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Owen Pallett April 15th Black Sheep

Who’s in?

aka Final Fantasy (terrible band name)

aka violinist from the Arcade Fire

aka I’ve already bought 2 tix. Others please join us!

The Black Sheep Inn

Update: File this one under “Always Ask Your Wife First” … looks like we have plans that weekend. S’too bad but not really since I’m sure the plans will be better than Owen 🙂

Note that this is not as bad as Gary’s habit of buying tickets to concerts that will happen when he knows he’ll be out of town, or buying tickets to one night of a performance and showing up the night later. 🙂
For sale: 2 tix to Owen Pallett April 15 Black Sheep $24

March 24, 2006 - 11:04 am

mark - dammit! that’s the only day in april that Sonja and I have plans.

We should go to the Black Sheep again soon, though. Amy Millan’s show would be a good one (June 7). It’s on a wednesday, but she’d be worth seeing.

(fyi, she’s the non-annoying singer from Stars)

March 27, 2006 - 8:36 pm

Gary - Dan, 2 shows hardly constituates a habit. One more time and I can be ridiculed at will.

The thetans made me do it

Scientology. Where do I begin? There is so much to say.

  • The South Park episode that tells Scientology’s actual creation story … can you tell it was founded by a science fiction writer? South Park is aired on Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount. Paramount made Mission Impossible 3. Tom Cruise stars in Mission Impossible 3. Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. Comedy Central was going to re-air the episode last Wednesday, until Tom threatened to refuse to promote MI3. Curiouser and curiouser …
  • A website called Operation Clambake that tells all about Scientology, including a recent article from Rolling Stone. Tons of interesting reading.

Don’t get me wrong. Religion and spirituality are very personal things, and if beliefs help guide a person’s life and give them strength, then hooray for them. But this stuff is just weird. Guess I’m now a Suppressive.

Next up on my list to expose … cell phone antenna boosters!

Booster

March 22, 2006 - 4:34 pm

mark - dan-o, you missed this side of the story:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,188463,00.html

March 23, 2006 - 11:23 am

dan - So scientology handlers pulled him off the show? Curiouser and curiouser …

Mormons are also an interesting bunch, what with the prophet Joseph Smith, polygamy and the buried gold tablet finding in upstate New York. I’ve been meaning to read John Krakauer’s expose book for a while to learn more. The Nicholses have it … have to borrow it when they get back.

March 23, 2006 - 12:15 pm

Kris - You have sparked my curiosity. I’m going to do some reading….

March 27, 2006 - 8:40 pm

Gary - Dan-o, I would be careful of the Scientologists when publicly criticizing them (i.e. online). Their laywers are known to come after anyone and everyone who does that. Forgetful.ca could be shut down!

April 6, 2006 - 8:52 am

dan - Gary – in your comments you seem very aware of the likelihood of litigation as a result of loose blog lips. Bad experience on your “Sports Addict” blogs that you frequent?

Updates on the Mormons:

– Shannen bought me “Under the Banner of Heaven” for my birthday. No need to borrow from los Nicholses.
– HBO (and The Movie Network in Canada) have a show about polygamist mormons called “Big Love”. Very good. Sunday nights at 10 (same time slot as Grey’s Anatomy, but BL is on demand all week, so we’re OK).

March is a busy birthday month

I was once well known for my birthday-remembering skills.  I was awesome.  Untouchable, in fact.  I was the go-to gal for all birthdate inquiries.  For years, no birthday went unrecognized or uncelebrated.  That is until now.  I’ve started to forget.  I could list off excuse after excuse, but the truth is, I’m just forgetful.

This month has been exceptionally bad.  And what a month to forget birthdays.  It is packed with them.  Let’s see…

March 1 – Glenna Somers (Forgotten…sorry SOMS.)

March 4 – Skye Blake (Forgotten…How could I??)

Speedy Angel

UPDATE!!  March 7 – Melanie Martin (How embarrassing.  We had to be reminded altogether.  Sorry Melanie.)

March 12 – Coline McWilliam (Forgotten…Whoops.)

March 12 – Lauren Elliott (Forgotten…You’d think with two birthdays on the same day that I’d remember.  Apparently not.)

March 17 – Avery Lyon (Remembered – but forgot to call 🙁  )

Avery Lyon and Snowman

March 21 – Gerry dePooter (Remembered!  But he called me first.  BAD Shan.)

March 21 – Carole Gallant (Remembered!)

March 26 – Lois Cheyne (Can’t forget 🙂

March 28 – Duncan Fullerton (Must remember, must remember, must remember!)

March 30 – Dan (Hard to forget – Oh, and by the way…he’s turning the big Dirty 30!)

There

So…My apologies go out to the birthdays I recently forgot, and to the birthdays I may forget in the future.  I promise to remember them next year – that is, unless I forget that I made this promise. 

 

March 23, 2006 - 11:15 am

dan - Look out. Come March 30th, I will be using my Sheriff-ness to Sheriff all over the place. They don’t give that little yellow star to just anyone you know. Sheriffing is serious business. Not as serious and crocheting, but serious enough.

March 24, 2006 - 9:40 pm

Melanie - My birthday is March 7th!!!! I turned the big 23

March 27, 2006 - 9:21 am

dan - Melser! Good to hear from you. Shan added you to the post 🙂 HOw’re things in Toontown?

August 5, 2007 - 4:00 pm

Sharon - I am an old friend of your Dad’s who has behaved badly. Please ask him to call me.
Thank you Shannen ( my daughter is Shannon).

August 5, 2007 - 4:02 pm

Sharon - I am an old friend of your Dad’s (Gerry). Please ask him to contact me.

Campsite reviews

You may have noticed a new look to forgetful.ca … we migrated to a new wordpress platform. If you have a blog on blogger or blogspot, wordpress is pretty cool! You need your own server though – either pay for space or have a server at home. But the added functionality rocks! Check out the new categories, and you can rss us so that you get new forgetful.ca posts as they arrive. As if anyone cares enough!

All that to say that the old campsite reviews page will become a campsite review category. Here are the old ones.

sharbot lake

  • june 25, 2005. sites 188, 189, 190 are walk-in sites with great privacy, and they overlook the lake.

voyageur

  • july 2, 2005. site 218 was giant (big enough for 3 tents), had great privacy, and was nice and shady on an ultra-hot weekend.
March 22, 2006 - 4:40 pm

Sonja - We need to try our luck at camping again this summer! It can possibly rain as hard ever again.

March 22, 2006 - 10:47 pm

shannen - Definitely! I’m already looking forward to many (dog-friendly) camping trips this year. I’d suggest we go early, but from past experience, I now know I’d rather pull my eyelashes out one by one than freeze my ass off on a half melty, no firewood (other than the drenched-found-lying-in-the-woods kind), no sun, river running through the site camping trip. Thank God the company was mint.

Let’s wait til it’s warmer. 🙂

18 times

Humphrey pooed 18 times yesterday – 15 of them outside.  The people at Guinness are reviewing the archives to see if it’s a record.

That’s the last time we’re feeding him curry.

March 21, 2006 - 8:18 am

Shan Banane - And who said getting a puppy would be a lot of work?

Jerks.

March 21, 2006 - 12:12 pm

Kris - Love the new look guys! It’s a blog makeover! Great photo at the top.

March 21, 2006 - 12:53 pm

Shannen - Thanks! I took that photo en route from Kipling Saskatchewan to Calgary during the Christmas break. It was actually taken from the moving car in a pretty deep fog…I can’t believe it even turned out.

March 21, 2006 - 4:13 pm

mark - shit. he broke my record by 2.

March 23, 2006 - 11:23 am

dan - Was that the day in Boston?