journal features
movie reviews
photo of the day

guys night

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.07.14

I had dinner and drinks with my old boss from EDS, who's now at a firm that makes software that my employer sells.

He and I and another of his current colleagues, with whom I'd met recently before cycling in the rain for more than fifteen kilometers, chatted about work and wives and children and -- for two of us, anyway, how we'd never regained interest in professional hockey since the strike. Guy stuff to be sure. But being good dads we all three of us were making for home before nine. It's sure not 1996 any more!

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot