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The Monsters of Our Imagination

On a cold drizzly day in November, I spent a warm hour, exploring the exhibit De monstris: An Exhibition of Monsters and the Wonders of Human Imagination, at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto.  The exhibit explored the concept of ‘monster’ as it has...

Turning Around A Craptastic Day

Last Thursday started as an epically craptastic day. It was the culmination of several hellish days all converging in a big ball of epic hellfire.  The previous Saturday, so five days before the craptastic day, I came home to find a piece of paper shoved into the...

Visceral Reactions to Bird Dresses

One of my favourite places in the world is the Royal Ontario Museum. The ROM is “Canada’s largest museum and houses one of the world’s great permanent collections of art, cultural artifacts and natural history specimens.”  It was built in 1914 and houses 13...