Miscellaneous, etc.

I’ve developed a pre-occupation with advertising music lately, particularly folksy, female-vocal songs that accompany fashion commercials.  Call it a quirk.
Waiting to get snowed in on Saturday night, Tina and I took in a broad selection of horrid cable programming — though nothing was topped by Sunday’s all-day marathon of Cheerleader Nation, which seared our souls […]

Not to be outdone by the British releasing man-eating war badgers in Basra, the United States has upped the ante to stealth sharks in the Euphrates:

“Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark’s presence.
Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a “75 percent chance” Americans had put the shark in the water.
“This is very frightening […]

Comrade Miller finally won in his quest to introduce two new taxes to the citizens of Toronto this week, making it 1% more expensive to buy a new house (unless you’re a first-time buyer), $60 more expensive to register for your car, and 64% easier for me to justify staying north of Steeles. He […]

1. A series of questions
Friday afternoon
Co-worker: I heard the White Stripes were playing a free live show downtown today?
Me: Yeah, I read the same thing. Too bad we couldn’t be down there, huh?
Co-worker: Seriously! Is it part of the Live Earth thing, do you think?
Me: I… don’t think so? I don’t know. Are we even […]

I just threw away sixty minutes that I could have spent eating delicious cookies.
Now I’ll never get them back. And no matter how many cookies I eat, they’ll never be as sweet as the ones I might have had during that wasted, wasted hour.
“Don’t serve the time, let the time serve you”? Oh […]