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This just in: Figure Skating STILL cheesy

I’ve been seeing comments on Twitter and Facebook on Figure Skating costumes at the Olympics, and how insane [...]

Retroblogging: March trip – LA movie theatres

One of the things I loved best about LA (aside from the tendency of Los Angelenos to say [...]

Retroblogging: March trip- Lisa Yee in Pasadena

On my very last day in LA, Cecil & I drove to Pasadena for the launch of Lisa [...]

The Blue Dragon

I’ve been a fan of Robert LePage’s theatrical work since I was fifteen and saw Les Aiguilles et [...]

La Brigitte

Just got home from seeing Brigitte Dajczer play at Cafe Sarajevo with my fabulous friend and vocal [...]

RubberBanDance

My history considered, it’s more than a little strange that I don’t go to see live dance or [...]

“Action painting” redefined

This video of a guy painting by breaking is kind of mesmerizing to watch. Not only that but [...]

Great Classical Punks on Beige Is Punk

Jill & Cecil at the Museum of Jurrassic Technology.
I’m on vacation this week, galavanting about LA with my [...]

Sweet Dreams are Made of…

I’m so sad I didn’t take the posters for this seriously! I saw them around, but the image [...]

Solid State Breakdance Takes It Back to Toronto

I have an important event recommendation for anyone reading this in or near Toronto: My dear friends JoDee [...]

Muppets 2.0

I found out about these videos after E. Lockhart (if you haven’t read her Disreputable History of Frankie [...]

The stars come out to play

Can a headline become a cliché? Who will join me in retiring this one?
“The Stars Come Out To [...]

Let me link that for you

Do, friends and family often call you with questions? Do you frequently appear to know all the [...]

“Never Read the Comments”

You know how on a lot of blogs, you need to login or give your email address or [...]

B-girl or Breaker: What’s in a name?

I was talking to some friends recently about some of the quirks, advantages, limitations and particularities of b-girling, [...]

What I’m Doing For Earth Hour

I’ve received a few email/myspace/facebook messages about Earth Hour– the hour on March 29th when everyone, on Earth, [...]

Publishing industry cooler than music industry

I can’t believe so many file-sharing sites were shut down so quickly by the music industry, but the [...]

Fight to the finish

So I guess it’s that time of year. I called home to my mom in Montreal the other [...]

State Of the Arts- Update

The launch on Sunday was a lot of fun, and the book (now available for purchase from Coach [...]

Cover Song Mania

For those of you who collect cover songs, (iMo, I know I’m talking to you), the indefatigable Marc [...]

Cooking With The Stars

The ever-industrious Jennrock had an article in The Star yesterday about “life lists” on sites like 43 Things, [...]

Bee Movie

It’s not that often that I just grab a video off YouTube and call it a post. Mainly [...]

Reveal Yourself On Random, Part 2

I’m just going to keep doing this once a month until one of us gets bored, or something [...]

Challenge: Reaveal Yourself on “Random”

The Onion AV Club has this fun feature where celebrities set their iPods or store brand digital music [...]

I wanna bowl with the gangstas

Weird Al is releasing videos about my family again. My brother alerted me to this yesterday, and since [...]

Great Accidents In Hip Hop

I love, love, love, love, love, love, love hip hop because some of the most fundamental aspects of [...]

Bon Cop Bad Cop

The digital ink is just setting on my latest subjectively biased movie review over on Torontoist.com.
Bon Cop Bad [...]

Wedding songs for the despair generation

Because The Delightful Rapper, More Or Les and I are getting married next April, I’ve been looking through [...]

Birthday ramp-up 2006

My birthday is next week, and I wasn’t going to do anything special, but already people are surprising [...]

Kill Marissa and laugh while she bleeds

So they killed Marissa on the OC. I know this even though I’ve never watched a single episode [...]

Like a new born baby it just happens every day

Found this on the BlogTo photo blog.

I hereby motion

That “music” be shortened to “sic.”
Of all the short words I know, that one is just too long. [...]

This one goes out to the Large White Mocha

Stick It

I love this movie. I reviewed it already on Torontoist.com, so if you like dance movies, sports [...]

Waiting For Guffman meets Bring It On!

Have you seen this clip with Katie Couric interviewing this chipper, chipper cheerleader who fell on her head, [...]

Landmark day for print journalism

From the London (Ontario) Free Press
“‘Ughhhhhhh!’ read one posting on the Los Angeles section of Craiglist, an [...]

I’m not alone in hating CMW/NxNE!

This is something I’ve ranted and raved about a lot, and usually people just listen to me quietly [...]

Just listening to some old Eminem verses

I don’t think I could ever re-marry someone who rapped so often and so publicly and so to [...]

Quick! MC Hammer has a blog!

http://mchammer.blogspot.co
It’s like, really rambly, and has a self indulgent quantity of photos of uninteresting things, yet is targeted [...]

Still using

On December 30, 2005, I declared “Mash-up” the most overused term of 2006. So far 2006 is backing [...]

Why do people insist on skating to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons?

I know it’s pretty and dramatic and everything but it’s the music of ill portent, people. Surya Bonaly [...]

Made In China = Quality

Frankly, I’m just a little distracted by the Olympics right now.
I have paid essentially no attention [...]

And the award for the best stage design, costuming, props, pyrotechnics, musical direction, choreography, acting, dancing, musical performance, art direction, special effects, makeup and stunt driving in an opening ceremony goes to

Torino!
 
11:27 p.m. Edit: On further reflection, I think that given its connection to fascism, Italian Futurism might have [...]

Funniest mix ever

Killing In the Name Of by Rage Against the Machine
followed by…
wait for it….
Ladies Night by Kool & the [...]

Hating on the Food Network

Over at Losing Elphie/Pinching Out The Pudge, the Purl Princess herself has compiled a very impressive and hilarious [...]

Eine Klein Yakmusik

Is there anything lamer than the music at Starbucks?
Remember, like, ten years ago when it was fun to [...]

Most over-used term of 2006:

“mash-up”
It’s not just for remixes anymore.
I’m projecting. I’m sick of this NOW, which means other people should start [...]

Keep messin wit my family and you’re through

I think the following web site gave me the biggest laugh I’ve have had all year, and that’s [...]

Top 10 2 3 favourite plot points

When the detective finally realized that there is no such thing as a shortcut through Maine!
When they ripped [...]

Bryan Adams will never be as down as Rita McNeil

Email correspondence with the Delightful Rapper, this 11th day before Christmas:
DR: We had the < ahem > “pleasure” [...]

Top 4 phrases that will not appear in the Delightful Rapper’s next bio

4- “hip hop steeped in           
3- “a virtual empire”
2- “bitter-sweet coming of age”
1- “ragtag posse”

Raise the rent

So the thing is, I don’t hate RENT per se. I just love that bad review of RENT [...]

My kind of review

You gotta check out this review of RENT.
Unless you’re a fan of RENT, Che Guevara T-Shirts or John [...]

Sweet Valley Hiltons

Go Fug Yourself has a really funny bit about the Hiltons today.

Olympic folly

Gaak!
The other day I was mentioning that we’re coming up on an Olympic year, and I assumed that [...]

Sports Mash-up 2006

So I guess it’s an Olympic year coming up.
The Royal Bank has trumped up their own version [...]

Get Rich or Shut Up Already

The recent rash of interviews leading up to the release of Get Rich or Die Trying has given [...]

I feel like something’s missing from my life…

…I think it’s TV.
I miss it. I don’t exactly watch a lot of TV. But what I watch, [...]

John Mighton wins $100,000 theatre prize

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/10/25/Arts/siminovitch_051025.html?print
Oh wow! So much news today! This is so great! John Mighton is a really cool guy who’s [...]

Call Display Madness

We, as a society, have become way too obsessed with voicemail and call display.
I dialed a wrong number [...]

I figured out what to be for Halloween!

ME: If I was Transylvanian, I’d be the same thing for Halloween every single year.
DR: A cowboy?
ME: No. [...]

Stand by me, my apprentice

I finally got a copy of The Streets’ Original Pirate Material after just about wearing out A Grand [...]

Fashion note to the bartender across the street

Mickey Mouse will never be ironic. He just won’t. It doesn’t matter what Value Village you were [...]

Perspective is everything

(XPost from my MySpace Blog)
I feel like I need to share this story with everyone.
I was walking down [...]

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