Category Archives: Nostalgia

Teenanger

By caniceleung | Published: March 14, 2009
Reading about all these super-young bloggers who have fabulous lives and mothers who buy them Chloe purses had me wondering whether any teenager actually leads an awkward, angry existence the way I, and so many of my friends, did. Shame… all the pop cultural nostalgia they’ll have seven years down the road will be… Girl [...]
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Summer

By caniceleung | Published: February 18, 2009
From the Brig last summer — that being Mike’s family cottage on the St. John River in New Brunswick.
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The other kind of newspaper war

By caniceleung | Published: May 26, 2008
John Doyle wrote a great column about the reality of newsrooms today, focusing on MTV’s surprisingly not-vapid reality series The Paper, about an award-winning, ego-driven high school newspaper. You can read it here, if you’re one of the poor suckers that actually bought a Globe Insider subscription. (I’ve attached it behind the cut for the [...]
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Favourite things…

By caniceleung | Published: May 20, 2008
Finding two Shreddies still stuck together side by side, uncut, in your box of cereal. They’re made to be with each other! (Also, can I talk about how much I love the “Diamond Shreddies” ad campaign for this deliciously waffled whole wheat delight? An intern came up with the whole concept. Sometimes I think about going [...]
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The Penultimate Last Show

By caniceleung | Published: January 2, 2008
Spent a good few days in the Maritimes for Risky Business’s last three shows. Here is the second-to-last one at the House of Dogs, the unofficial abode of Haligonian hardcore alumni. For more, go to Former Transformer.
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