I leave all that privacy panic to the caveat-emptor rather than the narcissistic belief that Facebook is going to take your status updates and compile them into the Great American Novel destined to sell millions of copies with not a penny to your own pocket for it
I don't believe I've ever written anything on Facebook that I wouldn't scribble on a bathroom wall given the opportunity
Even writings on the bathroom wall are property of the owner of the bathroom.

I wrote this really long painful blog post awhile back about the night my wife lost the horse she had for 13 years. I haven't published it and didn't even finish writing it for that matter. It was just a kind of catharsis where I just needed to write to cope with the situation.

A strange thing resulted from it though. It made me stop blogging. It's like I was avoiding it because I didn't want to be tempted to try and finish that post.

Anyway, this is my attempt at convincing myself that I don't have to finish writing that post and that my blog can go on without it.

Labels: day to day

My wife and I were driving along a long straight back road through various farm fields on the way to the polling station to vote today. It was much further than we'd expected. We'd never been that way before. It was all farms of various kinds. In certain directions time actually stood still. There really was no way to tell if it was 2008 or 1978. It was just farm fields. I started wondering if just maybe we'd get to the voting booth and finding Pierre Elliott Trudeau's name on the ballot.

Labels: day to day

I figured I'd post a plain old blog post for the day to day tag just because it's been awhile.

It's September already. I'll be 33 in seven days or something. I'm not as bothered about getting older this year as I have been in past years. Life is good.

My wife and I have settled into married life but we're still as silly around each other as we ever were. It's not the cold boring married life that people expect.

We've got our horse boarding business up and running. We're expecting 10 horses on the acreage by the fall with a constant flow of emails from people wanting to bring their horses. We've drawn the line at 10 horses this year including a young stud and a colt. We have two of our own horses as well.

Regal is Lynn's thoroughbred. He's come down with a bout of "cushings" and lost a lot of weight but he's getting better.

Raine's our newest quarter horse. She's settled in well though she's the only female on the pasture right now so I think she's really milking the attention. Lynn's been working on breaking her all summer. It's been a longish process since we're both working and setting up the horse boarding business.

However, I did manager to sit in the saddle yesterday without Raine throwing me off. She just looked back and saw it was me up there and went back to her oats. I figured that surely I'd get tossed off when the oats ran out like where were sand in an hour glass but I survived that too even though she did get little restless. Raine's got a long way to go before we're riding along the train tracks but she's getting there.

Labels: day to day

I uploaded a new graphic to my cafepress page. I hope you like it. I hope it doesn't get banned. I hope... I hope... I hope.

Labels: Art

Labels: Art, comics

I started avoiding the new wave of super hero movies (mainly the marvel onces) since Spider-Man 3. I don't have time for such perpetual disappointment. That's not to say I won't watch anything based on a comic but I do avoid most of them.

Normally, I'd avoid Batman movies as well since they too have all the makings of a bad super hero movie: a huge budget, several big name actors, merchandising out the ears, a ton of promotion, limitless cg based special effects, and or course it's a summer blockbuster. All of these things make me want stay home.

Batman is different from the others somehow. For starters, I'm a huge fan of Christian Bale since American Psycho. His portrayal was very refreshing since the last few Bat movies which have ranked from bad to utterly horrible.

Watching the Dark Knight gave me the impression that the story had been lifted directly from an issue of Detective Comics. In that sense the movie really kicked ass above and beyond any of the other Batman movies. (I still think the 1989 Batman movie was the best overall.) Heath Ledger's take on the Joker was superb and refreshing as well. They dared to be different and it worked while still maintaining the spirit of the comics.

In short this movie was great. I'd really like to have a look at it in IMAX. I'm less than optimistic about the next movie though. It seems they're falling to that old trap where they're picking their villains before they even write the script.

Labels: Movie Review