humour
Jane Austen, dachshunds & the meaning of life
Or something like that. If you travel over to the CBC Book Club today you’ll notice a pretty fabulous contest that’s inspired by the mash-up trend mixing public domain books with the likes of zombies, vampires, androids, etc. Here’s an example that I created for the Book Club with a hat tip to Costas Halavrezos, Ben [...]
Daydream believer
Has anyone else been having trouble sleeping lately? I don’t know if it’s the weather, the time change or what but I feel like I’ve been on auto-pilot this past week due to lack of z’s. As a result, random thoughts have come to into my head. Sort of like the following: AliasGrace: I think [...]
Tassimo
I’m not the kind of person who usually “wins” anything, particularly out of the blue. I don’t buy lottery tickets or go in on the 50/50 draws at work. So, I don’t really expect random earnings either. Well, about a month ago I received an e-mail saying I’d been selected to receive a free TASSIMO [...]
(un) Death-Match
So…did anybody notice I was MIA last week? Sorry, peeps. I’m trying to manage my time while juggling a few other projects. This may take some adjusting to work out the logistics. One of the other projects I’m currently working on is something called (un) Death-Match. If you like books about the supernatural, may I [...]
Neptune Theatre 2009-2010
Every year Cokebaby and I try to get out to see at least one play at the Neptune Theatre. We’re not really ones for musicals so we tend to skip the performances of shows like High School Musical. For the most part we’ve been catching shows at the smaller Studio Theatre. Due to the e-newsletter [...]
Welcome to the jungle OR My fear of (becoming one of those) cougars
Today marks the first day back to school for many students. While I’m no longer getting a formal education or sending a mini-me off to do the same, this time of year usually gets me in the mood for one thing (well, besides wanting to lecture people on carpooling)…that’s shopping. I think it’s something ingrained [...]
The origin of Alias Grace OR Me > Frankenstein’s creature
Lately, I’ve been meeting a lot of new faces due to the Halifax Twitter community really putting the emphasis on social when it comes to social media. There’s even an entire wiki dedicated to the events around town, and it keeps growing. From Third Wednesdays to Halifax Chicks, random tweetups and even Pupp-E play dates [...]
Living history versus the history of living
After spending several days in the quaint town of Williamstown in a great B&B, connecting with locals who actually knew Cokebaby’s family, it was time to move on to another area of Ireland. En route to our next accommodations we stopped in to check out The Craggaunowen Project. Now, there are plenty of living history [...]
How to waste an entire day in travel by using multiple modes of transportation
As I mentioned in a previous post, our last vacation was spent travelling with Cokebaby’s brother and sister-in-law in England with the intent of meeting up with Cokebaby’s sister, brother-in-law and their two kids en route to Ireland. Our destination in Ireland was just north of Galway in a quaint little place called Williamstown. According [...]
Coming up roses
Today on the dog blog we look at the age-old, instinctual habit of scent-rolling. For anyone who doesn’t have a dog in their life, this behaviour is defined by the disgusting need for a canine to smear really strong smelling things on it’s body (the source of which is usually something horrific). But what does [...]
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