Tag: GBS
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Well THAT was Great Big Fun
Just got back from the zoo, you guys! Picoreview: delightful as always, especially up in the dancing area surrounded by fellow OKPers and other people ready, willing, and able to bounce like crazy along with our B’ys. Huge shoutouts to , , , , her spouse Clint whose LJ I still can’t remember, , ,…
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Is this plan awesome or what?
Today’s Excellent Plan of Excellence: Go to store Get moneys Purchase tasty things Bring them home and load them up in the cooler Go to zoo with and Rendezvous at the zoo with and the children Look at critters for a couple of hours Join the ZooTunes line at 4pm Commence fangirling, general bouncing, and…
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And speaking of Great Big Sea
T minus 7 days and counting until the B’ys are HERE for the Zoo show next week! , , and I will be gathering Team Cascadia for a mighty gathering! and and and and and and and Clint (whose LJ I forget DOH) and are all joining us! The Cascadian Vertical Movement team (which y’all…
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Great Big Sea Karaoke contest!
Check this out, you guys: my beloved B’ys have announced a video karaoke contest! They are handing out instrumental tracks for three of the songs off the new album and telling people to get creative with video responses! Anybody local want in on this with me? 😀 (I wonder if it’d still count as karaoke…
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Safe Upon the Shore album review!
RIGHT THEN! texted me when I was on my way home this evening to alert me that the desperately awaited Safe Upon the Shore had finally arrived in the mail. It should surprise none of you that I ripped that envelope open as soon as I kicked off my shoes and changed clothes and got…
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That promised post about stuff besides books
So yeah, I’ve actually been doing things besides purchasing books lately, I swear! The Great Enshrinkening of Anna proceeds apace, even if not quite as quickly as initially planned. As I enthused on Twitter and Facebook this morning, I hit 164 pounds today! Which is well and easily the lightest I’ve been in five years,…
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One week left on my Safe Upon the Shore of Faerie contest!
Hey folks, just wanted to put out one more reminder that there’s one week left until the release of Safe Upon the Shore by my B’ys of Great Big Sea–and therefore one week left in my Safe Upon the Shore of Faerie contest! If it’ll help make up your minds, the fine folks over at…
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Vertical Movement is ON
This just in, for those of you who aren’t members of greatbigsea.com and/or not on the band’s mailing list: they’re playing the Woodland Park Zoo again this summer! The show date is July 29th, and tickets go on pre-sale for members of greatbigsea.com this Friday the 23rd! I am of course ALL OVER THIS. Any…
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Song prequel giggles
Those of you on Twitter may have seen the #songprequel trending topic, wherein the idea was to post titles of songs that came before actual songs. Much hilarity ensued! With a hat tip to , , , and , here are the Great Big Sea ones we all came up with so far: Young Brown’s…
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And now, a gratuitous icon post!
It occurred to me that if I was going to go around calling my LJ “Ordinary Day”, I should damn well have a default icon that reflects that. So for the benefit of those of you looking at this on my various LJ-flavored sites, check out the Alan and Sean loverliness. That shot is of…