"Boys are like cars. You sort of just have to steer them away from a bad situation and wait until they slow down."
- Sam
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Croissant
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Yay
My review of The City Man was posted on TEACH Mag's Summer Book Bag.
It was then posted on the Coach House website!
Go me! Go my career! Go journalism!
It was then posted on the Coach House website!
Go me! Go my career! Go journalism!
Monday, June 14, 2010
New fashion is old fashion (Re-posted from school blog)
This is a post I actually wrote for my online class back in April- we had to write on fashion or sports. Needless to say I chose fashion...
Spring is a new season, and with it comes new fashions, but recently the new fashions are old fashions: vintage, second-hand and thrift-store finds are the way to go this season.
Cassie Cowie, 19, created and runs her own online consignment store, MYEXCLOSET, in three different cities: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
"Fashion is always coming and going, and what better way to bring trends and styles back with vintage and second-hand. It is a very authentic way of doing it, instead of buying a new version of the trend re-vamped," Cowie wrote in an email.
Luckily, Toronto has a great collection of thrift stores. Plus, there is the Toronto section of Preloved, a company that creates new high-end fashion pieces out of old clothes.
Tess Roby is a 16-year old student at Rosedale Heights School of
the Arts. She mostly shops at Value Village because it's cheap, but she likes to buy new clothes every season from stores like H&M, which she says is very good.
But Roby thinks that a lot of stores, like Urban Outfitters for example, "pull their ideas from vintage shoppers" and use them to create more expensive fashions.
"I definitely like that [thrift] one-of-a-kind," Roby says. "Sometimes there can be stories behind clothes." A friend of hers once bought a dress from 69 Vintage that was a traditional hand-made Dutch dress.
Isabel B. Slone also has a lot of thrift clothing. She writes Hipster Musings, which gets 5,000 to 6,000 visitors a week. She picks thrift clothes from the 80s and 90s that are "cheap, outrageous and tacky, which kind of suits my personality," she says.
"Designers are always looking through their archives for present inspiration from the past," Slone says about thrift fashions effecting new fashions. "Everything in fashion seems to get recycled eventually."
*Photo Credits: Alexandra Auger and Isabel B. Slone
Spring is a new season, and with it comes new fashions, but recently the new fashions are old fashions: vintage, second-hand and thrift-store finds are the way to go this season.
Cassie Cowie, 19, created and runs her own online consignment store, MYEXCLOSET, in three different cities: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
"Fashion is always coming and going, and what better way to bring trends and styles back with vintage and second-hand. It is a very authentic way of doing it, instead of buying a new version of the trend re-vamped," Cowie wrote in an email.
Luckily, Toronto has a great collection of thrift stores. Plus, there is the Toronto section of Preloved, a company that creates new high-end fashion pieces out of old clothes.
Tess Roby is a 16-year old student at Rosedale Heights School of
the Arts. She mostly shops at Value Village because it's cheap, but she likes to buy new clothes every season from stores like H&M, which she says is very good.But Roby thinks that a lot of stores, like Urban Outfitters for example, "pull their ideas from vintage shoppers" and use them to create more expensive fashions.
"I definitely like that [thrift] one-of-a-kind," Roby says. "Sometimes there can be stories behind clothes." A friend of hers once bought a dress from 69 Vintage that was a traditional hand-made Dutch dress.
Isabel B. Slone also has a lot of thrift clothing. She writes Hipster Musings, which gets 5,000 to 6,000 visitors a week. She picks thrift clothes from the 80s and 90s that are "cheap, outrageous and tacky, which kind of suits my personality," she says.
"Designers are always looking through their archives for present inspiration from the past," Slone says about thrift fashions effecting new fashions. "Everything in fashion seems to get recycled eventually."
*Photo Credits: Alexandra Auger and Isabel B. Slone
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
It's a $57,000 "water feature"
The fake lake being built at the media centre for the G20 and G8 summits is actually only going to cost taxpayers $57,000 out of a budget of $1.9 million, said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Works to The Globe and Mail.
The rest of the money is supposedly being spent on graphics, food, drinks and media communications material.
Totally makes sense.
Not.
"They also stressed that the much maligned fake lake is not a lake at all. 'It's a water feature,' I was told," wrote Siri Agrell for the Globe and Mail.
The rest of the money is supposedly being spent on graphics, food, drinks and media communications material.
Totally makes sense.
Not.
"They also stressed that the much maligned fake lake is not a lake at all. 'It's a water feature,' I was told," wrote Siri Agrell for the Globe and Mail.
Monday, June 7, 2010
I hope the Tories drown in their fake lake.
If I was not already disgust concerning the ridiculous and over-the-top spending and procedures going on regarding the G8 and G20 summits, I am now.
No, not even disgusted. I am too shocked to be disgusted. I am so embarrassed that the Canadian government could possibly be spending this much money that I am almost at a loss for words.
Today, the media picked up the news that there will be an indoor lake that costs nearly $2 million dollars, and they ran with it.
How is it that the Canadian government, that has a deficit of over $56 billion dollars, can afford to host this summit?!
They're paying for several very large, expensive meeting locations, for hotel accommodations and food for all those in attendance.
They're paying for many new high-tech security systems, like CCTV, and new gadgets for the police force.
They're paying for hundreds of police officers to line the perimeter of the security zone because they know the 10-foot wall being built to keep people out won't hold if the huge amount of protesters who will be demonstrating decide to storm the conference.
But that money could be used for health-care, education, homelessness, environmental issues and so, so much more and better issues than a two-day conference.
Is it necessary? Will it change the world? Will it change what is said and decided at the summits? Does Canada need this? Does the world need this?
The world is laughing at us as we throw money down the drain. I was laughing until I realized what this all really means. And the truth is embarrassing.
No, not even disgusted. I am too shocked to be disgusted. I am so embarrassed that the Canadian government could possibly be spending this much money that I am almost at a loss for words.
Today, the media picked up the news that there will be an indoor lake that costs nearly $2 million dollars, and they ran with it.
How is it that the Canadian government, that has a deficit of over $56 billion dollars, can afford to host this summit?!
They're paying for several very large, expensive meeting locations, for hotel accommodations and food for all those in attendance.
They're paying for many new high-tech security systems, like CCTV, and new gadgets for the police force.
They're paying for hundreds of police officers to line the perimeter of the security zone because they know the 10-foot wall being built to keep people out won't hold if the huge amount of protesters who will be demonstrating decide to storm the conference.
But that money could be used for health-care, education, homelessness, environmental issues and so, so much more and better issues than a two-day conference.
Is it necessary? Will it change the world? Will it change what is said and decided at the summits? Does Canada need this? Does the world need this?
The world is laughing at us as we throw money down the drain. I was laughing until I realized what this all really means. And the truth is embarrassing.
Germs- ew!
So I was sitting on the subway this morning on my super-long train ride out to Rexdale and this woman in a long floral skirt and clunky black shoes came on and promptly pulled out a hard-boiled egg and ATE IT right there on the spot. Just put her whole hand around it and shoved it in her mouth and took huge bits, and there was egg falling everywhere around her.
Now, I understand eating a bag of chips or an apple on the subway because you're a little peckish. But really, a slippery hard-boiled egg on public transit that is used by thousands of people each day?
I mean, to eat a hard-boiled egg without a bowl and cutlery, you need to grab the thing with your whole hand, so all of your palm and fingers are touching it. That's the hand that you just touched the railing, the door handle and the train poles with.
Don't get me wrong, hard-boiled eggs with a bit of salt and pepper and veggies are delicious and nutritious, but only when you've had a chance to wash your hands and take a seat.
Needless to say, I was a little grossed out. She just ingested way too much of other people's sneezes, coughs and snot.
Photo Credit: the cosmic cowgirl
Now, I understand eating a bag of chips or an apple on the subway because you're a little peckish. But really, a slippery hard-boiled egg on public transit that is used by thousands of people each day?I mean, to eat a hard-boiled egg without a bowl and cutlery, you need to grab the thing with your whole hand, so all of your palm and fingers are touching it. That's the hand that you just touched the railing, the door handle and the train poles with.
Don't get me wrong, hard-boiled eggs with a bit of salt and pepper and veggies are delicious and nutritious, but only when you've had a chance to wash your hands and take a seat.
Needless to say, I was a little grossed out. She just ingested way too much of other people's sneezes, coughs and snot.
Photo Credit: the cosmic cowgirl
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tobi, I accidentally dyed your book blue.
Long story short:I tripped, fell, wasn't feeling well so someone gave me a bottle of water and when I was ready to go I popped the water bottle in my bag.
What I didn't do was put the lid on properly.
So the water dripped out of the bottle, into my pencil case, through my mini blue highlighter and consequently
onto the book I borrowed from Tobi.And now Tobi's book is blue.
The end.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
90s fashions are definitely back!
It's true-- I really believe that 90s fashion (at least the good parts of it) are completely back in style.
Jean jackets. Short floral dresses of [sensible] cotton. Lace shirts. Onesies. Crop tops. Platform wedges and heels with ankle straps [so that you're feet aren't actually dying at the end of a party-packed night). High-waisted (but not obscene) pants, jeans and skirts.
These fashion pieces are all over the place.
At first, I thought it was just a bit of 90s inspiration leaking in, but I'm totally convinced that this summer we're going to re-live 90s fashion.And let's not forget tame, straight, non-extravagant hair and dark lipsticks and nail polish. So serious.
By the way, check out my floral-and-denim combo. I wore this on St. Patty's Day, took the photo and promptly forgot about it until I accidentally opened up Photo Booth.
Jean jackets. Short floral dresses of [sensible] cotton. Lace shirts. Onesies. Crop tops. Platform wedges and heels with ankle straps [so that you're feet aren't actually dying at the end of a party-packed night). High-waisted (but not obscene) pants, jeans and skirts.
These fashion pieces are all over the place.
At first, I thought it was just a bit of 90s inspiration leaking in, but I'm totally convinced that this summer we're going to re-live 90s fashion.And let's not forget tame, straight, non-extravagant hair and dark lipsticks and nail polish. So serious.
By the way, check out my floral-and-denim combo. I wore this on St. Patty's Day, took the photo and promptly forgot about it until I accidentally opened up Photo Booth.
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