When I am a kid in Ottawa, summers are about four billion years long. Not like now, when the seasons and years stream by in an accelerating blur, in a freight train of blinks. When I am eight years old, I feel like I am eight. I feel I have my place in time. Now […]
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Wannabe makes it last forever
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Tribute Band Saturday, November 25, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street tickethalifax.com There’s a scene in Spice World—the 1997 musical that would come to be the high water mark in the Spice Girls’ saturation of pop culture—where Sporty, Ginger, Scary, Posh and Baby crowd at a forest’s edge, watching a […]
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30 Day Song Challenge: A Song That Reminds You of Someone
SCREAMS WITH LUST Today’s entry in the 30 Day Song Challenge: a song that reminds you of someone. This Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds epic will forever remind me of my friend, the lovely Shelley Scoger (nee Goldschlager, and yes that used to be her actual last name) who introduced me to Mr. Cave’s […]