I almost forgot to tell you about the happiest moment of my entire life. Let me first contextualize this by saying that my favourite things in the entire world are: avocados, root beer, 1950s diners where I can pretend I’ve just come from a sock hop, Joan Crawford movies, books, charming gentlemen acting charming, and [...]

No, no, no, no, no! Comic sans is not an acceptable font to be used on a handout for an academic presentation! This is terrible. It’s like I’ve arrived at the seventh level of hell. In order to combat the horror, I have joined every anti-comic sans group on Facebook that I could find. Love, [...]

1. Recital, Saturday night, 8:00, at the Button Factory, Pay what you can. Come. I’m singing Haydn, Mussorgsky and Elvis. Here’s the fabulous poster I made, that you won’t actually see posted anywhere on any walls because someone decided colour printing was too expensive so only fifteen posters got printed. Not bitter, not bitter, not [...]

1. A full Los Angeles post is forthcoming as soon as I finish the final draft of my thesis, which is supposed to happen tonight (gee whiz!) 2. UCLA is offering me a lot of money, so I might actually go there. 3. My only concern is earthquakes, ie: the potential of meeting an untimely [...]