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The Red Book Diaries of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight's Red Book Diaries

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight’s Red Book Diaries

One of the duties I was tasked with while part of the tenth and final season of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight was shepherding the Red Book messages George would write at the end of almost every episode of the show.

I was also the person who collected those messages and explained them in more detail on the Strombo.com website.

These messages — which could be movies, TV shows, albums, songs, viral videos, books, articles, acknowledgments… anything really — are well worth deeper exploration. As such, I’ve further compiled them here for anyone who might want to dig into them.

Volume One: Against Me!, Ellen Page, Sherlock

Volume Two: Malcolm X, Glenn Gould, philosoraptor

Volume Three: Lou Gehrig, Less Than Zero, James Brown

Volume Four: Lester Bangs, Kiev drone videos, Mark McMorris

Volume Five: Smart dolphins, noble dogs, howling wolves

Volume Six: Bill Nye, Led Zeppelin, tobogganing maps

Volume Seven: Pete Seeger, Harold Ramis, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Volume Eight: FUBAR, Joe Carter, Black Power Mixtape

Volume Nine: Redd Foxx, Twin Peaks, SCTV

Volume Ten: Trailer Park Boys, Archer, vampires.

 

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Scariest Music Celebrity Stalkers: When Fan Obsession Goes Too Far

Mark David Chapman

Mark David Chapman

Sometimes there’s a darker side to musical fandom. Where a person cares too much about an artist, in the wrong way, and it manifests itself in stalking and other unacceptable behavior.

In light of Taylor Swift recently receiving a restraining order against one of her more unsettling stalkers, Sarah invested this world for Huffington Post Music Canada and came up with a list of scary celebrity stalkers.

To read the whole article go here.

 

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Women And Their Cauliflower Ear

Rhonda Rousey's cauliflower ear

Rhonda Rousey’s cauliflower ear

Female mixed martial artists have to navigate a minefield of societal expectations that men never have to deal with. One of the surprisingly complex ones to manage is “What happens when you start getting cauliflower ear?”

The unmistakable sign that you roll is a badge of honour for many fighters, but in the normie world it’s not quite the same.

Sarah talked to four high level female fighters about their perspective on cauliflower ear.

To read the story head over to Fightland here.

 

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11 Coolest Cats To Celebrate The Kitten Bowl

Holy Fuck Kitten Bowl

Holy Fuck Kitten Bowl

Something called the Super Bowl happened over the weekend.

We didn’t really care.

However, something else happened on the weekend called the Kitten Bowl.

THAT we did care about.

And Sarah wrote about it for Huffington Post Music Canada.

To read the article go here.

 

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12 Songs To Celebrate The Year Of The Horse

Year of the horse

Year of the horse

In honour of Chinese New Year Sarah was tasked with finding a number of great songs about horses.

Sadly, she didn’t include Neil Young’s entire Year Of The Horse album.

To read her whole list head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.

 

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