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Monthly Archives: September 2009

A Dress and a Song, episode 5: I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song)*

Monday, September 28, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Ikettes!!! Oh, the Ikettes.  Your name is only slightly less stupid than Ray Charles’ Raelettes, and you have inspired me to recruit my own team of backup singers named after myself:  The Xandrettes.  (Auditions are tentatively scheduled for next month, please forward C.V.s and audition tapes to lady.xandra at barbarellapsychadella dot [...]

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A Dress and a Song, episode 4: St. Louis Blues

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Sorry this is late – I meant to post yesterday, I really did, but teaching four hours of section kinda knocked the wind out of me.  I’m happy to report, though, that I think my students this year are going to be really great – they’re all freshmen who haven’t learned how to not do [...]

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A Dress and a Song, episode three: Mary Lou Lord, She Had You

Monday, September 21, 2009

I have this funny ability to remember, with startling accuracy, the circumstances under which I have acquired almost every album or book or dress that I own. I bought Mary Lou Lord’s Got No Shadow at Randy’s Records in Owen Sound, the store that we used to frequent in high school – I remember digging [...]

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A dress and a song, episode 2: FASHION EMERGENCY!!!

Friday, September 18, 2009

OMG OMG!  Some people got a ticket to the premiere of The White Stripes:  Under the Great White Northern Lights at TIFF on Friday!  Some people asked me for a White Stripes makeover!  (So what this means is:  yes, I do take requests.) I like the White Stripes because I have a soft spot for [...]

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Also I think marriage should be illegal for anyone under the age of 75.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Some thoughts, having just finally seen 500 Days of Summer (which I really liked!): 1.  I would like it on record that I had publically declared Ringo my favourite Beatles months before Zooey Deschanel made it the hip thing to do. 2.  The movie seems to be set in Hilarious Bizarro World Los Angeles, in [...]

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A Dress and a Song, episode one

Monday, September 14, 2009

So, it is that time of year when I tend to take stock of my blogging activities and realize that said activities are kind of diffuse and purposeless and all over the place, and that I still haven’t figured out how to become a millionaire by blogging, which obviously is the entire point of blogging, [...]

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Things that happened at the giant dominoes at Bloor and Spadina:

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

We ate toasted marshmallow ice cream and talked about boys, I unexpectedly ran into one of my favorite spinster ladyfriends, who I didn’t even know was in town, We shook our fists at the Dance Cave, apparently closed on Thursdays, We said goodbye, filled with ounces and ounces of beer and nachos, We almost didn’t [...]

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WWBD?*

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

One of the worst things about coming home for vacation from graduate school is that most people don’t really understand what gradute school is or why anyone would want to really bother with it, so I have consequently had to spend a lot of time justifying my (admittedly, sometimes poor) life choices to, like, everybody [...]

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