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Smoking Guns: #2 – Dreams behind the store

The second of the Smoking Guns series. While everything else may be explained by stretching the meaning of “coincidence,” those damned boxes undermine any conventional explanation.

Smoking Guns: #1 – Night Fog – Possible Conclusion

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 12, 2012 4 Comments

This is the best I’ve got in the way of an explanation for the events described in “Smoking Guns: #1 – Night Fog.” It ain’t much, but it’s the best I can do.

Smoking Guns: #1 – The Night Fog

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 11, 2012 8 Comments

This is the first “Smoking Gun” incident. It describes an event so unusual, yet so well attested, that it can only stand as evidence that life is not entirely material in its essence.

Digging through boxes

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 12, 2012 16 Comments

While cleaning out the locker I discovered something very interesting — using old photos and sketches for a blog post is way easier than actually writing one.

V8 Juice and Canadian unity

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 9, 2012 8 Comments

In 1994, during a crisis in Canadian unity, one food manufacturing company quietly stepped in to help ward off an imminent invasion from the United States. In this post we salute V8 Juice for helping to keep Canada a sovereign nation.

Jessica Simpson, Demi Moore, and me

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 8, 2012 14 Comments

Yesterday I set upon an experiment in bringing hundreds and hundreds of readers to my blog. Did it work? Well, yes and no.

Six pieces of advice for parenting while cooking in exotic locations during a photoshoot on the journey to becoming a writer — all in list form!

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 6, 2012 16 Comments

WordPress has a feature called “Freshly Pressed” in which 19 posts are published on the WordPress front page. These posts are meant to represent the “best” of all WordPress bloggers. That certainly seemed to be true when I first noticed them a couple of years ago. They were diverse, well written, and frequently over 1,000 [...]

Chicken art and Canadian politics

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 5, 2012 20 Comments

At the end of “When Pookas attack,” I intended to link to an article I did back in 1997 called “Chicken art and Canadian unity” – a review on Rob Thompson’s art performance piece in which he protested treatment of commercially-bred chickens by putting two people in a cage for a week. But then I [...]

When Pookas attack!

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 1, 2012 11 Comments

On Wednesday night I had a notetaking class in Toronto. The same night, our friend, Joe, was going to be attending an art salon and extended an invitation for us to go along. The salon originated in France in 1725 with the exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts — which is French for “Academy of [...]

We have met the enemy, and it is HR

By Frank Lee MeiDere February 29, 2012 25 Comments

I’m job hunting right now. I won’t bore you with the details. It’s a bitch, but that’s the way it goes. I just want to talk about one particular application I recently completed for an editing position. After registering with them (which is mandatory for pretty well every company now) I’m finally allowed to actually [...]

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