Monthly Archives: January 2009

notice

January 29 09

so, i’ve been silent for a couple days since we’re moving on the 31st. Let this message serve as notice that Radio Free Halifax is going to maintain radio silence for about another week more.
In other news: i’m about to breach my monthly bandwidth limits because google has uber-indexed all the images on [...]

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University Ave

January 23 09

I’ve been dwelling about this postcard of University Ave that James Boston posted on his Toronto Before website a week or two ago:

I don’t know the year that the pictue was composed, but I know by the skyline that it’s before the late 1950s. This shot was taken at Queen’s Park, looking toward the [...]

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CBC, Twitter, Print Media

January 14 09

This tweet could have made for an excellent argument or essay last term:
http://twitter.com/cbcns/status/1119790416#
From CBC News Online’s “Nova Scotia Bureau”’s twitter feed comes this tweet, “Halifax Chronicle-Herald newsroom waits for axe”.
Interestingly, it is the first tweet by CBC-NS.  I’m sure some one more eloquent than me could turn a phrase or two about the fact that [...]

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little.

January 12 09

i am doing little work tonight when i should be doing a lot.
instead, i’m taking in gossip girl, which is playing on the television in the other room, and killing time with a new curling blog over here.  curling – get swept up in the fun.

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junkie limbo

January 10 09

[some of these video clips may bother some of you.  look out, and mea culpa if you got to it before i got to post this little preface.]
i grew up in the nineties. there are three movies i distinctly remember going to the cinema to watch in that decade. all affected me in [...]

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lists

January 10 09

i love how lists makes one feel efficient.
- woke up v. early this morning, under-slept and mildly hungover (also with a small case of the dreaded post-drinky, post-bad-food gut-rot) and meandered my way to the market. i picked up a tasty cinnamon roll for the pineapples since she loves them so. i don’t [...]

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school bells. hurry hard. bengal lancers on patrol.

January 5 09

There will not be any “curling rocks” jokes, I promise. The same cannot be said for “I’m a curling hack,” though.

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Cavafy, Ithaka

January 2 09

Ithaka gave you the splendid journey.
Without her you would not have set out.

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new year’s day items

January 1 09

Some New Year’s Day items

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