Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

I made the mistake of going downtown today. I realized that I seldom go into town and its a splash of icy feculant water whenever I do. It took us 20 min. to get from Broughton/Douglas to Broad near Yates by car; likely it would have taken 15 minutes to do so by foot. I did have one happy moment. A ponderously fat man crossed the sidewalk over the course of a couple of minutes. When we were on foot, I saw this large man walk towards us. I "accidentally" turned to my wife and began gesturing and shifting my position thereby blocking the sidewalk (blocking a whole sidewalk? Think about it: a fat man blocking a fat man?) and I kept this man from his destination. Ah... petty, yes, but that's the kind of man I am. Okay, that's for the jaywalkers. What about the drug addicts and riff raff? All I can say is that as bad as we have it, other places have it much, much worse: BERLIN (Reuters) - A homeless woman refuses to stop bathing naked in Munich's public fountains desp...

Batttlestar Galactica's Season Three can't come soon enough: Trailer One: Trailer Two: Trailer Three: What freaks me out is that Commander Adama with the moustache looks like a manager from a store I used to work at. So what's more likely? Adama will stare at the screen and say, "Mike: clean up the midway." Or that retail manager will spontaneously order the nearest department store to do a calculation for a jump to light speed.

So, in reading this resume, I have to ask: are some of the girls he mentions no longer alive? Did he leave off the ones he murdered? I have an old addage: criminals don't go to jail for all of their crimes, just the ones wherein they were caught. I'll bet this isn't a proud feat of publicity for the folks at www.job4teacher.com .

This guy took the convienence of putting a Staples next to a Michaels. He bought a bluetooth headset on discount, trucked over to Michaels and bought a styrofoam/fake banana. Then, he mounted the headset bits into the banana.

About 20 years ago I saw the movie, The Wicker Man . With word of the new Nicholas Cage version coming out, it piqued our curiosity. So, we trucked down to Victoria's best video store, Pic-A-Flic . They had a copy of the extended version. Extended? Flashback to the UK ca. 1972: the government was in a shambles, labour strikes were rampant. This was the breeding ground for the Sex Pistols and punk rock. The film was produced at a time of crisis in the British film industry. The studio in charge of production, British Lion Films , was in financial trouble and was bought out by millionaire businessman John Bentley . In order to convince the unions that he was not about to asset-strip the company, Bentley needed to get a film into production quickly. This meant that The Wicker Man , a film set during early summer, was actually filmed in October; in order to look convincing, artificial leaves and blossoms had to be glued to trees in many scenes. Christopher Lee was extremely keen to g...

I get really melancholy about the past. History distorts the past and loses the foundations-- the people. The people from the past are the real historians. They lived back then: their comfort and suffering is one of the largest things of interest to us-- even if we don't realize it. In October of 2004, I lost my second to last link to the past. I have a great aunt of that vintage and I should spent more time with her. The Library of Congress has released a series of photos-- color photos of people from the 30's and 40s'. They show the mundanes lives of people from this era. I think each of them is more signifigant that the flag raising of Iwo Jima-- after all, almost everyone has dinner and smiles for the camera. I think it's very humbling to see they photos. Get rid of the circus folk who think they're fashionable. Get rid of the idiots with cellphones. They remainder look the same from generation to generation. What we miss from these photos are the people's ...

These guys are running an injured player off of the field. Too bad they forgot to mention to the medics that the stretchers have wheels.