Activism is so hot right now.

From today’s Globe and Mail:
Federal funding for community AIDS programs in Ontario is being slashed as the Conservative government readjusts overall spending and redirects money to an AIDS vaccine initiative it announced earlier this year with Bill Gates.
Money that helps prevent local organizations stem the spread of the virus and provide support to those infected [...]

Mitch “Walter Skinner” Pileggi (in X-Files S04E21, “Zero Sum”):

Beefy muscles
+ balding
+ X-Files
+ handsome
+ authority figure
+ nerdy eyeglasses
+ white Jockey shorts
= HOT

To say that advertisers in general — and Canadian advertisers in particular — consider the public with a disregard bordering on contempt is, perhaps, overstating the obvious. But, fercryinoutloud, was there no one in Creative even remotely aware that a driver is not the golf club used on a putting green?

On the other hand…
“Never attribute [...]

You just know something’s a bit off in the Toronto real estate market when prospective buyers line up a week before a new condo development’s sales office first opens its doors, and for suites that start at a half-mil. The sticker price isn’t unusual, but the advertising tagline is a bit… off.

The Best Corner in [...]

You’re not eating right now, are you?
Sandals, sand and dry heat are cruel torturers of pampered urban feet. Sure wish Champ and I brought our heel cream and callus shaver on our trip! But our loss (of dignity) is your gain, and you can exercise your democratic prerogative in a far more useful way than [...]

Krishnaland, Mumbai, India (10 November 2007)

Pineapple Chocolate Pancake
Oasis Restaurant, Arambol, India (15 November 2007)