tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post3852081564702001723..comments2023-06-02T05:21:03.422-04:00Comments on The Temp, The Actress and The Writer: My Winter CoatAdriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01607530400279311428noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-16551527491654524852009-05-29T16:31:18.759-04:002009-05-29T16:31:18.759-04:00My wife sings show tunes at the drop of a hat and ...My wife sings show tunes at the drop of a hat and also is upset with Toronto for not letting her put away her winter coat yet.<br /><br />She'd likely join your song if you were sharing a side walk. I think you'd harmonize terrifically.Gorillamydreamzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16004614151140587409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-61250834505236707062009-04-20T11:59:00.000-04:002009-04-20T11:59:00.000-04:00Yep I'm in Toronto too, and I definetly...I am exp...Yep I'm in Toronto too, and I definetly...I am experiencing the same thing. Every year it gets warm in February and March, then reverts back to cold in April before it goes back to warm again. <br /><br />Strange people entertaining themselves are what makes TO what it is! <br /><br />I love to sing too! I also like to play guitar (which I picked up because I've always loved the way it sounds, and how it would sound with vocals.) Good luck with your vocals! I had the most amazing vocal instructor when I was younger and she told me to keep singing because (well she liked my voice) and because it's one of the joys in life.Ada [The Duchess]https://www.blogger.com/profile/17440830191796863095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-65847359485278075622009-04-17T08:38:00.000-04:002009-04-17T08:38:00.000-04:00Well thank you, I love that story!
I've ditched m...Well thank you, I love that story!<br /><br />I've ditched my winter coat but I'm still wearing a toque - I get the earaches too. Oh, we delicate flowers!!!<br /><br />Sometimes I wear a baseball cap with a bandanna tied over it to cover my ears. Like, a really colourful one with all the paisleys. Drives my kids NUTS.<br /><br />I don't sing though, sadly. Those darn kids have begged me not to. Pitch snobs...<br /><br />Have you seen the dude playing guitar with a bag over his head in front of Roy Thompson hall???? That freaked me out because NOBODY acknowledged him- they all went along like it was so normal they didn't even notice anymore! And I was like, "Am I hallucinating??? No really, is he another one of those voices in my head???"<br /><br />I think in the city you can get away with anything really, so by all means, SING!Heidi the Hickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639479864903922047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-59480765305923668392009-04-15T15:46:00.000-04:002009-04-15T15:46:00.000-04:00It does help that current technology makes everyon...It does help that current technology makes everyone look a bit mad. Still, not sure what technology allows for singing full voice, vibrato and everything . . . I'm sure we could make something up. <br /><br />Breka - I too recite "Jabberwocky". I also enjoy the Richard II speech with "Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings". And I wonder . .. maybe that was me that Friday morning, though I wouldn't presume to call my singing "lovely" . . .<br /><br />sayssara - to be honest when I lived in London, I actually felt colder than in Toronto. I think it had to do with a difference between wet cold and dry cold. The wet just went right through me. Still at least in England they actually have spring and the cold is over with pretty quickly. That was my favourite season there.Adriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607530400279311428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-79766396303955779872009-04-15T11:42:00.000-04:002009-04-15T11:42:00.000-04:00Ah yes, Canadian winters. Remember them well. Ha...Ah yes, Canadian winters. Remember them well. Have to say, I don't miss them.<br /><br />I find London cold enough, and get my mother to send me earmuffs and thermal gloves from Canada because you can't get them easily here!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-82290300269650515022009-04-14T20:17:00.000-04:002009-04-14T20:17:00.000-04:00I wouldn't be caught dead singing in public...but ...I wouldn't be caught dead singing in public...but I have been surprised in the middle of dramatic recitations of "Jabberwocky" and the like. I feel your embarrassment. There should be review mirrors on things like hoods.<br /><br />At the same time, walking to work on a wretchedly cold Friday morning there was a girl with a lovely voice singing - loudly - and it completely made my morning. So keep singing.Brekahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222519565101536667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924800.post-41729046719153714522009-04-14T18:23:00.000-04:002009-04-14T18:23:00.000-04:00Really, does anything look weird in the Age of Hea...Really, does anything look weird in the Age of Headphones? Last summer, I saw a woman sitting on a sidewalk planter, talking to herself. I assumed she was using a headset. She was actually hallucinatory, but I couldn’t tell until I passed her.<br /><br />It was her jacket that tipped me off; it was too scuffed to belong to someone using a headset. But still, what a cognitive leap—eleven years in Toronto and I now associate talking to oneself with professionalism, not madness.Chris Edwardsnoreply@blogger.com