday.Oh no. I didn't even know he was ill. Not the soundtrack of my life.Not Ziggy Stardust. Read more » . . . → Read...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Slow Death of the Canadian Political Blogosphere
I must admit that when I flew to Scotland a few weeks ago to attend a friend's wedding, I had no idea that it would lead to my longest break from blogging in almost twelve years. But then who knew that...
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