Description: Valerie In Toronto

Description for the Canadian National Day of Podcasting 2011

descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:03:27 PST

A year to the day since the last Description podcast episode, Valerie stands on a windy beach in Shediac, New Brunswick and tries to update you on stuff while fighting off pneumonia.

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The Second (Great) Canadian National Day of Podcasting
Town of Shediac
Description 75: Be...In This Place
Description 73: The Dual Citizens (aka the one with the birth mother)
Movies For the Blind
Bayley on the Baize
Demo of my day job
"My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders (ironically now associated with a very unpleasant radio show in the U.S.)

Actually, I had some great material for National Podcast Post Month this year, but I was just too busy to even try to start. But I still want to put it out, so I suspect if there comes a month where I'm not as busy, NaPodPoMo or not, I'll put it out there, so hang in. Thanks!

Description Daily: December 1st

descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:55:18 PST

For the Canadian National Day of Podcasting, Matt and Valerie review their National Podcast Post Month, with what they did and didn't learn. Concludes with Derek and Clive.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:08:28 PST

With pauses edited out, Matt talks on the phone with his pub landlord friend Ben, who fills in the holes of a story in which Matt shoots himself and an old woman, gets thrown in the trunk of car and finds himself on a 100-foot-high cliff.

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(Note: there'll be one more episode tomorrow, to celebrate The Canadian National Day of Podcasting.)

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:12:17 PST

Elsewhere in Valerie's podcast world...audio-described scenes from the cult favourite Dementia 13, part of Episode 148 of Movies For the Blind.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:23:31 PST

In Ohio, while watching a Manchester United game on tv, Valerie dad and Matt compare notes on their respective versions of football.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:48:16 PST

Matt and Valerie walk through downtown Buffalo, New York and inevitably go into a Tim Horton's.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:15:09 PST

With pretty bad sound quality, Valerie finds out more about one of Matt's favourite songs as a spanner (British for nerd, as he means it), "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" by Hawkwind.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:53:32 PST

In High Park, Matt and Valerie chat with two women taking care of a well-behaved Sheltie dog with a difficult home life.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:06:43 PST

From another proper Description episode not completed, Valerie starts a soundseeing tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario and settles herself in the Henry Moore statue just outside.

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"Down by the Henry Moore" by Murray McLauchlan
Wikipedia explains the Shmoo
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:05:23 PST

After Matt finds himself onstage with seven other guys doing another podcast, he and Valerie (who gets too loud again - sorry) discuss credibility and the dynamics of male conversation.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:05:56 PST

Matt talks about a stay in Blackpool, when a guest house owner had an unorthodox way of finding out who wrecked his stuff.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:43:37 PST

Valerie meets up with Matt just after he discovers Canada's largest Christmas parade going on steps away from where they live.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:15:50 PST

A voiceover artist with a terrible cold, Valerie finds herself being an announcer for one of the world's most famous series of infomercials.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:12:09 PST

Two associated tracks from an album dear to Matt's heart, Clutching at Straws by Marillion.

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Singer/songwriter Fish on writing and recording the album
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:44:49 PST

Maybe the prototypical episode: Watching the World Series, Valerie explains some baseball and Matt explains some cricket while everyone else in the bar is watching the hockey game.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:15:33 PST

Matt talks about visiting a snooker tournament in Wales, complete with hand injuries, smoke-filled chalets, a drunken meeting with a hero and girl-on-girl action.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:39:28 PST

At Fynn's of Temple Bar before going to Podcaster LIVE Nite last week, Matt and Valerie discuss the wealth of Toronto stories left untold, and chat with one of the few non-immigrants remaining.

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Scarborough Dude's Dicksnjanes podcast
"Caker" in the Urban Dictionary
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:27:52 PST

Valerie reads from the newsletter by Bob Lefsetz about his most recent encounter with Lars Ulrich of one of Matt's favourite bands (though more in the past than now): Metallica.

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The post Valerie read: "Lars"
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:58:51 PST

After discovering the combination of orange juice and beer, Matt discusses the Black Velvet in different cultures and the Purple Nasty in his.

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Okay, you can't really be Canadian and mention Black Velvet without thinking of the Alannah Myles song. Sorry.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:58:25 PST

In what was supposed to be Matt's official podcast debut in April, the Manchester United supporter and Valerie walk to their first TFC game, with a bypass and a stop at the loo.

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Belated thanks to Toronto Mike
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:40:30 PST

Matt and Valerie introduce you to the happiest speed metal band ever: DragonForce.

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(Btw, these guys are looking for a new lead singer. Check their site for details.)

Valerie's favourite sequence starts about 3:23.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:59:56 PST

For Remembrance (Veterans) Day, Valerie and Matt talk about a Bristolian looking for her Canadian soldier birth father, Matt's dad in a field of poppies and the charms of Weston-Super-Mare.

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Description 47 - Remembrance Day
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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:18:04 PST

At Podcaster LIVE Nite, Matt and Valerie (beware of her audio distortions - sorry) are visited by Keith McNally, a Canadian who tried living in New York City and decided there's no place like home....or at least Toronto.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:24:41 PST

At Graffiti's Black Metal Brunch in Kensington Market, Matt and Valerie talk drink: types of beer, perceptions of trendiness and getting take-out from the pub.

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descriptionto@gmail.com (Valerie In Toronto) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:22:43 PST

Coming back from a memorial Guinness to mark the anniversary of his best friend's death several years ago, Matt tells one of many stories of their exploits, this time involving the dispatch of a co-worker and a pretty girl.

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