Category Archives: embarrassing fan girl

Regrettapalooza

Posted on 27 April 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Mr E Man and I got to talking last night about bands and artists we really wish we could have seen in concert. After I started my list with the Beatles, we decided that this could go on all night … Continue reading →

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The medium is the message

Posted on 14 April 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I saw the most amazing TED talk the other day, about Nikola Tesla. Now, we all know that Tesla was a fascinating, awesome dude (especially as played by David Bowie IMHO), but in the case of this video it was the … Continue reading →

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A Song of the Hunger Compass: it’s book review time!

Posted on 9 October 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(This got really long – sorry. You probably shouldn’t try to read all of it in one go). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was all Bean Mom’s fault.

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The joy(ride) of delayed gratification

Posted on 14 September 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

The first music I loved was my parents’ music – The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, all that. The first music I loved that was my own was, embarrassingly enough, Stock Aitken Waterman pap. In my late teens came Nirvana, Blur, … Continue reading →

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Expat: a musical in three acts

Posted on 19 August 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Setting: Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom Act I: 54-40 (A whole room full of drunken Canadians is jumping up and down in ecstasy, singing along with every word of every song. Within the crowd is a group of friends, most of whom … Continue reading →

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MIRABILIS!

Posted on 15 August 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I just received a package from home: Yeah. Some of these are going up next to my desk at work.

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If George R.R. Martin was a scientist

Posted on 9 March 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

SPOILER ALERT! I’ve tried to be as general as possible, but there may be some very minor spoilers in this post for people who aren’t as far through the A Song of Ice and Fire series as I am (I’m … Continue reading →

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Pacific surf, the coast by starlight, and the Cascades: San Diego to Vancouver by train

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

or: what you gain when you’re not too vain to deign to let the train take the main strain. As I said in my last post, a meeting with collaborators in La Jolla last week probably represented my last chance … Continue reading →

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What happens in Vegas…

Posted on 2 September 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

…gets blogged within a week. I’d been to Vegas once before but I was 17 and with my parents, so it doesn’t count. We were only there as a base for the Canyons (Grand, Bryce and Zion), and didn’t know … Continue reading →

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Birds of a feather

Posted on 10 June 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

If I’d been born in the Middle Ages, I would have been lucky to reach adulthood. If I had made it that far, I’d almost certainly have promptly died in childbirth, or from bubonic plague, or something of that nature. … Continue reading →

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