Cashews are delish! Peanut butter is really sugary. Unless it’s natural. Then it’s really oily. Small things can kill you. If you are into almond butter, you are also guaranteed to have done a lemon cleanse. Nuts, like everything, are delicious with chocolate. When I buy nut-themed mixes, I often spend a fair amount of…
Ten Things I've Learned
Ten things I’ve learned from the New York Musical Improv Festival
I went to this. I want to perform in it next year. Because it’s the best. Sadly, I missed heavyweights like Baby Wants Candy and Freestyle Love Supreme, but I caught a lot of amazing stuff. Special shout out to the Magnet Theatre and all their wonderful musical house teams. Bodies do strange things when…
Ten things I’ve learned from crowds
There is one acceptable place to look in a crush of people on a subway in rush hour. Up. When you are in a mob, you feel powerful. When you are facing a mob, you feel desperate. Crowds allow for many things you can’t do on your own: crowd-surfing, crowd-sourcing, ‘the wave’, orgies. Elevators are…
Guestpost#73: Josh McNorton – Ten things I’ve learned from traveling in China for a month
Note: Josh McNorton is a musician, writer, and all-around good guy. This is his website: www.joshmcnorton.com Every year for the past three I’ve embarked on a solo adventure in a foreign land. With encouragement from some Canadian friends living in Beijing and Shanghai, plus a very inexpensive plane ticket, I chose China this year. These are…
Ten things I’ve learned from performing in the Toronto Improv Festival
Note: The Toronto Improv Festival is in town, so if you live in Toronto and you love comedy, or improv, or fun, go to it this week ONLY. It’s every night at the Comedy Bar, and there are teams from all over Canada and the States. Website is here: http://www.torontoimprovfestival.ca/ Note: I performed in the…
Ten things I’ve learned from cheese
Cheese is delicious. Cheese is so delicious that I could never be vegan, specifically due to cheese. Also…burgers. The moon is made of cheese. Wallace and Gromit proved it by going to the moon in a home-made rocket. Lunar cheese does not taste like any other cheese. Do not cut the pointy bit off the…
Guestpost #72: Kate Croston – Ten things I’ve learned from watching Psych
Kate Croston is a freelance writer, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. She writes guest posts for different sites and loves contributing high speed internet service related topics. Questions or comments can be sent to: katecroston.croston09@ gmail.com. A true friend will stick with you through anything. Accuse his parents of murder? No…
Guestpost #71: Laura Bailey – Ten things I've learned from the morning after one-night stands in Toronto
Laura Bailey is a very funny and very talented comedian and improviser (among other things) in Toronto. If you must leave the next morning in none of your own clothes, and everything that is giant sweatpants, shoes that weren’t made for your gender, and an oversized t-shirt that says “Cock Mobster,” in Chinatown you will…
Ten things I've learned from doing the Master Cleanse
Note: I am not doing this cleanse now, but have in the past. You really appreciate food when you haven’t eaten food for a full week (or more). It’s crazy what comes out of your body, even after 3 or 4 days of not eating. You can get really tired of delicious, spicy lemonade after…
Ten things I’ve learned from these Italian guys in this deli on dufferin
It’s good to be polite. Thank you very much. That’s right, very polite. What a couple of polite young guys. This twelve year old boy, I swear to God, is at the shop trying to trade in a Range Rover and a Benz. He’s some kind of emperor of Hong Kong. Twelve years old, can…
Ten things I've learned from washing dishes
Wash the top and bottom of your plates. Not just the top. Cause there might be grease on the bottom. I know. You think because you don’t have food on the bottom, there’s no need to wash too carefully. Wrong. For the same reason as #1, wash the handles of your wooden spoons and cutlery.…
Thursday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I've learned from Steve Jobs
1. Form is as important as function. 2. Corporate presentations do not have to be boring, or text-heavy, or generic. Presentations are performances; they should be important, heady, image-based, funny, and idealistic. Steve Jobs made corporate presentations into events. 3. Good, visionary people are critical and irreplaceable… Read the rest of this week’s post here
Ten things I've learned from working for an indie Canadian Hip-Hop label
Shout-out to Camobear Records and Josh Martinez. Still killing it. Go buy their music and keep them in Coke and Ketchup Chips. You have to have a sense of humour if you are a rapper in Canada. Because you are a rapper. In Canada. Halifax (and Nova Scotia more generally) is actually a hip-hop incubator,…
Thursday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I’ve learned from Craig Kielburger
1. I first saw Craig Kielburger speak when I was 14 or 15 years old, attending Jarvis Collegiate Institute. I am two years older than him, but I was inspired by his moxy and his passion at the time.. and still am. 2. You will be successful at a job that you find meaningful, even…
Ten things I’ve learned from musical theatre
Note: I used to hate musical theatre; I’m trying to grow to understand it. The song in any musical is most powerful when it clarifies the singer’s want or emotion. You might think it’s cheesy, but try not to cry when you hear “On My Own“, “Somewhere That’s Green“, or my personal tear tsunami, “Sunrise…
Guestpost #70: Steve Hobbs – Ten things I've learned (and loved) to do as a kid growing up in conserved nature
Note: Steve is a repeat poster, and got me “Freshly Pressed”…so thanks Steve! In addition to his passion for comedy, Steve’s an avid fan of spending time in nature – in addition to camping regularly and having worked at an educational nature-oriented day camp, he grew up backing onto a large conservation area in Markham.…