Awesome Wednesday
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…
A. Ottawa
Fire the thugs
Even 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…
Creating the right places
Yesterday 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.…
Cowboys and Dogcats
The 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…
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…
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.”…
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
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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…
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…