“Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven’t done and something I hope I’ll never have to do. “ - Spike Lee 1. Apple has had no philanthropic activities in 14 years – a rarity for... More
Screw Borat, Kazakhstan rocks. (Citation follows): Ulytau – Two Warriors Kazakhstan is one of the five Central Asian republics that split off from the Soviet Union in the early Nineties. Little-heard from, at over 2 700 000 km2, it’s larger than Western Europe. After the break-up, they even had the... More
Capricorn After your family discovers “Snooki nude photos” in your Google search history, you’ll quietly pack up and live off the land for a few years, hoping things will eventually blow over. Aquarius One time, many years ago, you thought about looking up your astrological sign on the internet. Upon... More
If Bob Marley is to roots reggae what Buddy Holly was to rock n’ roll, who are John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger? Some are fairly well agreed upon as masters of the genre: Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Jimmy Cliff, of course… Who else? It’s all... More
“It is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped like Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, or sham like Berlin, or hellish like New York, or tiresome like Nice. It is all right. The only depressing thing is that it will always be what it is, only larger, and that no Canadian... More
Capricorn ViolentAcrez will name you a Mod on Tuesday. The FBI will name you a dangerous offender on Wednesday. Aquarius We’ve been putting it off for a long time, but your friends will finally sit you down and tell you this week: dude, the Black & White music video came... More
“The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.” - Marshall McLuhan 1. Grand Theft Auto and The Price is Right use the same font. 2. We call the animal “turkey” because the English used to think it came from Turkey. The Turks call it Hindi for the same resason. ... More
Capricorn Your ongoing insistence that you are of Chinese ethnicity will not prevent DJ Jazzy Jeff and Meryl Streep from claiming you as their love child. Aquarius After discovering that beer goggles and mirrors make a perfect combination, you will have a reemergence of faith in yourself. It will not... More
“It’s said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn’t care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask. “ -Roger Ebert Writer, actor, director, stuntman… today’s Five Easy Clips is about none other than Mr. Buster Keaton. If you have never seen a Buster Keaton... More
“Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.” - Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937) 1. In most of the world, people don’t pay for incoming calls or texts. 2.... More
Capricorn Imagine a world where everyone but Capricorns had died, leaving you to finally frolic free of the non-seagoats, making sweet seagoat love all the seagoat-long day. Now imagine a world ruled by Kim Jong Il. If given a choice, what would most people choose? How does that make you... More
“Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.” - Pierre Trudeau 1. The McBain clips in the Simpsons form a full movie. 2. In olden times sailors wore gold earrings so that if their body washed ashore the gold would pay for a... More