I am thrilled to report that I have been invited to work as a freelance contributor for City Bandit, an unbelievable lifestyle website that seeks to help sexy, cent-savvy, trendsetting chickas in Montreal and Toronto find the most wicked steals and deals in their city.
As always, I will stay true to my clean, green, cruelty-free principles and try my best to cover the products and places that live up to my high standards.
Hope you enjoy this new forum for my work and get some good tips on some great places to go and things to do in your city.
Sweet dreams and plenty of blissful Zzzz's...
Er
www.citybandit.com
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, August 20, 2009
A Do Gooder’s Epiphany
This morning on my way to work I got to thinking about what we owe life. The sun shining on my face, my favourite dinky top 10 tunes blasting, it dawned on me how lucky I was to be here in the world, enjoying such a simple yet exceedingly pleasurable moment. “Don’t we owe it to LIFE to lap up every one of the precious moments we are lucky enough to experience, no matter how simple or seemingly insignificant, as fervently as possible?” I thought.
Now don’t get me wrong…if there is anyone whose life philosophy is to consider the implications of our actions, it’s this girl right here. With practically every decision I make, I do the calculations necessary (sometimes using my fingers, and sometimes with my blonde head cocked to the side in deep concentration) to figure out precisely what type of an impact, for example, my choice to buy a tube of toothpaste (“who produced it? Was it tested on animals? Did the employees in the toothpaste factory receive fair wages?”) will yield.
But I wonder…have I been missing something all along?! Is there something to be learnt from the hedonistic, self-serving, happy and seemingly carefree people I have been known to abhor?! Is there some truth to the belief that sometimes, ignorance is in fact bliss?!
I think that there just might be. That isn’t to say I am about to abandon my philanthropic aspirations or that I am encouraging you to romp pompously through life as though you are the Queen of England, with your nose in the air and you hand on your hips. All I am suggesting is that it might be a good idea for us altruistic souls out there who are determined to save the world, one good deed at a time, to not lose sight of our right (scratch that, our RESPONSIBILITY) to put the burdens we so often carry on our shoulders aside every now and then. We need to remind ourselves that sometimes it is nothing short of necessary to fold up our worries, place them on the top shelf of our closets, and paint the town red (in the figurative sense and not the literal one, which would have us fretting about how spray painting on public property is illegal and could land us with a ticket costing more money than we have in our bank accounts).
Now don’t get me wrong…if there is anyone whose life philosophy is to consider the implications of our actions, it’s this girl right here. With practically every decision I make, I do the calculations necessary (sometimes using my fingers, and sometimes with my blonde head cocked to the side in deep concentration) to figure out precisely what type of an impact, for example, my choice to buy a tube of toothpaste (“who produced it? Was it tested on animals? Did the employees in the toothpaste factory receive fair wages?”) will yield.
But I wonder…have I been missing something all along?! Is there something to be learnt from the hedonistic, self-serving, happy and seemingly carefree people I have been known to abhor?! Is there some truth to the belief that sometimes, ignorance is in fact bliss?!
I think that there just might be. That isn’t to say I am about to abandon my philanthropic aspirations or that I am encouraging you to romp pompously through life as though you are the Queen of England, with your nose in the air and you hand on your hips. All I am suggesting is that it might be a good idea for us altruistic souls out there who are determined to save the world, one good deed at a time, to not lose sight of our right (scratch that, our RESPONSIBILITY) to put the burdens we so often carry on our shoulders aside every now and then. We need to remind ourselves that sometimes it is nothing short of necessary to fold up our worries, place them on the top shelf of our closets, and paint the town red (in the figurative sense and not the literal one, which would have us fretting about how spray painting on public property is illegal and could land us with a ticket costing more money than we have in our bank accounts).
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Swine Flu - Yet Another Example of How Things Have Gotten Out of Hand
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/swine-flu-antibiotic-abuse-agribusiness-greed.php?dcitc=TH_rotator
Words of wisdom all around but no one ever seems to listen...
It's enough to make me sigh but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen
Instead they'll say
Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell, if you keep adding stones soon the water will be lost in the well
-Jack Johnson, "Traffic in the Sky"
Words of wisdom all around but no one ever seems to listen...
It's enough to make me sigh but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen
Instead they'll say
Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell, if you keep adding stones soon the water will be lost in the well
-Jack Johnson, "Traffic in the Sky"
Monday, March 30, 2009
Earth Hour Recap
Apparently, Earth Hour this year was a great success...not to mention a ton of fun.
To check out the before and after pics of some of the world's most famous landmarks, go to http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/earth_hour_2009.html and simply click on the images (the Eiffel Tower pre and post Earth Hour was definitely my fav.).
Enjoy!
Er
To check out the before and after pics of some of the world's most famous landmarks, go to http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/earth_hour_2009.html and simply click on the images (the Eiffel Tower pre and post Earth Hour was definitely my fav.).
Enjoy!
Er
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
EARTH HOUR 2009
On March 28th, vote EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour instead of global warming by leaving your lights on.
The results of the election are very important, as they will be presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later on this year. The WWF's goal is to get one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming.
This will be my second year hosting an Earth Hour Cocktail/Pre-Drink Party and let me just say that aside from it being a great opportunity to spread the green word, it is also a wonderful excuse to get together with your friends and enjoy some good old-fashioned face time with those you love (free of the distracting influences of blackberry, twitter, facebook, and so on). So start collecting those candles, buy the booze, and prepare for an intimate night where you will be surrounded by your favorite people and provided with the relief of not having to worry about anyone seeing you get drunk to the point where you can't walk straight.
Earth Hour = Best Holday EVER.
Peace, love, & Earth Hour.
Er
Thursday, February 19, 2009
One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure
Artist Tom Dininger transformed this trash
into this brilliant work entitled "Self-Portrait".
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Next time you consider buying fur...think of this face.
This picture of a grey pup off the coast of Nova Scotia was featured in today's Gazette. The Canadian seal hunt was postponed...until a buyer for the pelts was found, at which point sealers went out this Monday and killed 200 seals (mostly newborns and their mothers) to meet the demands. These sweet, gentle creatures are clubbed to death -- smashed in the brains with a hakapik (a 4 or 5 foot wooden pole with a bent, metal spike affixed to the end).
"I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity"
"A sealer near us quickly clubbed every seal within a small radius, to immobilize each of the pups, and then dragged the bodies to the center of his circle. One by one he flipped a seal on its back and skinned it. If the seal flipped around or fought against the skinning he'd flip it back to its stomach, club it several more times and then finishing the skinning." -IFAW Hunt Monitor
Behind every beautiful fur there is a bloody, barberic story...and that is why REAL WOMEN FAKE IT.
Er
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