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Myths, Legends, and Famous Red Hair
My red hair isn’t something to which I’d given much thought before I visited “gingerist” Britain. The bizarre hostility I encountered there was eye opening. This article covers redhead facts, and while I’m not keen on the writing style, some of the trivia is pretty cool. Russian tradition declares that red hair is both a [...]
No Titanic Panic
This is an interesting article about, essentially, herd mentality and social mores. Well worth a read. As the Titanic was sinking and women and children climbed into lifeboats, the cellist and violinist from the ship's band stood and played. They died when the ship went down. Men stood on the deck and smoked cigars. They [...]
Music is Life
For three years of my university life, I worked at Toronto’s best record store. To this day, it’s the worst-paying but most fun job I’ve ever had. Everyone gets excited when they talk about the music they love.
A Man Escaped
If you haven’t seen the amazing Bresson film, you should. I first saw it in my Film 101 class at UofT, where my classmates had a habit of talking through every goddamn movie, Citizen Kane included. When A Man Escaped was shown, though, you could’ve heard a pin drop. Sadly, this was also the case [...]
Edison’s Canadian Connection
Random fact of the day: Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–96, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada)… His father had to escape from Canada because he took part in the unsuccessful Mackenzie Rebellion of [...]
Nabokov’s Butterfly
Random Wikipedia fact of the day: The Karner Blue [butterfly] was first identified and named by novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karner_Blue
St Roch’s Dog
A random Facebook post led me to read up on Saint Roch, or Saint “Does this look infected?”, as I’ve been calling him since seeing his statue in a Paris museum. Roch’s claim to fame was in a miracle escape from plague, assisted by a local mutt: …he would have perished had not a dog [...]
Pay It Forward
Two years ago, a woman walked into the Corner Perk coffee shop in Bluffton, South Carolina and paid for a cup of coffee with a hundred dollar bill. She asked the barista to use the change to pay for other people’s orders as they came in. This surprising act of generosity to strangers spun into [...]
James Hunter
A new friend and I have been bonding over music – his, specifically, as he’s got a huge selection of vinyl and some truly quality taste. He introduced me to James Hunter the other week, and I was immediately taken with it: I love 1950s soul. Imagine my surprise, then, when friend informs me that [...]
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