Dr_Evil_Mouse

I'm saving up all my apocalyptic musings for A Game of Thrones

I really thought their would be a bunch of nutjobs setting fires all over the world

GeorgeBushandJohnAshcroft

instead of 'giving' their money away to the poor bastards they know will be left behind, the popular choice seems to be to spend every last f'ing penny on themselves

That's it, in a nutshell. I feel so sorry for the kids in this case (and to be sure in way too many others) whose parents and subjected them to this future, but this is exactly the kind of self-indulgence that rots Christianity from within.

I liked this piece that went up a few days ago on HuffPost - thought it nailed it pretty well. Desiring the End of the World

Fair enough; those little dailies like the Metro and so on do exactly the same job as well.

Hammersmith Odeon, 1978

I can only go by what the students in my Critical Thinking class have to say, when they're given an assignment where they need to go point-by-point through a comparison of the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Sun, and a fair 98% of them end up opting for the Citizen, just because of the depth of the stories and the sense that they're not being pandered to by some news organisation that's telling them how their supposed to be thinking. I'm not even much of a fan of the Citizen, but I do think that this tells volumes about what the Sun is about, and how it reaches their audiences.

Meh. All the best jokes been taken. Happy bday weekend, y'ole fella .

I don't think I can top any of those.

Happy birthday, MarcO

Looks good . Wow, the last time I was in that place was to see Noises from the Toolshed four or five years ago. If I can behave and get away at a decent hour, I hope to be able to catch you guys.

Thanks, bud - great to see you last night . The open-stage starts up in about an hour - get back on that horse!

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Thanks everybody who made it out. That was a hoot!

You betcha - we've got two birthday boys on board, in fact.

innocent patriotism

Ditto

Update (and bump) - show kicks off at 9, I believe with us first in line.

Dead Man's Hat will make their triumphant "Oh there you are, sheesh, where have you been for the last year" return, playing Irene's this Friday night for the inaugural Best of Open Mic show. It'll be a relatively short set, but I'd encourage people to come out and catch all three acts - there's some awfully fine musicianship that I know I'll be appreciating. Fun starts 7:30-8 (this apparently in spite of what the Irene's website would tell us). We'll be the second lot up. Hope that folks can make it out.

Russell Levia

Dead Man's Hat

Agreed. The only guy more shameful in the area, imo, is Poilievre, but we have no chance in hell of getting rid of him. Good luck with Baird.

project democracy

very cool site that applies polling to local ridings. probably not really precise but cool.

It seems the stats are based on the '08 election, but it's at least a quick and handy reminder of how things went last time. The word of advice for my own riding is that it's pretty much hopeless to get the Con incumbent out (no surprises there, given the guy and the riding), so vote by conscience. More up-to-date polls would be handy, though (however unreliable).

I wish I never saw Breaking Bad and that I could watch it for the first time.

I've been re-watching it all for the last week and a bit; I'm now up to episode 10 of season 3. I have to confess, it's way easier to focus on the subtleties of the show now that the edge of all the tension is dulled a bit. And what amazing subtleties there are. Bryan Cranston's acting is absolutely brilliant.

How long till we start reading about honour killings because of all this? There are lots of batshit-crazy dads and brothers out there.

I'm still wrestling hard with the strategic voting thing. I'm sure that was at the forefront of the 3/4 of the participants tonight, though. Iggy came off better than I thought he would, at least; it feels like that was a result of him not letting go of any the scandals that have come up over the last couple of years, repeated often enough to keep them in awareness over the course of the debate.

Quick! Your favourite show from 1974 - I don't have all day!

Elizabeth May needed to be there, simply put.

Can't wait for Friday's show . Thanks for the review, KK - I didn't quite know what the composition would be this time around.