Archive for July, 2005

What’s YOUR favourite Weltschmerz?

Loving my new job at the moment! I think I’?ve finally found one where my ideas and hard work actually makes a community better — or at least improve some of the stuff closer to the bottom of Maslow’?s hierarchy. Not that I wasn’t working on it before? ?it’s just that now I’m actually getting [...]


Ottawa Bluesfest

Metric Originally uploaded by AshaBlue. Saw Stars, Metric, Xavier Rudd and some of the Broken Social Scene sets over the weekend… I thought for certain that I’d be able to find some pictures of the event online that I could share with everyone. No such luck. For now I’ll just “borrow” this picture from Metric’s [...]


Dreaming.

I heard Jeremy Rifkin (an American) speaking at Toronto’s Economic Club and he made a good point: The United States of America must update “the American Dream“. The dream worked well 200 years ago to motivate the hard work it took toclear and settle the land, but many are still chasing that same dream… working [...]


Headliners and Headlines.

Presently I am a *tad* jealous of my two friends who have signed up to see the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival. As for my news, I’ve spent the last 15 minutes looking through Newseum. Their “map view” section lets you browse today’s headlines from all over [...]