In 1972, my first visit to university, I took a course in psychology which covered behaviourism and the work of B. F. Skinner (1904-1990). I was so fascinated by the American psychologist and his studies of operant conditioning that I have never forgotten the material even after more than thirty year/…

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I first gave a 3 word movie review for The Town then ended up saying the same thing for The Social Network. Those 3 words were "Go see it!" Once again, I find I must express with a certain succinctness my visceral reaction to this 3rd instalment of the cinematic experience/…

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Back when I was a teenager, for some reason which remains unknown to me right now, I started to exercise on a regular basis. Some jogging, some push-ups, sit-ups, stretching, I didn't do a lot but I did what I considered to be enough to keep me active. After over 40/…

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This "small" film, supposedly made for $5 million, is a charming story of love at Christmas for an elderly man played by Martin Landau and the lady from across the street, Ellen Burstyn. The film plays out over a week but packs a lot of story in such a short time./…

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My toilet is the pits. The pits? Wait! Did I spell that correctly?

I moved into a new apartment. This new abode is located in the basement close to the building's laundry room so I've been given to understand that I am something of the last stop in the plumbing before leaving/…

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I don't think I could sum up this movie any better that Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times who said,

“RED†is neither a good movie nor a bad one. It features actors we like doing things we wish were more interesting.

He gave the movie 2 stars out of 4.

This Bruce/…

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Smart, entertaining, a well written script, a delightful young female star. What? Where did this one come from? I had seen the trailer shown before some other movies as of late but hadn't considered seeing it since it seemed like a teenage comedy targeting the youth market.

Cinema Clock has a comments/…

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I work in an office tower handled by one of the larger property management companies. As I was leaving work a couple of months ago, my eyes fell on a sign in the lobby that said the management company was following a policy of dimming lights as part of a green/…

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This 2010 documentary is about American public education and its failures. I suppose the target audience for this film is actually the United States itself however as a documentary, I found it well done and an eye opener for anybody about the importance of education and what happens if you continue/…

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Mirvish Productions has been hosting this show at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto since May 11, 2010. If I inspire you to take the plunge, I see the calendar of shows has performances until the end of the year. I'm assuming it will continue after that but who knows? Try/…

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Yesterday, I decide to trip over to my local Rabba Foods and pick up a couple of things. I step out of my apartment and immediately notice a woman to the right sitting at a picnic table located in an open area in front of the building. As I head down/…

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This film is about Facebook. For those not in the know, Facebook is a web site slash web service whereby users can post personal information about themselves including photos and videos and share them with their friends. Facebook is a social network service which is dedicated to building and reflecti/…

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Years ago, a friend took me to a pool to try out his scuba gear. While I did sort of get the hang of it, I distinctly remember how breathing underwater seemed unnatural. My intellect understood the concept of a tank of air, a regulator and a mouthpiece but there was/…

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This always happens to me. I travel; I stay some place then I hesitate when I leave feeling a touch of nostalgia. Business recently required me to fly out West for an overnight stay; one of those fly in for a meeting, fly out immediately afterwards. Despite my short stay, I/…

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"I want to kill.  I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill.  Kill.  I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth.  Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL."
- Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant (1967)

Now that I've set the mood, we/…

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I'm trying to remember when I first heard this expression. I think it was the mid-90's and I had overheard some younger people a couple of times refer to something by saying that it sucked. However, the introduction of this word into our everyday lexicon, for me at least, was the/…

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My movie review of Ben Affleck's bank robber film The Town consisted of 3 words: Go see it.

However, for this film, I managed to distill my cinematic assessment to the succinctness of a single word: Sucks. Clocking in at 23% with Rotten Tomatoes, I'm not even sure why I'm bothering to/…

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For the uninitiated, a webcam is a video camera attached to a computer and allows you, the user, to pass a video feed over the Internet usually as part of some sort of instant messaging. As well as a video signal, it will do audio. However, the term also has another/…

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Andy Warhol was the American artist who rose to fame during the 60's and 70's as one of the leading figures of the pop art movement. Who hasn't seen his Campbell's soup can canvas or his pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis? However, his main contribution to our culture, at least/…

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My review in 3 words: Go see it.

Now, what the heck am I going to say for the rest of this review? :-)

Ben Affleck partnered with Matt Damon to write the screenplay for the film Good Will Hunting for which the two of them won an Academy Award for Best Original/…

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I am now officially a "Zipster". I have just completed my very first go at a Zipcar, an almost brand new Mini Cooper with just 15 thousand K, thank you very much. As I write this, I have to say that this initial experience was quite favourable. Convenience is at the/…

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Mouth watering, salivating are expressions which refer to the literal, food but are used in the figurative sense to describe our desire or eagerness for something. Over the years in having done my share of (minor) business dealings, I think the figurative meaning of these expressions capture quite we/…

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On Friday, October 1, 2010, I read a news article that I found using Google's news service which states that Google Street View has come to the Antarctica. This means that the service is now present on all seven continents and covers 25 countries this week launching Ireland and Brazil.

As you…

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It has been years; no it has been over a decade since I have flown with just carry-on luggage. My trips have always been vacations; trips where I was going for several days, usually a week or more. The idea of an overnight flight is not unknown to me; I have/…

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For years now, I have been aware of the health recommendations and the growing concern over how healthy our diets are. I have taken to reading the nutrition panels on food products and must say that it is to all our benefit that our society has mandated such information to be…

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