Category: Blogging

Snog And Blog

Ok, a little blog riddle:

What’s the online equivalent of “kiss and tell”?

Snog and blog.

So, it’s not that funny. Today is a “low content day.”

Jish Is Moving!

The Web is a funny place. It turns out that Jish lives quite literally around the corner from me. The trouble is, he’s moving to San Francisco next week. As if SF needs any more bloggers!! Anyway, it’s too bad to have almost made a real live friend out of a virtual one.

Still enjoying The Magnetic Fields. Vol.2 is even better than Vol.1, and has a sort of 80’s sound (OMD??). I’ll get to Vol.3 by the weekend, I expect.

OK, end of the month is coming and I’m worried about my first archiving effort. If this page is suddenly blank on August 1, send me some help!

Music and Movies

Jish was kind enough to add me to his list of Toronto Blogs. So hurray for Jish, and please go and visit his site now.

In its previous incarnation, this page was where I would list the latest CDs I bought, or the last film I saw, or book I read, whatever. I don’t want to lose that, because it gives people an opportunity to respond, and it just helps me formulize some sort of capsule review (sometimes!), so:

Music:

  • Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
  • Modest Mouse-This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
  • Travis-The Man Who

Films

  • Chicken Run
  • The Perfect Storm

Also, check out my review of Rushmore on Epinions

Meme

I was going to post that story, you know, that story that’s been going around the blog community, started by Jason or Meg or who knows. But…I found a spelling mistake and I would have had to change it (ok, “peddle” should be “pedal”, so there). I couldn’t just join in like everyone else, I had to correct something. That’s me, throwing a wet blanket over the entire blogging thing. But just to show that I’m not totally humourless, here’s a tidbit from a dinner party a few weeks back. Brooke and I are having dinner at our friends David and Jen’s and we’re talking about psychiatrists:

DAVID: Yeah, my uncle’s a psychiatrist…….He’s f***ing nuts.
ME: I didn’t think they were allowed to do that.

Everyone laughed, except David.

Also, bought The Guardian newspaper this weekend (shameless Anglophiles that we are), and in their Saturday magazine, they had excerpts from Dave Eggers’ “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” The title alone makes me want to hate the guy, but in reality, it was really well written and moving. For those not in the know, Dave Eggers publishes McSweeney’s, both in print and on the net, and when he was 21, his parents both died of cancer within a few weeks of each other, leaving him as the guardian of his 8 year old brother. I’m thinking of buying the book now, but I think I’ll wait for paperback, and then buy a remaindered hardcover. If anyone has read it and has an opinion, please email me.