January's blog roll out

It's a silly thing to say—because it's completely reductive is it not?—but I love the internet. No matter what I say about it sometimes (didn't I just blame it for what I see as my own lack of creativity?) it daily introduces me to new ideas, funny cat videos, recipes, and goings on in Toronto and around the world.

Here are some of my favourite blogs this month.

To satiate my need for meaningful quotes: Slaughterhouse 90210.

I've got about four books on the go right now—one of them is How To Write a Sentence and How To Read One by Stanley Fish, which is basically a glorified grammar book without all the confusing lingo. He puts a lot of importance on sentences that stick with you and really make you think. Another book I can't put down is Diane Keaton's memoir/biography of her mother, called Then Again. Turns out Dorothy Hall (recognize the namesake?) kept journals for her whole adult life and wrote down inspiring words, sentences, phrases, whatever, on pieces of paper or post-its all around the house. A big one, Diane said, was just the word "THINK." 

It's because I'm reading all this stuff that I flipped when I saw the tumblr Slaughterhouse 90210. Maris Kreizman, "Kurt Vonnegut, meet Brenda Walsh," pairs up screengrabs of TV shows like Downton Abbey, Portlandia, Breaking Bad, and Freaks and Geeks, with quotes that she finds, I dunno, somewhere. I find them to be really poignent.

When I'm in a musical rut: So Many Records, So Little Time

When I want to see beautiful pictures restaurants, flowers, and pretty things bought in Toronto: Thank You, Okay

When I want to read about fashion, food, entertaining, and everything else I love: Sous Style

When I want to learn something new about contemporary culture: NOWNESS

And of course, when I want job advice, life advice, the hard truth, or just an opinion that's very different than my own: Penelope Trunk