Monthly Archives: March 2010

Music Monday – Dan Mangan

Posted on March 29, 2010 by

Longtime readers of my blog (all three of you) will know that I developed an artist crush on Dan Mangan last year.  Since I first heard about him about 18 months ago, he’s released an album, an EP, toured around … Continue reading →

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Music Monday – Mother Mother

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

For my first weekly Music Monday post, I thought I’d keep the alliteration going with a track by Mother Mother.  This B.C. band quickly became one of my favourites during last year’s festival, and while I’m still disappointed that I … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to the Prick Who Hacked My Gmail and Facebook Accounts

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

Dear Prick Who Hacked My Gmail and Facebook Accounts, Wow, I’m impressed.  I don’t know how you did it, but that was very clever the way you hacked into my Facebook and Gmail accounts yesterday.  One account would have been … Continue reading →

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Fulton’s Pancake House

Posted on March 18, 2010 by

Today was my day to stay home with the boys as part of the “March Break Patchwork Daycare Plan”.  Since they’d already been to the Canadian War Museum and the National Gallery (twice) this week, I thought we’d take a … Continue reading →

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Mariinsky and Gergiev

Posted on March 16, 2010 by

Valery Gergiev, conductor Denis Matsuev, piano BERLIOZ Royal Hunt & Storm from Les Troyens RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3intermission SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15 For the second time in two weeks, Ottawa was blessed with a visiting orchestra and a famous … Continue reading →

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