http://www.nigeldowler.com A Crumbs Effusion Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:56:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is with a lack of great sadness that I bring you my final blog post. Emotional, insightful, literary, humourous, witty, intelligent - these are some of the words that could be used to describe various things in life. This blog was not one of those things. I will still be ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-end-of-the-blog/ Labor Day in the USA and I was again off to Flushing Meadows, this time with tickets for the night session in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Because the schedule for the courts isn't decided until the evening before, you're unaware as to who you will be seeing when you buy ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/09/01/us-open-2008-day-8/ Another blisteringly sunny day in New York and what better way to spend it than at Flushing Meadows watching some top class tennis. First up in the Armstrong Stadium was Nikolay Davydenko vs Dudi Sela. Davydenko won it 6-3 6-3 6-3. [singlepic=249,480,360] Following that match was Elena Dementieva vs Pauline Parmentier. The beautiful ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/08/27/us-open-2008-day-3/ Another early morning rise in Manhattan and a subway trip to Queens. It was Tuesday in the first week of the 2008 US Open and with my camera battery fully charged for a change, I was determined to see as many full matches as I could. I ended up leaving ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/08/26/us-open-2008-day-2/ The US Open is probably my favourite tennis grand slam event so I was pretty excited this morning to be heading to the opening day of the tournament. I had a grounds ticket for the day session which meant I could come and go as I pleased around any of ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/08/25/us-open-2008-day-1/ I headed to North Vancouver today with a toy baby doll in my bag and went to see the Capilano Suspension Bridge. It's pretty nice and interesting etc. but it gets quite boring after a few minutes and really isn't worth the admission price. [singlepic=123,480,360] The best part was when I pretended ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/08/08/capilano-suspension-bridge/ So there's this guy who leads a boring life. He feels different from everyone else. He mysteriously gets brought into a secret organisation to learn that all is not as it seems in the world. For one thing, he is special. He undergoes rigourous training where he tries hard but ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/08/05/wanted/ When you're planning on doing a bit of travelling around soon and probably going to be using some Greyhound bus services, you don't like reading this type of news about a lunatic who stabs the guy sitting beside him multiple times for no apparent reason and then cuts off the ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/31/decapitation-in-the-prairies/ I probably mentioned this before but I like R-rated comedies because a lot of the good stuff can't be put in the trailer, as opposed to other comedies where half the film is in the trailer. So while the jist of this film's story is obvious before you see it, ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/27/step-brothers/ As a huge X-Files fan who was expecting something impressive from this new film, I was left pretty disappointed. It's not a bad film but I would've hoped they could pull off something better with the time afforded to writing the script and with the film shoot coming back to ... http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/25/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/