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Oh Crap! This Damn Kid Keeps Making Me Look Bad This Christmas.

December 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Damn kid!  Now I can’t have my yearly temper tantrum over the present opening tonight. … Or to clarify, I can’t have it without feeling extra guilty after this.

At least I can scoff at the fact that she doesn’t know that Santa is actually a black woman or that she clearly plays with both Malibu Barbie and G.I. Joe.  Those are so passe. They weren’t even cool when I was her age. Return of the Jedi baby!  At least that was all the rage when I was 10 (and clearly I’m a trend setter).  Blame it on the genes and the uncle, she is a Leiren-Young after all.  Poor kid!

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Stephen Harper – All I Want For Christmas Is A Greener Canada

December 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With only days away from Christmas this brash young lass asks Santa for a greener Christmas.  Not surprisingly, she’s a Leiren Young.  I guess the apple doesn’t fall to far from her tree hugging Uncle Mark.

Curious to see if she can pull it off, as even if Santa and the elves pitch in, there is still a week ahead of us in which the masses (including myself in the past) hit the malls in search of over-packaged and under-needed presents, get into wrapping frenzies (or competitions, in some cases), and chopped down living oxygen expellers for temporary greenery in their homes.  Personally not a fan of seeing kids cry and I rather like this one, so am chilling out with an artsy tree made of metal (it’s actually pretty cool) and am skipping the presents, in favour of quality time with those I love.  Who’s joining me?  Stephen Harper?  Thinking you are probably overdue for a green do gooder deed to worm your way back on to Santa’s good list and earn a bit of respect back for Canada, especially after this Christmas light show.  Who’s footing the energy bill for that anyhow? Oh, that’s right ….. Merry Christmas Canada.

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#LA4xmas

December 3, 2010 By 1 Comment

No, I am definitely not talking warm beaches, as I am a true Canadian girl, meaning it’s snow, hot chocolate and golden retrievers that I’m dreaming of this Christmas.  So what is this LA, for which I speak, then?  Well duh!!!  That great Canadian satire duo, Local Anxiety (aka the two sexy, sexy beasts, Kevin Crofton and Mark Leiren-Young).

Not only are these two men sexy, but they’re smart too.  No, not because they create witty lyrics and amusing videos, but because they knew they couldn’t create a Canadian music video without ME appearing somewhere in it.  I mean, come on, why other Canadian artists haven’t seen the error in their ways yet by leaving me out, I’ll never fathom. Clearly they are not as smart as these two men.  So here you have it, my first music video (oh yeah, and Mark and Kevin’s too), Oh Christmas Tree Oh 21st Century:

Yep, you guessed it!!!   That incredibly sexy shoulder that passed the camera in the street corner Santa scene was me!  And if you note, Mark’s wandering gaze, moments after, that’s him being a dirty old Santa and checking out my ass.  True story!  And yes, I will happily sign (kiss) you an autograph, but you’d better get in line fast, as with my new music video fame, I may have to start charging for them soon.

So aside from my obvious prowess in front of the camera, the kid (Emma Jordan Leiren Young) was pretty darn talent too.  I filmed a few exclusive interviews with her, you know on Pet Beauty Tips and the likes, that I promise to share over the next few weeks.

In the mean time, you can check out a few of the stills.  Sadly, I’m only in a few of them, as I was too busy being the genius behind the camera.

A Local Anxiety Christmas

*A deep curtsy to a slow, single clap that grows to thunderous applause.*

*Kisses*  I love you all!

Emme xoxo

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Ringing Out the Year with a Little Scandal

December 27, 2009 By 8 Comments

Well it would just be wrong to ring out the year without leaving behind a little scandal. And Mark, being a good friend, understands this, so he decided to help keep my reputation in tact.

How you ask?  Well, Mark posted this pic as his facebook profile pic:

Mark's and my controversial pic

‘Supposedly’, Mark posted this pic to garner attention for the ‘Reading is Sexy’ campaign.  Well, it garnered attention all right, as complaints were raged and the pic was pulled from facebook, marked as ‘obscene’ (Only on Mark’s profile, however, as it seems to be perfectly acceptable on the Reading is Sexy Launch Event Wall).  Curious to know which of us was being obscene?  Personally I think it’s Rob playing with his ‘camera’ in the background.

Oh, and all this comes with rumours that the red head in the photo is Mark’s new lover.

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Kisses from the stacks ….

December 8, 2009 By 1 Comment

In honour of reading and literacy, I bid you gentle, but firm kisses from that hidden corner in the library stacks …. you know the one I am talking about…..

In other words, a most special thank you to all of you that helped promote, were a part of or sent well wishes for the Reading is Sexy Launch Party and Literary Celebration at Gudrun this past Thursday evening.  What a delightful group of the sexiest of cats!  And such a perfect atmosphere in Gudrun!  An enormous thank you to Patrick and the gang at Gudrun – Alison, Josh and Upton.

And again, thank you! Thank you for helping to promote literacy and supporting The International Association of Dyslexia!

Here are some of my pics from the night:

And some much better shot pics of John Biehler’s:

Thanks John!

A few highlights from the night included:

  • seeing the men of the calendar (Patrick, Raul and Mark) pucker up for literacy
  • teaching an incredibly bashful Mark Leiren-Young to put on lipstick (you’d think a man that had written a book entitled, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen, would have already learned how)
  • readings from Mark, Rayne and Raul
  • Mooty winning for the funniest responses in our little contest (go read them, they had me chuckling)
  • the auctioning off Rob’s Pics of Patrick
  • and of course, a whole lot of calendar kissing

Kisses,

Emme xoxo

PS Stay tuned for a Calendar Kissing near you!  Next one is this Thursday Dec 10th at 5 pm (likely at a Gastown pub) as Monica and Monique pucker up for charity.

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