Working For The Weekend [refrain]

Because I appreciate you, Gentle Reader, more than you'll ever know, I want to give you a few days' notice: I'm off to England on Friday.

Yes, I'll have access to email and yes, I'll be checking it, and yes there will be stories to tell... of that I have no doubt. But I likely won't have time to tell them to you until I return.

I'll be in Bristol, meeting with my thesis advisors and trying to wrap my head around my doctoral dissertation, the one about postmodernism and Internet advertising, the one I've been ignoring quite spectacularly since last year about this time.

If you're going to be in the neighbourhood, and fancy sharing a pint, do let me know. (I mean "share a pint" in the metaphorical sense. You can have your own.)

There will be one more story for you this week, before I leave. It's almost ready now. It's called Hotel California, but it's not about California at all, just about a hotel that... well, you'll find out in a day or two. It's the one many of you have been waiting for. It's about this guy.

Until then, and while I'm gone, here are a few good tunes you might listen to, if you like. Some will allow you to get to know me better. Some will just make you laugh.

Jack and Diane (An oldie but a goodie; one of my most requested songs.)
My baby, she wrote me a letter (I don't really think Jack is the biggest ass of 2005, but I couldn't resist.)
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (About the best neighbourhood bar in Toronto. Hey, how many bars do you stay in for three straight days?)
Something Stupid (The first story in The Viking Trilogy. Read all three if you want to see just how much of a clueless dork I can be sometimes.)
More Songs About Buildings And Food (Things I saw at the grocery story one day.)
I Want You To Want Me (A sprachspiel about David Letterman's "Is This Anything?" schtick.)

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