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My childhood best friend, the Cantopop superstar
From left: Mom and me, Ellen, Jamie, circa 1994?
You’d think the title of this post is an exaggeration, but I’m not lying. Her name is Ellen Joyce Loo. See? She even has a Wikipedia page.
When I was nine, we were three — Jamie, Ellen and me. We shared one of those best friend necklace sets [...]
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More on hockey: Whither our golden girls when Games are over?
‘Cause I’m beating this horse good and dead before I move onto another topic to rage about, I wrote about hockey again, this time for my Metro column:
Both our hockey teams struck Olympic gold in Vancouver. The next day, hockey fever raged on for the NHL. But whither the women after the podium is packed [...]
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Okay, so not quite fulfilling my New Year’s resolution to blog once a week
At least not here. But I did, for This Magazine last week, on how hockey is, in its modern incarnation, an elitist and un-Canadian sport. Saying as much is apparently is a kind of controversial thing to do while the nation is stoking its Olympics-fuelled sense of patriotic pride and the men’s Team Canada hockey [...]
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Quick thought about the new Love covers
Quick blog post this afternoon, as my CMS at work is down and thus have been handed a free extended lunch break.
So, have you seen this?
Well, this, 8x.
Love Magazine (y’know, the one that put the outsized, in girth and personality, Beth Ditto on its cover for its first-ever issue) is putting eight naked supermodels on [...]
Someone pass me a salad: the post-#cupcakecampTO post