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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | | 9:02 am |
Sorry
Apologies for being away for so long. Back in September my husband was diagnosed with cancer, which has just made things awful for the last few weeks. He seems to be on the road to recovery again now, so I'm starting to regain my fandom spirit a little. So what better way to come back than to see pictures like this?  So rather like Sam, I have to ask: What have I missed? Hope you are all ok. | | Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 | | 9:33 am |
| | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 7:06 pm |
| | Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 | | 11:33 am |
Oh Dear
I just watched Sideways for the first time. This is a film which had a significant cult status, changed people's drinking habits and won quite a few major awards. Here are my deep and meaningful thoughts: "Hey, it's Sandra Oh!" "Hey, isn't the woman playing Sandra's mother the older waitress that Paul slept with in Tales of the City?" "Wait a minute, wasn't the bartender guy in a later episode of Due South, playing some kind of bad-guy?" The answer to the two bottom questions was 'Yes' by the way. Can-Con inbreeding is alive and well, it seems. :) | | Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | | 7:59 pm |
Dear Paul
I admire you a great deal, I hope you know. I love the way that you have single-handedly revolutionised Canadian arts, are so intelligent, sparky and outspoken it makes my brain vibrate with joy, have rightfully reminded an entire nation of their history and their patrotic roots and have produced and appeared in complex, intelligent, fascinating productions which are beyond worthy of the medium. But please remember this: You are also an incandescent actor. So when you are sitting next to your co-stars and think they are speaking complete and utter drivel, it may be an idea to cover up your facial expressions, so that it appears that you don't think they are complete ninnies. It may just help a little to do this now, so once you take over the production in a couple of years, things will run smoother. That said, I thought you were hilarious in this video, without even saying a word. | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 10:42 am |
| | Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | | 8:18 am |
D'awhh
from Belgium, Nov 2007...presumably just after that interview where the woman asked Paul a dodgy question about keeping his marriage fresh (or something) and his mind swerved into the inevitable...tongue action happened, I'm telling you. No wonder Martha looks smug.  Pinched from Flickr - the other people are the ET folk. | | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 9:14 pm |
You Know...
...What the most depressing thing is about re-entering this world? Being immediately drawn into people's personal politics and agendas without asking for it. I had forgotten how ...unnecessary the whole thing is. I'm now off to search for Happy-Fraser-in-the-North fics, because that character understands my pain. As does Geoffrey Tennant I suspect, even if his solitude may be more mental than physical. So...are there any good fic recommendations from any of you that I can wallow in? | | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 7:23 pm |
Well I'm back!
....after a month of pure bliss, we had to cut our escape from reality short, due to a serious family illness. So I'm bummed on a few levels. So how are all of you? Any crucial wig/Gross updates to cheer me up? :) ETA: The hell? Michael Jackson died?! | | Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | | 8:32 pm |
I'm leaving on a jet plane
...ok, it's not so much a Jet-plane as the East Midlands railway, eventually getting to rural Wales. From tomorrow Mr Bjohan and I are going off to live as wood-land people do for a month or so, we'll probably frolik about naked in the sunshine, eat what mother nature provides, become children of the soil...and we'll have no electricity. So this means that not only can I not read you all, I'll also miss the ever-crucial bad wig updates until the end of June or early July. And to be fair, Gunless is set in 1895. But I do like that picture for any decade. Bye Bye! | | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 11:18 am |
| | Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | | 8:20 pm |
NASA geeks unite
Well this is just a little bit awesome - tweeting from space during the current STS-125 mission! http://twitter.com/astro_mikeIf I were just that much braver, fitter and intelligent, I would have loved to have been an astronaut. Also, NASA has a fantastic website. I watch all the shuttle landings and cry my eyes out. | | Sunday, May 10th, 2009 | | 9:11 pm |
| | 6:59 pm |
Canadian Media fail
Seriously, nothing about the GG awards? Did noone bother to turn up? The GG's site hasn't been updated yet so I'm expectig something there, but come on, not one report about it? Pfff. | | 9:54 am |
Ahem...look what I founds!
The photographer only had a couple of the photos up, but they're slightly less grainy than the scanned versions:   | | Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | | 8:36 pm |
| | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | | 6:06 am |
| | Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | | 8:31 pm |
Well don't I suck?
First of all, congratulations to Sam80853 for her two year Canuckiversary. Here's to many more :) Secondly, I completely missed Paul's birthday showing that I do truly suck at fandom. This was a big birthday as well, and I wasn't even there to pop out of his birthday cake. So happy belated birthday Paul (and Martha, come to think of it, whose birthday is also in late April)! Keep doing what you're doing and you won't go far wrong. Thirdly, Paul's Governor General NAC award thing is this weekend, so hopefully there'll be some art to go with the reports. Hurrah! It must be nice to go to an awards ceremony knowing that you are definitely going to win. Fourthly, Passchendaele won lots of Rosies - Alberta's film awards, last weekend as well. Fifthly, the National Post did a horoscope based on "If you share your birthday with..." thing. Their one for April 30th was just someone writing about Paul, sod the horoscope part: Actor/writer/director Paul Gross (1959) shares your birthday today. You have a strong, dominating personality, in part because you believe in duty. (Even though you would love to lead a relaxed, gracious life.) You value family and friends; and you need their respect. In return, you are highly protective. In the year ahead, you will finish or let go of something you've been involved with for about nine years to make room for something new.
So, how are all of you? | | Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | | 10:25 pm |
Interesting Part II
"I have to also confess that I was kind of irritated with Harper Collins for presenting the [Passchendaele] book as though I had actually written it -- I thought it was a little cheeky and not entirely honest." - PG on the First Weekend Club Q&A.Makes me wonder how much control 'authors' or names have over book publications once a big name publisher gets involved - seemingly none. It's fraud, isn't it, on some (moral) level? What do you think? Good job he benefited from it, I guess, otherwise he'll be causing more of a stink. Ahem. And he shows off his decency and moral side in answers like this, in response to a slightly odd question about whether Germany will be on the 'good' side during the next war (WW4??!). The blatant underlying xenophobia of the question itself made my eyes water a lot a little, but the answer was great. Emphasis mine, BTW, for a thought you rarely hear in public life, particularly with military interventions. "I have no crystal ball and can't quite imagine what shape, if any, the next global conflagration will take. At the moment it seems unlikely that western Europe will splinter entirely so whatever happens it would seem that Germany will be on our side, whatever might happen. If we're on the wrong side they will be right with us. I'm very leery of using terms such as good and evil when it comes to the First World War. It was a very complex and tragic series of events that led to that cataclysm and the finger of blame can be pointed with ease in any number of directions. In terms of the actions of individual soldiers they were no better, no worse than the allies. It was a slaughter yard where easy distinctions such as good and evil had little purchase. As to its deeply enigmatic nature, I would direct you to ‘The Pity of War' by Ferguson."
This is why I like him. Also, reading his words is like watching a really good porn film and eating chocolate cake. Just to bring the tone down a little. | | Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 | | 7:12 pm |
Paul's Q&A answers are up
here: http://www.firstweekendclub.ca/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=86&func=view&id=402&catid=40I've only just started reading them but already have a huge grin on my face as he writes exactly like he talks. :) More answers will be posted over the next few days apparently. Any comments here welcome! P.S. I know he is a very eloquent and erudite person, but he's really taking his time answering these - either he's finished with Eastwick or he's really bored on-set. ETA: "We will release in the UK – I’m not sure when." Oh come on, I so called that one with my previous post. I deserve a prize. |
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