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Widen the 401 to 36 lanes.
Or 42. Or 60. Whatever.
Give budget spare change to poor people.
Budgets always stirred, never shaken.
Slide hidden pea from first cup to third cup.
Voice own PC commercials as good times guy, Dougie on the block. Hot dog hero.
Backslaps. Photo ops.
Make big buy on YouTube and socials.
Piss on political pipsqueaks. Yahoo flea bites.
Covid? What covid?
Cross fingers.
Warning: the above click is a gory, vengeful, murderous cartoon. It's pretty horrific.
If you enjoy Saw, Clockwork Orange, slasher flicks, playing video games where the kill count is in the hundreds or blood and lust graphic novels, this short may hold some charm for you.
Since YouTube and the New Yorker put this in my in-box, it may have redeeming artistic value.
If you think 2022 is already over-run with crazies, hate and spontaneous violence, take a pass. Think Itchy & Scratchy on The Simpsons.
Yes, I watched all of it. (20 mins)
In a week of tech and socials navel-gazing, why has an algorithm decided I--and now maybe you--should see it?
Is it entertainment?
Obviously, I'm leery.
Break out the snacks!
Prince Chuck and his wife The Camster will come for a Canada quickie May 17 to May 19, 2022.
They say the spring
means just one thing
to little love birds,
We're not above birds ... Let's Misbehave.
A song Cole Porter wrote in 1927 has been re-recorded and newly energized almost every decade since.
The tune was tossed out of Paris, a musical and replaced with Let's Do It.
One of the latest versions above...
And the original, below.
Twitter's new Big Tweetie lets his freak flag fly just before midnight....
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A sort of love story.
In the muck.
Zefrank1 unleashes his best fairy tale voice for this puddle of longing.
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Comedian Joe List gets a haircut.
If you ever got a bad trim, this will make you feel better. (10 mins, adult language)
JULY 29 - Paradise Theater, 9 pm
1006 Bloor St Toronto, ON
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Ryerson becomes "Metropolitan University"
The school announced the change on Tuesday after Ryerson University’s board of directors voted last summer to change its name, following public condemnation over Egerton Ryerson’s role as a primary architect of Canada’s residential schools.
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Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes
Woke up this morning
Got a blue moon in your eyes
You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down,
Lord above, thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked in our town.
Our town is--of course--Tkaranto
The Mohawk word for "where there are trees standing in the water"
Get with it.
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Johnny Depp put this childhood pal/artist in a penthouse and gave him $100,000 to make more of these.
Art: Isaac Baruch
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I'm always intrigued by things that Go Bump In The Night.
So news that five hibernating bears knocked around a renter's floorboards all winter, strikes me as charming. He'd heard a thumping, bumping and eventually -- a growl.
The bears were lured out of a South Lake Tahoe house in recent hours.
If Netflix or Quentin Tarentino were involved, it could be far worse.
Thank goodness Netflix prepared us to binge-watch eight or ten hours of bad actors mumbling dim lines about unlikely events.
It makes it a breeze to choke down a daily dose of the Johnny Depp - Amber Heard bouts.
A complete cast of hangers-on and enablers encircles them, a fantasy world of teacup doggies, penthouses, 40 cars, broken cabinets, secret tapings, drunken e-mails, an island and ... a horse.
MMA and Wrestlemania, go fish. Ditto Bridgerton.
After a nasty divorce comes a public round of you bastard, you bitch. Who shit the bed?
Will we ever again watch a Bravo Housewife throw a wine glass or tip a table and think: "Wow"?
I doubt it.
How did Depp and Heard find their wildly odd lawyers?
Central casting?
A unique voice/writer of the 1980s, re-visits his Motown R&B hits recently ...
DeBarge is 60. The falsetto is solid.
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I thought about this boar repeatedly during a screening of Coda.
Forget the Oscar slap. The real shocker is why a stereotypical, trope-laden example of Screenwriting 101 won Best Picture.
Coda makes Sandra Bullock seem believable in Rudy. Almost. Let's not go nuts here.
Three minutes of k.d. lang in 1985 ...
Song: Hal David and Sherman Edward
A Joanie Sommers hit, Johnny Get Angry appears on many Worst Songs Ever lists
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Cowabunga!
1954, American English, exclamation of surprise and anger by "Chief Thunderthud" in "The Howdy Doody Show," 1950s children's TV show.
Also used by surfers 1960s as a shout of triumph,
Bart Simpson,
and spread worldwide 1990s by use in the TV cartoon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
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A chilly reminder of what made the Peanut Gallery laugh. Buffalo Bob Smith, Chief Thunderthud and Clarabelle the Clown.
Morse, the Tony-award window washer kid at World Wide Wickets, years before his TV turn at Mad Men.
Song: Frank Loesser, How to Succeed in Business
Stephen King's career was primed by "the first horror movie I ever saw," Bambi.
(I made it thru Bambi, but fled the theater during the original The Thing. Remember the claw in the door?)
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Bird-Friendly Beef. Cattle ranchers want to label cow parts as Bird Friendly Beef. The Audubon Society will authorize the blessing if farms show their practices restore bird populations.
(Do the cows know they're bird friendly? Eat him, not me.)
Whenever I drift into the warm current of memory, I grab this Mark Morford quote ...
"In 1942 you couldn't buy a vibrator to save your life, much less your marriage. People were playing scratchy 78s on their steam-powered turntables and danced in heavy girdles made of bailing wire and lost hopes. Merely uttering the words "double soy mocha latte" in some states would get you shot for being some sort of Communist. Life was brutal. Thongs had yet to be invented. Radiohead didn't exist. Telephones were made of wood and string and lots of yelling. People ate meat from a can. Power steering was science fiction."
Exactly.
Morford was a popular columnist in San Francisco, but has morphed into an on-line yoga guru who now seems a most serious soul.
(Yes, I seed nightmares of what-happens-to-old-typists just before sleep. Yoga. Yikes.)
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“When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before. It’s Groundhog Day. I feel like Bill Murray.”
“Russian propagandists say that we’re eating people here, that we have killer pigeons, special biological weapons … They make videos, create content, and show Ukrainian birds supposedly attacking their planes. Putin and Lukashenko—they make it sound like some kind of political Monty Python.”
This late-night confessional and j'accuse makes amazing reading...
LINK: Zelensky interview (Atlantic mag)
This Tokyo mall has had enough of men cluttering up the corridors and benches.
Is there anything sadder than a grumpy guy sitting outside a women's store with a 33% off sale?
Stick him in a husband depository.
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Three minutes of Canadian TV, 1988.
Below, a CHCH-TV staffer remembers...
I was fortunate to be the recording engineer on this show, recorded at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario on Dec 9, 1988 as part of the incredible "In Session" series. Glen also recorded an episode in 1983 with Leon Russell. He was a pleasure to work with on both occasions. No star attitude whatsoever, and a great sense of humor. The musicians were all Toronto studio session "A" team players: Kevan McKenzie on drums, Peter Cardinali on bass, Bob Mann on guitar and Lou Pomanti on synths. These shows had almost no rehearsals. The band learned the ten or twelve most famous songs by each artist the night before and musical director Bobby Edwards would write out chord charts. We would arrive around 10am the following day, tape about three hours of music with a one hour lunch break in the middle, and hope to get two half-hour episodes out of it. Other pairs of performers on the 26 episodes were Stevie Ray Vaughan with Albert King, Johnny Winter with Dr. John, Emmylou Harris with Rodney Crowell, Spencer Davis with Dave Mason, Chet Atkins with Liona Boyd, BB King with Larry Carlton, Mickey Newbury with Larry Gatlin, Brenda Lee with Owen Bradley, Richie Havens with John Sebastian, Steve Cropper with Eddie Floyd & William Bell, Burton Cummings with Don Everly, and many more that featured great Nashville songwriters who were not household names. Many of the shows have been posted on YouTube by fans. Just enter the pair of artists' names and "In Session". The producer who put all these talented people together and came up with the concept was Ian Anderson, who passed away last year. The shows were directed by the late Ron Meraska, a brilliant director of music specials here in Canada.
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