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How things oughta be
(...now in convenient chronological order!)
Too lazy to keep a blog, Michael repurposes past emails and journal entries into this bloglike jumble of uninformed observations on politics, the arts, and pop culture.
Most recent entries (April 2007-present)
...Updated May 5 2007
May-December 2006
Da Ali G Show | America unbound | X-Men | Shat-upon Kurds | "Idiocracy" and the End Of The World | "Stolen" Mexican election | Afghanistan | Iraq | "Syriana" and "V For Vendetta" | Old phone number | On reading "The Bear" | Pandora | Decemberists | Liberal leadership convention 2006
September 2005-March 2006
Smallpox | Trudeau: The Miniseries | My archnemesis | Men's room | Declining birthrates | 2006 federal election | More declining birthrates | Regional Psych Centre | Michael rejected | Still more declining birthrates
March-August 2005
Paul Wolfowitz & the World Bank | Hotel Rwanda | Frank Miller, Alan Moore | Misunderstood Michael | GM suggestions | Harvey Pekar | Aging brains | The irrelevant Royal Family | Batman | Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" | Dickens, Chesterton, Waugh | Late fees | Nathan | Peter Jennings
October 2004-March 2005
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow | Iraq & the '04 US election | William Weld | Plato & Dion | Groucho in Canada | Road trip to Chicago, NYC | 404 vs. The Wall | The Man clamps down | Miscellaneous criticism | Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone | Bono & the World Bank | Warren Beatty, Deborah Kerr | H.G. Wells' "Outline of History" Vol. 1
February-July 2004
List-making | 2004 Academy Awards | Exercise bike | The great Third World tourism debate | Plato's Republic | Close encounter with Black Francis | Starter troubles | Final episode of "Friends" | Michael's secret identity | Bee cereal | J & K's wedding | Super-Size Me
December 2002-December 2003
Gathering the carts | God versus the aliens | Adam & Eve | Anti-Americanism | Anti-war demos | The Greek Myths | Egoyan's "Ararat" | Iraq war casualties | The power of positive thinking | Letter to the Department of Immigration | Jungle gym | Saskatoon civic elections | The Leaders' Debate | Rumsfeld's tongue-twister
January-October 2002
Fish sex | Steve McQueen | Dendrochronology! | British slang | Crossroads | Dead newts | A sacrilegious dream | No sense of history | World Youth Day 2002 | Irritating "Grapes of Wrath" | Out by the graveyard at midnight | M. Night Shyamalan | Auto repairs | My infamous work history | VCR repairs
May-December 2001
Porno stories | Stompin' Tom | Anti-self-doubt manifesto | Porno plays | September 11 | September 12 | Warren & Kurt’s birthday party | Unemployed again | Vegetarianism | Short-pants agnosticism | Robinson Crusoe | Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
Plays & screenplays.
Sid's Back
A play. 1992 or '93, Saskatoon.
The Geiger Counter
A play. Summer, 1999, Fairview, AB.
Alvin Axelrod Bugford
A play. Summer, 1999, Fairview, AB.
Plato and Dion
A play, sort of. November 18, 2004.
Graham Drops In
A short screenplay. November 24, 2004, Saskatoon.
Sense Memory
A short screenplay. February 6, 2005, Saskatoon.
Haunting Simon
A short screenplay. June 12, 2005, Saskatoon.
The Gypsy Way
A silent movie scenario. October 13, 2005, Saskatoon.
Bad Wig
A short screenplay. August 28, 2006, Saskatoon.
Poetry & songs.
Warren & Kurt's Birthday Party
A song. September 15, 2001, Saskatoon.
Song of the Splake
A poem. January 7, 2002, Saskatoon.
Dendrochronology - A Boon To Archaeology!
A poem. March 20, 2002, Saskatoon.
Yo! Bum Rush The Pope!
A devotional play, in rhyme. August 3, 2002, Saskatoon.
Rezkallah and Bergstrom and Sumner and Bugg
A poem. September 23, 2002, Saskatoon.
On revising my resumé
A poem. October 11, 2002, Saskatoon.
He is the stockboy that gathers the carts
A poem. December 2, 2002, Saskatoon.
Bono, President of the World Bank
A poem. March 8, 2005, Saskatoon.
On reading Faulkner's "The Bear"
A poem. October 26, 2006, Saskatoon.
Stories & whatnot.
The Love Program
A dream. March 2, 1998, Vancouver.
A month's worth of porno clerk stories
True stories. May 18, 2001, Saskatoon.
Crossroads
A story. June 26, 2002, Saskatoon.
Rewriting Steinbeck
A story. September 23, 2002, Saskatoon.
Foreign Film Summary Generator
HTML fun. September 27, 2004, Calgary.
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