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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending May 20th

So I was driving home from my ridiculously late (10:30!) hockey match on Saturday night when I confronted by a police spot check on the Second Narrows Bridge. I did have but one beer after the game as one might … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending May 13th

Zombies. Who doesn’t love zombies? Who doesn’t like to see dead-eyed, soulless freaks aimlessly shuffling around looking for something to eat? And no I’m talking about a Saturday afternoon at the mall. Zombies seem to be all over the place … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending May 6th

Well I managed to survive being home alone for a week while the family was away somewhere. Watched a lot of stuff, probably drank too much, slept in and scratched myself often. Good times. It was a nice little vacation … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending April 29th

So the wife and the sprog have hightailed it back to old Toronto, T-dot as the kids like to say, for a week (work and family visit – not to worry) leaving me to my own devices and challenging my … Continue reading

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Just another Saturday Night

So it was with mild trepidation that I set out for downtown Vancouver on Saturday night (actually two Saturdays ago – I’m a slow writer). I never go downtown on the weekends for it is always a shit-show filled with … Continue reading

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Black Dog Video Newsletter for Week Ending April 22nd

So after a couple of weeks of sub-par and less than sub-par (is there a less than sub-par? subber-par?) films being released on the DVD and the Blu Rays, we finally are entering a stretch of good quality stuff hitting … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending April 15th

It appears that next next year’s Oscar telecast’s “In Memorandum” section is going to be quite lengthy judging by the past few day’s climbing celebrity death toll. Over the weekend we had the great screenwriter of Beyond the Valley of … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending April 8th

I’m a broken down old man. I was out playing some soccer in the park with Swanson (my 7 year-old) and my body feels like it needs about a week in a hyperbolic chamber. I wonder if Michael Jackson’s old … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending April 1st (no, really)

Two Weeks. My kid (and all he other kids in town, I assume) get 2 weeks for Spring Break. How did that happen? We all only got to enjoy one week from school when we were kids (and it was … Continue reading

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Black Dog Newsletter for Week Ending March 25th

So I was hoping to get around to adding more DVDs to the sale bins at the stores over the last week or so (just finally added a bunch to Commercial this morning) but my sprog, Swanson we’ll call him, … Continue reading

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