The main difference between living
in Canada and the US is that in Canada,
you get to listen to people bitch about the US less.

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I had this whole Father’s Day thing written. I was going to title it Mother Fuckers, in the most literal sense of course, and it had an accompanying soundtrack. It. Was. Hysterical.

And then, what should pop into my reader but NukeDad’s tear-jerking, touching, beautiful eulogy to his father. Seriously, if you don’t read Nuclear Warhead Family, just stop reading this right now and go. It’s people like him that make me thank sweet little baby Jesus every day for the internetowebosphere. Go. I’ll wait….

Back? Okay. Rather than write my standard thesis-style comment in his box, I thought I’d just go delete some crappy old post no one will ever read in my archives, keeping me on track for the big 1K, and tell you a little story about dads.

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Well, that was enough seriousness to last me a lifetime. Moving on…
What happens when you plan a Mother’s Day outing for the family including Robert Downey Jr., your entire family, including one toddler, at just about exactly naptime? You get to stay home with the pissy toddler while your boys go drool over [...]

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Dear Pat,
Today is my 16th Mother’s Day without you. To be fair, I have actually had 32 Mother’s Days without you, because you never let us celebrate them, did you? But here we are, as many Mother’s Days away from each other as we spent together.
I can’t begin to imagine what you are [...]

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Leap Day has always wigged me out. For that matter, February as a month has always given me the willies. I mean, what the hell did February do to deserve such a calendar-hobbling? Did it sleep with July’s girlfriend or something? Did it get all drunk at December’s party and totally [...]

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