Tuesday, January 05, 2010

I've blogged about missed connections before. I came across this one and thought it was cute.

I never check the missed connections on Craigslist so if someone was trying to get a hold of me it wouldn't work. I guess you take a chance when you post on missed connections. I wonder how often connections are made. Do you check missed connections?

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posted by Vanessa at 11:20 AM


Friday, December 18, 2009


2009 Polaris Music Prize winners Fucked Up have released a version of Do They Know It's Christmas?

Along with a portion of their $20,000 prize winnings, the band will donate the proceeds from this song to Canadian charities supporting women from Vancouver's Downtown East Side and Aboriginal women.

Give the song a listen here then buy the song for 99¢ from iTunes.







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posted by Vanessa at 4:41 PM


Monday, September 14, 2009

Scene: Walking back from breakfast Sunday morning.

Vanessa: "So there's this rhinoceros I really want to buy..."

Hayley: "What are you? An eccentric billionaire?"

Vanessa: "No! It's this porcelain rhinoceros I saw at Front that I really want."

And I've found him on the internet!


But at $38 I think I would like him better if I found him at a thrift store. If I did spring for it and buy him I would give him a good home on my bedroom ledge and use him as one half of a bookend or display him prominently in my home some other way.

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posted by Vanessa at 10:49 PM


Wednesday, July 22, 2009


I came across this Jamie Oliver recipe for minted pea yogourt dip via Frolic. I made it for lunch today with mint leaves from my own potted garden. It is yummy and the perfect dish on a hot summer day.

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posted by Vanessa at 1:39 PM


Monday, June 29, 2009

I came across this blog, Missed Connections via Frolic. Brooklyn-based Sophie Blackall finds inspiration in New York's Craigslist Missed Connection postings and creates these lovely illustrations.

Cursive by Sophie Blackall

I was reminded of a sort of missed connection experience of my own. When I was about 16 I was heading to work at the movie theatre one winter evening on the bus. After I had returned home, I dumped out my messenger bag and found a little note folded in half written on the torn off corner of a piece of white paper. "Read me," one of the folded sides said. Inside the note it said something like "E-mail me [and then whatever his e-mail address was] from the cute boy sitting behind you on the bus." He had somehow managed to slip the note into my purse. I wasn't interested, but out of curiosity I added the guy to MSN messenger. He ended up being goth type guy (judging by his profile picture) about ten years older me. I didn't find him cute, nor a "boy." He was very embarrassed about the age difference and apologetic about the note. After that brief chat we never talked again. I think I blocked and deleted him as a contact.

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posted by Vanessa at 2:04 PM


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