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MMVA 2013: Leezus Sleep (Coming Soon)
Jun 17th
It’s been a long, busy, and infinitely sparkly couple of days, my friends — NXNE concerts, comedy shows, weekend parties, THE SIMULTANEOUS LEAK OF KANYE’S NEW ALBUM AND THE BIRTH OF BABY YEEZUS, The MuchMusic Video Awards… I just got in from a string of afterparties and lounges for the latter that were, as usual, a lot more fun than the award show itself.
I’ll write more about who I saw (Jon Snow, again, Psy, I think?) what I thought (How old IS Psy?) and most importantly, what I wore (THIS!) later — but for now…
Bon nuit.
WIN IT: Tickets to the official Universal Music Canada After Party
Jun 10th
Hooly hoooooo!
It’s that time of year again kids — the one affectionately referred to by T-listers and media types under thirty five (ish?) as “NXNEMMVA Weekend.” (NXNE + MMVA, get it?)
This is my fourth such weekend (remember the very first? holy crow was I dorky, awwww) and wouldn’t you know it that I finally had the bright idea to take a few vacation days to enjoy it properly? Same goes for TIFF 2013. BOOYAH. I’m brilliant.
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Being that I won’t be ON DUTY for the MMVA portion of the fiasco this year (ie; rolling around with a microphone or camera,) I’m able to hit the exclusive NO PICTURES / TWEETS / VINES / KEEKS / GRAMS / AUTOGRAPHS / FRIG OFF NOOBS Universal Music Canada After party with Virgin Mobile, presented by Blackberry.
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This will be a sick party.
Last year, I rolled around on the top of a bus with the guys who sing the song that goes “Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard, When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard” and then when I got inside the actual venue… well, it was good 
A really good party.
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Want to come to this year’s party?
YOUR GIRL HAS GOT THIS. (As in me. I’m your girl.)
All you need to do is Tweet both me (@laurenonizzle) and Universal Music Canada (@universalmusicC) using the hashtag #UniAfterparty.
Example: “Hey @universalmusicC and @laurenonizzle — bring me to the #UniAfterparty!”
Make sure you’re following both accounts (so that we can DM you) and that you’re able to be in Toronto Sunday evening.
Winner will be chosen at random. If you win, you will be awarded two spots on the party’s Guest List — one for you, one for a friend. Without a name on that list, you won’t be able to get in, and if you attempt to take photos of someone inside the club or act like a fankid, you’ll be tossed. Fair warning.
BE COOL and join me on the dance floor. I’ll be the girl doing this:
P.S. — This hilarious video goes out to all of my fellow millennials. Mad cute (and painfully true in some parts *cough* like the iced coffee part…)
UPDATE, JUNE 13: CONTEST NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL ENTRANTS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER DAN TEOH!
New Labels, MESH 2013, and playing MC for the CMDC : Recent happenings, yo
May 23rd
Happy humpday homies!
I’m blogging to you from my new pad this evening for what feels like the second time ever, despite the fact that I’ve been here for a solid three weeks now.
What can I say? organizing your own apartment with furniture and appliances and lamps and stuff takes a lot of time — especially when you’re skint on minutes in the first place and living in a neighbourhood that just beckons you to go outside and play in the grass BECAUSE IT’S SPRING NOW HELLO and look at all of the pretty flowers and dapper gents and THINGS TO SEE.
Hello Spiderman.
I’ve been trying to lay low on certain types of events lately — focusing more on professional happenings, good parties, work work work and hanging with friends.
I’m really good at billiards, guys. vine.co/v/b9h5BblQDZm
— Lauren O’Neil (@laurenonizzle) May 20, 2013
Also big in my life right now is the comedy thing. In a slow, small way, that’s moving forward. I booked two gigs without even trying out of a standup showcase I did a few weeks ago, and I’ve started taking improv classes at the Second City Training Centre too.
When the time is right, I’ll share more of that stuff online. For now, I’m having fun doing me IRL (and on the Twitter, natch.)
Me onstage
Here are a few recent happenings of note, so that when I come and read this blog in 40 years I remember the past month as something other than the month I bought so many lamps.
Mesh Conference 2013:
I hit the annual MESH conference last Wednesday morning courtesy of my homies at NextMontreal and, while I was stoked for the “Future of Journalism” keynote by Josh Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab, winning a new Monster Factory friend in a game of internet pictionary was the highlight of my day.
The TFI New Labels Gala:
The Toronto Fashion Incubator’s New Labels gala is always a pleasure to attend — even if only for an hour or two. Working late saw me miss most of the party, but I arrived just in time for the fashion show / competition winner announcement which, really, is what I was there to see.
Sarah Stevenson (deservingly) took home the prize for 2013 — and what a prize it is. Not only did she score $25,000 from Suzanne Rogers and a full page feature in Flare, by this time next year, her collection will be sold in 124 Target stores across Canada. Props, Sarah!
Photo Credit: GEORGE PIMENTEL / Fashion Magazine
Canadian Media Directors’ Council Conference:
I recently got the cool opportunity through work to play MC for a day-long series of top notch speeches and panels at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Here’s what I wore, because I know that’s what you’re most curious about if you’re anything like me.
Never one to shy away from the stage (GIMME DAT MIC,) I had a blast. I love that stuff. I was stoked to be asked, and even more stoked to meet the makers of said speeches (er, speakers) in the greenroom / at dinner before the conference.
It was fascinating to hear what the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson had to say about millennials, in particular, as I’ve been writing a lot of generational demographics lately.
“Young consumers have a way of forgetting everything. In 2004, the most popular phone was the Motorola Razr. It no longer exists.” #CMDC2013
— Lauren O’Neil (@laurenonizzle) April 23, 2013
David Shing, Mark Burnett, Jonah Lehrer, Ryan Chin, Adam Alter… sheet, they were all great, through-provoking speakers and very nice fellas.
Don’t call a smartphone the “second screen” — nobody’s bringing a TV around with them. These are the the FIRST screens. @shingy #CMDC2013
— Lauren O’Neil (@laurenonizzle) April 23, 2013
You can relive the entire day through Tweets in this excellent Storify.
I’m not just saying this because I was involved, but that was one of the strongest single-day conferences I’ve been to in years.
Survivor-themed snacks in Mark Burnett's honour
Tonight I hit the opening reception for Dave Todon‘s #persian at Oz Studios. Wicked work. Cool space. Good people. VINED DAT:
There are four zillion things I want to share with you here that AREN’T related to my social comings and goings and snappings, but ain’t nobody got time for (or the liberty to speak about some of) that. You may notice that I added my RebelMouse feed to the front page of this here site!
Think of it as a personally curated feed of interesting things, important news stories and photos of my face, just for you.
Last but not least, this man took the same video of himself at the ages of 20 and 30 to produce this splitscreen video. Enjoy it. It’s great.
Nevermind, I lied. THIS is last — and the furthest from least there is. Daft Punk’s Get Lucky x Soul Train, YEAHHHH!
GAME ON 2.0 at the Ontario Science Centre
Mar 28th
You game brah?
I certainly was after hearing that Game On 2.0 (the world’s largest celebration of video games) was making it’s Canadian debut at the Ontario Science Centre last weekend.
I was SO game, in fact, that I made it a point to go ON OPENING DAY. But alas, I was le tired on Opening day so I went THE DAY AFTER OPENING DAY!
“From Pong to Guitar Hero; the Ontario Science Centre will host Game On 2.0 with more than 150 playable games from across the history of the medium – including pinball games – as well as rarely-seen consoles, controllers and collectables,” reads the first paragraph of the OSC’s press release announcing the exhibit.
I liked Raju Mudhar’s description better: A great arcade without the quarters.
Was it ever.
But it was (sort of) educational too.
Not going to lie though — this exhibit had nothing on those video game stores in Paris I freaked over a few years ago.
Here’s the full tale of my adventure:
I woke up late Sunday morning and, after drinking coffee and showering and stuff, headed up to the Ontario Science Centre in my car car.
The horn it went beep beep!
Did I mention that I got a 20 per cent discount with my CAA card? That’s an all-year-round perk, by the way, which is awesome.
What would have been almost 25 bucks was 17 0r so, leaving me enough scrilla left over from my 20 to buy a coooold pop. I’ve definitely got time for that.
The Game On 2.0 exhibit was my final destination…
… But as you can see, it was on the 6th floor, which means that I had to pass many eye-catching exhibits along the way… and I get distracted very easily.
Squellettes!
Some elaborate Rube Goldberg thing!
WINGS! How fast can YOU flap ‘em? Me = not very fast. Especially with one arm reserved for iPhoning.
I stumbled upon a craft section that was cute — it had something to do with kinetics, maybe? — so I stopped to make a contribution to the growing body of work.
This is my contribution: Shoop.
And THIS below, THIS was the coolest. You basically sit in a booth while some machine scans your face and then PRINTS IT OUT on a huge screen of water that hovers over the entire section in water droplets.
BOW TO ME, I’M KIM DOTCOM!
No, JK.
Let’s move on to the games, shall we?
There were old-school classics like PONG, PACMAN and some Russian arcade games from what looks like a person in the 1950′s idea of what the future looked like…
ALSO COOL:
I was stoked to see some early concept sketches of Donkey Kong and Mario (nee: “Jumpman”) up close…
It was also cool to play some of the arcade games I dug as a kid. So. many. quarters. I’m pretty sure my brother and I blew our entire inheritance on Virtua Fighter at the cottage arcade when we were kids.
Don’t even get me started on NBA Jam.
I played this weird but fun jousting game from Denmark with one of the science centre technicians, a couple of my fellow nostalgic twenty somethings, and the coolest / cutest little boy EVER.
After that, I met another, considerably LESS cool little boy who wouldn’t stop commanding me to let him play Parappa the Rapper.
Boy: “KAI PLAY?”
Me: “Sure, I’m almost done.”
Boy: “GIVE IT TO ME NOW!”
Me: “No!”
Boy: “I WANNA PLAYYYYY.” *tries to steal controller from my hand*
Me: “AS IF, JERK!”
Boy: *cries*
Me: *runs away before his parents come*
That Moose was kind of a jerk too, but aside from that I had a really good time… and that’s all I’m saying for now. Go experience the exhibit yourself! Like I said – 20 per cent off with a CAA card or student card.
For more of my photos from Game On 2.0, check out the Flickr gallery here. Once again, big ups to my homies at CAA for sponsoring this post.
Peace, kids
Space men, Thug Kitchen, Luck of the Irish…
Mar 20th
*turns around slowly* Oh hello there, friend. I didn’t see you come in… to my blog…
You guys know Bobak, right? Bobak Ferdowsi?
As in the brilliant-hot flight director on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission / “NASA Mohawk Guy” supermeme I covered (multiple times) at work / boy I told you I was going to marry on this here blog last August? SPACE BIEBER OF SUMMER 2012?!?
I randomly walked into him on Saturday under the St. Party’s Day tents. Talk about luck of the Irish, eh?
I could barely believe my eyes. What are the chances that a) some superfamous NASA rockstar would be chilling out in Toronto on (day before) St. Patrick’s day? b) that I’d run into him and c) that he’d be cool and kind enough to let me talk his ear off about how much I love Curiosity’s adventures, and then take some pictures with me.
I don’t even care that my eyes are pink and my tongue is green. ‘TWAS THE SEASON.
I haven’t fangirled that hard since I met moot, which would probably be weird to you if you knew of all the band guys and actor guys I’d interviewed since then. Not even a humble brag — I just really get excited over smart people. SPASE PEEPOLE.
Thursday’s night’s episode of CBC Live Online was pretty amazing.
Big ups to producer Fabiola Carletti for giving me a chance to speak with retired astronaut Dave Williams, Edward Tabarah of the Canadian Space Agency, and Chris Hadfield’s son / social media manager Evan Hadfield on the day that Canada (okay, a Canadian commander) took control of the ISS!
That experience, combined with rogue fashion week activities, solid hangouts with funny friends, some cool stories at work and… some other stuff… made for a really good week. It’s been a rough month and it’s been nice to get my head up out of that fog a bit. Fingers crossed that the swing keeps ticking up?
*sigh* time will tell.
Here are some more photos from St. Patrick’s weekend if you’re into the Green&Green&Green&Green&Green…
P.S. Thug Kitchen is my new food bible. Peep this healthy shhh:
WIN IT: Tickets to St. Party’s Day in Toronto 2013
Mar 14th
Sláinte chugaibh, my friends!
As many of you know, I’m a festive kind of gal.
I’m also Irish-ish. IrISH?
While I strongly identify as a Canada-born Euromutt (more French than anything, tbh) I feel a special connection to the Irish part of my heritage. I’m proud to be descended from the fierce O’Neills of County Tyrone! My last name may be anglicized, but the older and more like my father and grandfather I get, the more I understand how much of my personality is influenced by that part of my family; The sense of humour, the hyperbolic storytelling, the prankster gene, the feistiness…
As historian Carl Wittke puts it:
“The so-called Irish temperament is a mixture of flaming ego, hot temper, stubbornness, great personal charm and warmth, and a wit that shines through adversity. An irrepressible buoyancy, a vivacious spirit, a kindliness and tolerance for the common frailties of man and a feeling that ‘it is time enough to bid the devil good morning when you meet him’ are character traits which Americans have associated with their Irish neighbors for more than a century.”
Hilarious hotheads. Hi.
That’s me and my friend Jilly a few years back on a visit to Dublin. I did a tour of Southern Ireland after that. Got fresh with the Blarney Stone
I love Ireland. Every member of my family has been there now, though none of us together except for mom and dad. If ever I strike it rich somehow, that’s where we’ll go. Right after I ride ALL OF TEH ELEPHANTS in everywhere.
That’s not to say this has anything to do with St. Patrick’s Day — at least, the North American incarnation of it.
St. Patrick’s Day in Canada / The U.S. is it not be the most traditionally-rooted (or heck, even respectful) of holidays — but it’s not supposed to be. We here in Canada don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as an Irish holiday (though Newfoundland has declared St. Patrick’s Day a public holiday — one of only two cities outside of Ireland to do so ) — we celebrate it as a tribute to who WE are as modern descendants of old Irish clans, and we celebrate the fun-loving traits we’ve inherited from said ancestors.
Plus, it’s good craic!
I’d like to invite everyone out there to join me at the MASSIVE St. Party’s Day bash in Toronto this weekend — and I’m giving away two pairs of tickets to make it even easier for you to do so!
EVENT DETAILS:
St Party’s Day is going to be bigger and better than ever! This year the event will take place over 2 days at Ontario Place
This 2 day festival will include massive heated tents, authentic Irish music and dancers, live DJ sets, the official Budweiser Big Rig and 15,000+ attendees where you will be sure to see that old high school friend.
Event:
Saturday March 16th – 11:00AM – 8:00PM
Sunday March 17th – 11:00AM – 8:00PM? BUY TICKETS NOW ?
www.stpartysday.com/tickets
TO ENTER:
- Simply comment below with your name, email address and ONE THING you love about St. Patrick’s Day in Canada
- OR email me with the same information
- Winner will be announced Friday, March 15
The evolution of animated gifs: Podcamp Toronto 2013
Feb 26th
My shortbangs bring all the boys to the yard, and they’re like “Did you cut your own bangs with dirty kitchen shears or something?”
Dang right, I cut my own bangs with dirty kitchen shears or something — I could teach you, but I’d rather just talk about animated gifs because I’m not very good at cutting my own hair.
And that was Saturday. Wake up, butcher bangs, go to present at a conference. I ain’t even mad.
That there is the description for the “Evolution of the animated gif” talk I gave at Podcamp Toronto 2013 on Saturday Here are my slides, but be forewarned that animated gifs don’t appear on SlideShare. Or Prezi. Or Sliderocket. Or anything I’ve been able to find in the cloud. I had to run the entire thing from my MBP! KEEP UP, SOFTWARE.
This was my fourth year attending the annual “unconference” at Ryerson’s Rogers Communications Centre, and while many things have changed since 2009, nothing brightens up a dreary February day like getting together with some old like-minded friends. I always have a great time at Podcamp.
Asking Picard about Star Trek guys with the things on their foreheads
Last year, I gave a presentation on internet memes, which feels pretty trite already after only one year. It was funny though. There were lots of people and they laughed.
I feel as though this year’s presentation was less hilarious, more informative. I spoke about the history of the animated gif as both a file format and a unit of culture; its ups and downs throughout the 90s and 2000s (oughties? god, I hate writing about that decade) as well as its contemporary use in news and entertainment media, business, art, fashion and online communities.
There were cinemagraphs and lenticulars and FASHGIF and even Myspace glitter graphics.
If I’d have given myself more time to prepare, I’d have built my own physical gif for the occasion. Maybe.
This 6 and a half minute long video from PBS (who is absolutely KILLING IT online lately, no joke — one of the best web content producers in the game right now) will sum up most of what I said in my presentation and then some in a far more entertaining way than clicking through my slides.
The website for twohundredfiftysixcolors (a “16mm film that traces the arc of increased complexity and pointed use of the animated gif”) has some great, more academic resources too.
And if you’d just like to see how the presentation and my morning went in real time, Here’s a wee Tweet / Vine / GIF dump for y’all.
BONUS for me; some guy said I looked like Sailor Moon in that outfit. I’m not even going to try and misconstrue that as creepy (Not a Cosplay kind of convention, yo) because of how flattered I was. Moon… Prism… BEDTIME.
Love, Style, Nick Kroll and Cherry Noir…
Feb 17th
Seany Dubs, you are one heck of a sport.
Photo by Barbora Simek for Elle Canada
Excuse the weird hair. I was… trying something.
The above photo was taken for Elle Canada last week during a party celebrating the launch of Grey Goose’s new flavoured vodka, Cherry Noir (that stuff is dangerously good, for the record.)
Image via Pulp & Fibre's The Thread
Barbora was searching the Thompson for Stylish couples to feature, and being that I’m a major Elle fangirl (and compulsive attention-seeker) when she asked me if we’d be down I didn’t even hesitate to say “Yes, of course!” to her and “WE ARE TOTALLY DOING THIS YOU HAVE NO CHOICE” to Sean.
He really didn’t have a choice (do boys ever in matters such as these?), nor did he quite understand what was going on (again – do boys ever in matters such as these?)… until the next week when the resulting image and blurb popped up in the FlipBoard accounts of half the people in his office.
Love you?
Walshie could teach a course in plus-one-ing, I swear. The best I ever had.
We had a pretty low-key Valentime’s day this year, just as we wanted it (minus the working late); Dinner at Fresh, flowers and chocolate, funny teevee, snuggles… I also wore EARRINGS.
This is rare, but I bought some little red hearts when I was 13 that I never ended up tossing out. Thus:
Earlier that day, I got to chat with some online dating website CEOs in a special Valentine’s Day episode of CBC News Live Online.
Jerry of FarmersOnly.com (Which is a real, super successful dating service for, well, farmers only) made my day with some of his comments. You can take the girl out of Chatham…
I also wrote about some particularly fun things this week: A Tamagotchi App (!!!), Thirsty Marco Rubio, Internet feminists vs. trolls, Lighting striking the Vatican hours after The Pope’s big announcement, Pluto, a disabled goldfish’s wheelchair (!!!) EX-CETERA.
And while I’m spontaneously rambling on about my week, I crushed some madddd errands too.
It’s kind of nice to walk around the city in the morning, getting things did. I snapped this photo on my way back to west-downtown after hitting St. Lawrence Market.
A whole newwww worrrrrrrlllllld.
OH! And Nick Kroll tweeted back to me yesterday. Like, actually. !
@nickkroll will you go to the poutine dance with this hoser?
— Lauren O’Neil (@laurenonizzle) February 16, 2013
@laurenonizzle I’ll have to see if @anjulie will let me go w/ someone else.
— nick kroll (@nickkroll) February 16, 2013
I die.
You should probably watch this to make sense of that… and also because it’s hilarious. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a very long time, actually. Not sure if it’s because I’m Canadian or not.
Lastly, please enjoy the RIGHTEOUS (and semi-deserved) mean mug I’m getting in the background of this shot. Too good:
Homie’s throwing me mad shade for that silly duckface in my mind, and I can’t say that I blame him. Few things I love more than funny background people in any photo, let alone the ones I’m in!
For more on the Grey Goose Cherry Noir After Dark party at the Thompson (it was a solid one, for real – we got GEMS!) I recommend checking out SheDoesTheCity’s report as per yooje. Uje?
Night night.
Grammy Lulz and FASHUNSTUFF + Barklemore’s “Pet Shop”
Feb 12th
Hoy litens,
Yeah, I ball. But this post isn’t about me breaking the NFL’s Super Bowl party display thingies (Sahrry Commish! And I’m also sorry for my point of reference to you being a post on The Cut about how you sat next to Anna Wintour at Kimberly Ovitz’s show the other day.)
BEY-sically, I didn’t get time to finish the Weekend Wrap party post I had been working on last Monday (Maple-Rosemary donuts at the opening of 2ndFloorEvents! Diplo and the wasted masses at a Bud Light Platinum Party! SUPERBOWLSTUFF! Other Stuff! voila.) and I just really liked that photo… predominantly because I know what happened directly after it was taken (SMASH! Again, sorry Commish. Great party!)
From Bud Light Platinum's Toronto launch party, to which I wore a toque -- AND WHAT?!
ANYHOO, what I actually wanted to blog about this fiiiine Monday evening (but should have last night if I really wanted it to mean ANYTHING to ANYBODY who isn’t myself in the future since every major web outlet is full-staffed during major events now for instant gif coverage a la 2013): Grammy lulz.
PIMP CANE PRINCE is not even funny, just awesome. That “no puffy genital” wardrobe advisory that nobody followed anyway was pretty funny too, but alas, that was pre-Grammy.
In no particular (but semi-chronological at times) order, here are ten of the funniest things that happened at the 55th annual Grammy Awards last night, as remembered by my brain:
1. When Tyler the creator duckface photobombed Frank Ocean’s mom, deuces up. His Tweets throughout the night were hilarious too, if you’ve got the stomach for Tyler. Thank goodness I do
2. Jay-Z yelling “You’re Welcome!” after Lena Dunham’s boyfriend’s friend thanked him for something, drinking from his Illuminati chalice like a boss the entire time. Gotta love Jay.
3. T-Swift totally pwning her teenaged ex-boyfriend in front of everybody. I don’t know much about Harry Styles, but I wanted to hate him for girl power’s sake at that very moment. TEAM TAYLOR!
4. Speaking of Taylor Swift, Bwahahaha.
5. And also, WHITE PEOPLE DANCING!
I feel like Taylor Swift is a prettier, younger, more talented, farrrr wealthier version of myself sometimes. I really do.
These two just creep me out with their plastic faces.
6. Chris Brown Trying to throw some shade at Frank Ocean by sitting during his standing ovation and GETTING YELLED AT BY ADELE! Go Adele! I totally love her now.
7. Kelly Clarkson photobombing Ellen and Portia:
8. Bruno Mars’ hat, hehehe.
9. When Carrie Underwood’s dress’ screensaver turned on halfway through her performance. Oops! Teehee!
10. Ellen and Beyonce, presenting together…. Not at all funny, again, but great.
Speaking of Justin Timberlake though, WOAH. Talk about bringing sexy back… and forth, and back, and forth…
Gifs on Gifs on Gifs, girl!
I am now very tired and ready for sleep. Sleep is important you know. Listen to Amy:
Before I go, my picks for the best dressed on the 2013 Grammy Awards red carpet include:
T-Swift, Karlie Kloss, Rihanna, Bey, Count 2 Chainz, Adele (seriously, that outfit was perfect on her), Kat Denning, Kaley Cuocuo, and really I’m just naming off TV actresses I like at this point.
Worst dressed: Florence Welch, J-Lo (Why you gotta try so hard?), Carly-Rae Jepsen, Estelle and… I’m torn on Katy Perry.
Purrhaps I’ll add pictures to illustrate tomorrow. But for now, y’all can GOOGLE THEM. It’s past my bedtime.
Lauren does her dance thing. vine.co/v/b12jVWaV6DQ
— Sean Walsh (@frikshun) February 4, 2013
P.S. This is ruffing AWESOME:
Chivas: Not pronounced “CHIVE-uhz” but maybe “Shi-VOSS”
Jan 29th
And now you know that, if you didn’t already. But you probably did, because you’re not me.
And after attending a massive ‘Art of Living’ party for this particular brand of scotch I never thought about how to pronounce before the other night, I can safely say that “Chivas” does not rhyme with… the way Peter Griffin pronounces Fajitas.
It may rhyme with cheetahs, or grevious, or maybe the BOSS, but it’s definitely not CHIVEuzz.
Anyhoo, after downing a few glasses of this stuff on the rocks, it all sounds the same. Rather nice, really You can learn more about Chivas 1801 here and then enjoy these party photos courtesy of my boy Ryan Emberley (except for my ifes. You can tell which ones those are, because they’re horrible.)
All of the usual RP and hotties were oot and aboot, plus K-OS, whose performance I missed to be fashionably late (and finish off a story that was sufficiently more nerdy but less douchey than the Toronto party scene.) I’ll imagine that it went exactly like this:
I didn’t stay long, due to DEADPHONESYNDROME (For, as you know, I have a self-imposed curfew of “whenever my phone dies o’clock) but it was a great party.
It’s nice to be back in the swing of things after the post-holiday hibernation workworkwork period. The workworkwork won’t change, but I’d never want it to. Lots of parties this week though. I don’t think I’ll skip as many.
It’s almost time for me to go bed. But yo, THIS CAT HAS EYEBROWS!
He’s a hot new player on the Instagram sensation/ internet cat scene. I can’t decide whether those brows are real or fake yet… it all seems a little bit too purrrrfect to me.
That’s all for tonight. Time to rest up! I’ll be live-Tweeting from the BlackBerry 10 Launch Event in Toronto tomorrow morning, bright and early. No, I’m not switching teams… but it’ll be neat to see what goes down. Yes, I love my iPhone, but I love my country too. A BB comeback would be great for Canada.
P.S. ->
ORAL.
