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Well, pardon my french.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Holy fuck.  What is up with winter?  Seriously?  It cannot be possible that Southern California has made me weak.  No.  That cannot possibly be true.  It must just be that winter is truly, truly, a terrible thing, the wrath of god come down upon the earth.  That must be what it is.
Today I put on [...]

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Books and also other lovely things

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Today I heard an interview on Writers and Company on the good ol’ CBC with Nuala O’Faolain, an Irish writer who sadly died last year, and who I had never heard of.  And now I want to go out and track down her books, because clearly she is a spintersly kindred spirit.  She said this, [...]

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Dear Intelligentsia Coffee,

Thursday, February 19, 2009

It is very nice that you are opening up a pretentious new location in Venice with fancy hydrolic pods or something, but please will you open a store in West Hollywood in the empty storefont near my house. I will give you hundreds of dollars.  Thank you.
Love,
Alexandra
Dear office computer,
It has taken me an hour to [...]

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Career prospects

Sunday, December 21, 2008

So, given the state of the economy and how it has resulted in a staggering number of academic job openings being canned, I have been thinking of what other career prospects might be open to me (besides the obvious top two: burlesque dancer, mistress to a wealthy executive). Last night I went to [...]

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Midnight oil

Thursday, October 23, 2008

1.  Oh, I have had the best Halloween costume idea yet.  In fact, it might just be my best ever idea yet.  I’m not revealing the full details here yet.  It’s a surprise.  It involves a lot of makeup in a colour called “Hot Rod Metallic Green.”  And a laser gun.  And a pencil skirt.
2.  [...]

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Is it Christmas already?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Not exactly what I asked for, but thank you Santa.  Thank you for:
1)  the Conservative Party of Canada being guilty of plagiarism,
2) Mary Walsh launching an attack on Stephen Harper, “iceberg of a Prime Minister,” and his sweater vests.
This has been an excellent afternoon.  My only complaint right now is that it is inexplicably 38 [...]

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Hmmm…

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Dear Canadian friends:
Have people seen the Anti-Harper Vote Swap facebook group and how do you feel about? (I tried including a link but it only works if you’re logged into facebook – so just search for it.)  While I appreciate the motive behind it, and agree with what they are trying to do (stop the [...]

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Delicious! b/w Gross!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Dear Friends,
My oven is currently full of chocolate-stout cupcakes and bundt cake and love.  And let me tell you, I think this is my new favourite dessert recipe.  And I don’t even know how it will turn out yet.  There’s something about a big pot of beer and butter bubbling away on the stove that [...]

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And then I died of plague.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

I am back in Los Angeles, in a very pink room, which I think I am going to paint sky blue.  Being in this pink room is a vast improvement over the situation of two nights ago, wherin I was sleeping in the kitchen.  Yes, it’s true, I am that kind of lady.  Speaking of [...]

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So, I just watched Bill Clinton speak at the DNC,

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

and I have two things to say:
1. I would like some musicologist to do an interesting, cogent reading of the choice of popular songs used between speakers, and, like, class/race stuff. Just because it would be fascinating and because I would do it myself except that I’m still on holiday. And also [...]

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