Looks like I’m taking requests now. JC sent me this link, via which you can order trucker hats that read “Papist”. Order one, order a dozen. It might help calm those of you down who emailed me to complain that the Pope had ordered all his worldly possessions to be burned. No, I don’t know […] More »
Here’s the headline in the Globe today, re: a serious health concern: Obesity a Big Deal, Statscan Says Wait, I’ve got one for them—Suicide Rate Jumps. How about—Cancer Growing Out of Control. Endless hilarity. More »
While this is sure to enrage This Magazine publishers past and present, I am obliged to draw your attention to the goings-on over at The Walrus Online. Yesterday, an online chat took place live from Oxford University, on the question of the future of multiculturalism. It was moderated by the Walrus’s Ken Alexander. A major […] More »
My new penpal Nic from U Michigan has taken time out from peppering me with questions about the Rebel Sell, to make a cartoon based on our account of cool. It’s pretty excellent. Check it out here (and dig the shout out to Montreal’s hottest, The Arcade Fire). More »
Mackenzie River This river belongs wholly to itself obeying its own laws Its wide brown eye softens what it reflects from sky and shore The top water calm moves purposely to a cold sea … A river so Canadian it turns its back on America The arctic shore receives the vast flow a maze of […] More »
With all the big, recent deaths in the news, I completely missed the fact that feminism has passed away due to complications from the entertainment industry. Where’s that funeral? I’ll bet a newly single guy could get some action there. Photo: AP/Vanity Fair/Mark Seliger More »
“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.” So begins THE great American novel, The Adventures of Augie […] More »
Sometimes, Urban Legends turn out to be true. To mourn the passing of the Pope, the Cross on the top of Mount Royal has turned purple. Well, sort of a mauve. Here’s a link to some photos and a brief history. Thanks to YULblog for the link. More »
Funny piece in the Guardian on the death of protestant supremacy in that most-Protestant of nations, England. When the King-to-be postpones his own wedding so as not to conflict with the funeral of a Pope, well, frankly, all the good Catholic-supression work of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I is a little bit undermined, isn’t it? […] More »
A colleague sent me this link from Yahoo news, and he wrote, “I don`t know why but I like everything about this headline in Yahoo news today.” Vatican Gridlocked as Hordes Rush in to Mourn Pope I agree. It brings a big, random, smile to my face. More »