Someday,
it would be fun to tell a few harbourfront rink stories, don't you think?
can you do a figure 8?
(and i don't mean the kind you do on horseback)my young friend maggie, who was born in arizona, is not yet a fan of the canadian winter sports. last year, she HATED skating. but i have since seen the perfect solution. i swear it will turn her into a skate lover. it would even work on me!i was out winter walking in a park in toronto and at the rink spotted a dad pushing his kid around on a chair on the ice! other kids were using the same kind of chair to balance themselves as they shuffled along on blades behind... a brilliant method! not every rink would allow such shenanigins, but i saw the perfect place! it was happening. the pusher dad, by the way, was a celebrity dad. a digger dad, none other than andy maize. isn't that cool? even if its cold. so go ahead, i dare you to try and tell me i don't know a good canadian skating site when i see one!
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006
Carol Sheilds, A Celebration
during the days of the poetry circle, doppel would sometimes get me to tell people the story of what i learned at
Carol Shields: A Celebration
Apr 5, 7:30pm John Bassett Theatre
at Metro Toronto Convention Centre
an impressive lineup of Sheilds's peers and admirers gather to celebrate the canon of her fiction. Including Margaret Atwood, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart and more.
HARBOURFRONT READING SERIES.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Meeting Woody?
i want to tell you about one day, when i was working at harbourfront, on door at the pdt.
the show was starting and we were just about in late call mode. the doors to the theatre were closing and who should come barrelling, obvioulsy very late but still hoping to make the top of the show but a cutie in a canada hat that looked remarkably like woody harrelson.
as he rudely ran past me, i realized it WAS woody harrelson, and when i asked he said he didn't have a ticket. he had slowed down by then and i was travelling alongside him (leaving my post unattended) because he didn't know what door to go in and i said "it's okay, we'll work it out, come and see me at intermission" and put the program in his hands with my shaking hands and i dragged him toward and thru the aisle door that was closest. i was trying to hand him off to the orchestra usher, to find him a seat just as the lights were going dark but his wife and kids stood up and waved at him and he ran up the steps and pushed past the other sitters and sat down with them, just as the show began.
when i came back to the lobby my manager started crabbing out that i let a guy in without a ticket and stepped away from the door blah blah blah. i said, but we often let celebrities into our shows for free and that was an emergency late seating effort for woody harrelson.
she said WHO?
who's that?
and i said he's the star of that GO Further thing of Ron Mann's that's in the theatres right now.
and she huh?
and i said, he's woody on cheers. and she said, that guy was not.
and was mad at me and was marking me down for bad behavior AGAIN and whatever...
when then, shortly thereafter, box office closed and brought over the tickets that weren't picked up, as per normal protocal and there was a ticket there for woody harrelson. when i brought to the boss she ripped up the reprimand notes and when he came to see me at intermission i told him it was all good, i had his ticket.
but i can't remember for the life of me what the show was. all i remember is how much i shook. my hands were really, really shaking while i handled it all so speedily. and, it's like, i'm not even a fan or anything. so what's up with THAT?
the show was starting and we were just about in late call mode. the doors to the theatre were closing and who should come barrelling, obvioulsy very late but still hoping to make the top of the show but a cutie in a canada hat that looked remarkably like woody harrelson.
as he rudely ran past me, i realized it WAS woody harrelson, and when i asked he said he didn't have a ticket. he had slowed down by then and i was travelling alongside him (leaving my post unattended) because he didn't know what door to go in and i said "it's okay, we'll work it out, come and see me at intermission" and put the program in his hands with my shaking hands and i dragged him toward and thru the aisle door that was closest. i was trying to hand him off to the orchestra usher, to find him a seat just as the lights were going dark but his wife and kids stood up and waved at him and he ran up the steps and pushed past the other sitters and sat down with them, just as the show began.
when i came back to the lobby my manager started crabbing out that i let a guy in without a ticket and stepped away from the door blah blah blah. i said, but we often let celebrities into our shows for free and that was an emergency late seating effort for woody harrelson.
she said WHO?
who's that?
and i said he's the star of that GO Further thing of Ron Mann's that's in the theatres right now.
and she huh?
and i said, he's woody on cheers. and she said, that guy was not.
and was mad at me and was marking me down for bad behavior AGAIN and whatever...
when then, shortly thereafter, box office closed and brought over the tickets that weren't picked up, as per normal protocal and there was a ticket there for woody harrelson. when i brought to the boss she ripped up the reprimand notes and when he came to see me at intermission i told him it was all good, i had his ticket.
but i can't remember for the life of me what the show was. all i remember is how much i shook. my hands were really, really shaking while i handled it all so speedily. and, it's like, i'm not even a fan or anything. so what's up with THAT?
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