…And then my good intentions went out the window

Well, not exactly. Yes, I *am* posting, but I’ve hardly had the productive day I envisioned. I woke up feeling sort of bleh and continued feeling sort of bleh, so I’ve mostly spent the day coddling myself in hopes that I haven’t caught a cold to go with my ragweed allergies, because that’s a whole [...]

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On posting and not posting, and other things that have happened lately

I can’t believe that I haven’t written since Giorgio Mammoliti called me a communist. Nothing bad has happened, and I haven’t even been all that busy, so I don’t really have an excuse. I’ve just been sitting around the house, being pregnant, putting up a few posters, arguing with people on Manboobz, making more diapers, [...]

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In which I tell all

As I know you are all consumed with curiousity as to why I have been light on the blogging and tweeting and podcasting lately, why I have been living the life of a tuberculosis patient in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps, why I have been mostly hanging out at home and doing very little, [...]

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Does this happen to me every year?

In – I think – 2006, before I really started doing coloratura rep, I sang Mozart’s “Exsultate, Jubilate” at a concert on Manitoulin Island with the Silverbirch String Quartet.  This being my first real foray into singing things originally written for castrati (no, really!), I had a really hard time learning it.  Now, of course, [...]

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More proof that I am a pinko hippie no good liberal defeatist Commie symp

I’ve been following via Twitter the launch of SunTV. That’s right, the newspaper chain dedicated to making you deathly afraid of pit bulls, PCP-crazed gangs, and flu shots now has a TV station. Because the airwaves aren’t clogged enough with right-wing rants of dubious factuality. Anyway, as I said, I’ve been following this on Twitter, [...]

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To the lady from Alberta who cut me off TWICE on the way up Broadview on Friday

Hi.  I’m the cyclist in the orange coat who flummoxed you so badly on Friday afternoon. The first time was understandable.  You were making a three-point turn on a fairly busy street – why, I cannot say, but I’m assuming from your Alberta plates that you’re either a visitor or a new Torontonian and you [...]

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Sick day

So we had about 20 minutes of spring last week, then it decided to start snowing again.  This is bad for: – gardens – pianos (swings in temperature make them go out of tune) – general morale – my health, apparently. Yeah, I’m sick. I felt the virus sneaking up on me on Thursday, but [...]

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Life story, part 2

Here’s the thing: I am not a brave person. Oh, sure, I do some difficult things and take risks and so on. So I guess in some ways I am a brave person. But I really, really hate conflict. This, like my worrying, insomnia, and guilty delight in matching tracksuits, is probably partially genetic (my [...]

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The Annals of Age: Part 1

About five years ago a bass player and a drummer I know did a very funny one-off show as an aging punk duo “Guvernment Deth”. All of their songs were about how the punk lifestyle starts to really suck as you get older. My favourite song was probably “Too old for the mosh pit”: Every [...]

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Stir crazy

So once again I’ve been feeling sort of blah and unmotivated.  Yeah, the weather still sucks, and I had some residual back pain from my fall last weekend (fortunately pretty much gone after some intensive hound therapy and hot water bottles), and I’m in that unrewarding “middle slog” stage of all my projects.  But it’s [...]

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