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Everybody’s Art Show TONIGHT

Tonight’s the night we’ve been waiting for!

What: Everybody’s Art Show
Where: Irene’s Pub, 885 Bank Street, in the Glebe
When: Wednesday January 28th, starting at 6:30 p.m.
What exactly: A silent auction of about 35 pieces of original art donated by various artists and regulars who frequent Irene’s Pub. It includes Zoom and GC’s first collaborative piece, […]

Everybody’s Art Show at Irene’s Pub

I think this concept for an art show is brilliant. Everybody gets to be an artist. Even you and me!

Where: Irene’s Pub, 885 Bank Street in the Glebe
When: January 6th, 2009 – January 28th, 2009 (culminating in a Silent Auction on Wednesday January 28th)
Who: Everybody
Why: Fundraiser. Proceeds will go to a 2009 graduate from the […]

The swap box and the panhandler

We were walking up Bank Street on Sunday when I spotted a new swap box on the other side of the street at Bank & Second. GC was impressed with my eagle eyed powers of observation, and said so as I bolted into Bank Street traffic to get to it.

Did you know the Swap […]

The Sex Trade Worker Rally

After work today, GC and I attended two very different events: Marion Dewar’s Lying in State at City Hall, followed by the Sex Trade Workers Rally on Parliament Hill.

The lineup inside City Hall led directly to Marion Dewar’s five children, where we could offer our condolences before filing past the closed casket and signing […]

A grab-bag of updates

Health update:

Yesterday Nancy left a bottle of wine at my door, so I got a little high on wine and Robaxicet and it seemed to help me turn the corner on this backache. (Thank you Nancy!) I’m still bent over and walking weirdly, but there’s definitely an improvement in terms of pain and flexibility. I […]

It’s okay to suck at stuff

I’ve been teaching myself guitar for a couple of years, but either I’m not a very good teacher or I’m not a very good student, because I’ve learned remarkably little in two years. That’s why I decided to take Eve Goldberg’s week-long folk guitar course at Haliburton.

I’m glad I did, because I learned more […]

I’m home from Haliburton!

I arrived home late late late Saturday night to some upsetting but unbloggable news. Then the universe kind of stood on its head and spun around for a few hours before righting itself again. Sometimes you just have to have faith that the universe will unfold as it should, because it will. It always does. […]

I made a mistake

Remember when Duncan met the baby Jacob and was completely unhinged by him and could not take his huge freaked-out saucer eyes off him? Even after Jacob and his mother left, Duncan watched with great consternation from the window till the stroller disappeared around the corner.

I just assumed Duncan was afraid of babies.

But […]

Fantasizing about summer vacation

I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but you may have noticed I’m having a little trouble focusing on the blog lately.

Here’s a list of what’s new.

1. I finished knitting a sweater. It only took me three years.
2. I started knitting a new sweater.
3. Duncan was very bad last night.
4. I’ve started thinking about […]

Post-Bluesfest Blues

I usually time my holidays so they coincide with Bluesfest, but it didn’t work out that way this year. Instead I’m spending my holidays recuperating from Bluesfest.

I only booked two weeks holidays, but I should have gone for more. I get seven weeks annual leave, which is mostly theoretical since I can never take […]