So, a little while ago I wrote a post for the good people over at Shareaholic. Below is an excerpt from the post, follow the link below to read the whole post!How Do I Best Connect With People?First off, when I see Twitter trends that jive wi…

So, this week our illustrious movie maker William Matthews, over at www.digitialfootprint.ca, and I wanted to do something a little different for Movie Monday. Thus, we set out on our 1 and a half hour journey (really, more like 5 hours) from the west …

So, in case you haven’t noticed, I tend not to blog on the weekend. Usually, this doesn’t matter as most of you are out in the world having fun and not reading as many blog posts (right???). This weekend, it actually causes a very large pro…

Black is back ………, and it’s about time! Look folks, in spite of what you think about Conrad Black, the only reason he is not a Canadian right now is because Jean Chretien wanted to play ‘my dick is bigger than yours”‘ and was an actual prick about it! (Which only goes to prove that [...]

Now and The Grid face off in the newspaper wars So, when I first got to Toronto there were mainly two weekly publications, both publishing on Thursday, that went after the “twenty to thirty something” cohort of readers. They were “N…

By Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – As a former high-profile U.S. federal prosecutor, John McKay stands behind actions that had Canada’s “Prince of Pot” arrested, indicted and ultimately sentenced to five years in an American prison. But he does agree with Marc Emery on one point: marijuana should be legal. McKay sat side-by-side [...]

So, we’ve been doing a lot of politics lately, budget season tends to do that to me, but I promised diversity of content, and dammit, I will deliver!I’ve decided that reviewing albums is a perfectly fun and reasonable thing to do together, …

Charlie Brooker’s rant about the Kony 2012 viral video, as seen on the British comedy program 10 O’Clock Live last week, including the round-table discussion that followed. Along with countless millions of others, I watched the “Kony 2012” vid…

Long ago and far away, I would write occasional columns entitled Urgent Questions, and today I reprise it, and present Urgent Questions About Pressing Matters: What on Earth is a “group womb cleanse” or “vegan womb cleanse”? Signs for both have appeared on telephone poles recently in my downtown Toronto neighbourhood and I am at …

I come from a very musical family (buy my sister’s band’s EP: The Prime Minister of Cool Chicks) and musical theatre has always been a big part of my life. One of my earliest memories is seeing a production of Brigadoon at the high school m…

Last week, I took a (semi) objective look back at the 1990s nostalgia craze in our politics, from Democrats who remember the time with all the glory and majesty as the most ardent Fox Newsie remembers the Reagan ’80s, to Newt Gingrich’s comeback on the Republican side of the ledger.
Before I sign off for the [...]

David Frum is concerned that a Newt Gingrich revival will bring back memories of the Clinton impeachment scandal, but what if the real danger is the return of one of the most popular children’s action-adventure shows? I of course refer to the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.
I had heard stories about Gingrich’s fascination with the ‘teenagers with attitude’ [...]

Gilligan is marooned on “Más a Tierra”, later renamed to Robinson Crusoe Island, with Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who had a low tolerance for bullshit Joey (from Friends) is sent back in time to live with Fourth Earl of Sandwic…

Jes of XOXO is a humorous and often sarcastic voice situated in Calgary, Alberta, or “Calgs” as she calls it. She’s a prolific blogger that’s always up to date on the latest entertainment and events in her hometown, and she sh…

A blonde, looking to earn some extra money, decided to offer her services as a “handy woman” and started canvassing an affluent nearby neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do. “Well, I guess I could use somebody [...]

Caution: Extremely graphic and crude! There has been a lot of discussion about the decline of Western society, and this one video best exemplifies just how degenerated segments the American public has become. When Muslims, and other religious groups react with shock and horror at the depravity and lose morals of North American society, and [...]

Did you see this in the top 10 trending topics for Toronto last week? It was there for THREE days, you guys. That’s on some London Riots or Egypt-type shit. As a member of the #bramptongirls tribe (shout out Springdale!) the hashtag fascinated me. “#BramptonGirls is trending. tears of joy,” I tweeted. That got me [...]

NEW YORK — The most evocative sign here at the moment is, and do not reach for the tissues, the graffiti near my SoHo hotel which reads, “Kim Kardashian’s Ass IS Fashion Week.” The best slogan I’ve seen on a T-shirt is, “High Heels, High Hopes”, and the wearer was clearly a believer. And the …

Ok, so I’m overdue for a real post.  But I came across this blog and kicked myself for not having thought up the concept earlier:  Accidental Chinese Hipsters. I think the title pretty much explains itself.  It’s an affectionate spotlighting of the best out-there style choices, as donned by a group of completely unintentional older [...]

Dark of the what now? John Swansburg over at Slate argues that the original Transformers movie — the 1986 animated classic that memorably killed off Optimus Prime — is the best Transformers movie to date. It’s not a hard argument to make, even though The Transformers: The Movie doesn’t make much sense when you re-watch [...]