Dec
31
A personal year-end survey
2:10 pm | Leave a Comment
Shamelessly stolen from Jenna’s Facebook page:
1) Where did you begin 2007?
At a fine party on Montrose.
2) What was your status by Valentine’s Day?
Single. Most likely freezing cold. (Unrelated)
3) Were you in school anytime this year?
Nope.
4) How did you earn your money?
Editing news stories, laying out pages, writing headlines and other display copy, writing the odd […]
Dec
23
Putting together a Top 10 albums list is always a challenge, but that’s one of the reasons I like doing them. It seems as though the criteria I use to rate the albums changes from year to year: sometimes you want your list to reflect the times, sometimes you can’t ignore a popular or influential […]
Dec
11
In today’s National Post, the feature story in Arts & Life is a package of CD reviews meant to inspire gift ideas. Among them are three that I wrote: reviews of Grand Analog’s Calligraffiti, Beirut’s The Flying Club Cup and Jens Lekman’s Night Falls on Kortedala. Have a read; the whole package is pretty good.
The […]


