There is a scene in The Royal Tenenbaums that really resonates with something in me. In case you haven’t memorized this movie like I have, I’ll set the scene. Eli, the neighbour’s child now grown up and in a terrible mess of drugs and pseudo-fame turns to Royal, the estranged head of the Tenenbaum family, [...]
July 2009
Last week was a whirlwind. The annual dream that is my city’s independent theatre festival has just wound to a close, so the one man shows and knife throwers are finally packing their trunks and reluctantly moving on to the next prairie city. After a week of running around the steamy downtown between shows, helpings [...]
As some of you know, the beautiful and lovely Belle Renee is getting married very shortly and so, rallied by Erin, I’m part of a virtual bridal shower for her where we post about love and marriage in honour of Renee. I will be less sappy next week and promise to stop so incessantly recapping [...]
“You don’t understand what it’s like! I miss them!!!”, I would wail at Mister while he agreed. No, he didn’t know what it was like. One of the worst things about The Prairie City I’m from is that there are no animals allowed in apartments, and while you can sneak a hamster (his name was [...]
July is a big month, especially these last weeks, because it marks the one year anniversary that we we took possession of our house. I knew becoming a home owner would be wild, and it has had it’s fair share of surprises. Like the time our neighbours threatened to sue us and set a web [...]
It’s been a weird and wonderful week, and I can now safely say that we’re through the dress rehearsal and the previews of being unemployed, and I’ve been invited as an honoured guest for Unemployment’s Act One: Freaking the Fuck Out. This week I felt down, behind in everything, disconnected, lonely and restless. When I [...]
It’s been a rainy couple of days here in the prairies, the sky is gray and low and wraps it’s damp, cool arms around you when you step outside. It’s a day for staying indoors, drinking tea, making lists… I always… Say “Hallo” to Mister when I see him in the house. Make up new [...]
