welcome.

What's up and what's going down, organised according to the unholy triumvirate of work live and play.

So what's new, you ask? Well...

• Links to photos from our trip to Africa on the family page, and a write-up-in-progress on the places page
• A new Dinner of the Decade, and a new page of Vegan recipes on the food page
• A new theatre review: Brock Simpson: Lust's Labour's Lost: A Rock Musical
• A new music review: The Go! Team: Theunder Lightning Strike
• Just added a page of funding info for aspiring filmmakers to the Review
• I got married!!
• There are Lobola photos too
• Two new links on the shop page
• A new essay linked on the work page
• Another new recipe: a festive Bûche de Noël with chestnut purée.
• A new menu on the Dinner of the Decade page
• For those who don't check in every day: you can now join the mailing list by clicking here to send me a blank email with SUBSCRIBE in the subject header. You'll receive rare and infrequent emails when something exciting happens.
• A new short story linked on the work page
• A new roadtrip, on the roadtrip page.
• A new film review: Randall Cole: 19 Months
• Another new endeavour: the postcard project launches at random in a mailbox near you.
• A new project itch: the reading series launches tonight at the Gladstone Hotel Art Bar.
• A new essay linked on the work page
• New humour linked on the work page, and new friends on the friends page
• New on the work page: I was published in McSweeneys!
• I just received a grant from the Toronto Arts Council to finish the novel I started during National Novel Writing Month! I'll be keeping a diary of my progress in the Review!
• Summer's over, and the weekly review rant has returned!
• New rants! Every Monday! I'm back!
• Also, new pals linked on the friends page
• A new essay linked on the work page
• A new story linked on the work page
• A new rant, every Thursday evening
• I'm fixing up the friends' photos page, so it won't take forever to load (and send me over my transfer limit)
• For the month of November, the weekly review rant chronicles my attempt to write a novel in a month! Updated regularly (like two or three times a week)!
• Also, I'm going to give the National Novel Writing Month Diary its very own page
• A new film review: P.T. Anderson: "Punch Drunk Love"
• A new essay linked on the work page
• A new book review: Jonathan Ames: My Less Than Secret Life
• A new book review: Thisbe Nissen's The Good People of New York
• Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, Canada, Toronto, Queen West, Jennifer, Female, 26-30!
• New! I went to Montréal for the weekend, and got stuffed
• A new film review: a trio from Hot Docs
• A new film review: Neil Labute's Nurse Betty
• More additions to the family photo album
• New! The long awaited Gobbler saga is on the places page
• Another new picture in the family photo album
• New! Roadtrips on the places page
• And more silly tests stuff page
• New addition to the résumé
• A new picture in the family photo album - great-grandmother watkins
• More new tests and quizzes
• A new book review: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
• A new film review: David Weaver's Century Hotel
• New book reviews: True crime
• New pictures in the friends photo album
• A new dance review: an hommage to Pina Bausch
• A new theatre review: Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead
• A new rock review on the going out page
• A new picture in the family photo album
• Another addition to my humble résumé
• The small press resource has been given its own page
• A new film review: David Fincher's Fight Club
• New pictures in the friends photo album
• New stuff on the party page
• A new theatre review: Marivaux's The Triumph of Love
• In the interests of science: stats
• More new links
• Another addition to my humble résumé
• A new book review: Lawrence Krauser's Lemon
• More stuff. It's getting very silly indeed
• I'm good. I'm so good. New stuff in each section: work, live, and play. New film links, new friend links, and a new book review.
• And I updated Greg's page, too
• An addition to the places page: link to the ADHS reunion site!
• As promised, more recipes
• More new additions to the family photo album, as well as a new link on the family page, and a new photo of friends, and something new to shop for...
• New links, and a new book review
• The nasty morons who run geocities disabled my old guestbook without telling me. Grr. Anyway, I've installed the ultra-lame new guestbook they offer. So write stuff in it! Please!
• Finally, a new addition to the family photo album!
• More new links, especially for the etiquette-challenged (ahem)
• New links, and I have succumbed to greed...
• Finally, something new to add to my humble résumé
• A new film review: Gary Burns' Waydowntown
• A new theatre review: Canstage's The Doll House
• A new theatre review: Tarragon's Liquor Guns Karate
• I inspire poetry (actually, that's not new, but this specific poem is)
• A new chapter in the family history, which my charming mother translated into html for me...
• A new film review: Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark
• I have almost mastered the habit of regularly updating my little online journal, believe it or not. New mumbling every Monday. don't expect deep personal revelations, though
• A new rant in the review, and it's Mo'pix this week, so I'll have more film reviews soon
• New link on the stuff page, which only my family (especially Rosemary) will understand
• A new film review: Mike Hodges' Croupier
• A new book review: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
• New links on the food page
• I also added a sitemap
• I have revamped the review and added links to stuff
• I've moved my Greg McConnell stuff to a separate page
• Finally getting the family tree online
• Just added a review of last week's Stratochief cd release party to the going out page
• The review is growing; just added Zadie Smith's White Teeth to the books page. More to come
• New links to the best Hello Kitty site ever, and interior-design tips for Bob Guccione wannabes.
• I've added a couple of new music links.
• Another friend joined the twenty-first century, and made Serena a star.
• The infamous stuffed camel recipe.
• I think I have the guestbook working finally. So write stuff in it! Please!

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