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That'll teach us to not leave things 'til the last minute

August 31, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Box 48 of 54 was drawn for the TIFF advance draw. Since we’re in box 30 that means we’ll be the 36th box counted, 2/3 of the way back. Could […]

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TIFF

"Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there?"

August 30, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Here’s what we’ve done with our last 24 hours: Went to work. Okay, well, this was mostly me. Just needed to catch up from last week and get a head […]

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Daily life, Food / drink, Movies, TIFF

"Then that Cobain pussy had to come around & ruin it all."

August 29, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

At the end of a long work week I didn’t have much left in me last night, so we met up with CBGB at The Auld Spot for some comfort […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Movies

Shortlisted

August 27, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

From the short list of 28 films we’ve now made our 1st and 2nd choices for the five films we’ll see. Here they are: The Ape (Apan) (tiff) or The […]

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TIFF

I'm in the weeds

August 26, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Have narrowed down the list of TIFF movies from 491(ish) to 60. Nellie also got her list down to 60, and the cross-section between our film lists is a short […]

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TIFF

My favourite songs of the year so far (III)

August 25, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Back in June I dropped my twelve favourite songs of the year so far: neko case . “middle cyclone” the von bondies . “chancer” dan auerbach . “heartbroken, in disrepair” […]

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Music

Useful anger

August 24, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

I’ve written many times before about the West Memphis Three. In case you weren’t paying attention, here’s the nickel version: in 1993 three teenage boys were charged with killing three […]

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Books, Dumbassedness, Movies, Religion

At least I didn't land on Bono

August 23, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

A few days ago Joey DeVilla blogged about the OKCupid politics test and, well…I just can’t resist a blend of politics and charts. Here’s the text the test spit out […]

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Economics, Me, Politics

He likes to annex things

August 23, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment
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Après le deluge, le rose

August 20, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Since CityNews, BlogTO, Torontoist and everybody else are posting dozens of amazing pictures of the storm that slammed Toronto earlier today (and spawned tornadoes around the GTA), I decided to […]

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