So it turns out the smartest person in Canada is an offensive lineman for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.According to a two-hour CBC reality/game show that tested "six areas of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences: linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, musical and interpersonal ( Read more... )

I was on the bus this morning (yay, end of transit strike) and was looking at Facebook on my Blackberry. I found this, and now everyone on that route is wondering who that woman was who kept giggling to herself:


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I am some grateful I'm not walking to work in this. With the windchill, it's more than twenty-five degrees below freezing (Celsius) and that, my friends, is cold for Halifax ( Read more... )

I got cable last summer, after having been without for more than a dozen years. TV has changed a lot in that time. There are whole new genres of reality TV ( Read more... )

This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving. Normally I go to my parents' place for the weekend, but the rest of the family is out west at my brother's place for the holiday. It's not a time of year when I can get days off, and BC is a long way to go for dinner. However, a friend from library school (one of the Harry Potter movie gang) had to come ( Read more... )

So over the weekend I dropped in at Old Navy again, to see if they had the winter-weight cargoes I like in stock. They didn't, so I tried a couple of other similar pairs on, to establish what size I should order online ( Read more... )

I seem to have vanished again--well, at least from LJ. Shameful confession: I have been writing frantically and neglecting all other aspects of my online life... but I've been writing fanfic. Like, seventy thousand words of it so far this summer ( Read more... )

So a week or so ago I finally got my act together and bought Iron Man. I really enjoyed Iron Man II last summer and I'm not sure why I missed the first installment ( Read more... )

Some kind soul has cropped just the Owen Wilson impersonation out of that TIFF interview and posted it:

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(Setup: Woody Allen wanted to keep the plot of Midnight In Paris a secret at least until Cannes, so when Tom got his pages he realized he was playing F. Scott Fitzgerald, but not that the story involved time-travel. Owen Wilson explains things

Interview with Tom Hiddleston at the Toronto International Film Festival.

It's over eleven minutes long, and for the most part it's quite a nice little interview.

And then, at about the nine-minute mark, Tom breaks into an impersonation of Owen Wilson, and it rapidly becomes the greatest interview ever.