While taking a break from RomCom #2 casting pics, I have been reading up on wineries. The more I research wineries, the more I realise that I should really go on a win tour. There are a number of wineries near here; I could merrily spend the whole day touring, picking the owners' brains and, if time permits, drinking wine. Mmmm, wine.

The ( Read more... )

The plan was to spend the whole weekend writing RomCom version 2.1 - REALLY the end of the plotholes but, alas, my mother sprang a surprise barbeque courtesy of the slimy leech that who freakishly managed to bring Doodle into this world. The surprise part was that the skank he married finally got her greencard & Visa and could thus spread her ( Read more... )

While dawdling researching some fine points for RomCom v.2.0, I came across this interview with the dancer, Joel Hanna. He was three years ahead of me in high school and cultivated a badassitude that couldn't stay annoying because he was just too. Damned. Cute. Wee, but cute.

Had a crush on him about the same time that Riverdance/Lord of the Dance ( Read more... )

I loves my province. I do. I've never experienced half of it but the 1/32th that I have, I bear much love. I even love Vancouver, for all that it's a Prozac-and-marijuana-induced mockery of what rich kids like me think a hippie-goth-cyber-punk-yuppie lifestyle should be. This anon has no such patience. And I love hir for it.

Watching a documentary on Imelda Marcos (insert obligatory spitting of loogie here) reminded me that I've got to vote in a couple of days. More on this fine lady (horrrrk, p'tui) at a later date but I believe my interest in political workings started because of her and her husband's dictatorship when I was a wee one back in the Philippines ( Read more... )

Yesterday, in lieu of being fyrechilde's shopping conscience (a position whose very name precludes meeting quarterly KPI's), we decided to have a culinary adventure. I had a gift certificate burning a hole in my purse so off we went to Granville Island.

The Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts had a Restaurant and Bakeshop & Cafe. Since we didn't make ( Read more... )

You know that show, "The Greatest Canadian?Well, probably not, unless you're Canadian. But, aside from Don Cherry (I didn't know there were that many putzes that could vote in this country), the nominess aren't that bad. I'm torn between Lester "Let's Start a United Nations Peacekeeping Force" Pearson and David "Let's Make Environmentalism Popular ( Read more... )

Canada has its Thanksgiving feast on the second Monday of October, not November. Many will have you believe that this is because Canada's harvest season comes sooner than American but that is utter rubbish. Washington is only 2 hours away from Vancouver and they still have Thanksgiving in November ( Read more... )

Fellow authors, do your first lines also catch you at the most inopportune moments? Remy told me his first line in the middle of the bus ride to work this morning. This might not seem like too much of an inconvenience but the bus drivers downtown all think that they're Indy racers with the narrow, often one-way streets as their race track on the ( Read more... )

This newsreport from the Calgary Sun is further support to my theory of why Canadians need never fear destruction from other countries; we do fine by ourselves, thank you. Why attack a country whose biggest exports are Pamela Anderson's left and right breasts (OK, so half of her is American plastic now) when they do small stupid things like hit the ( Read more... )