Entries Tagged as 'Stupid And Amusing'

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Onion Stories Brought to Life

By my own city nonetheless. This is just so … Toronto of us.
Hey, look. It’s a family having fun. Good times. Summer days. A city that, while probably suffering from a Smog warning, still has plenty of summertime activities to enjoy.
What problems could the City of Toronto have with a photograph that displays exactly that [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Sarah Palin told me so

Sarah Palin used to be entertaining.
I mean, she was the perfectly-cast Hollywood sideshow foil that made last year’s election so incredibly riveting. She was so good at being the election’s comic relief that watching Tina Fey imitate her was almost disappointing. It was impossible to play a Folksy Right Wing Nutjob character and get more [...]

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

You an' me both, Pavel

Q: How difficult has it been for you to sit and watch rather than be playing
PAVEL DATSYUK: Oh, I tell you, just this is not fun to watch. I take in lots of beer.
Me too, Pav. And I don’t even have the luxury of imagining how different things would be if only I [...]

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Frodo Baggins explains why the Sharks are losing

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Yeah … this is an essay about JRR Tolkien, the hero’s journey and how it applies to flameouts in [...]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

NHL Poetry: First-round playoff edition

We’re in the playoffs, primed for a cup or a monumental choke job - there’s really not a lot of middle ground for the Wings anymore - and it’s time to make some predictions, through everyone’s favourite forms of lazy-man poetry, the haiku and limerick. When we get to the second round, I promise, I’ll do sonnets.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Mmmmmm … tears

Like so many other Canadians, and citizens in countries around the world, I offer my profound thanks to the American electorate for making the right decision. After the past eight years, a lot of us doubted you could arise from what seemed a collective stupor in time to act to preserve the ideals of the [...]