• A bit of musical squee!

    A bit of musical squee!

    And now, several moments of musical squee from last night! In a move that should surprise absolutely NOBODY who pays attention to what I post for more than five minutes running, a little part of my brain demanded last night, “YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE CHORDS TO VIVE L’AMOUR NOW.” Because y’all knew this…

  • Look what I got! :)

    Look what I got! 🙂

    Y’all remember my and Dara’s friends maellenkleth and siestabear, right? The fine ladies with whom Dara and I snagged us an encore from Le Vent du Nord last year? Well, they scored themselves some of the super-fancy deluxe backstage tickets to a Great Big Sea show on the current tour–AND! Because they love me and…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 11

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 11

    After another pause, I finally bring you Chapter 11 of The Hobbit, “On the Doorstep”! All prior Hobbit re-read posts can be found here. Let’s get started, shall we?

  • Album review: Errance, by Bon Debarras

    I give an awful lot of fangirling time to Le Vent du Nord, De Temps Antan, and the Charbonniers, it’s true–but there is a lot more to be found in the genre of Quebecois trad, and I’ve got quite a few other groups represented in my collection at this point. One of these is Bon…

  • The entire Victoria trip, part 2: Saturday

    The entire Victoria trip, part 2: Saturday

    This being the writeup + photos post for what Dara and I did in Victoria earlier this month, on Saturday the 5th! Aside from going to see Le Vent du Nord, that is, which of course I covered already. 😀 The previous post of this set, for Friday the 5th, is here!

  • The entire Victoria trip, part 1: Friday

    The entire Victoria trip, part 1: Friday

    I already went on at considerable length about the general awesomeness of seeing Le Vent du Nord perform at Hermann’s Jazz Club. And of course, y’all also know about my newly christened mammoth! But I’ve been reminded that I did not in fact give you a proper writeup of the weekend as a whole. And…

  • In which Anna has something to say about breast cancer

    In which Anna has something to say about breast cancer

    Because another of these appears to be going around Facebook again, Internets, it’s time for me to do another post on the topic of “Please Leave Anna Out of These Status Update Games”. Somebody just tried to loop me into one of these again. I’ve already privately PMed her about that, and this post is…

  • New Valor of the Healer giveaway starting RIGHT NOW!

    New Valor of the Healer giveaway starting RIGHT NOW!

    The fine folks at Carina Press are promoting me today, with some tweets and Facebook posts going up! The first of the promo tweets just went up a little while ago, and it should surprise exactly NONE OF YOU that this is what it says: Now, this is all very well and lovely (and in…

  • Le Vent du Nord at Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria BC, 4/6/2013

    Le Vent du Nord at Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria BC, 4/6/2013

    I made absolutely no secret of how crushed I was, Internets, when I missed Le Vent du Nord’s Oregon show this past November. And I was quite disappointed as well when the symphony show in Vancouver was cancelled. But tonight, I am thrilled to report that the show at Hermann’s Jazz Club in Victoria, BC,…

  • The challenge before you: name this mammoth!

    The challenge before you: name this mammoth!

    I will be doing a full weekend report when I get back to an actual keyboard, but for the time being I must report that Dara and I did in fact make it to the Royal BC museum in downtown Victoria. We did not do it nearly enough justice, considering how little time we spent…