Goodbye Richie Havens
Folk singer Richie Havens died today at age 72. Here he is performing “Freedom” at the Woodstock Festival in 1969:
Mon, April 22 2013 » Main Page, Minutiae, Music Monday et al » Comments Off
Top 20 t-dot sammies
Toronto Life has a round-up of the top 20 sandwiches in Toronto. I have some exploring to do. :) Three sammies that immediately caught my eye: fried chicken sandwich at Barque pulled pork at at the Hogtown Cure grilled cheese with meat loaf, mac-and-cheese and bacon at Uncle Betty’s Drool. :)
Mon, April 22 2013 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Global drinking tips from NYT reporters
On April 7, the New York Times ran a nice feature on cool bars that its correspondents have frequented over the years. Come for the wry anecdotes and charming illustrations. Stay for the lime-shaped global map that takes you from country to country as you scroll down the page. Neat! An NYT drinking map to [...]
Mon, April 8 2013 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » Comments Off
Late-night burgers in the dot
BlogTO has pulled together one of its usual lists, this time on scoring a decent hamburger in the wee hours. I will speak admiringly of Johnny’s Hamburgers (at Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue East) as an old-school burger experience. As far as I’m concerned, Apache Burgers’ place on the list is misplaced. If you’ve [...]
Fri, February 22 2013 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
A stark view of dark lower Manhattan
Much admiration on Twitter today for this New York magazine cover photo: Photographer Iwan Baan told the Poynter Institute how he got the shot.
Sat, November 3 2012 » Main Page, Minutiae, photos » Comments Off
Worst practical joke judgment ever
Two journalists in Kyrgyzstan are out of a job after they kidnapped a female broadcaster and threatened her life at gunpoint as part of some ill-conceived practical joke. The broadcaster is Nazira Aytbekova.
Fri, November 2 2012 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » Comments Off
Anhedonia
Anhedonia is Greek for “without pleasure,” and it’s a component of depression that doesn’t have to co-exist with sadness.
Sun, August 19 2012 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Mugged by a muskie
This tops any of my fish stories: A fisherman was dangling his feet in the northwest Ontario waters of Lake of the Woods when a muskie attacked his left foot. Read the Aug. 15 CBCNews.ca story, but having a big (one-plus metres, eight-plus kilograms) muskellunge chomping on your foot is going to put the hurt [...]
Sun, August 19 2012 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
My tussle with severe depression – an update
Back on Feb. 7, I thought I was on enough of an upward track in my recovery from severe depression that I concluded a blog post with some of my summer plans. That turned out to be erroneous. As a result, life hasn’t worked out exactly as anticipated.
Fri, August 10 2012 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
I’m a Rebel Mouser now
To see my new social media front page, go to http://www.rebelmouse.com/billdinTO/. It seems to be a good way of keeping up with the highlights of my Twitter feed, particularly those tweets with visual elements or links in them. But to get the real deal in real time, follow me at @billdinTO.
Thu, June 21 2012 » Admin, Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off