Slytherin towards winter
Watching other people go arse over tea kettle is ridiculously entertaining. This video takes me back to my brief and unfortunate foray into skating, which involved clinging to the railing as I wobbled...
View ArticleConservative convention a Wright-off?
As the Ottawa Gong Show winds down for a short break, with Supreme Leader Stephen Harper Alberta bound for the Tory convention, Toronto mayor Rob Ford is stepping into the alleged video frame in a...
View ArticleLest we forget
http://www.youtube.com/v/86J_RTfg_zQ?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=DJy5cAfxdrlEUq5cWhzAMw&feature=share&autohide=1This needs no explanation or...
View ArticleIncredible shrinking man
This bobblehead, alleged to be a facsimile of Toronto's chief magistrate - aka the Ford Elite - provides startling proof* that his new diet and fitness regimen has been stunningly successful.In today's...
View ArticleO Canada part deux
Breaking news - three of the 15 most watched videos on the BBC website at this hour feature Toronto's very own corpulent clodhopper of a mayor (still clinging by his fingernails to the office of chief...
View ArticlePrince Charles does the Hokey Cokey
This just in: Prince Charles does the hokey cokey in Sri Lanka (BBC World News www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24973605). I couldn't embed that clip because the BBC doesn't let you share stuff on Blogger, but...
View ArticleMpathy
This clip was part of a protest campaign launched after the Motion Picture Association of America slapped Philomena with an R rating. Philomena is the poignant true story of an Irish woman who...
View ArticleSeparated at birth?
When Cabbage Patch dolls first hit the fan I almost choked on my bran muffin.My aversion to these creepy trolls was given added legitimacy when a friend's small daughter was stopped during a...
View ArticleIn denial
Before the Senate scandal and the Ford Fiasco, there was Yes, Prime Minister. The British TV series, written by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, featured hapless PM Jim Hacker and his devious...
View ArticleMy great white hope
For those sensible enough not to be on Facebook, I would hate you to miss the article I posted on that deeply cerebral site this morning.Just stick the following link into your browser and sit back and...
View ArticleAnd he never gives an answer...
Given the PM's prediliction for tickling the ivories while Ottawa burns, and remembering, with a slight shudder, his rendition of the Beatles'With a Little Help from My Friends, it seems to me that...
View ArticleBring your own dinner party
Next time we invite a crowd over, we'll supply the wine and they can bring the food.It's an organic jungle out there. Any minute now I'm expecting the government to bring in legislation requiring hosts...
View ArticleSeparated at birth part deux
The gloriously nonsensical world of Alice in Wonderland sometimes makes me wonder if I, too, have fallen down a rabbit hole somewhere in Toronto's crumbling infrastructure and ended up in a bizarre...
View ArticleCanada Post gets hammered
Back in the season of HoHoHo, on a cold winter's day that was so deep, I suited up and slithered around the corner to pick up a slew of Christmas greetings from our unlovely community mailbox.As I...
View ArticleNice to know you've mythed me
In response to a huge groundswell of requests from fans who have found it hard to get by without my words of wisdom (thanks for the email, Dan) I am posting a little list I recently compiled of myths...
View ArticleMy own personal crowdfunding project
Any fans who would like to raise some money for me to go across the pond and see this awesome-looking play, feel free to donate.Now I know what I want to be when I grow up. Dame Judi.
View ArticleOn the plus side...
And lest you're feeling cheered by the above, here are the lyrics of a song by Flanders and Swann to bring you back to cold reality:January brings the snow,Makes your feet and fingers glow.February's...
View ArticleStarlings on Otmoor
For those of us in the land that spring forgot, here is a beautiful video from the UK where real daffodils grow out of unfrozen ground and there is no minister of autocratic democratic reform.
View ArticleLost in translation
Someone sent me this charming English translation from a hotel brochure from Beijing.Getting There: Our representative will make you wait at the airport. The bus to the hotel runs along the lake shore....
View ArticleHu dak? David Livingston I presume
Just when you thought things couldn't get any murkier, along come the RCMP with another ITO (information to obtain) in connection with emails related to the gas plant scandal which were allegedly*...
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