Even if you’ve never been to Toronto — or if you neither love it nor hate it, nor even feign indifference to it — you’ll enjoy the TORONTO entry on Wikiality (The Truthiness Encyclopedia):
Getting Around
Toronto has a vast public transportation system. There is a subway, streetcars, and buses. The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) [...]

This ad’s been around for a while, but now that it’s made its way to the rotating, eye-contact-avoidance-facilitation system in the elevators at my office, I have to wonder what the fuck weatherguy Michael Kuss (with his degree in Marketing and Communications) and the marketing group at CITY-TV were thinking:

CITY-TV’s Michael Kuss: “If You Can’t [...]

Canadians are a strange lot. Privately, we’ll bitch and moan about our insipid governments, our lousy weather and our seeming inability to shake off second- or third-rate status on the world stage. Rarely will we speak out. Or act out. But one (peculiar) source of national pride these days — the soaring Canadian dollar, compared [...]

It’s called the Moon!

21 October 2007, 18:34

19 October 2007, 16:48

The Men of Mad Men:

Jon Hamm [...]

I’m one of those weirdos who thought Kid A + Amnesiac were the twin peaks of Radiohead’s catalogue, so it’s not surprising that In Rainbows is in heavy iPod rotation these days (and, in case you were wondering? £5). “Videotape” closes the album and breaks my heart every damn time I hear it.
Videotape
Radiohead (In Rainbows)
when [...]

Thanks to email, Hallmark.com, online banking and Amazon.com gift certificates, the need to send actual, hold-in-your-hand mail has diminished enormously. Yet… sometimes ya just gotta, right?
You’d think that with the diminished volume, mail carriers like Canada Post(/Postes Canada) would be able to get an envelope or package to its destination faster than in years past. [...]

Arguably their best album — and the next-to-last as what might traditionally be called a “band” — XTC’s Black Sea is a towering, iconic pop music adventure. One of those classic, near-perfect albums. Oh, sure, the sing-songy excesses of “Generals and Majors” flirt shamelessly with boppy, Beatlesque melodies while simultaneously conveying overly-obvious antiwar sentiments, but [...]