Posts from ‘February, 2011’

I recently discovered that Dame Judi Dench is called “Dame” because that is the female equivalent of knighthood. Upon receiving this ‘honour’, Ms. Dench said: “It [becoming a dame] means you’ve got to behave very well. That’s very, very boring.” Helen Mirren, another great British actress said, “My street cred is gone.” So this led [...]

Please don’t ask me how, but I recently discovered that there is a British Hedgehog Preservation Society. I strongly urge you to check out their website because it’s better than the most potent anti-depressant you can get. They publish a newsletter called The Hogologue. Need I say more? Ok, I will. They offer a link [...]

Sam Roberts (see video below if you don’t know who I’m talking about) buys Ivory laundry detergent at Jean Coutu (a pharmacy chain in Quebec). How did I come across this little factoid? I “ran into him” at the above mentioned location. When my cousin started to giggle while entering her PIN at the cash [...]

I’m missing all the accents. Here’s the real title: Montréal Café The world arranged the music (I walked into the café and Ben Harper was playing), appropriate symbols (a woman wearing a big turtle ring sat at the table next to me), and even relevant eavesdropping convo (at the table behind me were two young [...]

So the kids at school (translation: a bunch of hormonally challenged 15 year olds) surpassed my own cynicism about Valentine’s Day and they boycotted the school dance. That’s right, they were so anti-love that they refused to dance to its theme. Now, if their motives had been fueled by a real disgust of mass media [...]

AND lemme hear you say YAAAAAAAAA YA YA YA YAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA

So I totally forgot about this album I had: The Living Road. by Lhasa de Sela. and I played it tonight and I realized that whenever I had listened to it before, it had embedded itself in my subconscious; all the words, all the tunes were familiar. And so I looked up this woman, and [...]

The car has been located… completely in a different spot from where it was supposedly towed to. And how did I find it? I went to the police station. There, I was greeted by a rude female cop who was really pissed off at me for speaking to her in English. Once she got over [...]

So the car theme continues… Now that I’m back and relatively “settled” in one spot, I feel like I’m dealing with minuscule annoying particles of reality, rather than GRAND THEMES!! Traveling always reminds me of the grand themes. Staying still reminds me of… bills. Once in a while a good friend says, “Well, you gotta [...]

More proof that the world has gone mad and that most people must be idiots. First, they spray all the food we eat with insecticides and pesticides and inject god knows what into everything, including the cows and the chickens. Feeding chickens with bits of their own brains, combining spinach with oranges, making mutant food, [...]