Originally, I had dismissed Firewall. My analysis was based on its miserable trailer and a mountain of other people’s negative opinions.

And so, it was with a certain level of despair that I was dragged by Jeff and others out to Galaxy for that late-night first-weekend screening. As it turned out, Firewall was a good deal less bad than I’d anticipated—indeed, an entertaining way to spend 2 hours and $7.50.

What was the difference between the trailer and the picture? Read on…

A blank luggage slip, a 1973 dollar, a sketch of a woman, and two carefully clipped news items.

What do they have in common? All discovered between pages of the Book of Bread, purchased for $9 at Old Goat Books.

Read on…

The Firewall trailer opens with chilling voiceovers from Harrison Ford. “Someone’s been trying to hack in and compromise my identity… You think somebody got my information off the internal network?“

Do members of the lay public grok Firewall’s vision of computer security? I buy into the Vegas of Ocean’s Eleven and the medicine of Grey’s Anatomy, but it’s because I’m hopelessly unfamiliar with gambling and biology.

So does non-geekhood allow one to suspend their disbelief enough to enjoy this flick? To believe that the process of identity theft is simply “hacking in” to some single master database maintained by who-knows-who? That a victim would be aware of attempts to perform this feat when it hasn’t yet seen success? Read on…

I don’t normally use this space to express negative opinions, but I’m making an exception for the Low Fat Yogurt commercial from Tim Hortons.

The advertisement in question is not simply annoying, it is offensive.

A trim, red-haired woman is featured, enjoying a fruit and yogurt cup on a couch. A small crowd gathers outside the window, presumably to observe her consuming the treat.

On seeing these people, she assumes the look of a trapped animal. “It’s low fat,” she pleads, eyes wide, “It’s low fat!” Read on…