Why Thank You Very Much
It’s time again for the “best of spam”! Â These are the cream of the crop of crap that attempt to sneak in past my approval process. Â And they make me laugh! …
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June 2013
Brandt’s Randt – A Warning for the Long Weekend
We don’t talk about them but we get news releases every day, sometimes dozens, about drunk drivers. OPP, local police, regional police – they all nab drunks on the road every day despite the perception that it’s a situation that’s under control.
And it makes me want to Randt! Â …
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That Ant Can’t Move a Rubber-Tree Plant
To put a new twist on the old song, that ant may have had high hopes, but he can’t do much if he’s dead! Â …
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Queer is Back
This is Pride Month. It’s going to be a history-making Pride parade in Toronto on Sunday when Kathleen Wynne becomes the first sitting Premier to march. …
Dad Jeans
Much fun has been made of so-called Mom jeans. You know the type: they sit higher on the waist than is fashionable and offer a generous amount of room in the seat. They may or may not have an elastic waist. No one you or I know wears Mom jeans but they do exist on the bodies of some women.  They’re not cool. …
The Wedding of The Year!
The only daughter of our very dear friends got married on the weekend. This event has been long in the planning and heavy in anticipation. And it was a very special, wonderful day. Â Â …
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Happy Birthday Baby Brother!
I have a feeling that the only thing my brother will hate more than being sung to in a restaurant is having his photo posted here. Â Oh well! Â …
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My New ‘Do
For about 8 months I’ve been trying to get together with my friend Corinne, a buddy since high school, so she can cut my hair for my second half-century of life. …
Cat Tales
I’ve slowed the ant invasion to a trickle. It hasn’t been easy. It involved a lot of poisonous bait inside and out and a few completely futile attempts at finding the colony. But the occasional industrious critter is still coming in so a pest control company will spray the entire house, inside and out, on Friday. …
Y’Ever Notice…?
We stayed at a Comfort Inn last weekend and we usually have a next-to-ideal experience for the dollar. It’s no Ritz but it’s clean, comfortable and in Newmarket’s case, freshly renovated. But there’s a trend I’ve noticed in these mid-range hotels and consider me unimpressed. Â …
Toes for a Cause
I’ve never painted my nails blue before. I don’t tend to colour my fingernails so my toes will have to suffice. And this is no ordinary shade of blue. …
Sharonstock Shut Down
The annual family get-together known as Sharonstock received its annual visit from York Regional Police but this time they used some muscle on the party. Â …
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Them! (Do Not Read While Eating!)
We have been invaded by ants. Crawly, black, awful, disgusting, hateful, stupid ants! …
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RIP Jason Leffler
You may not have any idea who Jason Leffler is. Â But when I found out yesterday morning that he was killed, albeit doing what he loved, my heart broke. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – Michael Rafferty’s Continued Victimization
Sometimes my weekly Brandt’s Randt on 98.1 Free-FM is more tongue-in-cheek than serious. Â “Oh, someone touched me in line at the grocery store! WAH!” Â But today I’m deadly serious. We know as a society what’s right and what’s wrong and what’s going on with child-killer Michael Rafferty right now is just wrong. Â …
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Coffee – Now Good for Your Mental Health!
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and blah blah blah manual, the bible of mental health, now lists trying to quit coffee as a mental health issue. …
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Erotica Finds a Place in Design – Sun Media, June 7-9
One day you may find you need a little help in the bedroom and you know the only solution is to call in a specialist. You’ll need someone who’s sensitive yet knowledgeable and prepared to give you the straight goods without doing irreparable harm to your tender ego. Erotica Interiors offers niche decorating at its most intimate and personal. …
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Tommy at Stratford
It’s amusing to think that most of the performers in the Stratford Festival’s production of Tommy weren’t born when the double-album first came out in 1969.  But that has no bearing on the show. It’s stellar and it surpasses any attempt at staging Pete Townshend’s rock opera I’ve seen before – and there have been a few. …
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