This. That. No Other.

I should totally be packing for our trip while waiting for the next round of tests to come down the pipe from Toronto but find my mind wandering south, not east or even Middle East. Hunh.

Dreaming (30 September 2009)

Brilliant work from Funny or Die:

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
Courtesy Sheepy.

Full disclosure: I can’t stand Tim Hortons and their long line-ups for mediocre coffee and, worse, the smug, anti-elite posturing of their loyal customers. That said…
It’s bad enough that bigoted hags like Maggie Gallagher, who heads up the odious National Organization for Marriage, can get any sponsors for their events, but when one of them [...]

Webcomic artist Patrick Farley nails the American same-sex marriage debate in graphical form:

Patrick Farley on America’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate
More evolved societies — the ones which considered the pink arguments somewhere between “wrong” and “ludicrous” before granting full marriage equality to gays and lesbians — must look at the U.S. flavour of this debate as a [...]

Iowa > California, for real.
At one time I wanted to live in Los Angeles (and tried very hard to do just that). At another time I wanted to live in San Francisco (and tried very, very hard to do that, too).
Now I’m hard-pressed to think about even visiting California. Boycott? You’d better fucking believe it.
Hugs [...]

It’s a sad fact that most condom ads are neither sexy nor clever. This Lifestyles ad is both. Plus funny. Plus no one was humiliated or shamed, so it couldn’t be a Canadian ad. Mildly NSFW, in case you were wondering. Oh, also? WARNING: Straight people doing the sexy:

Video: Lifestyles Condom fairy

(via ScaryIdeas).

Bill C-61 is an absurd new law, touted as “made in Canada” but crafted by greedy American corporations and brought to the table by Canadian legislator — uninformed fools who, for want of a better expression, don’t know shit about fuck (that would be Stephen Harper’s Conservatives).
Michael Geist writes often (and relentlessly) about the absurdity [...]

From Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living Survey:
Top 5 Cities (Wordwide, Quality of Life)

Vienna, Austria (1st)
Zurich, Switzerland (2nd)
Geneva, Switzerland (3rd )
Vancouver, Canada (tied 4th)
Auckland, New Zealand (tied 4th)

Top 5 Cities (Worldwide, Infrastructure)

Singapore, Singapore (1st)
Munich, Germany (2nd)
Copenhagen, Denmark (3rd)
Tsukuba, Japan (4th)
Yokohama, Japan (5th)

Top 5 Cities (North America, Quality of Life)

Vancouver, Canada (tied [...]

I awoke this morning to a newscast featuring the latest in Ottawa, our nation’s capitol: Canada’s Humanist Association is holding a protest against the banning of the atheist bus ads of which I’ve spoken, endlessly, in these pages. Yes, in the seat of our egalitarian country, it is forbidden to suggest on public transit that [...]

I had to giggle at the truncated Getty Images headline:

Maybe some wit (L) rubbed off on the other guy (R).

Being sick this past week and a half has afforded me the opportunity to spend far too much time watching endless telemedia analyses of the current crisis in Canadian politics and government and, believe me, I’ve been sorely tempted to comment on it. But here’s a frank admission: two sentences in and I get so [...]

From Joe (Another One) — via Joe.My.God. — comes this sweet ad from… tennis icon Björn Borg? For real:

The ad, for Borg’s Love for All dating site clothing line, debuts today on Swedish TV. If I had a bazillion dollars, this ad would be on heavy U.S. television rotation throughout the Thanksgiving holiday. Just to [...]

From today’s Page Six:
STEPHEN Baldwin was just kidding about the promise he made on Fox News to leave the country if Barack Obama was elected president. “The liberal Democrats who didn’t get that I was joking need to lighten up,” the born-again Christian told Page Six. “Obama is obviously talented and intelligent, and I have great respect for the man. [...]

My fave sign from the Anti-Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Demo outside the U.S. Consulate this afternoon:

(Earlier this year, the undertalented actor and douchebag threatened to emigrate to Canada if McCain didn’t win.)

Miserable, cold and rainy day today in downtown Toronto, but that didn’t stop a smallish — but very diverse, fun and vocal — crowd of T.O. queers and their straight friends from showing support for our lesbigay brethren and sistern south of the border, outside the U.S. Consulate on University Avenue, as part of an [...]