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shing my teeth she would leap up on the counter and stick her head right in my face for the purpose of sniffing my breath eventually i figured out that she was absolutely crazy for the smell of my mint toothpaste crazy yes crazy like an addict she couldn t get enough tomorrow hrh invents the minty breath game and trains me in its rules posted by debra she who seeks at 08 05 1 comment labels hrh s adventures saturday 25 july 2009 a royal decree it has not escaped the attention of her royal highness who keeps track of such things that there has been no specific mention of her royal self on this blog since april 7th well over three months ago she has instructed me to remedy this oversight immediately therefore stay tuned for a three part series on hrh s favourite pastime viz the minty breath game tomorrow hrh displays some odd behaviour posted by debra she who seeks at 07 22 2 comments labels hrh s adventures friday 24 july 2009 lunar travel tip it s a little known fact that neil armstrong said this on the moon too but nasa conveniently didn t broadcast it hey maybe i could start my very own conspiracy theory about the lunar landing to go along with the it was all a big hoax one posted by debra she who seeks at 06 40 no comments labels vehicular funnies thursday 23 july 2009 a differing viewpoint about lunar exploration what can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves this is the most important of all voyages of discovery and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous thomas merton posted by debra she who seeks at 06 42 2 comments labels spirituality wednesday 22 july 2009 moby dick update 2 so i m up to chapter 52 now captain ahab has nailed a gold coin to the mast as a reward for the first man who spots moby dick and they re officially off to hunt the great white whale woo hoo let the mayhem begin but as i read chapter after chapter my basic reaction to melville s writing style is wtf first this book is a novel then it s a textbook and a darn dry one at that next it turns into a play with stage directions and scripted dialogue including lengthy soliloquies and asides just when you think it can t get any stranger a musical breaks out featuring singing and dancing sailors from around the world then it goes back to being a novel again i mentioned previously that in my opinion melville could have used a good editor his erratic style confirms it but hey who am i to argue with genius when moby dick was first published in 1851 it received decidedly mixed reviews as stated by wikipedia in fact a british critic at the time said that the book was an ill compounded mixture of romance and matter of fact the idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition hmmm precisely lego moby dick crew by the brothers brick posted by debra she who seeks at 06 44 1 comment labels moby dick tuesday 21 july 2009 rodeo queens my rare one has gone rodeoin no it s true one of her young nieces in manitoba absolutely adores barrel racing so my rare one has gone to schlep her and her horse around the competition circuit of various small town fairs have fun girls turn and burn posted by debra she who seeks at 06 34 2 comments labels sports monday 20 july 2009 july 20 1969 forty years ago today the first human being walked on the moon i remember watching that grainy black and white footage on television over and over again listening to neil armstrong screw up his carefully scripted historic remark so that it made no logical or semantic sense one small step for man one giant leap for mankind instead of one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind d oh everyone was so excited by the lunar landing every kid i knew dreamed of growing up to be an astronaut no wait that s not entirely accurate now that i think of it every boy i knew dreamed of that girls didn t because we were told that only boys could be astronauts oh yes it s coming back to me now that era so how sweet it is that on the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing our own canadian astronaut julie payette is currently in orbit with the latest space shuttle mission posted by debra she who seeks at 06 31 1 comment labels down memory lane i am woman hear me roar sunday 19 july 2009 gone fishin with the boys be back tomorrow i promise dear god what s that big white leviathan over there posted by debra she who seeks at 08 10 no comments labels moby dick saturday 18 july 2009 nom nom nom in the peg gunn s bakery another north end winnipeg institution is gunn s bakery on selkirk avenue it s a family run business brothers fivie and bernie gunn are pictured above be sure to take a number as soon as you walk in the door because there will be a lot of customers before you everything gunn s bakery makes is good but when i lived in winnipeg they were especially known for their bagels they made real bagels boiled and baked dense and chewy unfortunately a big bite so to speak was taken out of their bagel business by the popularity and easy availability of all the pseudo bagels produced by today s supermarket chains and restaurants like real canadian bagel those fake bagels are really just regular baked buns with a hole in the centre feh twenty years ago the gunns also had a bakery cafe in downtown winnipeg that served light lunches featuring all their own breads and baking of course they served a wonderful cream of broccoli soup in a pumpernickel bread bowl which you would then eat as well my mother loved this special treat as did my sister and i and we would go there whenever she visited the city the cafe is gone now and my mom is frail and immobilized in a nursing home how i wish we could wave a magic wand go back in time and enjoy our favourite winnipeg lunch together once again just like the old days posted by debra she who seeks at 07 00 1 comment labels my winnipeg friday 17 july 2009 why edmonton hates mordecai richler in the mid 1980s the edmonton oilers ruled the hockey world and so mordecai richler the great canadian author came to edmonton to interview wayne gretzky the great oilers captain as wikipedia says richler delighted in acerbic journalistic commentary and the role of contrarian provocateur this is what richler wrote about edmonton in his article if canada were not a country however fragmented but instead a house vancouver would be the solarium cum playroom an afterthought of affluence toronto the counting room where money makes for the most glee montreal the salon and edmonton the boiler room edmontonians have hated him ever since for this insult to their civic pride when richler died in 2001 every newspaper article in the city picked at the scab once again and implied that richler would not be missed in this neck of the woods i think richler s insult stung so much because there was a certain degree of truth to it compared to other canadian cities edmonton did not boast a lot of beautiful historic buildings spectacular architecture or sophisticated neighbourhoods although great strides have been made in the 25 years since richler s cruel assessment significant parts of edmonton are still quite pedestrian and some parts are downright ugly but edmonton is blessed with a magnificent river valley full of hiking and biking trails and parks that is among the best green space to be found in all of north america there has also been a concerted municipal effort to create attractive buildings and public space in downtown edmonton but edmontonians remain defensive about being seen and dismissed as the boiler room of canada quotation from mordecai richler gretzky in eighty five reprinted in dispatches from the sporting life alfred a knopf canada 2002 p 108 posted by debra she who seeks at 06 33 4 comments labels my edmonton thursday 16 july 2009 moby dick update 1 i can well imagine that everyone is all agog to know how goes my reading of moby dick be advised that i am now up to chapter 36 woo hoo only 100 chapters more to go ishmael queequeg and the other star crossed men of the pequod have now set sail for southern waters to hunt for whales moody captain ahab has finally emerged from his cabin and stumps around the deck with his ivory peg leg not a lot of action so far but there is much foreshadowing and many doom laden omens and one exceedingly long chapter about all the different types of whales in the world i ll keep you posted posted by debra she who seeks at 06 45 2 comments labels moby dick wednesday 15 july 2009 nom nom nom in the peg slurpees for the tenth year in a row winnipeg has been named the slurpee capital of the world not of canada not of north america but of the world calgary finished second and detroit third psshh losers you know what slurpees are of course those florescent sugar laden pop and shaved ice concoctions sold by 7 elevens everywhere and immortalized on the simpsons as squishees the ones that give you instant brain freeze as reported by the winnipeg free press a few days ago slurpee sales in winnipeg rise when temperatures soar in the summer but they also remain steady when the mercury plummets to 40 c slurpees have fast become part of the culture in winnipeg 7 eleven canada spokeswoman sheila calder said what differentiates winnipeg is people drink slurpees in every season in winter kids are having slurpees while they re out tobogganing she said and that s what makes winnipeg great the jets may be gone the blue bombers may be crappy but none of that matters winnipeg is the world champion of slurpee consumption posted by debra she who seeks at 06 35 3 comments labels my winnipeg tuesday 14 july 2009 the story of david and goliath condensed lolcat version posted by debra she who seeks at 06 32 1 comment labels cats spirituality monday 13 july 2009 the phuckem philosophy of life stepping to the beat of a different drummer will of course inevitably bring you into conflict with those who say you must step to the beat of their drummer instead insistence on your own right to integrity will be called selfish inconsiderate wrong dysfunctional etc and after that the characterizations will really start to go downhill one day many years ago my sister and i were arguing about whether it is more important for gay people to be openly themselves than it is to accommodate straight people s discomfort with homosexuality my position of course was that gay people s right to integrity trumps straight people s socially learned discomfort and moreover straight people should just get over it my sister who was nearly apoplectic at this point in the argument sputtered in frustration you know you ve got a real a real fuck em philosophy of life this brought the argument to a dead halt then we both burst into peals of laughter and a new expression was born but the truth of the matter is that yes sometimes you must apply the phuckem philosophy of life as i now more delicately refer to it sometimes you must do what is necessary for your own integrity rather than sacrificing it for the alleged best interests of others and you must let the chips fall where they may posted by debra she who seeks at 06 30 3 comments labels politics sunday 12 july 2009 hearing different drummers today is the birthday of henry david thoreau 1817 1862 advocate of civil disobedience father of environmentalism philosopher of walden pond when i was a teenager i had a poster on my wall with one of thoreau s most famous quotations from his book walden if a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away i thought about this quotation a lot when i was young i let it guide me as if it granted me permission to be myself it gave me reassurance that it s not necessary to be like everyone else that it is okay to be unequivocally yourself taking this quotation to heart saved me a lot of heartache i suspect and a lot of wasted time trying to be someone i was not so thank you henry david thoreau and happy birthday posted by debra she who seeks at 13 30 5 comments labels reading saturday 11 july 2009 moby dick in the 21st century i m currently reading herman melville s moby dick which makes my recent lolcat post so fortuitous and man that book is frickin huge sort of like the great white whale itself melville sure could have used a good editor that s all i m saying i ve tried to read this novel before but have always been defeated by the teeny tiny print used by publishers to cram all that text into a single volume the eye strain just wasn t worth it but now i have found the free website literature page which has full online texts of many classic works of literature in the public domain it features novels and some poetry primarily by american british french and russian authors so now i m attempting to read moby dick again but this time using zoom view to full advantage it s so great to have a larger text version and my my my melville s coded homosexual imagery is a lot more obvious to a 21st century reader than it would have been to the average mid 19th century reader it s clear for example that ishmael and queequeg were gettin it on hey this is my type of book posted by debra she who seeks at 08 12 3 comments labels moby dick friday 10 july 2009 whistler s grand mother i m a darn good whistler my brother taught me how when i was five having some natural talent for whistling i practised incessantly and improved my technique with a nice vibrato effect learned from an uncle but my whistling upset my grandma who was very much a product of the victorian age in which she had been raised according to her world view whistling was simply not ladylike only boys should whistle girls should be quiet and decorous every time she heard me whistling she would recite the following dire little ditty whistling girls and crowing hens both shall come to no good ends i heard that poem a lot when i was growing up a lot my grandma was born on july 13 1888 this year would be her 121st birthday if she were still around so on monday i ll whistle happy birthday in her honour and i know what her response will be wherever she is posted by debra she who seeks at 06 45 3 comments labels down memory lane poultry thursday 9 july 2009 truer words were never spoken whatever you give a woman she will make greater if you give her sperm she ll give you a baby if you give her a house she ll give you a home if you give her groceries she ll give you a meal if you give her a smile she ll give you her heart she multiplies and enlarges whatever is given to her so if you give her any crap be ready to receive a ton of shit anonymous a friend emailed me this quotation recently and it s also all over the internet as i discovered when trying to find out who the author is if you haven t read this before enjoy if you have read it before enjoy it again posted by debra she who 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