Your Childhood – a Poll
Just curious….did you have a good childhood? If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you’ll need to visit www.knitnut.net to answer the poll question. Rest assured, all…
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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,…
Lulu’s looking for her big break
Click to make it bigger. Click again to make it even bigger than that. Hopefully someone out there is in a position to at least give her an audition. (Thanks…
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…
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…
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…
The Baseline Cowboys
The Baseline CowboysI 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.”…
Duncan the Dogcat, living the good life
Duncan and his Vet, January 2008Ever 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…
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. Digg this! Share this on Facebook Email this to a friend?…
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…
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…
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…
And yet another one
Cellphone snatched by police, man claims. Digg this! Share this on Facebook Email this to a friend? Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Tweet This!
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…
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…
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…
News from the Zoo
Kazoo and OboeI 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,…
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…
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…