say it with pie

Vogue told me to paint my nails blue, so I did. I’m rather fond of it, actually!
I did not take Vogue’s recommendation on the fur skirt or the hip waders.

Last Tuesday, I attended an event called “Concerning Comics and Comic Jamming” hosted by the Wouldn’t Bees: a curatorial collective comprised of Mabel Bee (Rachel Harris), Rose Bee (Molly Sigalet), Eliza Bee (Christina Atkinson), and Bea Bee (Eva Verity). Throughout Summer 2009, the Wouldn’t Bees have hosted twelve salon-style gatherings in the “Beehive”, their three-bedroom [...]

These photos were taken eight months apart. Some things never change, I guess.
I play up the whole “nerdy 20something girl who is obsessed with her cat” thing for laughs but, unfortunately, it’s pretty spot on. Time to go knit a tea cozy and make seasonal muffins!

Get ready to cry into your peach cobbler, ladies: 8 Girls Without Boyfriends opens tonight at Bread and Circus in Kensington Market! 8 Girls… looks at why girls get dumped and how they deal with it. If the characters are any indication, the natural conclusion to a break up is expressing yourself through interpretive dance, [...]

A few ago, I banned myself from buying GAP jeans. I’m one of these people who has one (two max!) pairs of jeans and wears them every day until they go kaput. A well-made pair of jeans has a life of about eight months to a year, I find. But every pair of Gap jeans [...]

Mia likey!

Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.
A few months ago, I posted the video for “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear—lots of creepy facial expressions and exploding heads. Some people liked it, some people didn’t. But I can guarantee that everyone will be blown away by CGI artist Gabe Askew’s version of the [...]

That there was a doozy, Toronto!!!

It’s things like this that make life infinitely better.
“Remember the old Simon and Garfunkel song, ‘Slow down, you’re moving too fast…’? That says a lot about life, and about cat massage!”
“We touch all the time — why not be the best at it?”
“Remember: you can’t fool drool!”

I think it’s pretty neat how elements of written communication make their way into social-verbal communication, and vice versa!
The example that immediately came to mind is using “air quotes” when you’re talking, an element of punctuation making its way into regular conversation. Imagine we did that with other kinds of punctuation: “I am going to [...]