I have it from Gillian, who has it from Meg “it’s National De-lurking Week!”, who has it from Sheryl who has a Typepad blog and so at this particular time in cyberspace is not visible, that is it time for lurkers to lean just far enough around the corner for us to hear their cheeky little snickers.

Soooo…. De-Lurk!

I am trying a new thing. I am blogging from my bedroom. It is the same but softer and my schnauzer is warming my toes. Can you believe the below freezing temperatures? I had a business associate call me from Newfoundland call to brag about his weather. NEWFOUNDLAND!

Mary and Joseph.

And as for you all… come out, come out, where ever you are!

I have just been to see Casino Royale, the newest film in the James Bond franchise staring Daniel Craig and IMHO, it is perhaps the best ever. It is more real, gritty and well, credible than almost all other James Bond movies and for the first time in the series, the film has moved away from mindless mass market plonk and back towards character driven action with a story line that is not insulting to the little grey cells.



I read all of the Ian Fleming Bond books when I was 15 and even then I knew they were pulpy action books for exactly my demographic. Shortly after this I watched each Bond with passion, ignoring the occasional stupidity and getting into the spirit of things. I know I watched the Tim Dalton movie but I don’t remember it and after watching the first Pierce Brosnan flic, I knew the franchise was no longer for me. It had been 100% Americanised, and not in a good way.



On a plane from Brisbane to Los Angeles in Aug 2005 I saw Daniel Craig in Layercake. In this movie a reluctant drug trafficker gets in over his head and used his natural skill and aplomb to kick ass and look great in a suit. I knew that after blowing $200.00 in new clothes I had a new man crush. Move over Jeromy Irons. I saw Graig again as a steely WWI English Sergeant in The Trench. Again, blown away. He had me at “(silently look stern and enigmatic with a side of gravitas).”



This James Bond is cast just in this same mold as the heroes of these other movies. Stern, strong, reasoned and deadly. Exactly what a secret agent should be. Goodbye to the ineffectual, inaccessible snarky puff boys. This Bond can take a punch.

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And Kevin in Calgary (Kevin!) writes his agreement with the Provisio that: “the first person that I thought she looked like was Diana Krall”.

This is true, in addition to Nicole looking like Ali Larter, also looks like Diana Krall. Excellent excuse for my webstats too. At this rate, all we would have to mention is Terri Hatcher and the world will beat a path to my door (blog).

My pal Nicole, pictured here at our wedding in September, has just birthed her first babies! That is right my pluralisticly minded readers! Two little boys Cole and Aiden. Congratulations to you Nicole and your little, squirmy family!

On a related note, I was recently struck by the resemblence between my friend Nicole and the TV actress “Ali Larter” from the (very good) TV show Heroes. As I have all of this nifty tech before me, I present for your comparison a photo of Ali Larter so that you might judge for yourself if the resemblence I reckon they share is in fact or in fact is fiction…

Now I am not bringing up this ancillary topic just to artificially boost my site viewer numbers. Bree and I really disagreed on this until I saw the show again. My mind is made up. Doppelganger. But you know what is funny? I didn’t even ask her yet if the twins were identical…

Congratulations Paul! Your Emeritus self is too shiny for my eyes!

Truely funny. Picture Jon Stewart having a sleep over with GW Bush at the Whitehouse. Can’t? Then look at this. Rick Mercer in Stephen Harper’s Jammies.

I have become 29. To celebrate, you get my photo.

Yes, I know 29. I once used to say “but I still feel 16!” Now I say “but I still feel 26!” But to be truthful, I have felt 45 since I started high school.

No No, that is not true. I have felt like I am my own age, but in the 50s, since I was in highschool. “What are those crazy kids up to now?” I would ask the unhearing occupants of a lowered Honda Accord with more decibles than horsepower. In my day the kids all drove jeeps left over from the war…

So I am not really surprised that I am about to enter my 30s. I have a sweet sweet wife, one sweet son, am excellent puppy and a condo. I even have something to do each morning, fulfilling the need for marine appliances all over the world! But there is so much to do!

Wm Ernest Henley dis not say ” I am the Third Mate of my fate/ I am the bosun of my soul”. No! He said he was the captain. I am promoting myself to Captain from now on. Captain Wm. Tomkinson of the Indiaman “Hubris”. Stand-by to reef topsail halyards! Beat to quarters!

Well I’ll let Briana be the skipper sometimes too. We are in the same boat now you know.

Briana will be having her eigthh birthday tommorrow! Yay! She will be a whole quarter of a century old. New Husband, Puppy, Job, Condo; so much change and so much done for my dear spouse. Charge your glass! Hoist your arm! Cry cheers to Briana and her wonderfullness that even the deaf shall hear our joyful noise!



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Alright everybody, it is time to pay the piper. We have posted photos and anecdodes of our wedding and our honeymoon. It is your turn now. Lots of you took pictures at the wedding and we are really looking forward to seeing your photos.

Email them to one of us at our gmail accounts with your best shots. I bet they will be awesome. If you don’t have our address, leave a comment here and we will mail it to you. Also, if you have a funy story about the wedding that you think we may not have heard, post it here.

Awesome guys. Thanks.

So Cute!

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