<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 12:52:29 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[Wok this way]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/200808</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/200808</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cooking shows don't have very much staying power.  Within a few years we'll have forgotten that Nigella Lawson even existed or why that Jamie Oliver chap was so hyped.  "Iron Chefs", the bizarre Japan... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/200808'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What about Bob?]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/166860</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/166860</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One day I started listening to Bob Dylan and for several weeks after that I listened to nothing else.  I mean it.  I could've duct taped the stereo shut, except that there were other Dylan albums I wa... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/166860'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yo, comment-dit-on "ill"?]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/151931</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/151931</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If Madame had made high school French instruction this interesting, maybe I would have walked out of the classroom with more than a cursory lesson in Guy Lafleur.A teacher in Montreal once com... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/151931'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did we fail school, or did school fail us?]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/136626</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/136626</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I cut-and-pasted this from an excerpt on William Goodwin:[i]The aim of education should be the promotion of happiness - and this necessarily involved the cultivation of wisdom and virtue. Smit... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/136626'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flower power]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/129582</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/129582</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am not a botanist.  I had never even heard of the Madagascar periwinkle until two days ago when I stumbled upon a publication I had dug up on the internet of the anti-cancer promise that this common... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/129582'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[my urban picture galleries]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/128335</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/128335</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeez,I don't remember why I forgot to post these.  Yeah, these are my London pics.  Bear in mind that I don't have a digital camera so I have to go through the cumbersome process of developing... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/128335'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of being earnest (what are 'manners'?)]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/120941</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/120941</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It’s no accident that Curb your Enthusiasm is such a popular show.  It’s the funniest thing on TV, now, and as a wake-up call for our brain-dead society it’s about as nuanced as a punch in the face.  ... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/120941'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit Techno]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/112839</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/112839</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The name of the routine is: "When I'm busy with other stuff, I slap together a bunch of links that I've gleaned from other sites that I frequent."This time 'round, it's Detroit.  Detroit is qu... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/112839'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A postcard from the English riviera]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/102406</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/102406</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[EDIT: This was originally written on Feb. 20, 2004Ahoy, Sitting in Greenwich now, typing away at my last e-mail correspondence before I leave tomorrow afternoon.  The last few days hav... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/102406'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More London impressions]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/97010</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/97010</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's a slow night in drizzly London, so I thought I'd send my regards from across the Atlantic.  Dymov's hectic work week is in full swing so I've been left to my own devices - a real treat during the... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/97010'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Calling - day 1 of my trip]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/91820</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/91820</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Greetings from London. I'm here visiting my old friend Dymov, who's interning as a bonds trader for Barclay's.  His life is bittersweet right now, because although he's fulfilling his career w... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/91820'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you, sis]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/88167</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/88167</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Having younger siblings is rad because when you were growing up they idolized you even if you forced them to smell your rotten breath, or kept on getting them hurt in some sort of way.  That’s legit i... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/88167'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of God]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/87073</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/87073</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[People like Roger Ebert and other film critics adored [i]City of God[/i], but that doesn’t change the mind of this non-conformist – Fernando Mereilles’ [i]City of God[/i] was, hands down, my favourite... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/87073'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank O. Gehry's AGO reaches new levels of architectural maturity]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/84323</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/84323</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[[url=http://www.ago.net/navigation/flash/index.cfm]Pictures of Gehry's Art Gallery of Ontario addition[/url] My faith in star-architecture has been restored with the recent unveiling of Frank ... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/84323'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Response to Prachtig Zuid Afrika]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/71399</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/71399</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[RE: [i]The abolition of apartheid was, of course, a big step ahead, but unfortunately the country has fallen deeper and deeper into the abyss. Two examples: a major part of the population is HIV-infec... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/71399'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[the real difference between men and women (aka: forget Mars/Venus)]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/67533</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/67533</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So, this is the part of my blog where I open myself up for spontaneous attack for being a 'misogynistic bigot'.  I'm not, but listen to this...There is a fundamental difference between men and... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/67533'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the Yanks alone (culturally, that is)]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/66483</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/66483</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Making fun of the Yanks is more popular in just about every metric-using country in the world right now - and with good reason - but perhaps it is time for us to leave the Yanks alone.  Culturally, th... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/66483'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pop goes the literature]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/58928</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/58928</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When the MTV generation grows up, what’s left?  Late-night reruns of [i]Beavis and Butthead[/i] on Showcase?  Fugguedaboudit.  Enter MTV books.  Some of my literary-inclined friends out there will sha... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/58928'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[thanks for coming out]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/46511</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/46511</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of the Exam archipelago here, so I haven't had the time to properly formulate my thoughts and hammer out any good articles.I’ve noticed my site has received mo... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/46511'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some kids are destined to be cool...]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/42695</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/42695</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are some kids out there who you know will be cool: the city bus I was riding on my way to the library today pulled over on the shoulder, and this fourteen-year old kid paid his fare and walked t... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/42695'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isolated island countries are genetic goldmines.]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39643</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39643</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I was talking to someone the other day about how small, isolated populations like Iceland and Newfoundland can potentially make a killing selling their genes, and the general response I got was "huh?"... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39643'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh!  The photographic work of Jamel Shabazz]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39266</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39266</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ [image]leonardm_1353134763.jpg[/image] [i]Jamel Shabazz was the first to document the hip hop scene, back in the 1970s.[/i]In the mid-1970s, when he was just fifteen, Jamel Shabazz gr... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/39266'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recess with the dictator]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37375</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37375</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Simon Sebag Montefiore’s [i]My Affair with Stalin[/i] was one of those laugh-out-loud novels that I amused myself with when I made the long, dark commute from suburban Mississauga back into Toronto ev... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37375'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's hear it for the tinkerers]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37371</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37371</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest failures of society is that we don’t recognize people who work with their hands. These people are the tinkerers. They were big-shot inventors a century ago, who put together whizzin... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37371'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a brief minute, the Simpsons were back. With a vengeance.]]></title><link>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37370</link><guid>http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37370</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[About half a year ago, I turned off the TV mid-episode and announced that I'd never watch another new episode of the Simpsons ever again. By that point, the show had sunk to new depths: there were no ... <a href='http://leonardm.tblog.com/post/37370'>more from leonardm...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>