tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435672011-04-21T20:47:26.059-04:00The Assorted Ramblings of Antonio MonkerroAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14347248304570931050noreply@blogger.comBlogger3591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643567.post-10602394395687003462008-11-17T18:12:00.001-05:002008-11-17T18:16:34.248-05:00

I have acheived nothing. But I'm working on it.Wow! My blog looks horrible! Two (or three) years of neglect! Who knew that meant anything in the blogosphere? May as well be a shack in the woods!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14347248304570931050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643567.post-10897896361885443202007-11-22T00:34:00.000-05:002007-11-22T00:35:49.416-05:00

Life isn’t about what you own. It’s about the experiences that make you who you are.I treasure the moments in my life when I’ve truly understood what life is all about.82 kilometers along a trail, at various points two kilometers up and two kilometers down, at 2500 meters above sea level. I was walking the same worn stone path that the Quechua people had walked for centuries before the Europeans

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14347248304570931050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643567.post-1165353044081481942006-12-05T16:10:00.000-05:002006-12-05T21:54:25.416-05:00

And who needs music lessons? Or coordination? This guy makes up for his lack of musical talents with one hell of a talent for editing video and a small dash of theatrics for flavour. Check it out.

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I'm still recuperating from a crazy adventure in the wilds of Peru. Which, rest assured, I'm going to be blogging about as soon as I've had a chance to sort out the vacation photos.In the meantime, I'm amazed by this, and I thought I'd share it. It's in light of American thanksgiving, making it a little dated to those of us up north, but bear with me.So as the page says, a teaching assistant at

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Just wanted to share this, the first pumpkin of the season. This one was K's choice...it's Mumbles from the upcoming movie Happy Feet. Yeah, I know, jumping the gun a bit, since it isn't even in theatres until November.So why Mumbles? I was feeling charitable, so I let her pick the design. She wanted a Pug dog. I refused. We settled on this instead. The girl likes penguins, what can I say? Enjoy!

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I spilled donair sauce into my keyboard today. Don't tell anyone.I was trying to write an email and eat the donair at the same time. It was the wrong thing to do. So now there's dried donair sauce underneath the keys, where it pooled up. I'm trying to come up with some kind of plan to get it outta there.I think the worst thing about this is that the smell of the donair sauce wafting up from

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As some of you know, once upon a time, I was part of a small collective of writers who spent small amounts of time writing angry, scathing, yet funny reviews of movie trailers. It was a great idea: the trailers were available for download online, for free, and the bland, derivative, and predictable movies out there (which is most of them in the theatres, at any given time) could be summed up

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Catching up now? Check out Part 1 here.All things Idol took a turn for the stressy over the remainder of the summer. I won’t go into details, but K's job got a lot harder. I’m guessing that’s all a part of showbiz.In the meantime, things between K and I continued to grow stronger. We spent weekends together whenever we could and I was always there for her when she needed some backup, whenever the

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Catching up now? Check out Part 1 here.Somehow, I’d neglected to ask K what she did for a living. I knew that she used to dream about a career in the media or the arts. I had naively guessed that she had taken a desk job at some faceless company or government department, high-tailing it down the freeway to mediocrity like so many of our peers. I shouldn’t have.And here she was with a Canadian

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Another Canadian Idol season has come and gone. The votes have been cast and Eva Avila has been crowned. Like the Idols before her, she’ll go on to be the poster child for luke-warm Canadian star-hood. And with the show’s finale, the deeply-scarred bedpost of reality television receives yet another notch.But for me, this season will always have special meaning. And it all started months before

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I love the fact that, at any given time, I have up to six viable means of transmitting thoughts and ideas to someone standing on the other side of the world, making any long distance relationship a whole lot easier....and yet...I can't stand the fact that soon people living in Ottawa, a city of only a million people, will have to dial 10 digits to talk to someone standing on the nearest street

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There's a new kool-aid ad campaign out there, stop me if you've heard this one. As I see it, the story goes something like this: the nice people at Kraft foods resurrect kool-aid man, dust him off, and then promptly strand his zombie, liquid-filled ass on a desert island. Bear with me, here.And then, without any explanation, a plane full of children (possibly also piloted by children) flies

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14347248304570931050noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643567.post-1144984677494717982006-04-13T22:48:00.000-04:002006-04-13T23:25:12.973-04:00

Does anyone still read this rag? Holla holla holla holla holla holla! I'm holla'n atchoo.Okay, so how do I make up for four months of silence? Forget that dumb-ass business, best policy is to pretend it never happened! Yeah, that sounds mature and healthy.Here's a quick rundown on my sordid, navel-gazing winter. The whole rehabilitation thing swung me for a loop. It's no big secret that I don't

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Update!Okay, so here it is: I'm okay. For the first time since the surgery, I'm back online (sorry for the delay). The surgery went well....but the recovery is going much slower than I had expected. And no ice cream afterwards! How is a chicken salad sandwich a good substitute for ice cream after surgery?! Gah! Thank you all for your well wishes, they certainly helped.I'm stuck in a long

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Monday morning will be the last time I'll get to see my knee scar-free and with all its original pieces in all their original places. Same goes for my ankle. I'm having crazy reconstructive surgery to try and repair all the dumbass damage I've incurred over the years. My plan to wait it out and get a robo-knee instead didn't quite pan out. My next charitable donation will be to Cyborgs

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Got my pics developed, so I thought I'd share what I ended up with for a pumpkin this year. The evil eye, as seen at night....And in the light...I'm generally happy with how it came out, but it wasn't quite as ambitious as what I had set out to do. It turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be, partly because I didn't have the right tools for it. But it was great practice for next

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Okay, even though I have some great pumpkin suggestions now, I'm still having trouble deciding. Beetlejuice was a strong contender but I can't find enough good pics online at a decent size. At this rate, I'm gonna end up with something painfully easy just because I'm going to run out of time....I still have some tricks up my sleeve, though.In the meantime -- do ya love The Simpsons? Or do you

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Hey everyone, I'm carving a pumpkin for work and I need some help choosing what I'm going to do -- in fact, I have no freakin' idea.So I'm looking for suggestions. The subject matter isn't really important, although it's better if it's current and recognizable by people of all ages. If I like your idea, I'll be sure to post a pic of the finished product here, so you'll get to see it in action.

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In a reboot, rebuild, refine kinda place. Here are some things that are smoothing out the waves right now:New Franz Ferdinand, new Broken Social Scene, new Metric, Bedouin Soundclash, Ivy, Feist....when do I find the time to listen to all this stuff? Workin' on it.A close friend seems to be doing much better after a bad brush-in with depression. I still don't know the whole story, but it seems

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Whoo! Quick post! During the daytime, no less! Watch out, folks...rebel at work.INXS is back, with a Canuck singer! J.D. Fortune won -- and rightfully so, as much as I liked Marty. Meh. Marty's band will probably sound cooler anyway. But it was clear for the last month or so that J.D. was channeling Hutchence like an old voodoo woman. Same bad-boy image, very similar voice, and all the

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Here are the new records that have been playing on my iTunes lately, in no particular order (except alphabetical, by random chance):Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric FeelAqualung - Strange and BeautifulEsthero - Wikkid Lil GrrrlsThe High Dials - A New DevotionVitalic - OK CowboyBut I'm always on the lookout for new music. Post your Top 5!

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Y'know, for a belt-choking asphyxiation-freak, Michael Hutchence sure was a talented singer. I'm back to my Grade-8 roots, singin' along to INXS all over again. I'm convinced that Rockstar: INXS is a marketing machine designed by a pure evil genius. Mark Burnett should have been a Bond villain.In other news, everyone's favourite flatmate-hata is back.

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All the joy, the pain, the curry, and the wats you can shake a stick at: the Thailand 2005 trip, in all its glory. 8 parts?! Gah!Part 1:Three Hours in Japan, Rooftops, and Millions of CellphonesPart 2:Bitten Ears, Khlongs, and Reclining BuddhasPart 3:Parks with Soundtracks, Disco-ball Volkswagons, and 8 Pairs of SocksPart 4: Elephant Snot, Barehanded Birds, and Akha Tea Part 5:Flanked by Tiny

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Well, we made it! Here it is, the last few days’ worth of the epic trip log. For those of you still reading along, I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. I knew back when I started it all those months ago that it was something I really wanted to do. And I know that 20 years down the road, I’ll be able to remember the whole trip like it was yesterday, and really, that’s worth

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Wow, bananas! Life’s been crazy lately and for some reason, I just haven’t had the time to sit down and do any writing. But here I am, back in the saddle once more.The hours following our return from the Bubbin Disco weren’t good. That night the curry, the heat, and everything else caught up to me and I was sick, very sick.So I didn’t get a lot of sleep that night. Worse, we had to be up early

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Hey everyone, lots of photos in today’s post. In Chaing Mai, many of the activities turned out to be sightseeing. And it’s a great place for that, let me tell you.The trip into Chiang Mai was pretty luxurious. All accounted for, there were maybe seven passengers aboard. So of course, the bus needed a crew of three to keep things running smoothly: a driver, a conductor (or captain, maybe?), and a

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Hey everyone, hope you all had a fantastic long weekend. My weekend was good, although I have to admit I really missed the Lac Sioui cottage-fest this year (which is on hiatus while its organizer is livin’ it large overseas in London). Hopefully it’ll be back again next year. I’m in serious cottage withdrawal now, with little hope of fixing the situation before the end of the summer.So the last

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Back again. It looks like the photo problem magically fixed itself. And the timing’s right since Bluesfest is over….which was amazing. And very very time consuming.So I’m sure some of you are wondering what a “trek” is, or at least what it might mean in Thailand. First off, it has nothing to do with pointed ears or plastic laser guns, and it has everything to do with guided tours that venture a

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Part 4 is still on the way, it's about three-quarters written so far. I'm finding that this one is taking me a long time to write, not particularly because it's crazy long or crazy detailed...I'm just finding that it's taking a lot of thinking to get my perspective straight. You'll see when it's ready.In the meantime, it's Bluesfest week in the Capital! Super-cool, can't wait....

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Hmmm...they're all gone, aren't they? I'm hoping this is temporary, but I have a feeling it's because I've maxed out whatever storage alotment I have for photos on Blogger. Which may make it difficult to get them back. Fingers crossed that the pics are back up later today....and if not, I'll figure out some kind of Plan B to get them back this weekend...whatever that's gonna be...UPDATE:

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Alright, can of caffeine, Thailand tour book, K-OS on my iTunes…..check, check, check. All set for writing Part 3.It was pretty hard to top Wat Pho. Although the Grand Palace was right next door, it was closed by the time we got out of the temple. So we quickly proceeded to Plan B, which happened to be a few minutes of chilling out at the small park across the intersection (which may or may

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Our first big evening out in Bangkok was a blur. Everything started off at a gigantic open-air Beer Garden not far from Patpong market. It was massive, it could easily seat thousands and was ringed by scores of food stalls. We found a seat near the middle of this stadium-sized eatery while swarms of pretty Thai girls representing beer companies lobbied for our drink orders. We settled on a tube

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Thailand….well, where to begin? It was the trip of a lifetime (hopefully the first of many). When my oldest buddy Mike - we’ve known each other since Grade 4! - said that he was off to visit his sister Rachel and her hubby Mike in Bangkok, it took me a matter of seconds to realize I wanted to tag along. Of course, the actual logistics of whether or not I *could* go came later, but it was clear

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Before I left for Thailand, some of my more travel-savvy friends told me that traveling would change me. They called it getting bitten by the "Traveling Bug," and considering how many times I heard it, I fully believed in it before I even got on the plane. But what they didn't tell me was how far it might reach into so many diverse aspects of my life. Call me naive, but part of me thought it

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It's been a long time since I've gone back to The List. Before launching into the vacation stories, I thought it would be fitting to knock a few items off, since so many happened in Thailand. But at the same time, I'm conscious of the fact that there are many things on this list that - half way through the 1001 days - don't make a lot of sense for me to do anymore. I guess it shows how much your

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Hey everyone, I'm back from Thailand! Short story: it was amazing. And it's likely to be life-changing, too: I've caught the travelling bug, just like everyone said I would. And the long story: it's on the way! I've had a bit of a photography-disaster, it appears that some of my film was damaged by the heat or the x-ray machines. I'm looking to see what I can salvage from my negatives. So

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Hey everyone, I'm taking a brief break from blogging for the next little while. Don't worry, I'll hurry back soon. I'm working on a special project - which I've entitled "The Land of Tie-Fighters" - that will be consuming my time for the next little while. Soooo pumped for Revenge of the Sith!So keep checking back for updates, I'll tell you all about it as soon as I can.

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I managed to spare some time this weekend for a photo trip down to the Hog's Back Falls. The water level was pretty high, so it made the lowly Rideau River look pretty epic. So then, proudly carrying my completed roll of film in hand, I walked over to the Black's on Sparks Street, only to find that....everything on Sparks seems to be closed on Sundays. Anti-climactic? I thought so. Then I

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Wow, time flies when you're busy. I'm not a big fan of checklists, but I've certainly needed one this past week. Expect a new photograph from me later on today or tomorrow!

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The Vancouver Olympic Committee has revealed their new logo for the 2010 Winter Games. It's a heavily-stylized inukshuk, a traditional signpost used by the Inuit.Initial feedback on the logo hasn't been overwhelmingly supportive. Canadian news agencies have already been running stories on the negative reaction. A poll run by a Vancouver radio station is currently showing 83% of respondents

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Short reviews of the Exclaim! 13th Anniversary Cross-Canada Concert Series' Ottawa stop:Montag: Imagine one guy, two keyboards, a violin, some windchimes, and a couple of guest vocalists. Montreal's answer to The Russian Futurists? His fast stuff was much better than his slow.Wooden Stars: Sorry guys, I know you've been on the Ottawa scene for quite some time now. But I thought you were

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Off to see Stars and The Organ at Barrymore's tonight. Can't. Frickin'. Wait.And in other news: can anyone say they're going to see The Organ without someone else making the obvious joke? Anyone? Didn't think so.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14347248304570931050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643567.post-1113539567414149172005-04-15T00:20:00.000-04:002005-04-15T00:34:39.046-04:00

Just trying to test the limitations of my little digital camera with this shot today. Findings: it's pretty limited.Oh yeah, and have you heard about this? "Sometimes food" my ass, a healthy Cookie Monster is sacrilege. He's supposed to be the poster-muppet for pure, unadulterated hedonism! I imagine Henson is spinning in his grave right now...

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It's supposed to be playoff season right now.

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I really didn't get much of a chance to take any photos last week. But I have half a roll of film in my camera right now, waiting to be finished off and printed.So in the meantime...you get a self-portrait.

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Wreaths in SpringSomebody forgot to tell the maintenance staff at Tremblant to take down the Christmas decorations. I wonder if they'll still be there in June.

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Leftover LightingThings that have to go away real-fast in current pop-rock (as determined after watching an hour of Much Music):Red tiesWannabe rock-princesses pretending to play the guitarGuys wearing abnormal amounts of eyelinerCrispin Glover hairFeel free to add to the list...

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CabrioletTremblant....Man, has it ever changed since I first skied there in highschool. I can only barely remember the old chalet at the base of the hill where we ate over-priced auto-frier poutine while wearing still-damp boots rented from the shed next door. Now it's all over-priced Japanese gourmet cuisine and Burton snowboard retail outlets.

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Laurier CourtyardI'm off to Tremblant, wishing you all a happy easter/spring/4-day weekend!

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Mirror Mirror on the WallIs it just me, or does the NCAA Final Four logo remind you unintentionally of a jockstrap? I mean, really.....what's the thought process involved here?

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Five DegreesIf anyone knows where you can get a walk-in immunization in Ottawa after work without having to wait two hours to see a doctor, let me know.

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1st Day of SpringSorry for the lack of posts lately, I've had a very busy 5 days which included, among other things:The Planet Smashers/Guttermouth at Capital;Green beer, goofy plastic hats, and bad Irish drinking songsToo much Project Gotham Racing 2Trailhead for travel gearBirthday party for LB (hope you had a good one yesterday!)Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, andPractically no

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PDVCan you tell that I avoid taking pictures of snow if I possibly can? Bring on spring, baby!I don't know how this got past me, but last night I found out they've made a Sin City movie. And it looks like they nailed it. Check out the trailer here. So freakin' cool. Joins my list of essential spring viewing, along with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Star Wars.

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Birdseed SymphonyThree noteworthy things that happened over the course of the weekend:I was adopted as an honourary IrishmanI saw Rent, and it kicked ass. In a musical kinda way.I saw the trailer for Revenge of the Sith. It kicked so much ass I don't even know where to begin. In a "Wow, did I just see Palpatine with a frickin' lightsaber?!" kinda way.

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Kensington MannequinsIt's not every day that you get to spend 7 hours treating imaginary head traumas and breathing air through a plastic baggie into disembodied plastic heads. But hey, the next time someone accidentally amputates a finger, I'll know exactly what to do.

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We Will Become SilhouettesFurther proof that I should keep a camera on me more often, just for the rare un-posed posed-looking shots like this one....

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SpadinaTook a very whirlwind roadtrip into Toronto this past weekend to see my friend Dan and had a blast. For those who didn't get a call from me this time around (wish I had more than a few hours in town!), I'll be back soon. New jokes: Pizza Memo, breakfast tacos, unfounded rumours of ass-kickings, Reg the homeless guy in the alley, three cheese shops in one block, and "....with sexy results

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Beach PathWish I was here. This is an oil painting I did for my mom's birthday, loosely based on a photograph I took at the Greenwich section of PEI National Park. Go there, you'll love it.

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Happy Birthday Mom!This is my all-time favourite pic of the two of us. My mom is the strongest, most caring woman I have ever known, and no matter how old she claims to be, she will always be young in my eyes. Love you, mom!

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Oscar has Left the BuildingGood luck figuring out what this is a sculpture of. Any guesses?

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Sioui: PsychadelicSaw the lego versions of the vehicles from the new Star Wars movie today. I have to admit, despite the cool teaser trailer, I'm concerned now. Very concerned. They're ugly and weird-looking.

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BirchesIt's official! Off to Thailand in May! Let the adventures of a soon-to-be world traveller commence!

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Sunset Over KanataI just saw a TV commercial for Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty. Some sequels are good, some are bad....but c'mon, a sequel released 10 years later? That's just asking for trouble. Then they make matters worse by cribbing entire scenes from Pulp Fiction. And what's with Vince Vaughn? I'm sorry, he's a fantastic actor, he can play that cool-guy ladies-man type with style,

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WestsideHad a slow weekend. On Friday night, I completely lost a buddy at the bar - one minute he was following me, the next he was gone. When I got home, I found out he left his cell phone at my place. Ooops. Then the battery died. It's still sitting on top of my TV for whenever he decides to pick it up. I think it also happens to contain the only numbers he had to reach me with, as well

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WOW! A Free Moment at Work! I guess it's safe to let you all in on a little well-known secret: I have been, and continue to be, a worktime-blogger, it seems. When I'm busy at work, the blogging slips. I can't really explain it, but I realize it's something I need to change. It's right up there with joining a gym (which I refuse to do without a buddy) and getting someone in to replace my bathroom

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Top-20 on my i-Tunes Playlist Resurfacing, with an idea cribbed from Neil: 20) The Black Keys: "10 a.m. Automatic" 19) The Shins: "Turn a Square" 18) Jimmy Eat World: "Just Tonight" 16) The Organ: "We've Got to Meet" 17) Modest Mouse: "Float On" 16) Refused: 'Liberation Frequency" 15) Scissor Sisters: "Comfortably Numb" 14) The Hives: "Antidote" 13) Stars: "The First Five Times" 12)

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I'm on a first-name basis with Torquil Campbell Wow! What a month for concerts. Starting off with Muse at Capital City (arena rock, right here in the snowy-north!) , followed by moe at Barrymore's, The Pixies in Hull....and now...now, Stars at Zaphod's! What a great show! So when I noticed that Stars was moving thier own gear after their set tonight, I wondered at the lack of roadies and

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Celebrating Our Differences I think now more than ever, it's clear that Canada and the US are very different places, depite many geographical and historical similarities. So, to mark a day of protests raging across the capital to greet Bush, police lines, and more helicopters buzzing overhead than I've ever seen in a single day, I'll pass along an article that really brings home the reasons why

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One Week Down, Ready for Vacation Time I'm about to start week two now of my new job. And since last week, I have learned two very important lessons: 1) When you work for the federal government, it's rare that things get done as fast as you'd like, and, 2) A week can go by unimaginably slowly when don't have access to a computer and have no other means to get your work done. So I guess I

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World on Fire Just for the record, I'm not a Sarah McLachlin fan at all, never have been. But when I saw this video, I knew that it was something very special and lots of people should see it. And not only for the message, but also for the cool, original idea in a stale music video market.

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It's My First Day....Quack, Quack, Quack Boy, is it ever hard to get back into the swing of things after a two-month "vacation"...but things are going well since I started at my new job! The people there are just as awesome as I remember them, and for the first time ever, I have my very own desk. All mine. Won't have to leave it in two weeks because someone else took a liking to it. It may not

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American Voters Said They Wanted Leadership.... ....And like a herd of bison, the larger half won't even know any better until he's lead them all over the cliff. (I tried three times yesterday to log into blogger and the page wouldn't even load. But I had a lot of fun watching that little loading bar inch across the bottom of my screen, followed by an error message. You know too many people

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Jay and Silent Bob in tha Hizzzzouse! Yes, we do birthday parties. This year's costume was an absolute smash hit everywhere we went. There were even people we met on the street who had their picture taken with us. But the ultimate frustration? I've never met (or been hugged by) so many cute girls in sexy costumes in one night....and I wasn't allowed to say anything to them! Gah! Sure, it's

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"We Can't Stop Here, This is Bat Country!" I thought I'd share a timely article by the venerable Hunter S. Thompson as printed in Rolling Stone. With only four days until the election, American cultural heavyweights are lining up to take Bush down: who'd have thought that Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Roseanne, Eminem, Oprah, and metal band Ministry would ever be on the same side of an issue, any

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We'll Float On, Good News is on the Way I had a good day today on the warpath. It had lots of potential, anyway. For now, I'll stay mysterious about it, at least until I know something official. I'll sum things up in the words of a decidedly promising fortune cookie I opened mere minutes ago. According to the cookie, I "have an interest in the public service." I'll say no more. I also wanted

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Mission Keeping my Job: Total Failure Well, they say that the more times you say a thing's gonna go a certain way, the more likely that it's gonna come true. Well, on September 14th the unemployment-equivalent of the Sword of Damocles came crashing down on me. For the first time in my life, I've been laid off. I suppose in some ways I've been very lucky to have lasted this long. It was over a

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Mission Moving Downtown: Total Success As I write this, I'm sitting in my new living room, which has a very red wall. Don't ask why, but that makes me very happy. I have now freed myself from the shackles of the cookie-cutter, bland Kanata lifestyle. I have dived headfirst into the freaky, slightly funky-smelling pool of delights that is downtown living. And I'm loving it. Just walking around

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Moving....Again It seems like every time the posts here start to slide, it's got something to do with moving, and this time isn't an exception. Yes! Moving again, this weekend, into my new apartment downtown. So! Every time I move, I go all introspective: "Moving's stressful....but new experiences are nice....isn't it funny how all your stuff can be reduced to a pile of boxes...blaw blaw

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The Red Pill For those who're interested in the "real meaning" behind the Matrix trilogy, straight from Larry Wachowski himself: check out this.

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A Few Short Attention Span Reviews of Things I've Checked Out Lately Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News: Some of the very best music coming out of the US this year, Good News is sometimes edgy, sometimes smooth, and always really intelligent, periodically reminding me of the Pixies or Broken Social Scene. They're currently touring through Canada, so catch their live show while

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Introducing: Mr. Mike Bluejeans! This is Mr. Mike Bluejeans.  It's his birthday today.  I think he looks like Jason Mewes.  He disagrees.  YOU be the judge. Separated at birth? The funny thing is that I bear a strong resemblence to Kevin Smith.  I'm a lot mouthier than Silent Bob ever was though.  And *ahem* I'm lighter. Happy birthday, big guy! 

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Confessions of a One-Time Sidewalk Artist It was the summer of 1994, in between Grade 11 and Grade 12.  And I had tickets to go see Pink Floyd. Some friends and I were staying at an apartment in Toronto for the concert, an apartment that was owned, believe it or not, by the current Mayor of Ottawa.  It was an experimental trip for me in many ways.  Over the course of the four or five days I

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This Falls Into the "Wish I Was There" Category....   Peggy's Cove, NS.

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Crib Sheet for Conversations Between High-Tech Consultants   All social conversations at your high-tech consulting company MUST follow the following pre-approved conversation process.  Please choose one option from each group.Introduction:"Hello, I don't think we've met.  My name is (insert name here).""Hello, haven't seen you in a while!  (awkward pause)  How are things?"Establishing history:"

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'Bout Time Hey everyone, thought I'd finally get up some of my favourite non-touristy pics from my trip to Washington this past spring (seems like a good time, considering it doesn't look like a vacation is going to be in the cards this summer...may as well re-live past trips). Enjoy!

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Psychadelic anti-air-rage tunnel, complete with soothing new-age music. Detroit airport.

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Sky, metal, and concrete. Detroit airport.

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An example of early-American phallic architecture. Alexandria, VA.

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Cuuuuube! Washington, DC.

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Flowers! Gadzooks! Washington, DC.

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Trust me, it was amazing seeing flowers at the time with my winter-addled eyes. Washington DC.

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Part of the Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC.

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Tara and a friend. Washington, DC.

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Are we Crisp & Juicy enough? Can we park here? Alexandria, VA.

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Grab Bag Okay! Things have started to become a little more settled. I'm living with my mother right now (read: I'm back to being 14 again), but things there have been going great. Although all my earthly possessions are stacked in the garage (which I've recently discovered is full of bees), my mom's been spoiling me lots and I'm pretty comfortable. I've slowly started to amass the vast

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True North Strong and Free Things that relieved me. Things that reassured me. Things that concern me. Things that make me excited. Things that kick all kinds of ass. It's been a big week for Canada. Happy birthday, big guy!

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MPFH v2.0 Welcome to the new and improved MPFH! I was planning on doing the redesign somewhere closer to this page's second anniversary, but what the hey, felt like getting a jump on things.

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Something I Didn't Know About My Country That is Funny The 5th Prime Minister of Canada was named Sir Mackenzie Bowell. And no, I already checked, he wasn't a proctologist before becoming a politician.

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SpaceShipOne Has Landed As an update to an earlier post: the first X-prize team to build a working reusable space capsule, Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne, has flown the first privately financed manned rocket beyond the Earth's atmosphere and returned safely. The event yesterday was a test run for the eventual 3-person mission to follow later this year. Read all about it here. Amazing. The

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Crippling Foreshadowing Remember when I said this? "I also sprained my ankle, making packing and lifting boxes a hobbling, painful nightmare. I've been afraid to get it looked at because they're going to tell me to keep off it for a week. So, in true fashion, I've decided to keep walking on it and damage myself even more. Because I'm just brilliant that way." Damage myself even more, eh? Sure

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