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Hola desde Panama!

I’ve made it safe and sound to Volcan. Yesterday I spent some time walking around Casco Viejo, in [...]

Flying to the US from Canada? Don’t panic!*

Here I am at my gate at Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, waiting for my flight to Miami, [...]

“It’s called Two-step because it has two steps“

I ended my hiatus from breaking last night with back-to-back Break and Break-Fusion classes with Helen at Studio [...]

Retroblogging: March trip- Griffith Park Observatory

Looking back over these photos, I can still remember the exact temperature (brisk) and smell (outdoorsy) of the [...]

Retroblogging: March trip- LA, the days get hazy

The neighborhood in LA that Cecil calls “home” has another name, and that name is Silverlake.
Normally when I’m [...]

Retroblogging: March Trip- LA The Weird

Part of my research for my upcoming novel, Rhythm & Blues (Doubleday, 2010) involved subscribing to RSS feeds [...]

Retroblogging: March Trip – LA, day 1

Good morning! Today we continue our blog back in time to the distant era of March, and the [...]

C-ya later C.C.

My friend Cecil Castellucci, author, lady and artiste, will soon return to a warmer place from this colder [...]

Boing!

We’re getting one extra “leap second” tonight to compensate for the Bay Of Fundy’s rotation-slowing grip on the [...]

“Things are getting worse. Please send chocolate!”

Tofu, the movie:

“Christmas”, part 2

[iPhone] Can’t beat the house on 12seconds.tv
We went to my parents’ house for our second glorious Christmas dinner [...]

‘Twas 2 nights after Xmas & all thru the apt…

Feeling just a little threadbare after a week of visiting and vacationing…

Merry merriness

Alright, high fives everybody, 2008 is almost over. We made it.
I’m officially on vacation for a week and [...]

How not to fix the roof

One of the many hassles of renting instead of owning is that we’re not allowed to change anything [...]

The May Long Weekend that No One Really Agrees What To Call…

Last weekend was a long one in Canada. We all had Monday off, but no one could really [...]

“Reason to mention E. Lockhart” meme

I don’t normally get involved in Blog memes because I like to think of mysef as a) lazy [...]

Chill new krew on the scene

In the great tradition of b-girl Maehem’s long-since-melted Bonnie & Clyde partner, Bruce the Angry* Urban Snowman, the [...]

Last time, with feeling

Here’s one last angle on the train bridge over St-Laurent street, at Rosemont blvd. Here we see the [...]

ST stands for stairs

Emo book

The Rapper cries into his hair when he writes lyrics in this one.

Disco snow

Grandizer of Ville Emard

As part of our campaign for a greater, more prosperous life, the Rapper and I have it on [...]

Snow day

These were taken a couple of weeks ago during a multi-day snow extravaganza in Montreal, through the window [...]

The Sunday Pup: Audio-visual extravaganza

We got a video camera in October, finally! Its for work, but that doesn’t mean we can’t also [...]

Can your subway do the funky chicken?

The other day, in a comment thread for my post about the revolutionary new triple-post human stabilization system [...]

Post posters are coming to get ya

Montreal has introduced this feature into its subway cars that is so functional, it’s hard to understand why [...]

A view of the bridge

Lately, I seem to have a habit of always living near train bridges. This one is at Rosemont [...]

Kindergarten Kop

This awesome dude tiptoes through the tulips opposite that downtrodden blue heart on St-Viateur Street East. To me, [...]

Halloween is for the children

Overhead last night, on my friend’s street, after all the little trick-or-treaters headed home for bed, leaving the [...]

The spooky side of home ownership

We let ourselves into my mom’s house– the house where I grew up– the other day, to discover [...]

Blue Monday

This is one of my favourite bits of street art currently adding soul to the very semi-abandoned-factory vibe [...]

Sooner or later, everything becomes performance art

I’m in the elevator with my co-worker.
“Have you ever thought about how much time we spend in this [...]

Rain, rain go away

“That’s it. I’m never trusting the Weather Network again. I’m taking them off my toolbar. They’re Out. It’s [...]

He has more shoes than me, too

Quoth the rapper:
When it comes to sportswear, women’s ish comes in way better colours…
… I know this because [...]

47 days, and counting

The weirdest thing happened to me at work the other day: the phone on my desk rang.
I’ve been [...]

My hair can do tricks. What can yours do?

Needed: hairdresser in Montreal. Must understand big/curly hair and be amenable to take direction.

Behold: The future!

Are you aware of the face-melting awesomeness that is the folding bike?
I was going to buy a [...]

NYC: Curfew Breaking of all kinds, part I

The ultimate purpose of my Journey To The Centre Of The Earth last week was to take in [...]

Ode to the MTA

Of course, like everyone (except my Mom), I love New York. But I think that more than I [...]

Homes for Sims

I flew into New York in broad daylight for the first time ever on Friday. In the past [...]

The colour of obsession

I’m in NYC this weekend! Tons of photos and stories to follow if I ever get my electicity/chargers/wireless/access/card [...]

Things I like about teenagers

Item #36:
The way they can spontaneously turn almost any alternative space into a private lounge once their group [...]

So, we moved

First off, a big thank you to Team Toronto: Andrew, Dalia, Eva, Greg, Jennifer, Luke, SJ, and Trina, [...]

We bought an Escalade!

No, not one of those gas guzzlers:

This horizontally activated cell re-charger:

But it’s still hip-hop to me. And it [...]

Le plus ca change…

One of the more remarkable things I noticed this spring in Montreal: police cadets on the corners of [...]

*uck *oup

Really? People have beef with soup?
I don’t believe it.

The Sunday Pup: Coming out of her shell

Frances has figured out how to play, at long last. She can’t chase or catch, so she plays [...]

All in the family

My hair sends me dramatic warnings whenever it’s time to get back to the hairdresser.
This time, I went [...]

Toothpaste Molests Brush!

I’ve decided not to write for Torontoist.com anymore, the leading reason being that I’m moving to Montreal, and [...]

It wasn’t U-Haul

Experienced while phoning a major DIY truck rental’s 1-800 number:
Jill: Hi. I’m planning a move from Toronto to [...]

“Our love is not a victory march”

Egads, internet, it’s been so long. I have so much to tell you. But I think I’ll just [...]

You take January to June, I’ll sort July to December

Tax season, man. We need all the help we can get.
Sorry if it’s a little quiet around here [...]

When the dog dabbles in relationship advice

Enter The Rapper, rubbing his head against my elbow as I try to eat a bowl of pasta.
Me: [...]

The Sunday Pup: peekaboo

There is a window between our office and the living room, and Frances has finally figured out what [...]

Thanks Monica!

I’m so excited that the air is finally warming up. No more clunky boots! Lighter jackets! And best [...]

The Sunday Pup: So happy to see you!

It’s a little scratchy because it was taken indoors, in low light, with my phone, but it pretty [...]

I’m gonna be fine…

I’ve been having a rough month since about early November. This time hasn’t been without its highlights as [...]

My Funny Valentine

Yeah. Somehow I ended up with a Dr. Who fan who wants more than anything to be able [...]

The Sunday Pup

Fact: I forgot how much I love taking photos of animals. They’re like, always around, and they move [...]

If life were like that, you wouldn’t need VISA

I win! I win, I win, I win!
I moved live/work spaces quite some time ago. Let’s say it [...]

Still dog with shoe fetish

You can click this picture to download it as desktop wallpaper. I swear this wasn’t my idea. Jennrock [...]

Introducing B-gle Air France

Given Name: Frances. (Free dog kisses to anyone who can guess why. TSG? I’m looking at you.)
Back Story: [...]

Usher your New Year with ginger and chocolate
A tale in 4 miracles

New Year’s Eve, right? Whoo whoo, yeah, greatest night of the year! XNZZzzzzz.
Who am I kidding? I [...]

If only it was 1983

I could finallly be one of the cool kids.
This happened by accident while I was watching TV. I [...]

Cue the sheep!

Would you believe I am blogging while babysitting? My good friend Eria is upstairs pretending to sleep, having [...]

Shed-ing tears for my homeland

Welcome back to the blog. Did you even know I was gone? I’m just back from Salem, MA, [...]

If you catch me, I will bring you luck.

Lately, I’ve been waking up in the morning with hair like a troll doll.
There’s not much else to [...]

Give me what I want.

A waterproof iBook, so I can type in the bath, stat.
I’m sick and achey today. A submersible [...]

Jealous!

The Toronto Public Library site has a link to Les’ web site because they’ve included his first album, [...]

I’m going to start selling diet pills

I came up with this idea in the shower last night.
It’s like a diet pill, but it [...]

Type Away The Pounds

According to SparkPeople.com, a great free tool if you need to track what day of the week it [...]

Get your metro on

In case you were wondering, these are the logos of the metros I have ridden thus far, in [...]

3 Cheers for Spontaneous Combustion

Is it wrong that I’m absolutely charmed and delighted to discover that my iBook battery may burst into [...]

More like a wedding bath than a wedding shower

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Bump Watch

It has been brought to my attention that I currently look pregnant when I wear certain of my [...]

Wish I was there.

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Filibuster

Children have a remarkable knack for sucking all adult attention out of the air and centering it upon [...]

Is this what Bono was getting at that time in that song?

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BFF

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We’re in it for the glamour and the sleeping ’til noon

The Truth About Rap album release party last Wednesday was a success. The rest of the week was [...]

Abstruckstion

La S and I took a roadtrip to Montreal a couple of weeks ago. We took almost no [...]

iMo on all-terrain unicycling

Me: So your dad has three unicycles now. When does the juggling start?
iMo: I don’t know. He has [...]

The kinds of things that Sundays are for thinking about

Me: We need to get more tattoos so we can set the right example for our future children.
He: [...]

I’ve been a little bit quiet lately

I haven’t really been sitting around the house taking showers all day, although it does sometimes feel that [...]

The Delightful Rapper on letting go:

“Ultimately, the only control I have is over my own breathing.
And even then, sometimes it does it by [...]

Not fly, teleport

How the Delightful Rapper and I will ensure that we stop losing our small electronic gadgets, jewelry, keys [...]

Diary of a Blogger At Home

I often meet people who are fascinated and inspired by my ability to Stay Motivated and Accomplish So [...]

A word to the wise

Are you a new Mac user?
Seem like a cool idea to change your short username?
I mean… everything else [...]

And then there was light

I understand it now, what Dooce calls “finding religion.”
I bought an iBook yesterday. It was a somewhat spontaneous [...]

Things we unearthed while gutting what’s going to become Maehem’s new dance studio.

MaeHem is going to be opening a street dance studio, and she has scored herself the best location [...]

Week’s end at Casa Del Deadlines

Some may say that cleanliness is next to godliness, but this, my friends is a righteous mess.
A messy [...]

Steps I’ll take to appear more professional

Carry a briefcase at all times.
Preface all sentences with “I’ll make you a deal,” as in, “I’ll make [...]

Exercising Rights

I’m just back from my daily constitutional right to vote. The voting is done. I’ve been for my [...]

Markers are permanent too

I don’t know what this means. It’s from the Uhaul/storage place on Ossington, near Queen.

(Don’t) Ring My Bell

If you buzz my apartment and ask me to let you into the building and I don’t know [...]

Top 4 Immediate Neighbors of Jill

1- Sean, next door. Listens to the same good music we do, well within acceptable volume levels. More [...]

Confessions of 2-Left, the B-Girl Who Never Was: First workout of 2006

While a nice old-fashioned Maehem-style ass kicking might have done me a world of good, and it would be great to get out among the b-people, I have developed a trembling aversion to the gym at Trinity St. Paul’s. I can’t make myself spend twelve of my hard-won earned-at-home dollars to practice on a possibly unwashed floor, without mirrors, when I have a perfectly good, clean, somewhat mirrorful dance floor in my apartment, and a list of moves to work on as long as my arm.

Top three phrases after which someone should name a new line of men’s cologne and bath products:

I’ll cook you dinner.
I cleaned the bathroom.
Your laundry is in the dryer.

(Say them over an over to yourself [...]

Lies my mother tells herself (and me)

I’m not distracted by the internet.
This is so nutritious.
I’m not allergic to soy.
If you write about me on [...]

Christmas is for discipline

Over the last five years, my Christmas holiday has slowly turned into the exact opposite of what it [...]

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