Jill Murray
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I’ve been seeing comments on Twitter and Facebook on Figure Skating costumes at the Olympics, and how insane they are, and whether they might um… detract from the sport.
You don’t have to feel so alone or confused about this issue. My seminal post on Cheese In Figure Skating is here to help you.
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Continue Reading →One of the things I loved best about LA (aside from the tendency of Los Angelenos to say charming things like “oh, all the best artists come from Canada!” and the beautiful way they have of valuing creative labour in general) is that despite the bigness of LA, the city still believes in and uses [...]
Continue Reading →On my very last day in LA, Cecil & I drove to Pasadena for the launch of Lisa Yee’s Absolutely Maybe. I was excited because I’d been hearing pretty consistently all over the internet how awesome Lisa is, and also because I’d actually read the book, which is a more rare experience than [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been a fan of Robert LePage‘s theatrical work since I was fifteen and saw Les Aiguilles et L’Opium with my French class. So I felt like an idiot for not buying tickets soon enough to the Montreal premiere of Le Dragon Bleu, his most recent work with Marie Michaud. I dithered over [...]
Continue Reading →Just got home from seeing Brigitte Dajczer play at Cafe Sarajevo with my fabulous friend and vocal coach, the unpretentious* Amanda Mabro. Brigitte plays a mean gypsy fiddle, and her band was terrific, blending many subtle world, pop and funk influences into what still shone through as authentic, firey Gitan sound. [...]
Continue Reading →My history considered, it’s more than a little strange that I don’t go to see live dance or theatre very often– a problem I’m trying very consciously to redress, starting rightnow.
This Tuesday, I had a chance to see Montreal-based break-fusion company, RubberBanDance’s Punto Ciego. The comany’s director, Victor Quijada has described their [...]
Continue Reading →This video of a guy painting by breaking is kind of mesmerizing to watch. Not only that but he has really nice footwork, and it’s to a track by Bonobo.
Via Celebreak
Continue Reading →On a lark last night, I typed “Zombie Cross Stitch” into a search engine, in connection with a new project I’m working on. Sure enough:
“Zombies only want you for your brains” on Craftzine Embroidered zombie heads on Katie Kuthroat’s craft blog “No zombies allowed on Children Playing with Fire And for [...]
Continue Reading →I’m so sad I didn’t take the posters for this seriously! I saw them around, but the image was so hyperbolic, I dismissed it as marketing fantasy and ignored them altogether. And now I find out its real and its happening tonight, and I can’t even go to Quebec City to see it. Wouldn’t [...]
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