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My mom gave me some framed awards from her office almost a decade ago. If I remember correctly, they were just going to throw them away. So they were free… FREE! Now, several apartment moves later, I’m finally doing something with em. I’ve been seeing a lot of typographic art around lately and figured I could make my own. Why pay for it?

I played around with the fonts in Illustrator til I found something I liked. I set it all up to print on an 11×17″ paper and moved onto the frames. I deftly removed the business award and matting then eye-balled the placement of my prints in the frame.

How’s that for essentially free art? My favourite is the ampersand.

I can be found at my desk humming bars of this song. Not too loud to disturb my fellow cubicle-dwellers, but probably enough to make them think I’m a bit nuts. But it’s a beautiful song and I can’t help it.

Why did I only just hear about this musical on The Colbert Report last night?!

If you’re not familiar with this guy, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was a Nigerian political activist and revolutionary musician who created Afrobeat. His music is both uplifting and speaks volumes, as I discovered years ago.

I really hope that this show is a success so it may one day come to Montreal. I don’t foresee a trip to NYC in the near future, but it’d be really neat to see this. This, from a person who’s never wanted to see a musical before.

Having just discovered It’s always sunny in Philadelphia, I’ve blazed through 4 seasons, and am all caught up to date, in the span of about 2 weeks. It’s that good.

How to describe it? I’d say it’s younger, wackier and harsher Curb/Seinfeld. My favourite character is Charlie Kelly… check him out. He’s the bestest. Ever. Don’t you think his voice is eerily similar to Aasif Mandvi’s of The Daily Show?

This is a dinner staple; good for after soul-sucking days at the office. Admittedly, I should eat a salad with it but most time I don’t.

I’ve got a decent, cheap, vegan potato & onion pierogi source; the yellow No Name brand at Loblaws. At $2.50 for a package of 30, what’s not to like? Cooking them up is just a simple boiling-water operation. Fry up a bit of onion, and (moderately pricey) Yves Bavarian sausages and you’re good to go. I like to dab just a bit of Earth Balance on all of it with a sprinkle of salt and pepper.