American Idol has always kind of sucked,  but apparently it's now become bad enough that people are starting to eat their own.

We won't be having this problem in Canada, since Canadian Idol  recently decided it was time to take a hiatus.  In honour of this decision… Read full post »

 

A friend of mine just invited me to join this lovely facebook group, Shit Record Covers .  There are over a thousand of the worst record covers you can imagine, from Merry Christmas with The Mom and Dads to U.S. Senator Robert Byrd--Mountain Fiddler.  Truly a record cover… Read full post »

An example of "alien handwriting" courtesy of www.abduct.com… Read full post »

The NY Times didn't quite have the humility to embed this very funny spoof  of their Weekender TV ad. But they did at least link to it.

They liked the jab at how their book section is too self-absorbed.  Personally, I like the section that lists all… Read full post »

Les Quebecois love football.  Really.  But they don't quite understand all of the Super Bowl rituals.  I learned this tonight when  we were invited to watch it at the parents of one of my son's long time neighborhood friends.

This was a big deal for my son.  He's stil… Read full post »

 We were always a good American car owning family. My uncle was a Vice President at Ford, in charge of paint. He was hardly a devout Catholic, but in Pine Lake circles he was known as the Pope of Paint. He died last year. So now I guess… Read full post »

 

Being a Canadian fan of Battlestar Galactica has always been a little weird because Cylons are almost always played by Canadian actors. In fact, I could have told you the identity of the fifth Cylon just from  a little research at imdb.com, but I didn't want to spoil… Read full post »

As JK Brady wrote about,  Canada recently got together and voted on a list of songs for Obama....But I felt we should at least have one for President Bush. Back in the 80s, when video was first starting out, Mitsou was Quebec's answer to Madonna. Here she is with… Read full post »

Dear President Obama,

According to the buzz up here you're planning a trip to Canada soon after your inauguration. I'm sure by now you know that we have a prime minister not a president. You may or may not know, however, that he's kind of a jerk. But I'm sure you'll… Read full post »

In the movie, Elf, just before Buddy sets out on a voyage to find his father, he gets a little pep talk from The Snowman. “Buddy, I’ve been around the world many times, when I was a young cumulus nimbus cloud. It’s a wondrous place filled with wondrous creatures, except dogs./…

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About twelve years ago I set out on a big adventure. My then boyfriend and I decided to drive from Salt Lake City, Utah, to wherever we ended up, which turned out to be Costa Rica, six months later.

That adventure is a whole other story, which maybe I… Read full post »

And I say unto thee that this really happened, pretty much the way I say it did, two years ago today. More or less.

It did happen on a second or third day of January that I was looking over some pretty scary credit card bills, and so I did travel to… Read full post »

I discovered I was pregnant about a week after I joined the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. VHEMT is a bit like a death cult. It was created by Les U. Knight, a radical environmentalist who believes that abstaining from reproduction is the best thing we can do for the planet.… Read full post »

Maybe? I just noticed he hasn't been around very much in the last couple of weeks. And it's getting pretty hardcore over at Hinterland Who's Who. Just check out Whotube

For those of you not up to date with the recent concern of OS activists for the dilemna of… Read full post »

In response to Michael Rodgers post on the wet beaver....

When it comes to fetishizing the wet beaver, no country can compete with Canada. We have the wet beaver on our money!

Here are a few exciting facts about the wet beaver, trimmed from Environment Canada's. Hinterland's Who's Who. Please…

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Then again they never did...And I think everyone would agree with Bill Lee that Dick ran "a nice loose ship" back then.

If you haven't yet seen this strange and hilarious video, do that now, because nothing I write here will make much sense to you otherwise.

Welcome to the wonderful bizzaro world of This Is My Milwaukee. From what people who actually live in Milwaukee are saying, it doesn't bear much resemblance/…

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I found this insane parody of a tourism video on awfulcommercials.com., run by OS poster Allen Henderson. I so loved This Is My Milwaukee that I uploaded it to my Facebook page. Speculation thus far it that this is a quirky viral ad campaign for something, maybe a video/…

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My Jack Russell, Blitzen, was born on Christmas 1997, a few weeks before my grandmother died, and before the ice storm of 1998. According to the coffee table book The Ice Storm, this was "the most destructive weather disaster in Canada's recorded history." Which is saying a lot, because we… Read full post »

Wow, so depressing to read in Salon today about 700 billion dollars just disappearing into the banks. So here's a post about 1.7 billion that brought about change I've actually seen in my lifetime.

A couple of years before my son was born, the Canadian province I live in,… Read full post »

Nobody wants to be Jenny McCarthy. And, even though I have a kid with a developmental disorder, I had as good a laugh as anyone at the satire of a neurotic overinvested parent worried that her kid can't learn the Russian alphabet. And I too enjoyed Amy Tuteur's post… Read full post »

NYTimes column this morning by Judith Warner



Guilty!

Back when I was writing a regular column about being a single mother, I was so smug about my detachment from my son. He had such a life without me. I was always bumping into people who would say "hey I saw Ben… Read full post »