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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

A Dress and a Song, episode one

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, [...]

“The only romantic thing left in life is a hat”

I would love to get a set of luggage like these to replace my current falling-apart set of luggage, but, alas, have had to opt instead for something practical with wheels bestowed upon me by my parents.  At least I always manage to look totally fabulous while traveling through the strategically fashionable use of large [...]

Cardassian Sunrise

Hey, have you seen that Star Trek movie yet?  You should probably go see that Star Trek movie.  It’s pretty excellent.  Wear sunglasses.  I was warned about the gratuitous use of lens flare, but, Jesus, nothing could have prepared me for how shiny that Starship Enterprise was.  Also Youthful Spock is So Totally Hot, but [...]

Dear John Fluevog,

If I had not just purchased a flight to North Carolina, I would be purchasing these.  Because, as you so eloquently put it, they are indeed the perfect heel for hunting aliens in your underwear, which, really, is all I want to do with my life, ever, and has been all I ever wanted to [...]

Dear the Baby Jesus,

I don’t actually believe in you or anything, but since your birthday (or “birthday”?) is coming up I just thought I’d say thank you. Thank you for all of my friends who are lovely and amazing and nice to me and send me messages to cheer me up when I am being sad and angsty. [...]

Burning question!

In honour of I AM GOING TO HAWAII IN JANUARY TO PRESENT PAPERS AND SEDUCE CABANA BOYS and also I AM GETTING PAID THIS WEEK, I have decided to finally get an Esther Williams swimsuit.  Esther Williams swimsuits have been the object of much covetousness on my part for some time. But should I get [...]