Archive for December 29th, 2007

On the left, me and Alanis Morissette at the Automotive Pool Hall before she did a show at the Starfish Room (RIP) in the summer of 1995.

On the right, Alanis Morissette in the new issue of Allure magazine.

Girl cleans up nice. She has a new disc coming in the spring and so she’s heading out on the road to promote it and will be doing mucho media in advance of the release.

95Crave is your ticket to Alanis and Matchbox 20 on March 9 at GM Place, next chance to win tix is January 20.

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Miss 604’s latest flickr pic reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about for a while now.

With the trend towards canvas and reusable bags for groceries and assorted shoppingness, is it really better for the planet?

I mean, we already have all these plastic bag plants set up and producing the stuff we’re using at WalMart, The Bay, Canadian Tire etc. Now that we’ve decided it’s trendy, fashionable and sensible to switch over to canvas, how many manufacturing plants are going to have to be built to sate our need for reusable baggage? And are the gasses and crap spewed by these canvas bag makers any better for dear Mother Nature than the plastic people?

If you’re making the switch, good for you. But don’t think you need just one canvas bag - you need lots. There’s trendy bags coming out all the time. That generic green Save-On bag won’t cut it next season, oh no! So you’ll need a new one.

And God forbid you might forget your bags. If that happens, instead of being a bad plastic bag person, you get another canvas one, of course. Pretty soon you have 45 canvas bags filling up your broom closet.

So - do we really need canvas bags, or is the status quo good to go?

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Back in September, I interviewed John Chow for 24hrs newspaper. John is one of the people I pay attention to on the internet to see how things get done.

John took his blog and monetized it - you know, just for fun.

In a year he took monthly revenue from $300ish to over $25,000.

Not bad.

Want to know how John Chow makes money online? Read my exclusive interview with him.

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