Kent Fackenthall

  • Hurry, hard.

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    In light of the Olympics and for the benefit of some of my new Canadian friends, I’ve dug up this old post from back when I first moved to Canada in the late 90’s. Hopefully it’s relatively amusing…. I mentioned earlier that this installment would contain a discussion of curling. Well, it would except that…

  • haiku

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    tired but waiting stillfocus is out, wanderingforward into light

  • And the stockings were hung out the window with care…

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    So I trashed my knee. Not that one*. The OTHER one. The one I didn’t trash 15 years ago. That’s news. It folded the other night when I was playing hockey. It did make a very interesting ‘pop’ as it did so. So that sucks. It seems to be not as bad as I initially…

  • An open letter to anyone who’s ever bought me a drink.

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    Hey man, that was great, thanks for picking up that round. What a killer time we had. Unfortunately, after you bailed because you had to be up early the next day, I stayed at the bar and drank with those couple of people we met there. Then, when they left, I drank until the bar…

  • My love affair/hate on with blogs and Social Media.

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    Or How Facebook and Twitter hijacked my post. So here I am writing a blog entry. Blog entry. Blog entry. Blog entry. I make fun because earlier this week I’d decided to ditch the blog all together due to the very fact that I always felt like I needed to be writing a blog entry.…

  • Womanized.

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    I tell you what, I’m tired of women. I live with 4 of ’em and I work with 7. Well ok, 3 of the 4 I live with are ‘women-in-training’, but they already exhibit some behaviours of their full-grown counterparts. I’ve had the unique experience of working both sides of the coin. My old office…