Last Wednesday afternoon GC and I stopped by the Baseline Cowboys’ base camp at 1605 Baseline Road, and gave them an antique Mr. Peanut jar filled with peanuts. They gave us a warm welcome and a cold beer . They even let me have a coveted seat on the now-famous couch.
Their little tradition of […]
Continue readingEven I, who have a bit of a jaundiced eye when it comes to the behaviour of Ottawa’s police force as a whole, am surprised by how much police brutality has come to light since the Stacy Bonds incident. I can’t even keep up with it all here on the blog. I skipped the last […]
Continue readingYesterday we spent the afternoon filtering another 4,000 bottles of wine at The Oaks, for the Managed Alcohol Program. I learn a lot there, and it’s not just about winemaking. One of the managers is the chief winemaker while the original chief winemaker travels the world. Since filtering wine involves about 20 minutes of waiting […]
Continue readingThe awesomeness of The Baseline Cowboys, who I blogged about in their early days, is spreading far and wide!
Tomorrow is GC and my GC’s and mine GC’s and my’s our third anniversary. We’re going to celebrate by cruising past the Baseline Cowboys (1605 Baseline Road) on our way out to dinner. Maybe […]
Continue readingI 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. […]
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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 readingThe 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 readingIt 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 readingThe 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 readingTomorrow’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 readingCellphone snatched by police, man claims.
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Continue readingI 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 readingNote: 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 readingThe 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 readingI 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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