Look The Part, Be The Part, Motherfucker
Robert F. Chew, who played Prop Joe on The Wire has died. (Baltimore...
Read MoreAuthor: Carle Steel
There But For The Grace Of God Go…
Oh wait! This is exactly where we’re going! (Atlantic Cities)
Read MoreWe Won’t Be Fooled Again
On Monday, First Nations people across Canada were out protesting by the thousands right under the noses of the media. How were we supposed to know? We were busy with the Ikea monkey that day! Yeesh. But, being the gracious...
Read MoreThat’s My Wonderful Town (Part Deux)
Oh, Regina. First you leave a severed deer head at my door, then you charm me with bats. If you are blessed with a bat in your habitat, call Mark Brigham at the U of R and he’ll send out a crack team of bat whisperers to...
Read MoreWho Are These People? (UPDATED!)
Oh for fuck’s sake. All rested up from starving the universities and killing the film industry, the provincial government is now about to legalize stripping in bars. Good God, all these people seem to think about is beer...
Read MoreSchadenfreuddit
There’s an excellent article on Gawker about Reddit and internet trolling — and about one troll in particular, Violentacrez, aka Michael Brutsch. It’s absolutely riveting, and worth the second-hand exposure to...
Read MoreLook At This Beautiful Bus
Isn’t that just the prettiest bus? It’s full of hippies! Christians! Cult followers! Bob Dylan fans! Anyway, these very nice people from a group called The Twelve Tribes came through and had an impromptu open house...
Read MoreMy Gay Old Town
Can’t embed the video from Comedy Central, but here is a link to a brilliant Daily Show bit on Regina a few years back. (Comedy Central) Enjoy!
Read MoreHelen Gurley Brown, R.I.P.
Trailblazing journalist and former Cosmopolitan editor has died at 90. (NYT) Gurley Brown recently gave $30 million dollars towards innovation in journalism. (NYT) Probably to atone for some of the terrible sex advice Cosmo has...
Read MoreDavid Rakoff, R.I.P.
Really great writer, humorist and essayist David Rakoff has died. (NYTimes) And this from This American Life.
Read MoreProgressives Just Won The Next Civic Election
This post has been updated: my first take on the new stadium (LP) was a little gloomy. (I know, right? Me, gloomy?) Now I’m feeling quite chuffed about the whole thing. We’re getting a new stadium that seems like...
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