Archive for July, 2008

July 28, 2008

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Whoa, this actually looks totally awesome. Even Paris Hilton is putting herself to good use in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Edit: I thought it was so cool that I wrote about it on the National Post arts and life blog, The Ampersand.

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July 27, 2008

Overheard at Hollywood Gelato

On the patio at Hollywood Gelato on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Guy #1: “Yeah, last night I met David Archuleta.”
Guy #2: “Who?”
Guy #1: “Oh you know, that little faggot from American Idol.”
Pete, Andrew, Courtney and I were attempting to have a conversation over Guy #1’s exceptionally loud speaking voice but when he dropped that little hate-bomb, [...]

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Polysics – I My Me Mine

Europe is so pissed off that Asia made this video first.
Via MeFi.

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Hanging Out on Saturday Night with 15-year-olds at Denny’s

Wow, so was that Denny’s All-Nighter Warped Tour afterparty ever the worst assignment in history! I mean, not that I thought that hanging out on a Saturday Night with teenagers and crappy pop punk bands in Mississauga was going to be cool, but the sheer ridiculousness of it all made a pretty fun article to [...]

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July 21, 2008

Bourgeois Slavery for Honky Crackers

Stuff White People Like has a post up today about unpaid internships.
In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as “slavery” or “forced labor.” For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.
…you would assume [...]

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July 19, 2008

National Post Week 1 Wrap Up

Tonight, I’m going to go hang out at a Mississauga Denny’s and have Katy Perry and some other Warped Tour performers serve me an All-American Slam. Seriously. It’s for the Denny’s All Nighter series.
So I’m one week through my three week internship at the National Post and things are going pretty well. An article I [...]

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July 18, 2008

My Lost High School Movies

If you knew me back in high school, you probably thought, “Hey, that tall chick with glasses is always sticking a video camera in my face. That’s pretty annoying!”
Well sucks to your assmar, because all that annoying video taping is a time capsule from the year 2000.
After the video tech heydays of grades 10 and [...]

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July 15, 2008

Internship at the Post

My first article for the National Post is up on The Ampersand and should be in tomorrow’s print edition. I’m embarrassed to say that I wasn’t really sure who Robert Plant was until I got the assignment, but I think that’s probably a generational thing.
I have been assigned a few other stories that are more [...]

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July 14, 2008

Sayitwithpie: Now guest blogging at Mightygodking

Chris Bird is having an “internet situation” and wanted guest bloggers for his popular site, Mightygodking, and since Bird is into equity and such, he wanted a couple of those guest bloggers to be female. Oh, and also awesome. That’s where I come in.
MGK gets about 800,000 more hits than Sayitwithpie, and about 750,000 of [...]

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July 8, 2008

Tea will never go cold again!

Karen Whaley, Blue Tea Cosy #1, 2008.

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