The Anti Chick Flick

Some days I get inspired and come up with a brilliant idea. Yesterday I invented a new phrase - and if you use it in the future be kind and give me the credit.

What is the Opposite of a Chick Flick - so simple: A Dick Flick.

You heard it here first! It's perfect I think, just as demeaning of both men and the movies. Exactly like the feminine version.
Now if I could find a way to capitalize on this idea, my life would be complete.

Proportions and Prsspectives

We all tend to lose ourselves in our own little worlds, and forget that there are other realities working around us. Some days I find it useful to tell my sons "Get your head out of your a** and look around you, maybe you'll feel better".

There are days I feel the need to say it to people who come into my shop (last Saturday was such a day). I don't, of course. Nevertheless, I wish some people out there would do that from time to time and understand that the universe doesn't revolve around them and their needs. I also wish they would keep their petty little minds and concerns away from me and my reality.

So here is a call to the universal whiner: If you feel you have a petty insignificant grievance, please keep it to yourself and don't inflict it on your fellow citizens. In time you'll see it doesn't really matter. Life goes on.

The Human Spirit

A child's head bathed in colour at the student art show at OCAD - Ontario College of Art and Design over the weekend. Here and there we saw some skill and talent, but overall what comes out is the variety and creativity of human endeavour.
It is heart warming to see that not everybody on this earth is concerned with destruction, making money or exploiting their fellow creatures.
This deer head is completely man made using bits of a used wooden wine barrel, leather and rabbit fur.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- An author's mystery

There is a certain pleasure that can't be denied when you crack open a book that draws you in like a warm bath and you wish to never come out.
This is one of those reads: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by the late and mysterious Stieg Larsson.
I've yet to reach the ending, and I try to slow down but I'm at that stage in a mystery when things are getting to a close faster and faster, picking up the pace and fighting it becomes a real battle for me. I love this.

Larsson's own life and death sound to me like a hoax and a publicity stunt drawn from one of his wildly best selling mystery novels. In fact, I suspect the author is actually a woman and not a man at all, I suspect it's Larsson's partner. But that could be just my natural tendency to theorise and question media-fed information and I may be completely mistaken.

The book is one of the easiest, smooth, lovely stories I've had the pleasure to get into in recent years. It's not great literary work, but rather good story telling plain and simple. It's big, which is great because it takes a while to go through. The characters are rich and lovable and you want to spend more and more time with them as you go along, and you can feel this is exactly what the writer felt when imagining them.

This is why I question the authenticity of the author's life story - he was supposed to have been a well known and respected journalist, who wrote huge volumes for the drawer, never trying to get them read nor published, thinking they were not good enough. Simply put - that makes no sense, as anyone with a love of storytelling and words could easily see the enormous appeal this story has.

I am so looking forward to the next volumes. Ooh, can't wait.