Thursday, July 07, 2022
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
Meet Vic, the mortician
Will your cat eat you if you die?
When you croak, are you buried or cremated with un-poohed poo still inside you?
Wouldn't you like a chirpy, way-too-cheery mortician to answer questions for ya?
Your wish is granted.
But beware his lip and tongue stapler.
(14 mins)
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
Tell your shrink
Toronto Maple Leafs fans voted NHL’s ‘most annoying,' ‘most delusional’ https://t.co/0Us8sqrNGE
— Montreal Gazette (@mtlgazette) July 4, 2022
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Patrick Watson ( 1929 - 2022 )
It's 1964.
Millions discover a Sunday night TV show called
This Hour Has Seven Days.
Patrick Watson and Laurier LaPierre front
the CBC's most popular, controversial hour.
It has a hold on national attention,
pop culture, confrontational interviews,
off-beat stories and satire.
The ratings are historic.
More than 3 million viewers.
The cheeky week-that-was squad
produces hockey numbers.
With its irreverent format
and anti-authoritarian
take on current events,
it becomes the morning-after hot topic,
"the Peoples' Show."
For two years it kicks ass,
inspires a generation of new mediafolk
to move for a decade, like moths to a light,
towards Toronto.
I was one of them.
Two years later, the CBC locked
in a death spiral with the show's
hosts and producer Doug Leiterman,
unwilling to cede power
to the show's sensational success.
The CBC cancels Seven Days in 1966.
Troublemaker Watson
later resurfaces in positions of broadcast
influence and power.
But the CBC cancelled
the highest-rated show of its time
largely to prove that it could.
The gatekeepers and dinosaurs
felt threatened.
On Watson's passing,
let it be noted.
There's a fair take on the politics
of the kill at the link below.
Top image: Laurier LaPierre,
Dinah Christie and Patrick Watson
This Hour Has Seven Days
Monday, July 04, 2022
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Sunday, July 03, 2022
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A Piano Solo
Keith Jarrett plays a song you know.
Is he the Glenn Gould of jazz piano?
Song: Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg.
Zapple
A nice thing about dating a doctor is if you wanna stop seeing them, you can just eat an apple— mark normand
RETRO TUNE: Paris (Lyric)
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The Chainsmokers' tune Paris has become a TikTok abortion rights anthem.
The lyrics from the five-year-old tune have been turned into hashtags (#wegodowntogether) with close to 80 million views.
The Washington Post has a piece
on the phenom here.
Saturday, July 02, 2022
Friday, July 01, 2022
July 1 2022
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
"Canada is ... "
column fave is
Leave it to beev
Happy dam Canada Day.
_A salute to our national spirit animal,
"a clumsy, waddling football of flesh"
according to zefrank1, below
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