Archive for January, 2009

A few things I'm 'reading'

Jan 29, 2009 in Style

I’ve been spending a lot of time checking out a couple of great photo blogs and I just thought I’d share them with all of you.

First there’s things that have caught the eye of stylish Brooklynite ‘James’ on Secret Forts. His itemized outfit breakdowns rivals anything in any of the fashion mags.

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Someone with an equally sharp eye is set designer Cerre. The organic minimalism of 2 or 3 things I know

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is a constant pick-me-up.

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Yeah, that’s Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot. Boys, I hope that made your day. Girls, I’ll pass along something nice next time.

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More vintage bike action

Jan 28, 2009 in Style

Inspired by ACL’s post, I thought I’d point out to this series of photos from the 1952 Yale-Vassar bike race. While these photos are more than five decades old, things look like they haven’t changed much. There’s plenty of drinking, flirting and tomfoolery.

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All photos by Yale Joel from Google’s Life Archive.

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Jan 28, 2009 in Style

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A breathtaking post from ACL of a gaggle of London’s finest dressers on vintage bikes.

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I talk books on the National Post's books podcast

Jan 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

One of the nice things about my job is that they let us jump in and tackle projects that we’re really passionate about. For my co-worker Karen Hawthorne it’s food writing. The Big Chill ipod The Rudolph Red-Nosed Reindeer movie download

For me it’s books. Brad Frenette, our Arts online editor, has asked me to join in the National Post Books Podcast and I’m more than happy to oblige.

In this episode we do an early, early preview of this spring’s book releases. download Legally Blondes

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The Guardian's 1000 novels you must read

Jan 24, 2009 in Books

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Blood Simple. move The Guardian, which has one of the best book sections of any newspaper, has come up with this list of 1000 novels you must read. They’ve broken it up into seven categories; everything from love to war.

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I’ve read 83 of the books, which is a tad disappointing, but can probably be chalked up to the fact that I read a lot more non-fiction now and don’t just sit around reading old books and writing about them anymore. I’m more likely to sit around reading new books and writing about them.

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Two really oddly-related celebrity deaths

Jan 23, 2009 in On-line

Long-time sci-fi actors Bob May and John Scott Martin died this month. At first glance both these men have little in common. But both were responsible for bringing to life two very famous sci-fi characters, Lost in Space’s Robbie the Robot buy Society Dog Show and the Daleks in the Doctor Who franchise. Yep. These two men spent hours pushing around these plywood creations and probably didn’t get much credit for them.

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In honour of both these fine men, uhm, here’s a video of a Dalek being harassed by a house cat.

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Jan 23, 2009 in On-line

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Three Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members are on Twitter! But sadly, no Worf. I think he’s too busy picking on mutants on Heroes.

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Happy fifth birthday to the Amateur Gourmet

Jan 21, 2009 in On-line

While I was recovering from having my wisdom teeth yanked out of my mouth I stopped reading food blogs. I learned my lesson from the first time I couldn’t eat solid food (a bike accident) and decided to read Kitchen Confidential. All of that talk about grilling steak and preparing food drove me batty. So this time around I decided to stay away from Smitten Kitchen, the Kitchn Beer for My Horses film The Mutant Chronicles The Devil’s Rejects release and all those other food blogs that I love so much.

Turns out that I missed the fifth anniversary

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of one of my favourite blogs, the Amateur Gourmet. Adam Roberts, who runs the AG, gave up a career as a lawyer to become a writer and found himself starting up his blog five years ago. The blog is accessible for even the most novice of cooks (e.g. Me!) and shows off his general joie de vivre and willingness to tackle almost anything food related.

So happy birthday Mr. Roberts. Keep on cooking!

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Photo Break: Inaugurals past

Jan 21, 2009 in Photo break

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Jan 20, 2009 in politics

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