I’m off to the place where they make blorks. Don’t expect too many updates to this blog in the next 10 days. I know, life is tough.

I feel better knowing that both the house and the cat are in expert blogger hands.

� bient�

The revenge of the nerd.

Little aussie May before.
Little aussie May after.

In his past life as a photographer, Blork has done a lot of great shots. Most of them are nicely framed landscapes (urban and wilderness), but one of my favorite picture of his is still this simple double portrait. Irresistible.

En attendant d’y �tre, je me r�gale des belles photos du Cap Breton prises par Antoine Girard.

Celle-ci vaut particuli�rement le d�tour.

J’esp�re qu’il fera beau!

The Telegraph published an article about the current pro-sex feminism trend in literature. It reminds me of a local writer whose marketing campaign is very much centered around the question: Is it autofiction, or not?

What’s with the prostitute-turned-writer trend, and why is it so successful? (My blog gets lots of hits every week for people looking for “photos of N.A.” because I mentioned her once.) The article from The Telegraph quotes someone who comes up with an interesting explanation :

“Women will see her book as quite a fun thing to have,” predicts Pelling, who publishes a monthly extract in The Erotic Review. “It’s going to spark a lot of debates. Is she, isn’t she, would you do that? There are very few women who haven’t at some time or other imagined a scenario in which you find that is the only way you could make a living and entertained the idea, ‘What would that be like, if that was the only way I could make money?’ I think, it’s rather a common thought process, probably like men thinking, ‘What would it be like if I had to go away to war?’ ”

(linked via Bookslut)

The big task list for this weekend:

-Finish reading Scrapbook.

-Finalize travel itinerary and book accomodations for next week’s trip to the world’s number 2 travel spot (according to this scorecard, in pdf).

-Catch up on chick flicks with a friend (one overrated, one painful).

-Plant some bulbs for the first time in my life. Chase squirrels for the next month.

-Eat more apples.

-Buy a cord of wood and stack it up without getting splinters.

-Make a fancy knot in Spiff’s leash so he stops escaping once and for all.

-And what was the last item again? Duh, I forgot.

Quelle belle semaine d’automne parfaite! J’�changerais tout un �t� pour avoir deux mois complets de ce genre de temp�rature.

C’est la fin de semaine parfaite pour aller aux pommes! Nous en avons profit� la semaine derni�re et depuis, on ne mange que des pommes: tarte pommes et chocolat (d�cadente), compote, salades, etc. Les m�decins se tiennent loin, loin de nous.

Our Sims2 characters finally got in bed. But after bed, of course, comes the dreaded morning after.

Finally, Martine got her breakfast! When they were done Ed got up from the table and actually farted! The end of romance so soon?

Le th�me des singeries de septembre: Vendez le concept de votre vie � un producteur de film.

Mon enfance :
Toto le h�ros rencontre L�olo.
Pourquoi? Toto le h�ros : Je vous raconterai un jour cette histoire vraie qui a fait que j�ai peut-�tre grandi dans la “mauvaise” famille � cause d�une coincidence �trange � la pouponni�re.
L�olo : Parce j�ai eu une enfance sombre dans un milieu relativement d�favoris� (un des plus pauvres de la ville de Qu�bec) et que je me reconnaissais dans ce besoin du r�alisateur Jean-Claude Lauzon de r�-�crire sa propre histoire.

Ma vie amoureuse par les titres:
Imaginez une vie amoureuse qui passe de Gods and Monsters � You can count on me.

Ma vie amoureuse dans son style :
Un film d’�ric Rohmer (compliqu�, verbeux, comme Les nuits de la pleine lune) m�lang� avec The Terminator (sauf que je ne disais jamais “I’ll be back”).

Mon exp�rience de travail :
Collateral, sans les fusils. (Dans le sens o� je me suis souvent retrouv�e forc�e par des �l�ments ext�rieurs � prendre un boulot qui ne me plaisait pas beaucoup.)

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Meet the Blorks.

Babayaga has been playing The Sims using bloggers she knows as characters (including Ed/Blork and I), and the result is in true Sims fashion: true to life… or close enough!

When Martine first met Ed on the sidewalk, she immediately asked him to make breakfast. I’ve tried to get them to chat and turn up the romance but all Martine wants to talk about is food. Ed has his own problems…

Ed’s a socializing, romancing, hand kissing, flirting party animal. I have a tough time keeping him clothed. I gave him these wild tropical boxer shorts [to remind him of Mexico] and he seems to like them so much that he hangs out in his underwear all day! Ed’s first “big” need was a bar.

I can’t wait to see what will happen to them. This is much better than reality tv.