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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, [...]

I have officially declared this summer the Summer of Romantic Comedies Made Between 1960 and 1965

You should start with these: Where the Boys Are – which I just finished watching five minutes ago.  It is the greatest film I have ever seen.  Connie Francis is in it, she plays a hockey player.  We don’t get to see her playing hockey, though, because the movie is set in Fort Lauderdale.  There’s [...]

My personal favourite is “stake driven through the heart.”

Hey, remember that time I got really depressed about boys and started quoting Sylvia Plath, like an angsty 17-year-old?  I promise it won’t happen again, at least not this month (note that there is hardly a week left to the month). But anyhow.  On to more important things, like… DJ mixing class!  So great.  It [...]

It’s Christmas: time to get serious.

1.  So, it hasn’t been a very good month or so, for those of us who, um, have rather specifically nerdy tastes in rather specific areas, for we have lost three of our greatest Grand Crazy Ladies:  Yma Sumac, Majel Barrett Roddenberry (wife of the late Gene Roddenberry and voice of the computer on numerous [...]