I’m thrilled to say (for reasons that have yet to dawn on me) that my Walking Table video from last fall has, at the time of posting now, had more than 1.42 million views!

This article about aerial yoga is one of the most fun stories I’ve written in perhaps years — made me consider becoming an acrobat.

I shall re-commence updating Cafe Solo this weekend.

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. If only they still made films with dialogue like this …

Jim Henson was a genius.

Thanks Sebastiaan for inspiring the addition of the second clip below … brilliant

A month in Brazil was great, but I missed so many things while I was away…Here’s my list of six things that either went over my head while I was in Brazil:

1. SADDAM’s execution (See Number 6 on this same list)

2. YOU TUBE … my “Walking Table” video somehow (I have no idea how) got featured on You Tube’s main page for a week and I had over one MILLION views on that nine-second video clip and I honestly have no clue as to why (anyone) cares … it’s just a boring clip about an interesting table I saw at a design expo in Holland … and everyone seems to love it. I blogged about the walking table in early Nevember if you want to see it under the Design category.

3. ARGENTINA. I was in denial for the first 20 days in Brasil about not being in Argentina. I got a consolation bracelet.

4. TOFU. Ever try telling a room full of Brazilians that you’re a vegetarian?

5. WI-FI. There’s something beautiful about free wireless internet whenever you want it.

6. MEDIA. Anything in English. Anything.

And six things I was not ready for:

1. INSECTS. They’re everywhere and I battled them.

2. BEING A “GRINGA”. Gets stale fast.

3. PRESUNTO. It’s everywhere. Gross.

4. FLAVOUR. Anything other than salt.

5. CLASSISM. It’s heart-breaking.

6. HIPPY MARKETS. It was beaded necklace overdose.

Hey, I haven’t been online as I’ve been travelling … I’ll be in Brazil until mid-January.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

DUTCH insurance company RVS takes the cake for most brilliant television commerical I’ve seen since Peroni beer’s Dolce Vita tribute. It’s beautiful cinematography, with background music sung by Bonnie Beecher.

Such a lovely commercial.

Watch, and smile.

Over the course of November that I haven’t updated Cafe Solo. I’ll potentially commence a blogging frenzy.

 Amsterdam is beautiful today. It’s sunny outside and the air has been crisp. It reminds me of high school autumn in Ontario. I have vivid, yet distant memories of walking around leafy downtown Cambridge after high school and having coffees by the river with all my poetry books and political manifestos and sketchpads falling out of my handmade Smiths satchel bag.

 The past few days I have been sick, with a bad, bad cold/flu. My friends Janneke and Marisa have been spoiling me with cups of passionfruit tea. If my five-year-0ld niece Zahra were here, she’d be rolling her eyes at my “fashion-fruit” obsession that has managed to cross the Channel.

 Yesterday I went to Rotterdam. I had to visit the Brasilian Consulate in order to sort out my visa for Brasil. I’m going to New York City in a week and then am off to Sao Paulo with my gang for a month of sun and debauchery. And Christmas in a village and New Years in Rio de Janeiro. I can hardly wait.

 I need sun, sun and more sun.

 In the new year … so many plans. So, so many plans. I’m looking forward to things.

 As a great man once said: “I love New York”.

 x

The ringleader (tormentor extraordinaire), ultimate Canadian and big brother of all generation-X’ers, Mr Douglas Coupland has been discovered on MySpace. That’s right, Douglas Coupland is on MySpace.

To read a blurb about MySpace’s latest user demographic information and to link to recent data on the matter, check out Cult of MaHKU.