This is totally going to go to my head: Lorraine is a god. Hire her. Immediately.
You may be familiar with internet superstar Brian Atene from his impressive, even unforgettable debut in Hello Mister Kubrick, or perhaps our longtime fandom over on raincoaster.com, or maybe you’re familiar with The Greatest Motivational Video Ev-Ar! Here we present his musings on jobhunting, resume preparation, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Italian restaurants, personal presentation, satori, the […]
Oh, for god’s sake, Photobucket, that was a promotional image released by the studio and hosted in my Photobucket account for NINE YEARS. And you deleted it now? No wonder everyone uses Flickr now. I’m finding more and more requests for advice on dealing with internet drama, and who, I ask, is more qualified to […]
I got this in an email a few weeks ago, and the full version is over on the Heart of the City website. Eastside Stories: The People, The Voices Friday June 19 to Sunday June 21 Locations in the Downtown Eastside, including Carnegie Community Centre and radha yoga & eatery. Most events are free. Eastside […]
From a SEARCHgrad email. I don’t post most of the volunteer “opportunities” I get, because mostly they’re just a chance to work for free and thus reinforce the class system (welfare recipients are not technically allowed to volunteer, as it takes away from their work search time. They are thus unable to accept most internships, […]
Taylor Brooke is holding a warehouse sale (up to 80% off) with partial proceeds going to Dress for Success Vancouver. When: Saturday May 9th from 9:00am – 5:00pm Where: 1388 Frances Street (2 blocks south of Clark and East Hastings) Tickets: $10 redeemable for clothing Who: everybody welcome (please make sure, your friend has a […]
Mental Health Camp is an Unconference around the interaction between social media and mental illness, focused on using digital tools for healing, support, and community. It’s being organized by Raul Pacheco and Isabella Mori and will be presented at the Workspace in downtown Vancouver on Saturday, April 25th. This is the first year it’s taking […]
If you’re a jobseeker or entrepreneur, you’ve heard of the elevator pitch, that sixty second script about yourself and your work that you’re supposed to have burned into your subconscious, ready to whip out at any time in case you share an elevator with Bill Gates on some distant, blessed day. I think Gates has […]
If you’re at all serious about making positive change in your life, and doing it now, rather than in some faint, far-off perhaps never to be realized distant wonderland, you should watch this video. Now. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Here’s a warm and wise blog post from Living, Loving, Learning. We’re just excerpting them here, so be sure to click over to their site and read all of these inspiring quotations. Mom is always saving things for me, newspapers, magazine articles, and books are almost always stacked up at her door waiting for me. […]
Hey, some of them were pretty smart, for dead people. Take F.Scott Fitzgerald here: he wrote what many consider to be the Great American Novel (everyone who doesn’t consider it to be Huck Finn, that is). And he also wrote these very wise little precepts for his daughter, which I borrowed from One Little Detail’s […]
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