Just curious….did you have a good childhood?
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knitnut.net: Jazz Fest, Bird University, and Spontaneous Combustion
I took an unscheduled break from blogging while making room in my life for the Jazz Festival. I saw the following concerts: k.d. lang, Pink Martini, Chick Corea, Bela Fleck, and Daniel Lanois. I thought they were all good.
The Jazz Festival is an entirely different creature than the Blues Festival or the Folk Festival. […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Lulu’s looking for her big break
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Hopefully someone out there is in a position to at least give her an audition. (Thanks to cat-loving blog readers Meg and Karen for sending this along.)
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Continue readingknitnut.net: Talking to little girls
This morning my friend Grace shared a link to an article by Lisa Bloom called How to Talk to Little Girls.
In it, Ms. Bloom acknowledges her first instinct when meeting little girls is to tell them how cute they are, since they generally are awfully cute. But she doesn’t allow herself to do that, […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Feeding Canada Geese to the poor
New York City plans to capture Canada Geese and ship them to Pennsylvania, where they will be killed, cooked and fed to the poor.
NYC says the geese pose a hazard to planes, because they sometimes get caught in engines.
They also say that they couldn’t find any takers in New York, which is why […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: My lovebird proposed to me
We had perfect weather here in Ottawa yesterday, which only happens about once every 42 years. It was sunny and warm, not hot, with a cool breeze, and the humidity was only 45%.
In the early evening we went for a walk: Logan the Dog out in front, then GC, me, and Oboe the Lovebird […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: The Baseline Cowboys
The Baseline Cowboys
I was walking down Baseline Road on Wednesday afternoon when I came across some happy dudes sitting on a couch with a sign that said “Spread the awesome.” They had a Vancouver Canucks jersey too.
So I stopped to talk to them.
“Whatcha doing?” I asked.
They told me that they do this […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Duncan the Dogcat, living the good life
Duncan and his Vet, January 2008
Ever since I adopted Duncan from the Humane Society, I’ve referred to him as a Dogcat. Half dog, half cat. Right from Day One. He was dog-sized, and he’d come when he was called, and he’d shake his whole body vigorously like a dog, and he’d lick my face, […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: The family that showers together….
Here’s a video of Kazoo, Simon, Oboe, Duncan, Logan and me happily sharing a shower on a hot day.
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Continue readingknitnut.net: GC buys a giraffe
It has been a busy week around here, what with birds and garage sales and Art in the Park and job interviews and other activities. I also had a three-day migraine, which finally lifted yesterday. At first, after the pain stopped, it felt like my brain was bruised, which felt blissfully better than the migraine. […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: I have GC’s permission to blog about his penis
The half-marathon was, in many ways, not what I was expecting. Knowing that the route had changed, and that we’d be winding our way through Chinatown and Hintonburg and Westboro before heading north to Quebec and then back to Ontario and around the Canal…well, I confess to having imagined a leisurely 21km/13 mile walk, with […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Favourite weekend of the whole year
Tomorrow’s the GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE! Woohoo. The rain will put a damper on things, but I’ll still be there.
It’s also Ottawa Race Weekend. The route has changed, taking it through more populated and livelier neighbourhoods, so there oughta be a lot more spectators, despite the rain. Good luck to all of you who are […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: And yet another one
Cellphone snatched by police, man claims.
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Continue readingknitnut.net: More police brutality in Ottawa
I find this story quite disturbing. Bad enough that the police are beating up on women and drunks and people in custody, but kids too?
The 15-year-old kid, on the evening in question, was getting into a little trouble with some friends – throwing paintballs, lighting a newspaper on fire in a schoolyard. When a plainclothes […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: GGGS: Breaking Scrimshaw’s Rules
Note: I wrote this post in 2009, but decided it would be more useful to readers if I were to publish it before the Great Glebe Garage Sale (GGGS), rather than after. Last year I forgot. The GGGS is on Saturday May 28th this year.
Before heading off to the Great Glebe Garage Sale at […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: This, that and a secret
GC has been a vegan for two days now. I was only a vegan for a few hours, then I downgraded to vegetarian because I needed dairy products in my coffee. We’ve been wondering about vegan/vegetarian menu planning. Like…what do you eat? So far we’ve been eating oatmeal and salads and pumpernickel toast and fruit […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: News from the Zoo
Kazoo and Oboe
I got all the birds’ vet tests back last week, and everybody’s healthy.
The big news is that Kazoo was DNA-sex-tested. With most parrots, including Double Yellow-Headed Amazons, you can’t tell the boys from the girls by looking – even by looking very, very closely. Even a vet can’t tell. They don’t […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Insite comes to Ottawa
The Harper Government TM is still attempting to shut down Insite, Canada’s only supervised injection site. The case is now before the Supreme Court of Canada, which is where I spent yesterday morning.
I had to line up to go through a scanner, and empty my pockets and put metal things in a bin and so […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Goodbye Rita
I read the papers and the obituaries almost every day. I don’t know how anybody can die in this city without me finding out about it, especially if it makes the news, and especially if they’re a friend of mine. But Rita did.
I ran into my friend John last week and he mentioned in […]
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