One of these is a nearly-empty plastic container which, when squeezed, emits noxious materials. The other is Extreme Style hairspray.
No friend of This.That.No Other., Ben Stein continues to exhibit behaviour requiring him to seriously shut the fuck up, like, right now. In a recent column for American Spectator, Stein suggests that Barack Obama is behind [...]

Canada’s Olympic Canoe Team:

Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny, Ian Mortimer, Mark Oldershaw and Andrew Russell: Canoe4Canada
Not that I’m playing favourites or anything, but here’s Gabriel and Andrew in action:

Damn, I’m feeling… patriotic.

I’m going to be upfront with you: I don’t plan on watching televised coverage of the Olympics nor do I feel particularly unpatriotic for not showing support for Canada by watching, though I’d be hard-pressed to figure out how shouting at a television screen can be construed as patriotic.
I won’t catalog all the reasons why [...]

Oh, come on, now. Nobody doesn’t like filthy, sodomite propaganda! Nobody except scumbag hatemonger Phred Felps of GodHatesFags.com fame, that is. But you knew that already, right?
Phred’s got his dance-belt in a twist over an upcoming Toronto play, The Pastor Phelps Project, and plans a protest at Queen Street’s Cameron House on Thursday night, providing [...]

Y’know, when Paris Hilton manages to trump the John McCain campaign’s pathetic attempts at relevance with cleverness and self-deprecating wit, it’s time to maybe trim his team’s “creative” staff:

Loves it.

U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestler Doug Schwab — New York Times, 2 August 2008

Thirty or so years ago, I was good friends with a fellow who said that if the first words uttered on the first day of the month were “rabbits, rabbits, rabbits,” good luck would befall the utterer for the rest of that month. He didn’t really believe that, of course, but on the occasion that [...]

If you’re going to criticize your competition using cultural “icons”, is it a good idea to use cultural “icons” which haven’t had any real cultural clout in two years? “Straight Talk Express” becomes “Desperate, Clueless Shortbus”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg

Want to know how to do it right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPLSHKH0h4

If I was forced to estimate the number of times I’ve listened to A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo Ray”, I’d probably come up with a number in the eleventy-billion region. The number of times I’ve been able to sit still while listening to “Voodoo Ray” is exactly zero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmoY0A_lfk

From the always-aweseome Tuckova comes news of another, long-overdue collaboration (and tour!) from the architects of my favourite album of all time, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and I’m so excited I could plotz. Whatever you do, don’t tell the government:
Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. [...]