I do want to highlight three new additions to the blog roll. Three women whose friendship and intellect I’ve enjoyed over the years. In no particular order.

Without a Yard

Meghan Warby is probably one of the smartest (and probably coolest) PR people I know. Hell, if more flacks were like her, journalists wouldn’t be annoyed by them so much. She doesn’t just get social media, she thinks about how all that Facebooking, tweeting, blogging can be used for good. The fact that she knows all the cool music and can shake it on the dance floor are also pretty damn hot.

Through the Looking Glass

My former co-worker Sarah Millar is one hardworking, dedicated journalist and an inspiration for any young journalists out there who are despairing about their career or the industry. The fact that she earned the respect and admiration of a roomful of boys at the National Post sports department also counts for a lot.

Canadian Girl Out and Aboot

Journalist and poet Alexis Kienlen has a pretty sweet life and I’ve always admired how after a long day of journalism she manages to find time teaching writing to teenagers. Also her dispatches from the heart of Canada’s food industry are fascinating reading.

Rannie Turingan has taken some amazing panoramas with his iPhone (!) and the panorama app:

• Point of No Return movie

Point of Entry full movie

There’s more on his Flickr feed

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Jodi at Cursive Mechanic bakes up a delicious Lemon Meringue pie. While Beth has been making salad, soup and then some.

My friends at Worn started a Tumblr blog.

Zoe sings Sarah McLachlan at Twuneup.

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@ZoeSasha covering Possession from photojunkie on Vimeo.

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Cousin Simone makes some adorable hair accessories Crank move .

And what about me you ask? Blogging up a storm on the Afterword and I have a secret project that a few people know about that I’m unveiling soon.

• The Exterminator full
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa the movie

Bottle Rocket trailer buy A Good Time for a Dime

Humanity’s End movie

I’m of the age where some of my friends are getting married and having kids. It’s lovely. One of them is my friend Ed Keenan, editor at Eye Weekly, one of my first mentors in Toronto and all around great guy.

The fact that he’s married to Rebecca and has two (right?) lovely kids makes me pretty darned happy. Rebecca blogs at Playground Confidential

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. I’m sure all of you parents can share stories with her. All of you non-parents, myself included, can just read and take notes

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But I’m going to point out to some of the amazing things my friends (and one distant family member) have been up to:

My cousin Simone points us to amazing Korean-designed items from the MOMA store. download Abandoned

• Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy film

Former co-worker David George-Cosh reminisces about Canada’s best live venue, the Phog Lounge in Windsor, Ont. While another one teaches us how to make chai The Chair full , real actual home-made chai!

Shrek 2 film My friends at Spacing are on the ‘radio.’ Actually they launched a podcast.

Driven full movie

Finally, literary pals Evan Munday and Ian Daffern make a series of videos for the new Jon Paul Fiorentino book, Stripmalling.

Watch the first episode below:

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I don’t seem to have many of you on the RSS reader and I’m pretty sure you internet-savvy lot blog often.

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• The Carnival full movie

  Alligator II: The Mutation hd

• Fist of Fury (aka Chinese Connection) hd First Men in the Moon dvd

Behind Enemy Lines: Axis of Evil film Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot film The Aviator dvdrip

• Albino Farm movie download

He takes excellent photos and is a swell guy. He’s also got a special right now on portraits ($50). So if any of you need fancy schmancy shots of yourself (a gift for Grandma? Headshots for an actor friend? or just for fun) drop him a line. Here’s a sampling.