April 2012
1 post
One week from today: I have an exclusive interview w/ Godfrey the Canadian Homing Pigeon Fancier. Any questions you’d like answered, Curious Public?
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
1 post
Alright, baby. 9 hours to win the First Baby Born In 2012 In Guelph Prize. Countdown begins to the moment of truth: are you secretly American?
November 2011
3 posts
“If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Canada.” -J. Foxworthy
I know the names of all the provinces and territories. I know why Tim Hortons is missing an apostrophe. And I know a guy who’s going to be on Q today. I think all that qualifies me for citizenship, don’t you, Canada? Can we just skip all this paperwork and blood testing?
Canadian Content
Bry Webb (that Bry Webb, but also this Bry Webb) just released this beautiful album: ‘Provider’. You should purchase it (vinyl strongly recommended).
August 2011
1 post
1 tag
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
– Jack Layton
(via georgiastraight)
May 2011
1 post
WatchWilliam Shatner Sings, ‘O Canada’
Shatner receives an arts award from the Governor General and the result is…even better than you think it’s going to be.
“We stand on guard…against frostbite…for thee.”
April 2011
1 post
July 2010
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June 2010
1 post
Ron MacLean: More than that guy to the right of... →
May 2010
8 posts
Je vais parler en français pour les trois prochains jours en vue de Montréal. Depuis que je suis si, si bien en français, ce montant sera à peu plus d’un vœu de silence. Au revoir, tout le (internet) monde.
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“Happy Victoria Day, Bones. Some of us have a queen. And that queen had a mother....”
– Drew
“Excuse me - sorry to bother you. This is really good, but when you handed me the...”
– Me, to a vendor selling yam fries with mayo and nori. Sometimes I feel like I’m actually *too* Canadian… (via jakke)
Nous sommes Canadiens.
Giant beaver dam in Alberta visible from space →
jakke:
Oh Canada. (And yes this is a real headline from a very legit Canadian newspaper.)
You can tell it’s legit because of a) the “fun” alliteration and b) the final sentence, which does what all good Canadian journalism should do - namely, shows how Canadian beavers have secretly always been better than American beavers (or at least since the 70s) but are too lovingly...
April 2010
8 posts
Is she one of us? Palin trumpets NHL, Olympics,... →
jakke:
Only occasionally glancing at notes, Ms. Palin spoke extemporaneously, offering tables of formally dressed men and women the next best thing to a Tina Fey impression.
(from The Globe and Mail)
This may be the snarkiest article ever published in the G&M.
It’s the last line that really offends my sensibilities.
Sorry, Habs. It’s Caps all the way, for me. Bonne chance, though. Really.
countryandwestern:
The Be Good Tanyas - The...
Canada eats: Nanaimo bars →
(via Rick Mercer) It’s more than just poutine up here, y’all. Our arteries are full of all KINDS of delicious crap.
March 2010
14 posts
Ryan Krahn is the proverbial finger on the pulse...
He informs us:
“Naomi Watts, Daniel Craig, and Rachel Weisz are outside of the Guelph train-station at the moment. I expect it’s for Dream House http://www.filmofilia.com/2010/02/11/rachel-weisz-daniel-craig-and-naomi-watts-to-star-in-dream-house/.”
Barack Obama delivering on Olympic beer bet to...
“Message from U.S. President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Stephen Harper — the beer is on its way.
Playing the role of good sport, the White House said Obama is getting ready to ship a case of Molson Canadian beer to Harper to settle a patriotic bet the two leaders made on Sunday’s Olympic gold medal men’s hockey game.
“We are working on the delivery,”...
“It is like drinking merlot” →
“Wall Street trading is often described as a blood sport. But inside the great investment houses, the sport of the moment is, of all things, curling — that oddball of the Olympics that is sort of like shuffleboard on ice.” (via NYTimes)
I've been in the car since 11 this morning...
Don’t tell me who won, goddammit - I’m going to find the game on the internet, crack open a beer, and pretend it’s all happening in real time.
Give 'em your curling face →
February 2010
27 posts
Russia whines about 'cowardly' Canada →
frenchelon:
Last night, Russian hockey stars were being … well … Russian about their loss.
“We wanted to play as well as we could, but things turned out … you know the rest yourselves … like always,” Alexander Ovechkin told Sport Express.
Pravda notes that Ovechkin’s queer phrasing is a takeoff on a famed political quote, the “like always” used popularly to lament Russia’s frequent sporting...
What has two thumbs and is getting published?
This moi. Take that, PhD. Who needs ya?!?
Curling: National anthem stops play
Feb 19, 2010
Vancouver (AFP) - Canada pulled off a 7-6 Olympic Games men’s curling victory over world champions Great Britain on Saturday, but play was held up by an impromptu singing of the host nation’s national anthem.
The majority of the 5,000 crowd inside the Vancouver Olympic Centre belted out ‘O Canada’ as the round-robin match became increasingly tense.
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nedhepburn:
Leonard Cohen ‘So Long, Marianne’
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