The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

One of my former English-teaching jobs involved working with small children. They were very little, most under the age of five, so the job mainly consisted of playing games and singing songs in English. Like any job there were good and bad things about it. The kids were mostly very sweet and cute. However, I [...]

I keep hearing from my American friends and family how much it sucks to live in America right now and how horrible President Obama is, but I just wanted to make it clear that it’s so much worse over here.
Tomorrow I’ll have to go and see my neurologist and it will be cost me a [...]

Monty Python was satirical in a timeless way, which is why their Crackpot Religions sketch is (unfortunately) just as true now, if not more so, as it was back then. Now of course we have Scientology, and I cannot help but wonder what Crackpot team would have to say about that:
“We at the Church [...]

“I guess one of the signs of my advancing geezerhood is that sex, drugs, and rock & roll is now down to just drugs.“

Now, I’ve noticed a tendency for this programme to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I’m not having things getting silly. Those two last sketches I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about the bed was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh [...]

I recently spotted this spelling fail over on The Local:

I usually don’t point out spelling and/or grammar mistakes, but it’s kind of hard to ignore a glaring typo in the middle of an article’s headline. How about a little professionalism, people?

The following article discusses how a Swedish court recently ruled that a deaf woman – who claims to be addicted to Coca-Cola and other junkfood as a “side effect” of her disability – should be allowed to seek treatment for her addiction.

Swedish woman allowed to seek treatment for ‘Coke’ addiction
Published: 19 Jan 09 07:04 CET
Online: [...]

I just discovered this website and I’m hopelessly in love with this blogger. He had me when he wrote this about “abstinence-only” pledges and why they don’t work:
I pledged to abstain from being so awesome but I couldn’t stop thinking about how awesome it would be to be awesome. So, I caved.
I looked up some [...]

I erred not, gentle reader.
Muphry’s Law (not to be confused with Murphy’s Law) is an adage stating that: “if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.” It’s the literary application of the better-known Murphy’s Law, which states simply: “If anthing can go [...]

About ten days ago I posted an update concerning the progress of the construction project taking place just outside my apartment. It began about a month ago with the blasting and clearing away of several tons of rock to make room for a new “environmental” station (rubbish/garbage/recycling area). At that time the site looked like [...]