I experienced my first Christmas hangover when I was seven years old. It had nothing to do with alcohol. It’s the feeling I got after I’d opened all my presents and sat surrounded by them, knowing I should be ecstatic but instead feeling hollow with disappointment. The mood seemed totally unreasonable and my sense of […]
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Casa fantastica
If you lamented the bulldozing of the Italian Cultural Centre Association this fall, the brick Agricola Street landmark which is home to Halifax’s Italian Weekend, be prepared to swallow your words—and a whole lot more wholesome north end gnocchi and polenta—come June. That’s when the ICCA—which is not being replaced by another unattractive low-rise apartment […]
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Back at the workshop
A twinkle-eyed girl bounces up and down, waving at the jolly fellow who returns the gesture with a beaming smile. The man is dressed in red velvet and black boots, and boasts an impressive white beard. “I want to keep the spirit of Christmas going as long as I can, and I want people to […]
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Christianity’s tough day
Is it because of the assy new pope? According to the headline on this story in today’s Herald, “Lord expected to step down.” The article doesn’t have reaction from Muslims, but they’ve gotta be stoked.
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Noodle nook…
quit your lies and bring me some pad thai! What you might not know about the fictitious take-out noodle place on Blowers is that it’s owned by RFL Group of Companies, which also owns MIlano’s and Source Security. well, whoever you are, I like ’em spicy!
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Let their ass get you home?
The NSLC’s anti-drinking and driving campaign (good idea) features a guy with a donkey, a guy with a wheelbarrow, and a guy with the ability to give piggyback rides (questionable idea). They’re characters that could get a drunken you home….if they existed. Obviously, they don’t – I didn’t actually think that Donnie and his donkey […]
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Can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff(y)
Beloved New York media website Gawker has been running this feature for awhile called “Great Moments in Journalism,” wherein it encourages readers to submit the worst leads they’ve read all week. At the end of the week, Gawker sticks the top 5 in a poll and then you can vote on them. Today’s entry comes […]
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i’m leavin’ it
Apparently all that glitters isn’t officially Golden Arches. I just wandered by the McDonald’s website and clicked the menu that invited me go to check out McD’s sites in Slovenia, Kuwait, France and dozens of other countries. I chose Canada, and got this warning screen telling me that by going to the Canadian home of […]
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Facebook is creepy. So, why do I love it?
Ok, I know everyone already knows about Facebook, and has already formed their own opinions as to how lame they think it is. Don’t know about it? Well, it’s basically an “academic” substitute to MySpace (academic in the sense that you need a school e-mail to sign up.) But do you really know how incredibly […]
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Awww…
First let me make it perfectly clear that I am morally against calling things cute simply because they are small. But all that disappeared when I laid my eyes on Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse. This little beauty is five years old, and only 17 inches tall! Check out the news story here.
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Girls, interrupted
Since I last wrote about Gilmore Girls, before its season premiere in September, the following has happened: Lorelai and Christopher got married. That’s all you need to know. Well, Logan moved back to the States and Lane’s having twins and Rory got some annoying art star friends, one of whom is dating my favourite Rory […]
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Fight for your right to not party
Feeling the stress of not finishing work but needing to head to an annoying holiday function, I responded by going surfing. And look what I came across: an excuse generator. Tell it stuff about the function you wanna duck, and it’ll write and even send the note for you. Now that I’ve blown off that […]
