This morning, as my alarm went off, my radio clicked on and I awoke to "Hi, this is Mark McKinney sitting in for Jian Ghomeshi. You're listening to Q ." It's still on. Surprise!Mark McKinney on my radio! I ♥ the CBC.

1. So apparently Repo! The Genetic Opera is making its Toronto premiere at the After Dark Film Festival. (Advance tickets are already sold out.) 2. Swingtown continues to be adorable. I'm up through...ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

1. The Cobra Starship spoof of that song. You know the one. I hate that song. And the spoof is not really any better, except in the way that it has Cobras instead of that other person. (It might even be...teacher at the moment, and even moreso by Logan's ominous stalkery discovery, but whatever, the grownups are awesome. Pot brownies and skinny-dipping and giggling and sleepovers and being friends!

1. How to clean turmeric off of a teflon frying pan: In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder and powdered sugar, then set aside. In a small bowl beat two eggs and add milk, water, and...singing a sad drinking song about goodbyes into a microphone, before passing the mic to a passenger who continued the song even though he was unsure of the order in which the verses were meant to be sung

Having failed, I think, to adequately describe Facebook to suchthefangirl and lamentables , I'm going to try a different approach: apparently, Hugh Dillon plays it in the film . ... (For those in Toronto next week, About Face is being screened as part of World of Shorts August 20 at the NFB Mediatheque . Otherwise, screenings seem to be announced in the About Face blog .

A couple of days ago I watched When Night Is Falling , not realising as I went into it that it was a) Canadian, b) set (or at least filmed) in Toronto, and c) featured Don McKellar and Tracy Wright as...at the same time they're giving her space to come around on her own. It's very nice to see fictional tension that is not necessarily created by someone acting like an asshole for no logical reason

So, there's stuff going on this weekend! Fun, summery Toronto things that I actually intend to participate in this time. (Mostly I refer to Toronto Fringe and the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition .) ... as we are indecisive.) View Poll: Saturday July 12, 2007 ETA: Um, just pretend I know what year it is, okay? ETA2: Sorry guys, I'm just not up to spending the afternoon out Fringeing today

I was going to post about things that have been going on in my life and weird things I've been pondering and the fact that Séan McCann's beagle has a blog now (for the love of all that's sparkly, why?...shook each of our hands and was as friendly as a person can be to two crazy people accosting him on a darkened street with no warning, and then we ran cackling off into the night. It was totally awesome

1. Can somebody please explain to me in what way Katy Perry's "Ur So Gay" is not offensive? No, really, comment and tell me, because I'm willing to try to like her. So far, she's got an interesting voice... I don't know how to work out the timelines, but Fraser and Ray need to end up involved in an investigation headed by DCI Gene Hunt. They have no jurisdiction! He has no protocol! They fight crime!

1. I was talking to someone a while ago and, for reasons that don't require exploring at this juncture, we decided that "Chat Wit U" really ought to be a Prince song about cybersex. The music video would...in appearing in movies I would have no interest in seeing if it weren't for her? It puts me in the very annoying position of actually intending to watch Get Smart and I must say I'm quite put out