Posts tagged sean ward
FanEX, LiveGreen, and some Epic Emmy wins.
Aug 29th
What. A. Weekend.
It feels like it was about 5 minutes long, but that’s okay. Time flies when you’re having much merriment (and/or hauling gear around your pad), am I right?
So many videos are coming – no joke. I collected enough footage this weekend to make a documentary. Maybe I will…
I’ll call it “Capitalism: A Love Story”. That’s a good name for a doc, right?
It’ll mostly be me, dancing around Toronto like a Spaz, a la:
I’d watch a full length feature film of myself doing the boogie slide for sure – but that’s only because I’m a stark raving narcissist like that.
The above video was shot last night when I met up with Sean and Michael for a little bit after the LiveGreen Festival.
What a nice event. I learned a thing or two about lessening my carbon footprint (Did you know that the energy saved from just one pop can can operate a TV set for 3 hours? I just Googled that. It’s legit.) and had the chance to eat some of my beloved street corn.
I can’t wait to post the viddies of Skratch Bastid and Devine Brown (<3). Lots of cute dog footage too. Be excited for that.
Today, I hit up Fan Expo, which is kind of like Comic Con but Canadian and bigger. Shatner was there. ‘Nuff said.
I didn’t meet him, mind you… but he was there. I did get to battle with Kick Ass, buy some toys and kiss Tron on the mouth. That was cool.
Full on VLOG post coming laytah. In the meantime, please enjoy this little “Happy Birthday Zacky” vid I threw together from the other night. Full length interviews with all of the special guests I talked to will be uploaded when I get a freakin’ chance, JEEZ!
ZackTaylor.ca’s Big Bash! from Zack Taylor on Vimeo.
I full like I’m working two full time jobs right now between my job job, my blog blog, and all of these other little gigs I’ve got running on the side. TIFF is going to be insanity.
Meh. I’ll sleep when I am dead. And unpack my new apartment while I watch the Emmys right meow!
SHELDON COOPER WON FOR BEST ACTOR, did you hear? The most epic of all wins imaginable! He deserves to win every award ever. Except for the Darwin Awards ’cause, well… you know.
Jane Lynch and Betty White, Eric Stonestreet and Dexter’s Steve Shill also took home awards. Kill me with a machete made of AWESOME why don’t you.
And please Kill Edie Falco for stealing Tina Fey (or Amy Poehler)’s award, while you’re at it. Ahhhh, I kid, I keed. I love Edie Falco. I just love my funnygirls more.
I’m going to go watch the rest of this now and nerd out some more. It’s going to be a late night assembling well-priced, mass produced Swedish furniture, I tell you what.
<3 Lauren O’Parsons
Shot down by a peacock + the social media blues…
Aug 21st
Hi hi.
Yesterday, I went to the High Park zoo (or “animal paddocks“, as they’re officially called) with my buddy Sean Ward to help him make a big announcement for the interwebz.
They don’t have elephants or giraffes in High Park, but it’s a 10 minute walk from my house and last summer a bunch of animals ESCAPED there. That makes this my favourite zoo in Canada.
Those yaks are straight badass.
Oh, Google Images…
So, you may be wondering – “wwwwhat is this big announcement you speak of, L-bot?“ Well perhaps you should watch Sean’s vlog from yesterday and find out for yourself!
A very exciting project will be revealed – and you will also see an emu, some goats, a baby buffalo, a pack of joggers, three yellow balls, sweet red pants, a spooky picnic table etching, a wallaby or two and yours truly trying to seduce a large, pretty bird (to no avail)
Annnnd speaking of things you should watch by Sean Ward, if you haven’t checked out Talkin’ Social Media Blues yet – DO IT NOW. You’ll get a kick out of this, especially if you’re a bloggity tweet-head like so many of us are these days.
Teehee 
One last thing – Big ups to Bryan for sending me this screenshot yesterday:
Seeing my name on the front page of Google News was a nice way to start the morning. And hey – Tiffany the Macaw was returned safe and sound!
Awwww.
<3 L
Timas, Diplo, Monokini: the awesome & hilarious digest for july 25th 2010
Jul 26th
Me: *grumble grumble* Can I add “lame” to the awesomehilarious post today? Just this once?
You: “No you can’t, because the whole darn thing is about maintaining a positive attitude in the face of adverrrsity or something stupid and idealistic like that. Remember?”
*sigh* Frick.
Let’s start with “hilarious” then…
- Getting slapped with a $220 towing fee + a $60 ticket after my car mysteriously disappeared from the street. Apparently, I was partially obstructing some crochety old loosah’s driveway with the nose of my car. This would have been a “c’est la vie! live and learn! at least I still have legs!” moment had I not already been towed 3 times this year and running late for work.It’s not cute, it’s not funny, it’s not blonde - this stuff is expensive and it’s holding me back from doing better things with my hard-earned cash.I normally try not to refrain from using off-colour language on my blog, but my word am I angry! BEIGE Toronto’s lame parking rules, EGGSHELL the surly tow truck driver and TAUPE this overpopulated city’s lack of spaces to park.Adding insult to injury, when I got to work and tried to park in the lot that usually charges me $10, I was asked for THIRTY because there were “lot of special event in city today” – so I drove down the road and paid 20$ instead. *grumble grumble*
From this point on it’s mostly awesome. Outside of parking woes (and some surrious sleep deprivation) life’s been pretty gravy lately:
- Friday’s TIME Festival at Sound Academy. Y’all know I love me some dubstep, right? My week was already jam-booked but I could NOT pass up a chance to see Diplo spin in my backyard so I scored some last minute tix and danced my face off until 5a.m. I made a video, too… one of my buddies grabbed the camera at some point and shot me shaking my thang (thanks MP!). Please don’t mind the falling down shorts or the sweaty blonde mop on my head.
- The Toronto Independent Music Awards were earlier that night, and that was fantastic as well. Got a chance to chat with so many sweet local bands / rappers / singers / rockstars. Still processing videos from the event for work (when I’m not at other work), but I dooo have this picture of yours truly interviewing m’boy Sean Ward – TIMA host / blogger / comic artist / vlogger extraordinaire:
- This article on the top 5 web pranks ever pulled by moot and the 4chan gang = also awesome.
- I ordered my new laptop last night Did I go Mac or PC? All will be revealed in due time my friend, but I WILL tell you this – my new baby has been custom engineered with an i7 processor, 6 Gigs of RAM and a whole TERABYTE of storage on the HD. She looks dammmmn good too
- hilarious: I’ve come close to buying this dress three times now, but after seeing no less than 5 girls rocking it around the city have decided that I just can’t do it.
As much as I adore it (and I do – so, so, so much) I just can’t stomach shelling out for something that everyone else has. I’m not one for uniforms. Jeez, you’d think Douglas Coupland could have designed more than ONE dress for his roots collection.
- awesome: The Cotton Candy T monokini by Zeugari. Actually, EVERYTHING by Zuegari. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll see me rocking one of these masterpieces at WakeStock…
Yummy. - Signing a lease for my shiny sweet apartment – FINALLY! I’ve been living in Toronto now for over 2 months – I figured it was time to put my name on a piece of paper and unpack my bags for good. The big move with all the furniture coming out of my storage locker in London goes down at the end of August. I hate moving (ie; watching my male relatives and friends move my stuff up and down stairs), but it’ll be so nice to have my entire wardrobe up here with me. And like, my bed and computer desk and stuff.
- Annnd finally, I can’t get this song out of my head which is awesome because I’m in love with it at the moment. So sassy!Hate Hate, Hate Hate Hate…
All eyes on me, I took the night…
