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News: Dead guy sends Christmas cards from heaven

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Chet Fitch died in October at the age of eighty-eight and yet thirty-four cards arrived for his friends and family written in his hand, with the return address as “Heaven”.
The greeting read:
I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back [...]

Agnostica Gift Giveaway

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Agnostica occurs on December 14th, though the “true celebration” happens on the Solstice, and in honour of this I’m doing a Agnostica Shrodinger’s Box gift giveaway.
For the uninitiated, Shrodinger’s Boxes are wrapped boxes of unknown contents which are never opened in honour of Schrodinger’s infamous thought experiment, initially conceived to point out the absurd strangeness [...]

Happy Solstice!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Celebrate the Winter Solstice in Toronto!
The 19th annual Kensington Festival of Lights takes place today at 6 pm sharp at the corners of Augustus and Oxford in Kensington Market.  There will be puppeteers, fire-breathers, stilt-walkers, and a crazy parade of costumed characters marching through the narrow streets of the Kensington neighbourhood, their lit lanterns held [...]

Review: Sacred Land, by Clea Danaan

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political & Environmental Change, by Clea Danaan
Llewellyn Worldwide, 9780738711461, 266 pp. (incl. end notes appendix, sources and index), 2007
Last year was the first I attempted to grow anything in our vegetable garden. I knew I wanted to grow organic, but I went in more or less blind. It wasn’t [...]

Zombie Plague Seasonal Ornaments

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The winter holiday season seems to arrive earlier and earlier each year, and this year is no exception. It may only be November, but these Zombie Plague Tree Ornaments have beens old out since October 23rd at Esty.com.
Just in time for Hallowe’en you may think, but these little guys were intended for your Christmas tree. [...]