Jill Murray
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I have an important event recommendation for anyone reading this in or near Toronto: My dear friends JoDee Allen and Helen Simard of Solid State Break Dance are at the Factory Theatre for the Next Stage Festival, today through Sunday at various times. The show blends two of my favourite dance forms, [...]
Continue Reading →I found out about these videos after E. Lockhart (if you haven’t read her Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks yet, what’s keeping you? Do you not like awesomeness or something?) posted this one on her lovely blog. I guess they’ve been around since summer/fall, but I hadn’t seen them before, so [...]
Continue Reading →Can a headline become a cliché? Who will join me in retiring this one?
I noticed it this morning in the Globe & Mail, and my first thought was “It’s not even Toronto International Film Festival season.”
Unless you’re going to link to an article with a photo [...]
Continue Reading →Do, friends and family often call you with questions? Do you frequently appear to know all the answers because you look them up on The Internets as you talk to them?
If only you could be a little more smug about it. If only you could teach them to fish.
Now you can!
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Continue Reading →I was talking to some friends recently about some of the quirks, advantages, limitations and particularities of b-girling, b-boying, breakdancing– whatever you might like to call it. Something that came up was the use of the term b-girl or b-boy, and how one can be a great breaker but not a b-girl, or a [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve received a few email/myspace/facebook messages about Earth Hour– the hour on March 29th when everyone, on Earth, is supposed to turn out the lights, for an hour, for, again, Earth.
People want to know: “Jill, what are you doing for Earth Hour?” or sometimes: “Jill, what are you doing for Earth Hour?”
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Continue Reading →It is with great pleasure that we interrupt our regular programming to bring you this video of an English lad worming his way across London.
Continue Reading →I can’t believe so many file-sharing sites were shut down so quickly by the music industry, but the publishing industry has collaborated with Amazon.com on its “Search Inside” option, which allows you to essentially read a whole book online without buying it.
I’m not complaining. I’m just amazed. Grateful. Because “Search Inside” just saved me [...]
Continue Reading →So I guess it’s that time of year. I called home to my mom in Montreal the other day and she was all,
“Hey how’s it going”
“OK, I guess. You?”
“Um. Are you sitting or standing?”
“Walking around, actually.”
“Maybe you’d better sit,” she said, her voice grave. I nervously obeyed, wondering whether my [...]
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"Never Read the Comments"
You know how on a lot of blogs, you need to login or give your email address or translate a little graphic-anti-spam thingy before you’re allowed to leave a comment?
I think someone should make an application that makes you jump through some hoops before you’re allowed to read comments. The application should ask you [...]
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