It was 15 years ago when the seemingly creepy neighbour character in American Beauty introduced us to the idea that a plastic bag floating, nay dancing around the air was beautiful. Even “the most beautiful thing” this kid has ever filmed, possibly ever ever. And, for a brief period of 1999 we believed him, because like everyone else we were hypnotised by the magic of … Continue reading One Word: Plastics
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BLOG; welcome to 2014! At the beginning of every new year, WordPress sends you a summary of your blog’s activity from the previous year. This includes stuff like, how many total views you had in 2013, what your most popular posts were, which post got the most comments, what was your busiest traffic day of the year, etc. It also includes a … Continue reading Search Results
Because, apparently I only blog about Choir!, here’s another one! We’ve taken over the CBC this Christmas season with appearances on The National, Sunday Edition, and Q with Jian Ghomeshi. All in the name of promoting our charity single (available now on iTunes (< click to buy it for yourself or as a gift). Check out all of our appearances (bless you, YouTube): The National’s “Only … Continue reading C!C!CBC!
Today is December 8, the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. This year it also happens to be World Choral Day (and I’m in a choir, so you can see how that would appeal to me). Adding to my list of super fun times, we sang and recorded a choral version of John Lennon’s Happy X-Mas (War is Over) at the request of The Beatles Story … Continue reading Today is December 8
I’ve been fortunate in my life to have the opportunity to do a lot of extraordinary things. For each of these things, I am extremely grateful. Since moving to Toronto in the spring of 2011, after my brief stint living abroad (one of those extraordinary opportunities), I joined a choir called Choir!Choir!Choir! (It’s a choir, if that wasn’t clear.) In the last almost-two years, choir … Continue reading ‘Tis the Season
If there is one thing I love in life it’s when a humorous concept is explained on Wikipedia. I’m talking about when something is explained solely for comprehension purposes, and uses the most dry and mundane language possible. It helps to imagine that these explanations were written for aliens or robots who are trying to gather enough common knowledge to pass as human. Most recently, … Continue reading Seriously Funny.
If you missed it, here is my episode of Match Game! . I’m also about the drop some freedom on you. If you’ve ever stopped yourself from doing something because you were afraid of what might happen afterwards, or what people will think, or just plain making a fool of yourself, know that—unless that thing you were stopping yourself from doing was illegal, immoral, or … Continue reading It’s A Blank!
Today Bill Murray is 63. Can you name all the characters (and their films) depicted in this most fantastic of gifs? Continue reading Happy Birthday, You Magnificent Bastard.
For anyone who is familiar with my blog, you might remember that in the past I have made “art” out of wire. I don’t do it as much any more (I’ve had one project on the go since last Christmas) but I am not opposed to it. Recently, a friend reached out to me to find out if I still made wire things. Her friend … Continue reading Congrats Mr & Mrs Kowalenko
I want to blog! I want to write more! I want to share stories and pictures! Something always stops me. I have this self-imposed “rule” that I don’t like to post things non-chronologically. (I have only really broken this rule to post my Paris journals, because it took me a while to get around to typing them out.) So, if I did something really awesome … Continue reading Time Is My Enemy
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