Be sure to check out the lushly animated Sita Sings the Blues (82 minutes) by Nina Paley!
The film illustrates the plight of Sita, wife of Rama, in the epic Ramayana, interspersed with episodes from Paley’s own life and featuring music by 1920’s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.
Paley is caught up in some copyright drama because of [...]
This is what it looks like when a grown man shoots a raccoon on his deck with a Super Soaker.
Not that the raccoon didn’t have it coming. They massacred our deck last spring when a mother and her three adolescent raccoons tore apart the wood planks trying to find shelter from a rainstorm. It took [...]
Sometimes I like to bug my screenwriter friend Courtney by telling her that I don’t believe she’s actually been working on a tv show for the past year and a half. I tell her that she’s made the whole thing up and just wanders the city like a crazy person when she says she’s off [...]
Did you know that the iTunes Canada Single of the Week is a pretty great place to pick up good and free music?
Seriously!
This week’s free single is “Parachutes” by Haligonian Jenn Grant (originally from PEI), which I downloaded, loved, and then downloaded her whole album, Echoes.
Man, Canada’s chanteuses just can’t be beat. Echoes reaches O, [...]
Intrepid Snowcat did not last very long outside in the blizzard.
“Gyeahhhhhh!!!! Coldcoldcoldcoldcold!!!”
Making brainy and powerful look so hot.
Hey, I was having server issues this week and couldn’t get into Movable Type until last night, so there was no Caturday yesterday. However, instead of posting some new pictures, I have some important cat business to take care of!
I adopted Charlie as a 3-month-old kitten from Toronto Cat Rescue in January 2004. At the [...]
Come on, internet! Did I really just invent the LOLWhoopi?
Step it up.
I inadvertently ended up watching the Grammys last night when Pete, Nader and I were seated near a television at The House on Parliament. Generally, I try to avoid the Grammys, but watching them gave me the opportunity to offer insightful commentary on Twitter. Observations included:
Does anyone else think the Grammy stage looks like a [...]