Cory Taylor

It’s Storm Watch time, and oh boy have we been getting hit by a big rainstorm. It’s been about a week of off-and-on rain, and all weekend, some steady, hard rain has left the city and surrounding areas in a rainfall/flooding warning. Sadly, no truly epic thunder and lightning, but maybe that’s coming next week.

While I go invest in some sandbags, and a new bathing suit, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I spent the afternoon on Sunday walking around a park with my favorite person and a 163-pound St. Bernard. The local Humane Society puts on a big afternoon for people to bring pets to the park called, fittingly, Pets in the Park. We saw lots of dogs of all shapes and sizes, a few cats, some gerbils, and a bird. Somewhere there might’ve been a turtle too! There was a dachshund dash, and vendors, kiddie pools for the dogs to splash around in, and even free pup cups from Starbucks!

A great time was had by all. Arthur the St. Bernard was a very good boy and well behaved, which is never a guarantee when there are so many new smells and animals around. He was definitely the centre of attention wherever he went. There wasn’t a bigger dog that we saw all day! He even got to meet a very chill cat that was being carried around by its owner all day.

While I go and tell him what a good boy he was again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — the Queue!

This week, our hosts Matthew Rossi and Joe Perez are tackling the absolutely massive universe of Warhammer 40,000.

I’ve done it. I have tried a Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese… cheesecake. I saw this food crime a couple of weeks ago and made it a mission to eventually try it. I say food crime mainly out of the response I got to it when I mentioned it during the Blizzard Watch podcast a couple of weeks ago. Nobody else seemed to think that it was going to work for some reason. Cowards, the lot of them!

So I’m happy to report back after both eating the cheesecake and surviving eating the cheesecake. It was fine. I’m honestly a little disappointed that it wasn’t more of a trainwreck. I was really hoping that it was going to be amazing or horrible. I didn’t want a safe middle ground here, just pure food chaos! It turns out that if you’re already using something like cream cheese as a base for your cake, adding extra cheese via a dehydrated cheese flavour pouch at some point in the mixture doesn’t really do much to change the flavor profile. It was still just a cheesy cake. There was the barest hint of more of a cheddar flavor on the edge of the taste, but nothing that made me go ick. If you want to make it yourself, you can follow the official recipe, and maybe horrify some of your friends and relatives, but I’d be surprised if they’re also not left feeling just whelmed.

While I go off in search of new and more interesting food crimes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I went and saw one of my favorite bands last week, Alestorm!

They put on one heck of a great show. The standout is, of course, this giant inflatable duck, but they also had a singing parrot and a rapping shark come out for a couple of songs, so it was a pretty wild time. There was crowd surfing, and a mosh pit, and at one point the mosh pit sat on the floor and all rowed in unison with the singer, and a whole bunch of songs about drinking rum! What’s not to love?

I’m a little sad that they didn’t do their cover of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, written by a local band, but I can understand not changing the tour setlist for just one stop.

While I dive deep into the pirate metal rabbit hole, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

It feels like just six weeks ago Dunegorger Kraulok was stomping around the sands of Vol'dun and terrorizing poor innocent Mollie the Alpaca, but now he's back, and it's your chance to go rescue her!

My favorite person and I wandered around a pop art gallery today. It was full of some great pieces involving interesting perspectives, drunken olives who were also pirates, cowboys painted from interesting angles, and more lovely portraits of celebrities and public figures than you can count. It reinforced two things: one, neither of us makes enough money to buy large original art despite how cool it would look on our walls, and two, who knew the world needed so many olive people paintings.

The standouts that we saw, and lamented not being able to buy the most, were a series from a local artist of astronauts and hot dogs in space. There was a fantastic piece that was extra wide and skinny, which was just an astronaut on the moon, with a hot dog cart, and nothing else. For some reason, it spoke to us. Maybe it was the absurdity, maybe it was our love of hot dogs — all I know is that it would be fantastic hanging above my TV, but sadly, I don’t have the two weeks’ wages to spend on whimsical art.

While I look into a set of burglars tools, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canucks, and only my fellow Canucks. Apparently, we’re the only ones who specifically celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday. It doesn’t hurt that it lands on a good point to make the unofficial start of Summer, that’s totally just a coincidence. If you don’t have a queen to celebrate today, maybe you could celebrate Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades. She’s pretty cool and pointy!

Other good options are the Junker Queen, Queen Talanji, Queen Aszhara, Zagara the Zerg Queen, and the Amazon Queen from Skovos.

While I try to think of more Queens to celebrate in Blizzard games, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

There are so many great mothers in Blizzard’s games. A lot more than in Disney movies for some reason…

I still think that the best Warcraft one is Alexstraza. It’s not easy being a mother to so many fire-breathing children. That she can still treat us, the players (other than Death Knights), as nicely as she does is impressive. She’d be well within her rights to ignore the world and go spend all of her time at a spa, relaxing.

While I go find some Pandaren extra giant cucumber slices for her to put over her eyes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

The snow just disappeared here. It wasn’t a particularly rough winter, but it was long, and the snow kept coming back, so now that it’s properly gone, wanna go sledding?

We saw Sledding Game randomly scrolling in the Xbox app, and it’s a cute little friend game with terrible physics and minigames. It’s not deeper than watching a pudgy little frog with a funny hat drink hot chocolate on a ski lift, but that’s the charm.

So while I go down the mountain again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!