Bio: Stephanie Harper is a 38 year old medical laboratory technology student about to graduate and become a person with a paycheque. Before that, she was a beekeeper with a home business selling honey, natural cosmetics and beeswax candles. She is a mother, a freelance writer, a city-born-country-dweller and a student of the universe. Sometimes…
Guestpost #44: Chas Cook – Ten things I've learned from using mobile phones in Canada
Note: I don’t know Chas personally, but my understanding is that he’s British. Bio: Chas is an upper middle 40’s musical nutcase brought up on a solid diet of The Clash, Stella Artois, Leeds United, designer football violence, hip shaking dance music and small scale civil disobedience, now ‘jailed’ in Toronto despite numerous failed escape…
Guestpost #43: Stephanie Sheri – Ten things I've learned from being in the independent rock band Pan Out Now
Steph is a friend of mine, a musician, an improviser, and an all-around awesome person. She is also an excellent vocal coach: http://www.dragonflymusiclessons.com/dragonflymusiclessons.com/home.html Note: After graduating music college and being a professional working musician in Toronto, I took the plunge and co-founded an original rock band called Pan Out Now. It was an intense 13…
Guestpost #42: Chris Besler – Ten things I’ve learned from being a lifeguard (at a lower-income apartment complex)
Bio: Chris has utterly wasted a decade making people feel merriment through his improv, and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Talk to him about movies or nerd culture, and he will not shut the hell up. He performs weekly for the Impatient Theatre Company and he swears he’s going to start writing that damned…
Guestpost #41: Alex Baird – Ten things I've learned during the past (and arguably the best) twelve months of my life
Alex is an ITC improviser, and a former teammate of mine! Here is her ITC bio: http://www.impatient.ca/people/alex-baird/ The domestic dog is an amazing creature. I got my own dog, Harley (a super-adorable Pomeranian/Papillon mix), last April. I give him most of the credit for making 2010 the best year of my life. He’s noisy and troublesome,…
Ten things I've learned from going to a diverse downtown high school
Note: I went to Jarvis C.I. in Toronto. Sometimes, a high school needs to hire security guards to ensure student safety. We had Carlos and Ramon (AKA Mini Carlos). They ensured student safety by selling counterfeit jeans out of a locker and hitting on high school girls. There was a time when everybody at Jarvis…
Ten things I've learned from being "freshly pressed"
So, today I have been selected for the “Freshly Pressed” section of the WordPress.com homepage. Thank you WordPress…you are my heros. This post I found by Zona Pellucida sums up how I feel about it. The right mention goes a long way. Good content matters. Thanks, guestposters… 🙂 Blogging is fun! Gobbling is also fun…
Guestpost #39: Michael Mackay – Ten things I’ve learned from working in a cookie factory
Mike is one of my longest (i.e. he is tall AND we have known each other since high school) friends. We still hang out, play basketball, and go to soca fetes together from time to time (we are busy dudes, he and I). Mike is a really together guy, and that is how he is…
Ten things I’ve learned – now with over 10,000 views
Is that a big number? Or a small number? I guess it’s about context. But I now have over 10,000 views and growing for this thing since it started in November. It has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with all of the great people who have written great posts. So…thanks!
Ten things I’ve learned from working as a security guard at Casa Loma
Ghosts are real. Or rather, it is easy to believe in ghosts when you are walking around at night in a huge ghostly castle. I really like middle-aged West Indian women. I still remember Casa Loma’s Jamaican gardener explaining that she is still so active and young into her 60’s because she listens to her…
Guestpost #36: Ken Hall – Ten things I’ve learned from living as a short man with scoliosis
Ken is a comedic actor, improviser, writer and all round nice guy. Ken is one half of the fun loving, mad cap duo of 2-Man No-Show along with Isaac Kessler. He has performed sketch/improv in Edinburgh, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Charleston, Boston, North Carolina, Montreal, Winnipeg and Toronto. Nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award…
Guestpost #35: James Trek-e Smith – Ten things I’ve learned from writing music
James is my former boss, a world-renowned producer and DJ, a good friend, and the handsomest man I have ever met. I don’t say this lightly; he is retarded handsome. I attribute any of my sense of style, physical fitness, and game with women in large part to Trek-e. He is also the owner of…
Ten things I've learned from New York City neighbourhoods
Note 1: I still have many guestposts to publish, which I will do over the next couple of weeks. There are still some amazing entries, and they keep coming in (and please, keep sending me stuff). I’ve been blown away by the thought, honesty, humour, and energy that was put into these entries, and by…
Guestpost #34: sexytypewriter – Ten things I've learned from dating idiots
Sexy Typewriter lives in my building! She is a freelance writer and national sex columnist. Sexy Typewriter is not her real name. You can visit her blog here. Conveniently enough, the blog is also called Sexy Typewriter. Videogames do not qualify as foreplay. If I like your sibling better than I like you, this probably…
Guestpost #33: Wayne Booth – Ten things I’ve learned from being an aspiring screenwriter
Wayne is a very cool dude who used to work in the music industry like me, but then realized, also like me, that working in the music industry can be kind of shitty. Now he has a job-job, but is also a creative force outside of work. Here is his blog: http://allthingsx2.blogspot.com/ Fictional Robert McKee…
Guestpost #32: Liz Jukovsky – Ten things I’ve learned from being an American ex-pat in Canada
Short Bio: Liz Jukovsky is an improviser, comedian, writer, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. She studied Anthropology at the University of Toronto and has lived in Toronto for five years. You can find her profile and upcoming improv shows at http://www.impatient.ca/people/liz-jukovsky/ or check out her twitter @Eljukjuk. Note: Liz is a very talented improviser, despite being American…