Budget tips for the 1%

I know I haven’t posted in roughly forever, and no, I haven’t had the baby yet. I am currently three days overdue, uncomfortable, and cranky. So perhaps that’s why this article from January’s Toronto Life irritated me so much. I suppose I should have more sympathy for people getting by on a mere $10K or [...]

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The Driver’s Privilege Checklist: The Response

So far the response to the Driver Privilege Checklist has been very positive, and traffic is through the roof! However, progressive tumblr-er Quixotess took issue with me using the form of the privilege checklist: Cyclists are not oppressed for being cyclists. Having to deal with some rude comments is not oppression. Being vulnerable to large [...]

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Concert review: Walk on Water

Like I was saying, last night I went to Contact Contemporary Music‘s “Walk on Water”, featuring the excellent saxophonist Wallace Halliday and equally excellent cellist Mary-Katherine Finch, with supporting turns from Allison Wiebe on piano (who played some thankless music very well) and Ryan Scott on percussion. If you follow me on Twitter (or, indeed, [...]

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First-trimester movie reviews

No, this is not a list of heartwarming pregnancy/baby movies to watch. I may be pregnant, but I have not turned into Maude Flanders. This is about how one’s standards change when one is tired all the time and has the hormonal stability of a 14-year-old. So. Among the things I knew about intellectually going [...]

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In lieu of a review

…of Harry Potter 7: Part 2, some disjointed observations. Spoiler alert!

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Two love stories

After watching all that Doctor Who, I felt like indulging in some agreeable fluff. So this week I watched the first three Twilight movies again. YES I KNOW. The Twilight movies are ridiculous, but unlike the books, enjoyably so. Anyway, after I stopped being distracted by Taylor Lautner’s abs* I was struck by the similarities [...]

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Injustices

You know who doesn’t have a book deal?  Me. . . . OK, so maybe I’ve never written a book.  But come on.  If you had to guess “Who’d write a better book?  Some lady who’s not famous or anything but writes a witty blog, opera librettos, and poetry that gets turned into song lyrics?  [...]

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Quick Death Flu blogging

Yes, I have caught whatever Ben has had all week. I am calling it the Death Flu, though it’s really not that bad (at least for me, but hey I don’t smoke and I TAKE MY B12) – I’m just stuffed up and sore-throaty and have no energy for anything besides watching anime and reading [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 52: Hobonics, if you will.

In which Kay sees a hobo yelling into a payphone, reads the Toronto Sun (Shorter Toronto Sun: AAAAAAAAAHHH!  WE’RE GONNA DIE!), and posts some of the recording she made last week. The aria is “Son vergin vezzosa” from I puritani, recorded by Paul Talbott with Michael Rose on the piano. As promised, another piece of [...]

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An open letter to Rita Mae Brown

Dear Rita, Many years ago I read your book Rubyfruit Jungle with great pleasure. It’s not every writer that can make a lesbian Bildungsroman a light-hearted and fun read. Also, if you had never written anything except the title of your first book of poetry, you would have earned my respect, because The Hand that [...]

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