Posts from ‘March, 2011’

Since a black cat did indeed cross my path today, I have some questions: Will you still receive bad luck if the cat does not make eye contact with you? Will the bad luck be worse if the cat has yellow eyes? If the cat is fat, and walking slowly, does it still count? Or [...]

While reading this post, please play this song in the background as a mood enhancer: The expression about people who are “ahead of their time” has always bugged me. Just because they’re brilliant and misunderstood and people 100 years later steal their ideas and pander them as their own, doesn’t mean they were ahead of [...]

It was while watching Jamie Oliver’s attempt to remake the lunch system at American schools (after his great success in the UK) that I realized how food-ignorant most people are. Jamie went into a grade 1 classroom and quizzed the kids. He held up a fruit or vegetable and asked them what it was. 9 [...]

The infamous banquet scene from Macbeth. It happens right after Macbeth orders the murder of his best friend, Banquo. Banquo is only character in the play who knows about the witches’ prophecy, and might suspect Macbeth as the murderer of the King. There is a grand feast; Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appearing as King and [...]

So the 400 wealthiest people in the USA… One website reported that 365 are white dudes, 34 are white women, and then there’s Oprah. After scanning the top 50, I’ve concluded that 365 are not all white guys in the traditional understanding of “white guy”. There are some Italians, a couple Russians, a Greek guy, [...]

I hate grocery shopping. I loathe the aisles and aisles of stuff. I especially hate buying things like toothpaste. You stand in front 10 square feet of shelving devoted solely to multi-colored paste that’s supposed to clean your teeth. 10 square feet of the same damn thing. The packages are bright and colorful. They all [...]

OK, so even though the messed up media portrayal of women is dearer to my heart, I also feel for my male counterparts on this earth. And they too suffer at the hands of the big business money grab that is our current North American reality. So here’s my alien landing part two… this time [...]

From the point of view of an alien being who crash-landed in North America. He can’t communicate with anyone, so he takes a walk through the streets, looks at the billboards, flips through some magazines, watches some television… and here is what he learns about women on earth: It appears that the female of the [...]

A bit of an inside joke, but nevertheless… here’s my next husband: I dare you NOT to move when you play this clip! I went to see Michael Franti and Spearhead in Vancouver. What’s strange is that I had never heard a single song by him. I didn’t have any of his albums. I didn’t [...]

There’s a bridge in Rome known for its “nocturnal attractions”, and I’m pretty sure they’re not referring to bats. In American movies, these romance points are usually places accessible only by car. They are viewpoints, overlooking the city lights, where the jock takes the cheerleader and tries to seduce her in his dad’s Chevy. Quintessential [...]