It only seems fitting that given Montreal’s prestigious “Boardwalk” slot on the World Monopoly board that we should be hosting the three day national championship. This morning on the drive-in to work CHOM was interviewing the judge of the tournament being held from May 28-30th at the Montreal Science Centre.
Apparently most of the players are [...]
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 I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984. |
In exciting news, the new version of Monopoly - Here and Now - which uses international cities rather than streets has featured Montreal as the new Boardwalk. How we got the most expensive piece of real estate is not only a testament to our fervour for this eclectic city, but also to our taxes. HAHA! When i was a little kid, one of two anglophone children in our neighbourhood (the other being my younger brother who weighed substantially less than i did), park activities that required interpersonal relations were oftentimes… problematic. I remember spending quite a few moments of my summers attempting to come up with a way to ask [...] Yesterday, we established that people scream on rollercoasters because it intensifies the thrill. But, what happens when you go too far? Are adrenaline junkies like all other junkies? To some extent, yes… Although i don’t scream like a little girl very often, I’m a huge fan of rollercoasters - to your right is one of my favourites, The Incredible Hulk at Universal Studio’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, FL. The story goes that after that ride it took me a good 45 minutes to even orient myself [...] |
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