1. Richard Laviolette. Do yourself a favour and go to the Zunior page for his solo album, and click on “Silhouettes” to hear a snippet. I can’t find this song on the internet, so this is the best I can give you, friends. I could lock myself in a small room and listen to that [...]
Hitch-hiking. To visit friends, see awesome bands, or do karaoke in strange bars with people I hadn’t met. This photo was taken before a four hour long wait on the side of the road in Borden. In retrospect, that might have been a lot of work to go yell a Billy Joel song at a [...]
Continuing my recent internet renaissance, there are three new posts on the wine blog today. I consider this a great success, even if I am still awake at 11:30 on a week night while considering all the various ways I can describe how a wine tastes like toast.
(part 1, part 2) Where we left off last time, I had a messy mop that was developed in equal parts by sheer laziness, my need to hide from the world, and a desire to look like a fictional Russian spy. 2005: the beginning of a descent into complete shitty ineptitude, poor health, and tremendously [...]
(part 1) At the end of part 1, it was 2003 and I had started to become more self-conscious and discerning about the image I projected to the world. Apparently this meant dying my hair to match my clothes. Way to go. Then one night I got drunk on a quart of butterscotch schnapps. I [...]
or: An Archival Look at Mistakes My hair has changed in fairly significant ways over the past ten years. What remained the same was the deep feeling that my hair was talking to the world, telling them exactly what kind of idiot I was on a daily basis. Even if I didn’t consciously express it, I understood [...]
Specifically and generally, possibly related to politics (small p and big P): + Seeing activism like PRRO develop in PEI. The tone and cohesiveness of your action is fantastic. I love you guys and wish I was there to be with you. Stay strong and smart and brave. + Lots and lots of great articles [...]
Hey, do people still read personal blogs? Have they entirely been supplanted by twitter/facebook/themed tumblrs? Am I totally behind the times in thinking that online journals are still interesting, even though this isn’t 2001 and the novelty has worn off? Just saying, I read the hell out of online journals, and I love all of [...]
WARNING: MANY PHOTOS Sometime last month, d. and I went to Tommy Thompson Park, which is the official name of the park on the spit at the bottom of Leslie Street. The spit itself extends over 5 kilometres into Lake Ontario; at it’s southernmost point it’s actually further out than the Toronto islands. It’s also [...]
We went to Plant World yesterday. It was pouring rain and there were rivers flowing through the greenhouses, but that didn’t stop me from hunting down new buddies to populate the jungle that my apartment will eventually become. LEAFY FRIENDS: I just read The Orchid Thief for the first time, and I’m now [...]