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Mentioned in the Globe and Mail

While in Boston, I got an rather excited call from my friend Anne, who told me that I got mentioned in the Focus section of Saturday’s edition of the Globe and Mail (Canada’s National Newspaper that doesn’t secretly want us to be annexed by the U.S. ). On page F6, there’s a quick writeup of Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs, a collection of blog entries in which my “New Girl Story” appears.

Here’s what was written:

Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs, edited by Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton, Apress, $17.99 (U.S.)

This best-of collection nicely captures the voyeuristic appeal of
“web logs” — blogs — with a selection of entries as international as
the World Wide Web. Canada is well represented with strong pieces by
Toronto blogger Joey de Villa, better known as Accordian [sic] Guy, and expat
Vancouverite Dean Allen, who now lives in France (with a woman who fell
in love with him via his blog).

The writeup was written by Globe and Mail writer/editor Carol Toller, whom I now like to think of as my unofficial PR agent at the paper: earlier this year, she republished the Longing and Shorting entry in the Our Town section.

Mondo thanks, Carol!

(Psst! It’s spelled “accordiOn”, not “accordiAn”.)

 

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No, I don’t get any kickbacks for each copy sold. I got a nice little honorarium, though.

 

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I’ll be at Clery’s tonight

I arrived in Boston at 10:30 this morning, took the subway to the Berkman Center, where I’ve been hanging out as The Redhead
worked. The weather here’s pretty nice and warm, and I hope it inspires
my friends and friends-to-be in Boston to catch up with me tonight at Clery’s (near Back Bay station, not far Copley Square) at 8 for drinkin’, accordionin’, conversin’ and eatin’.

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“Six Clicks” Revisited

Last week, I posted an entry about how easy it is to import your Movable Type or TypePad blog’s entries into Blogware (the full “Six Clicks” article is on the Blogware site). I got a comment from The Blog Sceptic,
who had some suggestions, the biggest one being that Tucows should
“ditch the reseller route” and sell Blogware as its own product,
directly to users.

Boss Ross has a reply, in which he explains why we sell Blogware to ISPs and resellers rather than directly to end users.

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In case you missed it…

…be sure to check out the entry YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SCORE MAKE YOUR TIME, which is getting some interesting comments. If you haven’t voiced an opinion and you’re dying to, feel free to comment!

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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Smoke ’em while you got ’em

On June 1st — that’s less than two weeks away — Accordion City’s bars, billiard halls, bingo palaces, casinos and racetracks go smoke-free.

I’m looking forward not to depriving my friends of thier little
sucker’s habit (and it is a sucker’s habit, despite their protestations
and misguided belief that they are some kind of oppressed minority),
but to the ability to breathe inside bars and clubs, lower dry cleaning
bills and no longer getting burned by some fool accidentally butting
out on me.

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Boston Bound


Me and The Redhead. It’s good to be the king.

Tomorrow, I fly out to Boston to visit The Redhead. There’s a gathering tomorrow night at Clery’s for beer and dinner — feel free to drop by!


Gotta love how straightforward Boston food cart signage is. They also have carts marked “COOKED MEAT” and “LIQUID IN CANS AND BOTTLES”.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SCORE MAKE YOUR TIME


“Round-eye will pay. Ooooh yes, round-eye will pay.” What this man needs is an accordion.

An Asian dude by the name of Wesley has a site called Stuff That Is Awesome, and on it, he’s publsihed a bitter, funny and at least partly-true essay called The Curse of the Asian Man. It may help explain why Details’ Gay or Asian? puff piece garnered so much ire.

Go give it a look. I love the illustrations he included:


It’s true: in fact, the next items on the “To-Do” list in my iCal are “Avenge death”, followed by “Pick up dry cleaning”.

I stumbled across this entry after seeing this entry in Richard’s Just a Gwai Lo, which took me to this entry in Karl’s La Grange, which in turn took me to the asian asymmetry entry in Joseph’s Goatee, which also points to this entry in Nora’s blog, Au Jus, in which she writes:

i’ve never really thought of dating other asians just from pure lack of
them in my community. when i was a kid it was really important to fit
into the white community so white was the standard of attractiveness.
sometimes i find myself wishing i were single so i could deny the whole
white male power thing (not that my SO is the epitome of white power
[snort]). sometimes i’m tired of being a part of the asian female/white
male couple cliche. sometimes it feels like i’m trying to live some
sort of jungle fever in reverse thing. sometimes i want to refute the
whole idea of “look at how accepted i am! look how i fit in! i can even
date white boys now!” maybe i should sign up to get a date with william hung.

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