Books I'm bringing on my trip
So I’ll be in Vancouver from Jan. 1-9 (drop me a line if you want to hang out) and I’m looking forward to getting a lot of reading done at home (on the bus, at coffee shops waiting for people, walking...
View ArticleI resolve to follow some of my 2009 resolutions
I’m fairly terrible at resolutions and it’s pretty doubtful that writing them on this blog will actually help me accomplish them but since I’m on this five-hour flight to Vancouver and there’s really...
View ArticleHow I feel on this fine Saturday morning
Cabin Pressure trailer Shall We Dance trailer Excess Baggage This is kind of how I feel this morning. Nobody’s Fool Scars of Dracula The Bellboy movie Miami Vice rip Here Comes Mr. Jordan dvd Ultimate...
View ArticleIf this is February
Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour full movie Jaws 2 ipod I can deal. 11 degrees? What the hell? The Skeleton Key film For all you Americans, that’s in celsius. Why haven’t you switched to Metric yet?...
View ArticleGermany 2009: Getting to know you
I’ve spent the last few days getting to know the German side of my family. About 40 years ago, my father’s older brother, Lian Hie, left Indonesia for medical school in Germany. Over the next few years...
View ArticlePop Culture Book Club and more
Thanks to pal and author Brian Joseph Davis and Eye Weekly I got my hands on Yann Martel’s much anticipated follow-up to Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil, a few weeks early. I even got to chat about it...
View ArticleFriday night meme: #ZombieRomComs
I created a monster meme on Friday night. The details are below. Hey, who says Storify has to only be used for “serious news.” I’m sure those guys like zombies as much as the next guy.
View Article52 in 52: My year in reading
Some of the 47 books I read this year At the start of 2010 I resolved to read one book a week. Well, the year is over and I didn’t quite meet that goal. I read 41 books in 2010 (Update: I realized that...
View Article10,000 tweets and counting
If you’ve been reading this blog you’ll know that twitter is a huge part of my personal and professional life. On Friday, I reached a pretty big personal milestone and sent out my 10,000 tweet. Yes,...
View ArticleA slight change in direction
I’m making a few changes to my online work. Here’s the rundown: Boyreporter.ca You’re reading it. I’ve decided that this blog needs a serious change in focus. Over the last few months I’ve been...
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