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Great Atlantic Canadian Trainventure!
As I posted on the social networks earlier tonight, Dara and I will very soon be commencing the formal planning of the Great Atlantic Canadian Trainventure! We are looking at a rough range of dates from July 21st through August 7th, as that’s about as much time off as I can spare and still account…
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Festival du Bois in Maillardville, BC, 3/3/2012
Day 3 of my and Dara’s Grand Four-Day Weekend of Marriage and Music was Festival du Bois! I wanted to go to this pretty much as soon as I found out that there was an entire festival of French Canadian and Acadian music going on the very same weekend we were coming up for Le…
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Anna and Dara get Canada-married, 3/2/2012
This being Part 2, and the biggest part by far, of my and ‘s Grand Four Day Weekend of Marriage and Music! Though that said, it was also actually one of the simplest days of the entire weekend. Here’s the thing, O Internets: if you’ve read Elfquest, you’ll know what I mean when I say…
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Le Vent du Nord at St. James Hall in Vancouver, 3/1/2012
As you know, O Internets, I was extremely eager for my first Le Vent Du Nord show. I’ve been getting ridiculous amounts of glee out of listening to their albums and watching their YouTube videos, and of course, I had the challenge laid down by fellow Le Vent fan Susan that in her considered opinion,…
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Le Vent du Nord concert sneak peek
The full extended play by play concert blog post is on the way, O Internets, but until I get back to my computer and can write it up properly (with pics because OH MY YES got some), let me share with you some prominent highlights! Dara being stunned to be able to use the phrase…
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2012 Book Log #9: Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm, by Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick
My rating: 2 of 5 stars As any good fan of the TV show Castle knows, Nikki Heat is by no means Richard Castle’s first famous character. The show starts off with his concluding his long-running Derrick Storm series, and the particular explosive ending he gives those books is a nice little character development point…
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2011 Book Log #46: The Thirteenth House, by Sharon Shinn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I read Sharon Shinn’s first book in her Twelve Houses series, I found it a bit shaky in its initial chapters, at least till it got its feet under it. I was very pleased to discover that I had no such problem with Book 2, The Thirteenth House.…
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A modest announcement 🙂
For those of you who have not already seen this breaking across Facebook, Google+, or Twitter tonight, and I would like to announce that on March 2nd, we will be getting a Canadian marriage license! We were already planning this before today’s Washington state law signed by Governor Christine Gregoire. In fact, we are planning…
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 4 (post 1 of 2)
It’s been several weekends since I last checked in on this, but here you go, O Internets! The first bit of Chapter 4 of my tri-lingual reread of The Hobbit!
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Album review: N2, by Norouet
Here’s something I’ve come to learn in my explorations of current Quebecois trad bands: Éric Beaudry is apparently in half of them, or at least so it seems! And given my rapidly growing respect for Monsieur Beaudry’s musical prowess, this is as far as I’m concerned all to the awesome. I’ve found references to him…
