I had the incredible pleasure of attending the University Voices concert at the Metropolitan United Church on Friday, November 3rd. The concert featured five university choirs singing absolutely gorgeous chamber music–two of the songs had lyrics taken from e e cummings poems, one was from a Walt Whitman poem. One of my best friends from [...]
There are two fun events coming up in Toronto–one I’m not certain I can make and one I definitely will be going to. They both tap into my youthful idealism regarding changing the world and my optimism that change is not only possible, but in the making. And that we can all have a great [...]
So, on a whim I’ve decided, after not having posted for almost an entire month, to give an honest attempt at participating in National Blog Posting Month, [tag]NaBloPoMo[/tag], for November. I’ve got some blog topics outlined and I pulled a “I will if you will” on Richard, so he’ll also be participating. It should be [...]
As some of you may or may not know, I am a student–a student, I proudly tell everyone I interact with, of Communication (that’s no ‘s’) at [tag]Simon Fraser University[/tag] in Burnaby, British Columbia. For the 4 years that I have been one, I have never felt ashamed to be a student of Communication. Not [...]
Wow, is it the last week of September already? Time flies when you’re… doing anything but watching the time? Though I have been doing a lot of that too.
At WorldChanging, Alex Steffen writes about out-collaborating the coming-maybe-really [tag]H5N1 pandemic[/tag] through blogs. It’s an interesting proposition, that blogs may do more than media and governments in ringing the alarm. Following the lead of others in the blogosphere, here is the dirty rundown on the Bird Flu:
I don’t mean to fall into that whole [tag]Vancouver[/tag] vs. [tag]Toronto[/tag] thing again, but seriously, what is up with the [tag]Toronto International Film Festival[/tag]? I had to Google the website, because it wasn’t a terribly obvious URL (e.bell.ca is perfectly instinctual and obvious), despite the fact that I walk right by what appears to be [...]
You know which [tag]scams[/tag] are the worst? The ones that convince you that it’s your own fault.
Last night was not just any [tag]Kickass Karaoke at the Rivoli[/tag] – it was Lilly’s going away and birthday party as she gets ready to leave us in the cold North for California, just like Rufus Wainwright did! (Before he went and fell in love with New York, that is) Great fun and more booze [...]
Often times in conversation, I’ll try and communicate just how eensy-weensy [tag]Vancouver[/tag] really is compared to [tag]Toronto[/tag], and I’ll throw out some weird figures that I can’t back up. Here’s a brief comparison, using the ever handy Google Maps: The size of downtown Vancouver is from Yonge Street to Spadina Avenue in Toronto. I was [...]
