wolfie mozart and humphrey bogart and genghis khan and on to h. g. wells

[primroseburrows]

• Best quote I've heard in a long time: "I'm not saying he's lost his mind. I'm saying only that I wouldn't draft him in a sanity fantasy league" --Keith Olbermann, about Glenn Beck.
  
  
• Healthcare is like water; it should be given free of charge to everyone. Meaning no one--not me, not Bill Gates, not the homeless guy at the bus station--should have to pay for basic healthcare other than through appropriate taxes. And I really, really don't mind if my taxes go up to make it happen. Because healthcare, like water, should be controlled by the people, not the corporations.
  
  
• I've noticed myself becoming more skeptical about everything recently. Life, death, taxes, you name it. I also notice myself sounding more like a socialist all the time. If I had to label myself, I'd be a Social Democrat, which is not a socialist, no matter how much Social Democrats USA may say it is. Also, if the NDP ever decided to open up a US branch, I'd carry their card.
  
  
• Rachel Maddow/Chris Hayes would be an interesting RPF. It would be like almost reverse slash, or something. It wouldn't be slash, but it wouldn't be entirely het, either. Yes, I know I'm weird.
  
  
• Why didn't anyone tell me that Justin Bieber is Canadian (I guess it's because it's not something people go around randomly announcing)? This means he's eligible for inclusion in C6D. I find this scary somehow. And he's not just Canadian, he's from Stratford. I'm torn between being intensely curious and really not wanting to know what some C6D fannish-types could do with this information.
  
  
• My daughter's goldfish is named Justin Bieber (this is irony, people, not teenybopperism). She also really wants to go to Niagara Falls in the spring. Curiouser and Curiouser.
  
  
• I've been in Toronto in the winter and have not since been burning with desire to repeat the trip. I'm doing it anyway. as;dflhasdf.
  
  
• I love this vid. This song was a B-side, but IMO it was the best one on the record:
  
  
  
  
  
• Icon mostly unrelated to post. I use it because I can.

Comments

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

I WILL SEE YOU IN TORONTO FOR HUUUUUUUUUUGH!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE GOING????? YAAAAAY!!!! Bring brochures. :D

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

You bet, honey!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I usually stay at Clarence Castle, which is a beautiful, spotless (and incredibly affordable) place. It has both dorms and single rooms and is right downtown near everything. It's not so near the concert, though, which from what I see is on the water; however, the TTC goes everywhere.

It's very hard to believe that at one point I hated Toronto. What I really hate is driving in Toronto, so I don't do it anymore. The city itself gets more awesome every time I go.

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that looks like a nice place. And I think I am driving so I will have my car.

why don't I have a toronto icon?

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

If we could get four people and commandeer a four-bed dorm, it would cost each of us like thirty bucks per night. Or, y'know, four people could also split a hundred-buck-a-night hotel room.

Which way do you drive? We could meet up somewhere and then drive into Toronto. I won't drive in T.O., but I have no problem with riding with someone else who is. :D Although we'll definitely have to do the TTC at some point, just because it's there.

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

Actually, until CanCon, I'd only been to Toronto in the winter. Eeeep. The wind off the lake is enough to peel your facial skin.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I've only been to Cape Breton in the winter. I really want to go in the summer (or even better, the fall).

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Y'know, if we hadn't been friends for so long, informing me that Justin Bieber was under your cut would definitely have functioned as a deterrent rather than an invitation to click. ;-)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Hehee. It scared me, too.

[luzula]

I am not actually a Headstones fan, but I am sighing in envy anyway, just for the gathering of fangirls that will take place.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I'm not as fangirlish about the Headstones as some, but I love them and honestly never expected them to reunite, ever. Also, yay for fangirls!

[exbex.livejournal.com]

My students, both males and females, hate Justin Bieber and speak of him as if he's Satan or something. I find this hilarious. Of course I have yet to google him and figure out who he is.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

He's a 16-year-old kid who was discovered on YouTube and now has Beatlemania-level crowds of girls (and some gay boys, I'd wager) following him and going to his concerts. Beats me how I missed he was from Stratford. I guess I'm just not in with the Bieber Fever crowd *g*.