@msquebanh We only ever make jelly with black currants - it's like Proust's madeleines for my partner. But we've already made great rhubarb and dandelion soda this year.
À tous les matins que je dépose les enfants à l'école, nous chantons dans nos barbes une 'tite toune que nous avons composé il y a un certain temps déjà :
The article that accompanies the photo - Peter Cheney, "Sex, Rugs and Boogie Vans," Globe and Mail, April 15, 2011 - includes anecdotes from the author, working as a mechanic in #Halifax in the early 80s, of installing a waterbed in one custom, "Playboy mansion" van and a casket in another, vampire-themed van.
I can't be the only one who's vaguely disappointed whenever the original version of Feist's "1234" comes on. Without penguins by the door, what's the point?
It's rhubarb season in that part of northern North America where we live. A family favorite turns waste into wine (OK, syrup). If you're of the rhubarb-peeling persuasion, put the peels in water, bring to a boil, then turn of the heat. After steeping for 30-60 minutes, remove the peels and press as much juice from them as possible. Add an unreasonable amount of sugar and heat again until fully dissolved. Enjoy homemade soda, a cocktail or an ice cream sundae!
My institution - the University of Toronto - just released a remarkably bland statement on the student encampment. It basically says: we know emotions are running high, but please give us time - admin and students are talking. I have no inside information, but on the face of it at least, this is encouraging.
In Ontario, "public spending was still restrained by a frugal government more interested in highway building than higher learning." While one would be forgiven for imagining this is a description of the current provincial government, it actually applies to the province's priorities in the postwar period.
It'd be impossible to come up with any sort of definitive list, especially a short one, of great songs in which Steve Albini was involved. But below are a few, in no particular order that have long appealed to me.
Students at my institution - the University of Toronto - have joined others across the continent in establishing an encampment on campus. Having been rebuffed by the administration in early April, the students continue to call "on the post-secondary institution to divest from assets that 'sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine.'"
My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:
"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."