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Archive for August, 2005

carrots good, death sentence bad

a week ago i was back where i grew up – alberta. i was 19 when i left for school in toronto and i really haven’t looked back. i was happy to go and study journalism but i was more happy to be moving not only away, but to toronto. shiny city of my adolecent [...]

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so not my demographic

i stupidly watched the mtv vma’s last night. what a fool i am. pass the dunce cap and i shall don it promptly. from the promising opening performance by green day – nearly the entire rest of the show went to hades in a rickety little handbasket – the kind with pastel ribbons tied to [...]

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dark goddess

not from toronto tonight – but a gorgeous picture from http://rosenauer.dk
i have just returned from a tori amos concert down at the molson amphitheatre. it’s almost like a summer tradition – summers when tori is touring, she always makes her way to the lake ontario venue. it really is a gorgeous venue – especially when [...]

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our lovely cat nes passed into another existance on thursday august, 18th. i was still away in alberta on a family visit when i got the call from my distressed roommate audrey.

i will write more about this lovely creature at another time – but until then here are some recent pics… mostly for [...]

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i’ve been out here in the wild west since saturday, august 13th and i have yet to wear any of my capri pants or t-shirts. i have been wearing and re-wearing and wearing yet again the one pair of blue jeans that i brought along. who knew that august in alberta would be quite this [...]

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the odd and the end

so after running around yonge and bloor area like a chicken with her head cut off, i now have everything i need for the wedding. i hope. my cousin chad is getting married this weekend in saskatoon. yesterday i thought i was ready for my early morning flight out to saskachewan (i arrive 2 hours [...]

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holy mother of &*%

how does one go from looking like this :
to looking like this?
i mean – my gods… unassumingly i clicked on this link to read about the latest in our gal courtney’s life and i nearly choked on my own spittle… get the woman into rehab and keep her there. and maybe give her [...]

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lush indeed….

i’m fearing the dreaded summer cold…. just in time for my visit to alberta… how lovely. i’m sure i’ll look smashing at the wedding all puffy-faced and swollen-eyed with a big red nose… and all this beauty before i begin drinking!
this morning i’ve been sneezing up a storm and my voice is all kathleen turner [...]

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pennyroyal tea

the most meaningful thing i think i’m getting from rock star : inxs is the remembrance of just how much i love nirvana. and how much i miss kurt cobain’s creativity. i never fell out of love with nirvana – it just became more like a previously torrid affair that cooled to more comfortable familiarity.
but [...]

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poddin’

every once in a while my thoughts turn morbidly curious…
i will cross the street and wonder what my body would look like after it was smeared down by a speeding car – would i be all artful limbs displayed in the most beautiful pattern – or would i look more like the roadkill pigeon that [...]

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