While you’re recovering from that stupendous creature of God — which was in attendance for Hull’s Haven Border Collie Rescue’s adopt-a-thon at a Polo Park-area pet store - I shall move on to tonight’s assemblage of interesting posts gleaned from here, there and everywhere, including some now somewhat-stale Twitter memes that everyone should see.
LOCAL
+ Great idea, awesome blog: one recently-minted Winnipegger explores the city, one jog at a time, with lots of pictures. Love seeing the city through a newcomer’s eyes.
+ One Man Committee weighs in with a superb post on Shaw TV’s new local affairs show, The ‘Peg This Week. (In other news, the Free Press will shortly be renamed The Winnipeg According To Yesterday.)
+ Is there anyone more deserving of winning a Reh-Fit Healthy Living Award than Getty Stewart? I don’t think so. This lovely lady defines what it means to be a community builder — and she has a pretty delicious-looking garden and cooking blog too, for you green thumbers.
+ Love Me, Love My Winnipeg made a difference in the face of one local street, and in the life of one hurting house. Fantastic post.
+ After four months of a painfully silent blog, Policy Frog is posting again. Proof we haven’t lost one of our best bloggers to the Twitterverse?
CANADA… AND BEYOND!
+ At first browse of these awesome vintage photos of Canadian party leaders, I was glad I didn’t come of age in the 1970s. Then I realized I came of age in the Facebook era, and abruptly stopped laughing.
+ I’m perpetually weary of polls and projections, but the blog ThreeHundredEight.com is revitalizing my interest in them as we near election day.
+ Wonkette mocked it, but I still think the video of a group launching a singing protest at an Obama fundraising event is pretty cool. As I noted on Twitter, this is what protest in the YouTube era should look like: tight and bright, bold but outside-the-box. Now they just need to sharpen their message a bit: the protest was against the treatment of WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning, but it didn’t come through too strong in the wash.
THE AREA IN YOUR MIND
+ Click the squares. Make your music. Paint the sound. This is addictive, hypnotizing, and so delightful.
+ How to Steal Like An Artist. One of the most brilliant blogs I’ve seen on how to nurture, and communicate, creativity.
+ Sparse, poignant and often striking, this Tumblr of newspaper blackout poetry has inspired me to minimize, lately.
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http://onemancommittee.com W. Krawec
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http://www.nothinginwinnipeg.com Melissa Martin
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http://www.veggiedelight.ca Getty
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http://www.nothinginwinnipeg.com Melissa Martin