My watercolour painting career? It’s been a minute. (Five years of minutes to be exact.) But with the time I’ve had over the past year, I started it back up. I mainly painted florals and landscapes in the past, but lately, I’ve been having fun with pop-culture-y things/moments. Here are a few of the completed … [Read more]
Let’s face it, for the most part — and I mean REALLY REALLY most part — 2020 sucks bags of dirt. Big bags of stinky, grimy, dirt. As Muhammad Ali once said: “The year floated in like a bull in a china shop and stung like not only a bee, but a wasp and a … [Read more]
Last night, I was watching the Stingray Retro channel, like I do, when this music video came on… Classic. And when the video credits appeared I almost fell out of my chair! Look at that date! Really? 2003??? That song is from 2003? That’s 17 years ago! Jesus, I didn’t think it was that old. … [Read more]
Chuck loves goats. If you know him, you know this about him. They are like his favourite animals. He follows 100% Goats, because they guarantee 200% goats. And in late summer of 2019, we decided to spend our vacation following a few different kind of GOATs. And it was 1000% worth it. U.S. Open Our … [Read more]
So we’re all watching all-the-things lately as we deal with being cooped up at home during a pandemic. One channel that is a current favourite in our house is Stingray Retro, especially the Please Rewind program. The channel touts itself as “your source to relive the golden age of music videos.” But was it the … [Read more]
It was the worst of times, Dear God was it the worst of times. 2017 arrived like a bat out of Derry’s kitchen and proceeded to suck the life out of us for an entire 12 months. This year was exhausting, wasn’t it? There were so many tragedies and scandals unfolding on a daily basis that I … [Read more]
Whenever a new HBO show comes out, I give it a shot. When I saw the first trailer for Game of Thrones, I was intrigued. When I watched the first scene, I was hooked. To me, it felt like watching The Wire. (No, please don’t go, bear with me for a second.) The Wire, while … [Read more]
