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Curbing the Upspeak
I can't think of specifically when it happened, but more and more often, when my daughter speaks? Whenever she says anything? She's adopted? A sense of upspeak? And it's making me bananas. I mean, it is rampant. She: Mummy? Me: Yes, my peach. She: The other day? At school? This girl? In my … [Read more...]
Janelle Monae – Q.U.E.E.N.
I've mentioned before how excellence in music video makes me positively giddy. Performance and artistry and kickin' music... I love it all. Janelle Monáe is a twenty-seven year old dynamo from Kansas. She looks like she could be Diahann Carroll's granddaughter. She sounds and dances like she was … [Read more...]
Exercise, I Hate You.
It's no secret. I've never enjoyed you in the classic sense, Exercise. And it's not me - it's you. Some people are of the idea that there's a gain with pain. When it comes to just about all things, my motto is: No pain? No pain. I much prefer pleasure. I'm a bit of a hedonist, you know. *sips … [Read more...]
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Oh my, Arcade Fire - you knock me out, again and again... I love a catchy tune as much as the next person - pop is pop, dance music is excellent... always. But when artists like these make music all disco and (sometimes) French-ish and wonderful, I can't help but swoon. If you didn't know, the … [Read more...]
The September Ass-Kicking
We're a mere ten days into this new month, and you can stick a fork in me - I am done. Last night, around 7:20 pm, I followed the sound of sobbing all the way into Ava Scarlett's bed, where the wee one had her face buried in her pink blanket, a complete and total hungry and exhausted … [Read more...]
The National
I've been trying to catch up on some PVR'd interviews I have recorded - I love Jian Ghomeshi's show The Q, on CBC. I love this kind of programme because humans fascinate me. I like hearing about people's lives, and about their projects, and about the art they make. Mr. Ghomeshi spoke with Billy … [Read more...]
Asunder.
You know, when you have a renovation on your horizon, no matter how massive you anticipate the project to be, somehow it's still just bigger than you'd imagined. *quietly sips wine* Don't bother looking at your watch - it's wine o'clock all the time right now. (And don't look at me like … [Read more...]
The Fourth.
Here we go, fourth grade... I walked him to school at the ungodly-post-summer-vacation hour of 7:45 am, and filed into the gymnasium with the other third and fourth graders. I watched him scan the room for familiar faces - friends he'd seen only sporadically over the break, and I saw them … [Read more...]
The End of Servitude, Dudes.
"Can we have French toast with bacon for brunch, please?" Oliver's eyes always gleam when he asks me for foods like this, and I'm obliging him, as a Last Request. He knows what kind of yummy it's going to be. And he knew after that special stop at the one grocery store that carries the gorgeous … [Read more...]
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