Home on the Open World Range
A recent article in the Journal of Internet Research described a study that came to the conclusion that open-world games (OWGs) “may offer unique cognitive escapism opportunities, potentially leading to…
Musings
2024, so long
2024. Ungood: first full year without a parent. Lost Roxy. Lost only campaign worked on. Lost friends and family member to the dark side. Anguished over antisemitism that was everywhere.…
Sixteen per cent
At moments like this, I think back to the days when Liberals told me I was wrong about Justin Trudeau and that I should join their movement. And I smile.
My latest: 2025 predictions about the future!
Never make predictions, especially about the future. So said baseball great (and quipster) Casey Stengel, and he was of course right. The prediction business is high-risk and low-reward. The punditocracy…
80,000 can’t be all wrong! Okay, they actually can be.
80,000 followers. Watch out, Taylor Swift. I’m in your rear view and I’m getting closer!
Montreal
Paid them a visit.
My latest: 2024’s big losers
Said the famous socicultural expert, with typical insight and perspicacity : “I don’t like parties past 2 a.m. Then it’s all losers and weirdos.” The expert, of course, is socialite…
My latest: 2024’s political winners
For many politicians and political parties, 2024 was a horrible, awful, nasty, no-good year. Incumbent politicians and political parties, that is. The year 2024 was the worst year ever –…
A gift of the Magi (and Roxy)
Here’s a Christmas tale. O. Henry is one of my favorite writers (anyone who reads my stuff will know how much he influenced me). And one of his best-known stories…
Roxy portrait
After Mass, got one of the best presents ever – a portrait of Roxy by E., which made me cry. It’s just beautiful.
Happy, happy!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all of you from us.
Joe Strummer: well I love you baby
The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, so many years ago, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true – if…
My latest: the alien
The thing you need to understand about Justin Trudeau is that he doesn’t live a life like you and I do. It’s like he’s David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The…
Around my neck
What I wear around my neck. From right: letter “W” purchased from a Mayan in Mexico, St. Joan of Arc (my hero), Magen David I just got.
Dumb Americans
Americans sure love their perp walks, but they’re going to deeply regret this one (which even included New York City’s mayor): it was wildly, inarguably prejudicial and will be used…
B’nai Brith demands the truth
On November 4, 2024, B’nai Brith discovered that Library and Archives Canada will not release Part II of the 1986 Deschênes Commission’s report on Nazi war criminals. This goes against…
Merry Christmas
I’m a bit bored, so to stir things up, I would like to remind everybody that Jesus was Jewish, almost certainly dark-skinned, spent several years living with a group of…