I’m a good little symphony-goer
Jacket. Check. Button-up shirt. Check. Axe bodyspray. Nope.
Thanks for your tips, Edmonton.
You totally Eliza Doolittled me. I’m sure that sounded better (and less dirty) in my mind.
Anyway, I attended the symphony Saturday and had a great time. It helped that I had a few pointers from you, including attire, and I was much more at ease.
It also helped that the show was “Broadway Rocks,” and it’s the PERFECT show for someone just getting into the symphony. It’s also good if you like Broadway and all those songs they do. I won’t go into a review (I’m sure my request from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is on the way) so check out what my ticket-holding friend had to say about the show at her blog.
I also have to give shout-outs to Kerri (and the future help I’m sure to glean from her blog) and Sarah. Sarah is a ringer, with inside experience at the Winspear Centre.
I’m also glad I had suggestions about tuxedo shirts and leather chaps. You have to have a sense of humour about things you don’t know about.
Oh, and Philip Paschke, the ESO’s New Media Specialist (Yes, they have one.), had great tips all around, which I’ll share with you. It will be helpful in case you are like me, and don’t really know which side of people to walk on, what an oboe is and other life/orchestra items. (more…)
the edmontonian just got a lot more sally
That's right, I'm back...bringing down both the average I.Q. and average income of Edmontonians!
Hello Friendmonton. Thanks for being here. We need to have a talk about something.
Kids, I have lost my job. Now, I don’t want you kids to be scared, because I know there is a certain standard of living we’ve all grown accustomed to, and that you guys don’t want anything to change. We may have to tighten our belts a bit in the short term, but Derjis, you can still play hockey this year and Paul, we can still afford your clarinet lessons. We’re just going to have to pull together as a family and do the best we can in these tight economic times.
This is not your fault. It’s nobody’s fault. Well, I was downsized from a less than popular local TV station that wanted to centralize their commercial production in Calgary, so it’s sort of their fault. And also maybe the fault of the CRTC. And also the fault of an inherently flawed infrastructure for local TV, established in the 1960s that we, for some reason, have continued to use despite its increasing irrelevance.
BUT- it’s not you kids’ fault. Jeff and I still love you all very much. And the upside is that I’m going to be around a lot more now. I’ll be here when you guys get to work in the morning, and when you come home from school at night. I’ll be here baking cookies, and helping you with your homework and barging into your bedrooms because g.d. it, I have told you a million times DOOR STAYS OPEN when you have boys in here!
But I digress. I just wanted to say that I haven’t been a very good blogger to you kids over the last few weeks, and all that changes starting now.
Tell the world, Johnny
Edmonton's river valley looking all green and stuff. (Photo: City of Edmonton)
This is going to lose its timeliness if I wait too long, due to its play on words of our favourite Churchill Square food festival. So I’m serving it up hot and delicious. (Just about the end of food puns. I think.)
A world-traveling acquaintance of mine, known as Eva (she’s also on Twitter), is writing for a U.S. “local” website. As far as I can understand it, Examiner.com is all about people across the U.S. talking about stuff to do and where to do it. And not just in their country.
So our Edmonton-loving friend, Eva, is telling her “fellow” Americans to visit our fair city; for some fresh air, the river valley, Old Strathcona and a mall I won’t mention by name because I know it’s the bane of some native Edmontonians’ existence.
Eva, telling Americans about Edmonton since 2009.
p.s. I think she really does like it here.
p.p.s. She does have a legitimate reason to be writing “from” Pittsburgh, before you ask.
Don’t send a Brit to do an Edmontonian’s job
You can't fly too close to the sun on wings of Internet love.
The headline of this story may be a tad harsh, but it popped into my head and seemed to stick. Sorry, Ben Southall.
I don’t know if you caught this story coming out of the weekend, but it seems the British lad who won the “Best Job in the World” is taking his lumps for not blogging enough. And for not blogging about any “normal” stuff we “regular” folk would get to do if we visited the same Australian spots.
Hey, dude’s got stuff he’s told to do.
I’m not saying Edmonton’s own hopeful for this kick-ass job, Linda Hoang, would be blogging up a storm down under. But if you click on the link on her name, you’ll see she runs multiple blogs…
Also, it seems any of those problems involving a “busy schedule” and “wireless connections” have cleared up since the Internet began to turn against young Ben. He’s written a huge blog piece since Sunday.
I sort of feel bad for Ben. He was propelled to the top with love from the Internet, and after three weeks he is feeling its wrath.
This seems like a good reminder to tell you that I love you, Edmonton Internet. Don’t turn on me. Don’t you put that evil on me.
ICLEI, not icky
Edmonton hosted the 2009 World Congress
Edmonton has just hosted a world-class event. The ICLEI World Congress 2009 saw delegates from around the world talking sustainability.
ICLEI is a collection of local governments dedicated to sustainable ideas and practices.
the edmontonian is new to the scene so this will fall into the category of events we’d love to have attended but just missed.
Thankfully, there are plenty of smart, connected and community-minded people who did attend and can fill in the rest of us.
Blogger (and Edmonton Twitterati) Mack Male has information on the closing speaker, Peter Newman, and his talk on transit, transportation and technology.
Dave Cournoyer has blogged about the entire conference and all of its ideas. Dave also has a full collection of ICLEI photos on flickr.
Anybody on Twitter following the updates through the #iclei hashtag would have also seen information and ideas from Councillors Ben Henderson and Don Iveson.
It’s really something to see hundreds of people, of all political stripes, coming together to talk about how to move cities into the future. It’s also nice to see Edmonton host an event like this because too often the city (and province) is labelled an environmental and sustainability backwater.
