Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Find that boogie body
Just… wow. Wow. I don’t even know what to say.
Steph, make sure you’re ready for this one, because I think you’re going to hurt yourself watching it.
Oom chicka oom chicka oom chicka oom?
I love that she makes sure to emphasize the important lyrics. “Oh, we’re here to let you know!”
What’s with the backup (dancers? fitness [...]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Gollywog!
My friend Leah was born in England and lived there until she was 8, and so most of her childhood memories are tied up there. So it wasn’t surprising, when she dragged me to an all-things-British trade show a few years ago, that she was constantly cooing over Postman Pat and Cadbury chocolate samplers.
But when [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
good, bad, ugly
So Heath Ledger died. The good news is that everyone will shut up about Britney Spears for fifteen minutes. Bad news: Britney still alive.
Sorry, that’s all I got for today.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Carol Burnett + Cole Porter + Harpsichord = love
I cannot stop watching this:
Why isn’t TV like this now? Not that this is a particularly funny spot from the Carol Burnett Show – although Vicki Lawrence’s dress is more amusing than any Simpsons episode written in the last five years.
And I’m not saying I want to give up the sophisticated humour of Arrested [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
How do you know the Pope?
I recently started experimenting with the satirical possibilities inherent in Web 2.0 by creating a facebook group entitled Participate in an Arbitrary Action to Show Half-Assed Support for a Cause! Inspired by the fun that can be had uniting people around a common facetious cause, I was going to create a second group today, this [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
King size!
I just got back from the grocery store where I absolutely had to buy one of these (as I had neither my camera nor my phone with me with which to snap a picture of the display stand).
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Big Mo’. The smiling face on right of the label belongs to [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Live with culture, if you can stand it
Can we talk about how much I hate Toronto’s Live with Culture campaign? Presumably the purpose of the whole thing is to get Torontonians interested in celebrating and enjoying the culture of their city.
Then who the hell came up with that slogan? Live with culture? That’s right, live with it. Tolerate art. Put up with [...]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
An open letter
Dear Upstairs Neighbours,
There are several things especially wrong with you blaring your music right now. Here they are, in no particular order.
1. It’s almost midnight, and my window panes are rattling.
2. You have shitty, shitty taste in music.
3. You are playing “Time to Say Goodbye”
4. For the third time
5. And singing along.
6. You can’t sing. [...]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Welcome, 2008
My new year’s resolution is that I really, really am going to take out that recycling soon.