Weblog and Playground of Gord FynesWHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE the release of your new CD than to throw a release party/gig and have your website re-launch. If you’re in the greater Toronto area on Thursday September 16 (tomorrow), c’mon down to Holy Joe’s at the corner of Queen and Bathurst to see the Clark Institute LIVE.
I’ll be the guy behind the drums.
IN CASE YOU’RE LOOKING for something to spend your leftover back-to-school cash on in the way of CDs or DVDs (or both), why not check out this week’s edition of The Brain to give ya some ideas?
FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER GRADUATING from high school, I’ve been thinking about academics again. Not that I’d stopped thinking about it – just never seriously until recently. In the past year, I watched my wife add a certificate from Teacher’s College to her B.A. and go on to get hired with a school board. Another big inspiration was my Mom getting her PhD this past spring, having just turned (number omitted as not to be removed from the family will) years old.
After hemming and hawing all summer – waiting until the last minute to apply only to be advised that it wouldn’t be happening until 2005 at the earliest – I received a call yesterday from the good folks at the University of Toronto’s Woodsworth College letting me know that due to some last minute changes, I would be able to attend my first choice evening course starting this coming Monday.
Monday is Elliot’s first day of kindergarten. It’s also my fifteen year anniversary with the same employer, where I thought I’d be working for just a year before going on to a post-secondary education. As you can tell, I haven’t exactly been rushing to get a degree.
I’ll leave you to extract your own symbolisms (if any). I’m bummed about missing frosh week.
IT’S TIME AGAIN FOR ANOTHER LIST of cool, humorous and interesting points of interest as of late:
* Leet Translator: Way more fun than spelling out 80085 on your calculator.
* Clever Celebrity Love Advice from Brooklyn-based writer, Michael Barrish.
* Directions from Joe Clark.
* What’s your sign? How will this affect my life insurance premiums?
* Mike Nowland‘s take on the marriage of music and mobile technology, Hip Hop and the mixed tape.
* A Murder of Scarecrows: Just play it.
AFTER DISCUSSING POSSBILE TRAVEL PLANS in the near future with friends, I realized that my passport had expired earlier this year. As I’m not the frequent-flyer type, I usually only have to dig it out once a year when travelling to see friends in NYC. (insert deity or spiritual being of choice) help us all should I need to make a last minute booking to, say, Montreal or Halifax with only a driver’s license on my person. It’s one thing to be influenced by current American financial, cultural and to some degree, political trends. Having an influence on one’s mobility at home is just ridiculous.