Author Archives: cheesefairy

Why, as a society, we can be very poor indeed

Posted on 9/2/2004 by cheesefairy

Walking up a busy downtown street the other day, following the throes of businesspeople, heading for a coffee. A skinny man with dirty clothes and a backwards baseball cap was scuttling up the street beside me, picking up cigarette butts, … Continue reading →

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The Beckoning

Posted on 8/29/2004 by cheesefairy

I just read that Laura Branigan has died of a brain anuerysm (that is a word I have never had to spell) at the age of 47. Mere days ago, I was dancing around my kitchen, calling “Gloria.” And earlier … Continue reading →

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Maybe it is all about food

Posted on 8/28/2004 by cheesefairy

My friend Melissa who has no website to link to, alas, recommended an internet radio station named Whole Wheat Radio to me, quite some time ago. She was listening to it obsessively from her cubicle in her boring job in … Continue reading →

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Saturday Morning Links About Eating (SMLAE)

Posted on 8/28/2004 by cheesefairy

T-Shirt Hell has a lot of terrifyingly funny shirts that I would probably never have the numchuks to wear in public. There used to be one that said “Guns Kill People: Mario Van Peebles” that I would have worn and … Continue reading →

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If Canada = University

Posted on 8/26/2004 by cheesefairy

Article in today’s Globe & Mail online about the upcoming first ministers conference on health – with a terrible picture of our Health Minister, Ujjal Dosanjh, attached to it – reads: Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has also added to the … Continue reading →

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