I went to a Blue Jays baseball game at the SkyDome for the first time in a couple of years last week. I was looking forward to a lazy evening at the ballpark, sitting back in my seat, eating overpriced stadium food, heckling the visiting Oakland Athletics, cheering on the hometown Jays, and enjoying that undefinable ambiance that descends upon baseball crowds alone among all the major sports.
For my generation of computer nerds, the biggest effect had by technology was that of computer games. I think it is important, however, to make clear what kind of games I am talking about: I don't mean Doom or Hexen, even if those games left memorable multi-player nights we still discuss.
There are times, after being asked a question, that you should just give the answer. And there are other times where you should ask yourself why you have just been asked that question?
What can I say other than this Real World we live in is just a satire of what true existence should be. Many of life's daily occurrences have begun to shock me, whether it is in regards to music, books or just about anything for that matter.
So I've been reading this book by a local Toronto author by the name of Hal Niedzviecki, who might actually be familiar to some of you by virtue of Broken Pencil, a zine he publishes on the Canadian zine scene.