Green Tea and Chocolate

As my friend Ian is so fond of pointing out, blogs can often be self-indulgent and boring. And I'm not a witty or funny writer. My friend Dave Dick has a pretty interesting photo blog, and he writes well. He's one of those Radio and TV Arts guys... the kind of cool kids that I always found intimidating because they were so witty and fashionable. Even his name is funny.

Check out his place: Daviddick.com

So because of my waning confidence in this blog of mine... I think I'm gonna add more pictures. I'm hoping to liven it up... after all, pictures tell a thousand words right? Like the one above.

What do you read in the eyes of the subjects?

Something new I learned yesterday while helping organize the 31st Annual Bob Edwards Award Luncheon: you can indeed fit all the liberals in Alberta in one room. Ironically we were honouring a distiguished conservative, namely Preston Manning. He was charming and gracious, and even I was impressed by how he managed to win over a room full of theatre, arts and literary industry folks. My favourite moment was when Preston, irreverently defending politicians, said (and I paraphrase) "A lot of misunderstandings have occured over typos in political press releases. For instance a few years ago we tried to start a campaign called 'Unite the Bright'. Well, someone left the 'B' out, and look what happened!" Har har. Everyone laughed, except Stephen Harper, who was also sitting at the head table. Unfortunately for the current conservative movement in Canada, Mr. Harper could clearly not charm his way out of a wet paper bag, let alone be as universally respected as Mr. Manning is, apparently by left-leaners and right-leaners both.

Well, at this point in my post, I wanted to throw in a photo of a half naked boy, just for some balance you know. But this silly blog program doesn't want to cooperate with me. So the half naked boy will have to wait until another day.

I can't believe what I'm about to do next, but here goes. Click here to learn about ATP's latest fundraising effort. My boss' fundraising exuberence must be rubbing off on me. It's only open to residents of Alberta, but at least you can see one of the campaigns I'm working on. Sometimes I worry myself, the way I've started using the words "relationship", "partner" and "campaign" as business speak. As in "We are thrilled with the relationship that we have with our partner Hyatt Auto Gallery in ATP's 05/06 lottery campaign."

Well this has been fun. Ian be damned, I think I'll post again soon.