Goodbye, kai--zen, hello permanentpress.ca

I've moved house, permanently.
Check out my new home in the digital universe, permanentpress.ca.

I [heart] rollercoasters

Not necessarily to ride. I just like to watch.
Check out these sexy coaster photos by Christoph Morlinghaus.

(via Coudal)

Chocolate Waterboarding

Maybe, from now on, I'll write about nothing but chocolate in this blog.

Post one: Choir boys, waterboarded in chocolate

(via Boing Boing)

Ethereal Japanese pod house

In the future, may we all live in delightful little pod houses like this one.

Expialidocious

The sweetest listen -- mixing dance sounds with clips from Mary Poppins

(Via Coudal)

What? You haven't met Skeena?

When I was just a youngster, my parents got divorced. My mom, looking for a new place to live, had a choice: move back to her home town, or move somewhere new.

She opted for somewhere new. And hence, I grew up in a bourgeois little university town with it's own landed gentry, green lawns and Tudor buildings. It was lovely. And I even learned some manners along the way.

BUT there was another Kirsten who didn't move to the bourgeois university town. She moved back to my mom's home town. And that's where the fun starts.

Where my destiny splits, I start to explore the other me: Skeena. The cussin' Albertan girl with dirty boots and sun bleached hair.

Visit the dilapidated Grey Gardens

These photos are just so amazing and precious... an abandoned mansion, left as it was when its two eccentric residents moved on. Here's more about the documentary on the house and the folk who lived in it.

(Via Coudal Partners)