There are three great defining features of the history of Canada: booze, hockey and rebellion. Most of our great historic events have revolved around at least one of these. Several have involved two, and the occasional one involves all three. Continue reading
There was nothing like BNW for going to sleep by, you’d be lulled nearly to sleep by some lull in a 10 minute long instrumental sound painting only to be woken up violently when the song switched to loud chaotic noise. This happened about once a night or so. – posted by Space Coyote at 5:40 AM on February 2, 2007
In the spirit of international cooperation and diplomacy with our northern neighbors, yours truly ventured out into the wilderness and captured an actual Canadian. An actual Canadian Crasstalker, Internet alias HonkIfYouLikeCookies, rumoured (see what I did there?) to go by the name Susan. After having my way with her (it’s exactly what it sounds like), I asked her a few questions about her native land and people. Here’s what I found out about those crazy Canucks:
What is the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard an American say about Canada?
Other than the entire Talking To Americans mockumentary by Rick Mercer, the dumbest thing an American has ever asked me was if I took a dog sled to school. It was asked by someone from the deep south. Continue reading
Like many young Americans, most of what I learned about Canadian pop culture came from an extraordinarily uneven combination of Anne of Green Gables books and watching Degrassi: The Next Generation.
I watched D:TNG on The N for most of middle and high school, and came away with the belief that most people in Canada were extremely slutty aspiring pop musicians who got “social diseases” and eventually moved away to star in shows on The CW (or show their boobs in terrible Lifetime Network movies. NSFW.)
I have a confession to make: I have never been to Canada. I don’t have a good reason. But every time I’ve thought about going I just found reasons not to.
Maine has spoken! Across the lobster-ravaged wastes of frozen Maine, residents donned their colorful voting costumes and emerged from their moose-fur yurts to vote in the Republican caucus. Unlikeable Massachusetts protocol droid Willard “10K” Romney eked out a narrow win over accursed 3000-year-old gold-wraith Ron Paul for the fickle loyalty of the crustacean-worshipping Maineacs. Hobo-busker “Shoeless Dick” Santorum, fresh off his triple victories in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado, came in third. Grumpy and irrelevant space-beast Newton Leroy Gingrich came in fourth. Continue reading
Le castor Canadien magnifique! Continue reading
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. When I got there, DreamWorks and Working Title Films were preparing to defile the memory of Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Rebecca. Yes, it’s true. Movieline reports that producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Serious Man) are on board, while Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) will be writing the script based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel. No word on a director yet. Is it fair to call it a remake if they’re adapting from the novel? Maybe not, but this adaptation will inevitably be compared to Hitchock’s Best Picture-winning film. Continue reading
So many awards, so many performances, so much opportunity for snark!
The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be on CBS 8PM / 7 Central.
You can watch the live stream on the CBS website.
Here are nominees for the top awards:
I was very sad to hear about Whitney Houston’s death. It was touching to see the outpouring of grief from the public, media and other performers. Or was it?
The majority of her hits and film success were ’85 through ’95. For the last twenty years we (the general population, media included) have pruriently waited to see the Whitney train come off the rails, and it did – several times. A disastrous marriage, a drug bust, public misbehavior, and misfired comebacks were all gossip page features. The tabloids and the main stream outlets jumped on every opportunity to show photos of her wasted and videos of her of her attempted comebacks. We laughed at her incoherent interviews and quotes about drugs. Comedians specialized in portraying her at her worst. I don’t remember other “A” list performers being particularly vocal defending her or working to give her another chance. Continue reading