Awesomeness: Writings and Musings

Review and Pictures: Samantha Bee’s I Know I Am, But What Are You?

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee has a new book out, a kind memoir of her childhood memories of growing up in Toronto. I’ll be updating this post as soon as I’ve finished reading the book and have coherently written out my thoughts of it (so far, it’s been an entertaining read with many literal “laugh [...]

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire at TIFF ‘09

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire had its gala screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and in attendance was director Lee Daniels, actors Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd, Mariah Carey and newcomer Gabby Sidibe, and of course, executive producers Tyler Perry and Oprah. Mary J. Blige, who wrote the song “I Can See [...]

Win a Harajuku Lovers Fragrance prize package

Contest has ended! Thank you everyone for participating. Random.org has drawn a winner – comment #14. Congratulations to Louise G. from Quesnel, BC! Are you a fan of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers line? Particularly the fragrances? Or are you just a big fan of Gwen and/or No Doubt in general? Awesomeness.net is teaming up with Matchstick [...]

No Doubt in Concert in Toronto – June 16, 2009

It’s hard to believe how fast time flies by. I can still remember the days of being a scrawny 7th grader, belting out the lyrics to “Don’t Speak” in the school’s corridor during recess with my friends. It was pretty much the only thing we could do to keep ourselves from freezing in the cold [...]

Britney Spears’ Circus Tour

March 18, 2009 — I went to the Britney Spears “Circus” concert at the Air Canada Centre. It was a visual spectacle. The production value was way up there, with elaborate sets and side-show acts to keep the audience entertained between costume changes. The stage was set as a three ring circus, with a larger [...]

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

Dear Zachary is a powerful documentary by Kurt Kuenne, whose sole intent for creating the film was to memorialize his murdered best friend. But as the story unfolds, the film evolves into so much more. At its premise, Dear Zachary is about how one man’s life was needlessly and viciously taken away from his loved [...]

The culmination of those “New Grad: Job Hunting Sucks” posts

You may recall over the past two-ish years where I wrote about my job hunting woes as a new university grad in a series of somewhat, I’d say, morose posts on this blog. I figured, it’s been a year and a bit and I should probably write an update about that situation. Otherwise, people stumbling upon [...]

Sex and the City the Movie (2008)

Four years ago, our New York City foursome in Manolo Blahniks, Jimmy Choos and, well quite frankly, all the designer shoe labels that I can barely afford without leaving me in the poor house, left our television screens. Or at least left our screens in the new episodes sense, because I’m sure many of us [...]

Quirky and Fun: Harajuku Lovers Fragrance

Gwen Stefani has released a new perfume line under her Harajuku Lovers brand and unlike the perfume released under her other popular line, L.A.M.B., this one has a cute and quirky flare that you’d expect a Harajuku Lovers product to have. How is it different than other fragrances? Well, first of all, there’s the unconventional [...]

Does The Secret Really Work? Well, let’s see.

So, first, what is The Secret? I shall quote for you the summary from the book version of The Secret: It’s the Law of Attraction. Like attracts like — so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you. Thoughts have a frequency. When you think thoughts, they are sent out to the universe [...]