{"id":1282,"date":"2006-07-13T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1282"},"modified":"2006-07-13T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:43:00","slug":"breastfeeding-thailand-and-nerd-hero-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1282","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding, Thailand and Nerd Hero Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is going to be a whole lot of Canada&#8217;s Next Top Model recap and review later on today.<br \/>\nBut first, a few news items:<\/p>\n<p>1. For those of you who want more titty milk in your lives, head on down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocad.on.ca\/ocad_home.htm\">Ontario College of Art and Design<\/a> today, where you can get a taste of some nice, pasteurized breast juice at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocad.ca\/cgi-bin\/cal_make.pl?p1=CAL&#038;pp1=008200607130000000000.000.HTML#event_list\">an exhibit called &#8216;Five Holes&#8217;<\/a> (seriously) thanks to Toronto performance artist (and single lesbian mother of a one-year old daughter), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessdobkin.com\/\">Jess Dobkin<\/a>. <i>Caution: if you do attend this exhibit, remember that not only does breast milk take on the flavour of whatever the woman is eating &#8211;and these are free-range mothers&#8211; it can also carry her diseases, including HIV. Be forewarned.<\/i> I wish I was kidding about the boob beverage bar, but I assure you I&#8217;m not &#8212; it&#8217;s happening at OCAD this evening from 5-8pm. Check out page 8 of today&#8217;s Metro if you don&#8217;t believe me. All I could think of when I read about it was Dave Chappelle&#8217;s P. Diddy sketch where Puffy is hosting &#8220;Making the Band&#8221; and demands that, unless the  contestants get him some breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant, he&#8217;s going to shut down the studio. <i>&#8220;That&#8217;s one hundred percent Cambodian, dawg.&#8221;<\/i> &#8211; P. Diddy<\/p>\n<p>2. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastesofthailand.ca\/\">Taste of Thailand festival<\/a> will be in Nathan Phillips Square this weekend, Saturday 10am-9pm, Sunday 10am-8pm. Unlike the previously mentioned milk bar event, this two-day gourmet Thai feast sounds freaking delicious. I think my favorite part of the festival is their media tagline for this year, <i>EXPERIENCE THAINESS TO THE WORLD!<\/i> It&#8217;s free admission, the Siam Symphony Orchestra is playing and their program includes a slot for &#8220;Siamese Cats&#8221; at 4:30pm and again at 7pm on Saturday. My imagination is insufficient to conjure up even the slightest hint of how the good people of Thailand anticipate they can keep a massive audience of thousands entertained with a bunch of inbred felines. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I like siamese cats, and my mother currently owns one (or vice versa). But on stage? In a noisy, crowded, outdoor venue? Maybe they&#8217;ll have caterwauling and mauling demonstrations. I really can&#8217;t say, but I am curious to know. On Sunday they conclude with a tribute to the 60th Anniversary of the King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Accession to the Throne, which should be pretty rad. Frankly, my vision of Thailand needs some resuscitation after I watched &#8216;Brokedown Palace&#8217; on CityTV with Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale last night. I appreciate the whole war on drugs, but I did not need to see a woman pass out in the dirt because a cockroach burrowed into her ear during her stay in jail. N-A-S-T-Y. <\/p>\n<p>3. Happy birthday wishes go out today to Captain Picard\/Professor X aka Patrick Stewart, who is turning 66, and Han Solo\/Indiana Jones aka Harrison Ford who is turning 64. <\/p>\n<p>4. I bought skirts today. Three of them. And without one panic attack! I&#8217;m on a shopping roll.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon (in a few hours, when I&#8217;ve collected my thoughts on Brandi leaving), what you&#8217;ve all been waiting for&#8230; the CANADA&#8217;S NEXT TOP MODEL REVIEW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is going to be a whole lot of Canada&#8217;s Next Top Model recap and review later on today. But first, a few news items: 1. 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