Wasn’t it just last month I wrote about tipping cars if the Canucks got  eliminated from the playoffs? I hate to say I told you so but I actually love saying I told you so. It’s the first thing I said to my shrink  when my latest physiological assessment came back labeled “NSF”.
Normally I shy [...]

I don’t like flash mobs. There, I said it. Perhaps it’s because I have seen a few on youtube and nobody flashed anything to anyone or anything. It might also because nobody mobbed anything or anybody. I recently saw the flash mob that took place at GVM. By the way, it will always be GVM [...]

One of the questions I most often get asked is, “Could you stop staring at me please?” Another question I often get asked is, “John, how long do you think it will be before the machines take over civilization?” For reasons that I would prefer to keep as my own, I will answer the second [...]

As many of you don’t know and therefore don’t have the capacity to care, I am a card carrying adrenaline junkie. Since the days of Evil Knievel I have thirsted to live life on the razor’s edge. I became somewhat disenchanted a few years ago when I heard Knievel wasn’t truly evil. He just acted [...]

I have lived on Salt Spring Island for almost 10 years. I have been coming here for 25 years, mainly because my dad was generous enough to pay airfare on an annual basis. No, I’m not trying to define whether I am a Salt Springer or not. Believe me, I will go [...]

February is the calendorical (my new word) equivalent of being stranded on the moon with one other person and no functioning toilet; just the two of you and very little gravity. February is the only month that doesn’t have a stat holiday here in British Columbia.  You can’t really blame it [...]