The Name Game

I have a terrible affliction. I’m forgetting people’s names and faces. Sometimes I’ll remember one but I rarely can put the combo together. Especially if I meet someone in one context and see them in another. I’m either incredibly rude or, I think, I’ve reached my quota for names and

Highway 61 Revisited

The Rewind Button is a group blogging project instigated by Rachel Tynan. As part of her New Years’ Resolutions for 2012, she set out to listen to Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of all time. Rebecca Stevenson thought it would be fun if a group of bloggers listened to the same

Say Wha?! April Edition Announced

Say Wha?! is a comedy night where engaging and charismatic performers put their comedic spin on some of the most cringe-worthy, embarrassing and painfully earnest writing in print. Say Wha?! has been running monthly for nearly two years and has been a part of the Vancouver Comedy Festival, Olio Festival,

The Rewind Button – Revolver

The Rewind Button is a blogger challenge. We must listen to the Top 40 albums of all time as chosen by Rolling Stone and post our reviews every Thursday. Week 3: The Beatles Revolver.  My boyfriend thinks I’m going about this project completely wrong. “You’re listening to these albums on

Fifty Shades of Say Wha?!

If you missed last night’s Say Wha?! show, you missed my reading of 50 Shades of Grey. There is just too much bad/goodness in this book and too much hype around it not to share it with you, my lovely blog readers. I did live-tweet my reading of the book

Rewind Button – Beach Boys

  The Rewind Button is a group blogging project that I’m participating in. We’re taking on Rolling Stone‘s Top 40 albums of all time and writing our own reviews of them. There will be a new album and review each Thursday. The second album on the Rewind Button blogger’s task is

The Economics of Producing Indie Arts Events

I recently read Misha Glouberman & Sheila Heti’s book “The Chairs Are Where the People Go.” In it there is an essay called “These Projects Don’t Make Money” that really hit home with me. To summarize, the essay talks about Misha’s successful lecture series, Trampoline Hall and how because it

Vancouver Sun Video

Vancouver Sun If you click on that link (or the image above) you will go to a video I did with the Vancouver Sun. Yeah, my WordPress site does not want to imbed this video. But … Say Wha?! the Vancouver Sun, a newspaper, is now doing videos. Way to

The Rewind Button

Yesterday Rebecca Stevenson, a friend and blogger I admire, contacted me to see if I wanted to be a part of a music blogging project. The details were vague but I like her and I like projects. Plus it would get me blogging more, so why not? Then the details were

Humourists: Literally Funny

 Humourist. Definition: A performer or writer of humorous material. As you know, I have a history of producing genre blurring shows: Teen Angst Night, Say Wha?!: Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing. Are they literary nights or comedy shows?  In truth those shows lean towards comedy. Following that tradition but stepping further

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