Canadian weather is severely messed up at the moment. It’s 12 degrees in Toronto — going up to 15 tomorrow and 17 Wednesday, according to forecasts — while it snows in Vancouver. Poor Vancity…so much rain they were expecting an ark, and instead they got a blizzard.
17 degrees on the 2nd-to-last day of November…something not right about that.
[tags]toronto weather, vancouver snowfall, vancouver rain[/tags]
Jack the Ripper finally has a face.
Thanks to state-of-the-art profiling techniques, police in England have come up with a computer-generated image of the man who terrorized late 19th century Britain, mutilating five prostitutes in the east London neighbourhood of Whitechapel.
[tags]jack the ripper[/tags]
We tried to go see Casino Royale today, but it was sold out. Drag.
The movie theatre was abnormally busy; at first we thought it was related to all the suburbanites who drove into the city to see the Santa Claus Parade [warning: WORST WEBSITE EVER], but that seemed unlikely as those folks were all pushing their strollers to wherever they’d parked their Caravans. It’s not that popular a movie (in North America, anyway); it didn’t even win the box office weekend, losing to a bunch of animated penguins.
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The elephants are as mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore.
All across Africa, India and parts of Southeast Asia, from within and around whatever patches and corridors of their natural habitat remain, elephants have been striking out, destroying villages and crops, attacking and killing human beings. In fact, these attacks have become so commonplace that a new statistical category, known as human-elephant conflict, or HEC, was created by researchers in the mid-1990s to monitor the problem.
Call me insensitive, but I’m rooting for the elephants.
[tags]casino royale, santa claus parade, angry elephants[/tags]
The Bush administration has appointed Eric Keroack head of the federal Office of Population Affairs, which is responsible for federal family planning program and budgets. Dr. Keroack is also the medical director of A Woman’s Concern, “an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion.”
My guess is that this is Bush’s way of saying “fuck you” to the Democrats, who can do little about this, if anything at all.
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Making a Johnny Cash / Neko Case concert CD doesn’t make much sense. Then again, maybe it makes all kinds of sense.
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If you haven’t checked out today’s Daily Dose of Imagery, you really should. In general, if you don’t look at that site every day, you really should.
[tags]bush, eric keroack, office of population affairs, johnny cash, neko case, daily dose of imagery[/tags]
P. Dwight Wilson, Lloyd Clemett and John Babcock: the last of a dying breed.
Our most humble thanks, gentlemen.
[tags]remembrance day[/tags]
Are we really at the point where we’d consider giving babies Prozac?
[tags]infants, prozac[/tags]
Can you, in fact, fight the moonlight?
[tags]leann rimes, moonlight fighting[/tags]
Shiites celebrate, while Sunnis vow revenge.
Surely, nothing bad will come of this.
[tags]saddam hussein sentenced[/tags]
Via Cinematical we learn that Bill O’Reilly is very concerned about horror movies. What delicious irony; most of the world thinks that Bill O’Reilly is a horror movie.
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Seen Reading is a very cool little blog written by Julie Wilson, set here in Toronto, where she spots what people are reading and writes about it online. I’ve found a new favourite morning read. [via Torontoist]
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My brother points out why you should always read more than just one newspaper. Bonus: if you stick around for the comments, you can see him flick a narrow-minded Ontarian in the ear. Metaphorically, of course.
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Right, off to dinner.
[tags]cinematical, bill o’reilly, seen reading, julie wilson[/tags]
Sorry about the lack of blogging over the past couple of days. I’ve been kind of heads-down with work, errands and this stats assignment. The assignment’s mostly done though, so I can relax for a few days.
Today we ran around town doing a bunch of things:
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We also watched a movie called Stardom (imdb | rotten tomatoes), directed by Denys Arcand and starring (rowr) Jessica Pare. It wasn’t great, but I laughed at the parts where they skewered celebrity culture. My favourite: the “Annual Slalom for Bosnia” charity event.
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The religious right is whipping the TV industry like a rented mule. Beating it like a red-headed stepchild. Smacking it like it stole something. NBC has agreed not to show Madonna singing a song from atop a cross during her TV special, airing next month.
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From tederick we find this story about a woman who experienced the feeling of lightning shooting out her ass. Zowie! Is there anything Croatians can’t do?
By the way, kudos to tederick for the use of a post-carbonite-Han quote. Don’t try that at home, kids.
[tags]world press photo, condo, quail and firkin, all the best, stardom, nbc, madonna, tederick, ass lightning, han, carbonite[/tags]
