Dear Mahri,
At around your first birthday, you learned the word “no”. And almost 8 months later your use of this particularly word has only grown… exponentially.
I still enjoy watching you say no. (Just wait a few years, I’m sure.) It’s like you’ve been given this special super power that you never knew existed and you [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Such As These (Letters to Mahri, August 14, 2008)
Posted in Letters To Mahri, tagged baptism, childhood, family, fatherhood, kingdom of god, letters to children, stay at home dad on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My Dearest Mahri,
We baptized you a couple of months ago. There is much I could say about this and I’ve been wrestling these last few months about that moment and what it means to me.
We had the event take place early in the evening so that parents could bring their children. And we had quite [...]
The Band’s Visit (2007, Dir/Scr: Eran Kolirin)
Posted in Movies, tagged blind date, Israel film, Saleh Bakri, Shlomi Avraham, The Band's Visit on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is perhaps the best film I’ve seen in the last few years. A small Egyptian police band gets stranded overnight in small town Israel. With no hotel in the town, two of the locals agree to take in the band members for the night.
The story breaks off into three storylines, each one a conversation [...]
Top 130 Movie List: #39 Jerry Maguire (Dir/Scr: Cameron Crowe)
Posted in Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged Cameron Crowe, Film, jerry cantrell, jerry maguire, tom cruise on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cameron Crowe is probably my favourite contemporary filmmaker. I enjoy the characters and worlds he creates, and the spirit in which he tells his stories. The brilliance of Crowe’s films is that they often start where other’s finish – his stories often tell the challenges experienced in the rest of the story: what happens when [...]
Top 130 Movie List: #56 Ryan (2004, Dir/Scr: Chris Landreth)
Posted in Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged Canadian Film, Chris Landreth, National Film Board, Ryan on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Director Chris Landreth brings together the two best streams of Canadian filmmaking – documentary and animation – in the Oscar winning film Ryan. This NFB sponsored short is a first-person, animated documentary about former Oscar nominated NFB animator Ryan Larkin, now an alcoholic living on the streets of Montreal.
There’s a reason it won just about [...]
Soundtrack of My Life #3: Head Over Heels (Blue Rodeo)
Posted in Oblations, tagged blue rodeo, head over heels on August 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was 19 and a rookie on the University of Calgary men’s volleyball team. It was a pre-season party with the woman’s team and there was plenty of booze. I didn’t drink at all at the time and I felt really out of place.
I was sitting at a table alone, watching everyone slowly lose their [...]
Soundtrack of My Life #2: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Them Goodbye (Steam)
Posted in Oblations, tagged na na na na, steam, Vancouver Canuck on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For most of my childhood I would lay awake in the dark and listen to Jim Robson radio broadcasts of Vancouver Canucks games. I was nuts about them. I collected stickers and souvenirs. I had the jerseys and knew all of the players.
And when I was seven they went all the way to the Stanley [...]
