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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Reading list for ladies sitting around in pyjamas with their hair in beehives on Saturday nights:

Sunday, November 29, 2009

1.  Nuala O’Faolain, Are You Somebody? (Vaguely depressing memoir in tradition of Angela’s Ashes and the like, only better because it was written by a feminist.) 2.  Elaine Dundy, The Old Man and Me (Even better than the Dud Avocado, because this one involves a very subtle attempt to murder somebody.) 3.  Lee Israel, Can [...]

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Dress/Song, Episode 12: The Gossip, Four Letter Word

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Many moons ago (almost a month, I think), I saw the Gossip in concert at the Henry Fonda.  I’d seen them a few years ago in Toronto, when they were touring with my homegirls Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper on the True Colors tour, and I am still convinced that they are one of the [...]

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Unsurprising, really.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

So, uh, the Vignette Pinot Noir Wine Country Soda? Yeah.  Pretty much just . . . grape soda. In other exciting news:  last night I said “I have a stomachache.  I’m worried that it’s the flu, but hopefully it’s nothing.”  Today I get to school and am informed that everyone has been told that I [...]

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Dear Cheerwine,

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Oh, but you are tasty.  Apparently, you are a bit of a thing in North Carolina, but I had never heard of you, even though I went to North Carolina for three entire days that one time. But anyhow, no worries, I still like you.  Your particular cherry bouquet went so well with my spaghetti [...]

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Vanilla Cream for what ails you

Monday, November 16, 2009

Friends, Romans, Countryfolk, this is what I am drinking right now: It is pretty delicious.  It might be a little bit too sweet for my tastes, but what is super exciting is the way that it smells like vanilla.  This has got to be the most fragrant, aromatic pop (yes, POP, you crazy non-Canadians) I [...]

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Soda-pop-a-go-go

Monday, November 16, 2009

Well, friends, my brain is about to fall out. I have spent all afternoon smashing my head against my exam list, and then all evening doing the reading for seminar this week, and I have some reading on British cultural history to do before bedtime, but I think it’s time for a soda pop break! [...]

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And then!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

There was no school on Wednesday so we had SUPER ADVENTURE TIME! First we went here, to Galco’s Soda Pop Stop: And this is what we took home: And then we went to Fosselman’s, for the best ice cream ever, (flavours pictured include:  lemon custard, banana heath bar, chocolate covered strawberry, cinnamon) And then we [...]

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Dress/Song 11: P.P. Arnold, The First Cut is the Deepest

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

I wasn’t intending to write about this song, but since I’ve listened to it approximately 17 times today I thought maybe I’d better: The First Cut is the Deepest – P.P. Arnold So, this is P.P. Arnold, who released the first recording of The First Cut is the Deepest (written, of course by Mr. Cat [...]

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Walk walk walk walk walk

Sunday, November 8, 2009

We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled dress blogging next week, I promise.  I’m planning one post that will riff on the Gossip concert I went to, what, two weeks ago now?  and another on my new favorite girl group song (a song that involves either what is either a reference to organized crime or [...]

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