Right. I leave for London in a couple of days, and then I’m off to Montreal, and after that I have army reservist commitments. So - what with work and spending time with the Girlfriend - this blog is likely to be on winter break till about a month’s time. But you can leave suggestions on what to do in Montreal in the comments (yes, all comments get e-mailed to me).
Meanwhile, here’s some entertainment to keep y’all occupied:
- Irwin Shaw’s short story “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses”
- Shkspr as txt msg
- Philip Pullman’s point about the rise of a moral quality attributed to being rather than doing in this set of essays is good stuff.
- Esquire magazine’s “Things a Man Should Know”.
Oh, and I was in the library today picking up a guide to Montreal, and I read the children’s book Olive the Other Reindeer, about a dog named Olive who hears “Olive the other reindeer” in the Christmas song and becomes convinced she’s a reindeer. Very endearing.
And what are reindeer games? Are they more like reindeer Monopoly, or more like reindeer Truth or Dare?