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happy birthday Nikola Tesla
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did you know that he was a badass mofo? because he was, before he went all nuts and thought a female pigeon was in love with him.
but nevermind that because he was super cool the whole rest of his life and we're all allowed to go crazy once and a while, right?
I've been a bit obsessed with nikola tesla for a long time and would totally love to go into why in this post but I don't think most of you want to listen to me get a wide-on for a dead scientist so instead let's watch this video that adequately sums up tesla's story and is also hilarious.
I'll just be trolling pictures of him on the internet. no biggie.
I'm only giving you five minutes, blog
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because the minute I stopped moving I felt like lying down and I can't blog while lying on the couch rewatching episodes of sherlock because that benedict cumberbatch is just too damned amazing and distracting for me to actually focus on typing.plus my feet still hurt from folk fest and I'd like to put 'em up asap or perhaps have them rubbed. what's a girl got to do around here to get someone to rub her feet?
wait, don't answer that.
there were lots of peeps walking around the fest with bandaged-up feet because, I assume, they were hoofing it around barefoot and stepped on something sharp which makes my toes curl in a bad way just thinking about it.
I get that folk fest is hippie central but it's still camping and shit still gets all busted and nothing would suck more than having to hang out at first aid instead of around a campfire with your friends.
which is why I crammed my feet into shoes all weekend even though I wanted to frolic barefoot though the dew and the grass, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to weasel a certain someone who just got home into rubbing 'em for me if they were all bandaged up.
sometimes even I think ahead.
Hip Hop Sunday (Post Folk Fest Edition) - K'Naan - Bang Bang
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after an intense three days of
volunteering
sun
sweat (lots of it)
dust
minimal hours of sleep at a time
sore, disgusting feet
grit under my nails
safety patrol
amazing free food
new friends
hugs
exhaustion
and smiles
we're home from Folk Fest
and this is the best act we saw all weekend, first thing on Thursday night after we arrived
so all over the place
some songs were soulful & sweet and moved you
some were catchy & fun
and everyone else that was there with us felt the same way as a result:
amazing.
I'll be at Folk Fest in t-minus two hours(ish)
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I'm still recovering from the shitshow that was red lake falls last weekend
my nose is still burnt
as are my tits
legs
back
basically all of me
and I'm volunteering which means trucking around in the sun for 7hrs
all on top of camping
singing
dancing
eating amazing free folk fest food
drinking
more singing
and maybe sleeping somewhere in there
it's gonna be a whirlwind weekend
but don't forget
even though I'm not always around
I love you.
see you kids on Sunday!
know how I know this isn't my kind of party?
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there are trashy looking girls dancing in a circle around their purses.
I bet you they were listening to skrillex when this photo was taken.
what is the world coming to.
Once upon a time I was 19
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I was living in another province and I was miserable
but didn't realize it at the time.
at the time it seemed like a big adventure, moving away and living with my boyfriend
getting the fuck outta dodge
I had lighter hair and bigger boobs and a shittier attitude
because I was only 19 afterall
and what the heck did I know about life, anyway?
the answer is, apparently nothing at all
good to know some things never change.
Things I learned about America
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the guys at Happy Harry's will carry your liquor to the car for you
some people think it's okay to put anti gay-marriage signs on their front lawns (which really upset me, wtf guys, that is NOT OKAY)
for breakfast they eat biscuits and gravy, except the gravy is actually white sauce with sausage in it
Target is insane
americans camping around a bunch of canadians down for the long weekend will put tiny american flags around their campsite in case there was any confusion as to whether or not they were american
they don't like it when canadian girls take their tits out while tubing
Minnesota doesn't sell alcohol on sundays. AT ALL.
downtown Grand Forks is super cute
there are anti-abortion signs along major highways
they're very sensitive about canadian universal health care
people running campgrounds really like when it's Canada day long weekend and a bunch of rowdy, friendly canadians all come to party
the town of red lake falls reminds me a lot of small towns in ontario
americans love american flags, colours, stars and stripes to the point of excess
and
it's definitely not canada.
Happy birthday to the phone that changed everything
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the iPhone turns 5 today.which means before that we were all stuck with junky flip-phones with shitty resolution, poor internet browsing capabilities (if any) and the thing I despise most about older mobile phones (or almost any RIM product) the keyboard. including me, with my embarrassing lime-green Samsung piece of crap which I traded in for an iPhone the moment I could afford to buy myself out of my contract with my old provider.
which was around the time the iPhone 3G came out.
Tyrone and I stood in line for over six hours outside our local apple store to get ours. I paid through the nose to buy out my old contract and sign to a new contract/phone with rogers. I even made a drunk video of me smashing my old flip phone on the sidewalk.
and now that I have mine I can't go back.
my iPhone is like that chick you dated that made you realize what a complete idoit you were being up until you met her.
all the other women were useless, stupid, ugly.
she's perfection. or as near to it as you can get.
and you're either so in love with her that you'll never be with anyone else, or you'll become completely repulsed by her perfection and need to push her away and go back to the riffraff.
or in the case of mobile phones, you'll go get an android.
(hehe)
so happy birthday iphone.
thank you for letting us all know what the fuck we were missing all this time.
this weekend we're going to the US of A
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no it's not going to visit Tony though I wish I was. we're going to red lake falls to do some tubing and camping and drinking liquor at 1/4 the price that is up here in canadia.
I've only been there once, and even then not really.
when I was a youngster my nan and granddad took us to some town like an hour south of the border (I forget which) where we hung around in parks and had picnics and probably did some cool stuff that I don't remember anymore.
what I do remember is the first night we stayed in a hotel with an indoor pool and my nan was upset that our sliding door looked out onto it because it was loud. I was swimming in the swimming pool and coming up to the ladder to get out some kid pushed me and I slammed my upper lip against my teeth. I had braces at the time and it hurt like a mofo and I got blood in the pool and it was disgusting.
I also remember reading a Babysitter's Club book on a picnic bench while my brothers played in a park. I'd bought this bookmark for 2$ at some tacky souvenir shop where everything was all wood or glass, you know the kind, and it had a fairy on it. I wish I had it now so I could see if it was still as nice as I thought it was.
probably not.
the thing I remember most, though, is having dinner in some restaurant and the waitress turning to my nan and saying "oh where are you guys from?" and my nan replying "oh we're from Canada" in her very, very British accent and the waitress saying
"oh I thought so, I can tell by your accent"
which was my first impression of Americans ever.
but now I'm grown up and have much more complex views of my neighbours to the south and frankly am excited to go down there and party it up a bit.
even though we'll be there for canada day long weekend and will be partying with a bunch of other Canadians who all have the same idea.
but you shhhh about that.
