Part 1 Calls Porter Airlines. Waits Thirty-Two Minutes On Hold. Twitters at Porter Airlines that he has been on hold for 32 minutes. Porter representative immediately answers phone. Part 2 Customer: ...

You now have exactly 5 days left to fund a cool Kickstarter campaign to help out a buddy of mine who had some troubles and ...

"Environmental guilt = a garbage bag filled with Japanese Kit Kat wrappers. If it weren't for my kidnapping and blackmail side business, this would be ...

In the TCAF craziness I missed an anniversary--I gave up Diet Coke just over a year ago. In fact I've cut aspartame and "diet" products ...

dancedanceTO from dancedanceTO on Vimeo. A bunch of my friends made this video and they are also in this video! So Cool! Congrats guys! - Chris

The folks at Threadless, the indy-American-Idol style T-Shirt company are blowing out their entire stock at $9 a shirt, for one day only. That is ...

Just a quick note that I have an utterly not-comics-related blog at http://christopherbutcher.com and I've been talking about Christmas Music, which I love, over the ...

Now, I know the above doesn't mean much to my American friends, and even if you've got highschool french it basically means "Milk of Hens", ...

I'm happy to say I'll be participating in Gamercamp this weekend, November 13-14. Gamercamp is "a celebration of the art, creativity and fun of video ...

I'm pretty stoked about the line-up for this year's Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, going down in Waterloo, Ontario November 18th-21st. Previously they'd had Canadian ...

...ever since signing up as press for NYCC and SDCC, my daily PR count has more than tripled. Companies comics-related and nerd-specific are emailing me ...

I am sadly, desperately, mournfully behind when it comes to reading my Google Feed Reader (everyone should have one!), and so now I'm scraping May ...

Torontonian artist and illustrator Gary Taxali has unveiled a near-complete preview of his art show at Narwhal Gallery this Thursday January 28th, entitled "The Taxali ...

According to the just-discovered MustLoveJapan website (thanks @DebAoki!), Himeji Castle will be closing for repairs and upgrades beginning April 2010, until sometime in 2015. If you've ...

Thanks for reading, see you soon! - Christopher

My friend Corey Mintz settled on Shirahama as his almost-tropical destination of choice, for his trip to Japan. It was before my first trip and ...

Hey Canada! Sick of going through your feed reader, having one of your favourite sites include a clip from The Daily Show or Adult Swim, ...

"I love Karl Lagerfeld, and [PETA] hate him because he showed fur in his collection, and they protested his fashion show. People were chanting outside, ...

Hello lucky readers! I've managed to secure lovely large versions of Maurice Vellekoop's illustrations from this past Saturday's National Post Style Quarterly, as well as ...

Hey fashionistas, if you're eager to see Maurice Vellekoop interpreting this season's hottest fashions, make sure to pick up a copy of this Saturday's National ...

One of the things that really took me back in Japan? The alcohol culture in general is a hell of a lot more enlightened than ...