Being Tori

Games with All Lit Up – Cycling

After four weeks of competition—and some pretty amazing/head-shakingly bad sports puns—our PanLit Games are coming to a close with one final category: we’re taking it to the streets! No, we’re not talking dance (although that would have been amazing), we’re talking about cycling. Road cycling, popular since the late 1800s, is a test of stamina…

Being Tori

07.31.15

Books, I wrote this

A Stolen Life, All Lit Up, Cycling, Jaycee Dugard, kidnapping, memoir, PanLit Games

My coworker says this illustration reminds him of me…

… I get it.

Being Tori

07.30.15

I wrote this

hahafunny, poster, random

Trainwreck

Yes. Mhm! Definitely. You’re gonna like this one. Typical Amy Schumer vulgarity hilarity. There are so many lines I wish I could remember and so many scenes I’ll never forget. A great chick flick for chicks whose hearts aren’t all aflutter and whose maternal clocks aren’t ticking.

Being Tori

07.29.15

Movies, One-Liners

Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, comedy, haha funny, LeBron James, movie, TAKE IT!, Trainwreck

Games with All Lit Up – Synchronized Swimming / Baseball / Gymnastics

I finish what I start (unless, of course, I lose interest in season 7 of the Netflix show I’m binge watching, or the book I’m reading falls behind my dresser and my arms are too short to reach it—rest in peace, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank—or I’m bored with the pencil crayon colours I chose for my…

Being Tori

07.28.15

Books, I wrote this

All Lit Up, Attachments, Baseball, CanLit, Douglas Coupland, Emma Donoghue, fiction, Gymnastics, In the Skin of A Lion, Michael Ondaatje, novel, PanLit Games, Rainbow Rowell, Room, Synchronized Swimming, The Gum Thief

I’d wear this.

I know, I know. I’m two PanLit Games posts behind. I have no excuse, and I know you’re just bursting with anticipation. I need you to calm down and tame the calamity that is your mammaries. They’re coming. In the meantime, I present to you the hilarity that is this t-shirt design.

Being Tori

07.27.15

I wrote this, Images

hahafunny, photo, random

Lila and Eve

I. Did. Not. See. That. Coming. (I probably should have, but I really didn’t.)

Being Tori

07.19.15

Movies, One-Liners

action, Jennifer Lopez, Lila and Eve, movie, TAKE IT!, Viola Davis

My friends are awesome

I’m super glad that of the millions of blogs out there, y’all are following my blog—you’re blowing up my ego to an almost insufferable size. So to counteract, I want to share with you some pretty ding dang darn radical (as in awesome, not crazy) blogs belonging to my friends: I am a writer who…

Being Tori

07.17.15

I wrote this

random, Tori has talented friends

Games with All Lit Up – Golf

Welcome to another late entry. We credit the sport of golf with a lot: wearing multiple, differing prints at once; our first summer jobs shilling drinks to thirsty golfers; and driving in tiny cars instead of walking. We’ll also give it the hole-in-one, a thing that almost never happens in real golf (we think?) but…

Being Tori

07.17.15

Books, I wrote this

All Lit Up, BJ Novak, CanLit, David Sedaris, Golf, haha funny, Julie Paul, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Little Fiction, One More Thing, PanLit Games, short stories, The Pull of the Moon

I adore this.

I can’t imagine how long it took to film this, or even how they went about it, but it’s wonderful. I applaud all those involved. [Source] There’s nothing quite like a real book.

Being Tori

07.17.15

I stole this, I wrote this, Videos

bookstore, random, Real Books, Short film, Toronto, Type Books, video

I changed it up a bit.

I like to keep things fresh, so I switched up the look of my blog a bit. Everything is still accessible, but you should probably have a look around to see what else you can see. Did you know I have some of my old articles from the Virden Empire-Advance posted? And the redesigned cover…

Being Tori

07.15.15

I wrote this, Videos

Hump Day, music, random