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The Out Campaign

See C-61, See?

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 [...]

Clown College

Hebiclens / WMxdesign has some fun with the scary clowns of the Republican party:

I Have 7 More Years (or Can’t Move to Massachusetts)

No, sirree. From disaboom:

Do age and certain disabilities make a person incapable of consenting to be the subject of erotic photography? That question will be put to the Massachusetts state House with Massachusetts House Bill 1668, a proposed amendment to the state’s child pornography law that would make it a serious crime to photograph with [...]

Extra, Extra!

From last night’s airing, of Fringe on CTV…

“The following program contains violence and scenes…”

We’ve already lost the war, against grocers’ apostrophes. Errant commas next?

Eat Well (1)

ManuLife Centre ValuMart, Toronto (6PM, 3 April 2009)

Not Kosher

File under: The Unending Capacity of American Christianists to Trivialize Their Own Faith and, Not Uncoincidentally, Look Like Totally Retarded Idiots:

CRESAPTOWN, Md.  —  You’ve heard of kosher salt? Now there’s a Christian variety.

Retired barber Joe Godlewski of Cresaptown, Md., says he got tired of hearing television chefs recommend kosher salt, so he did something about [...]

Toronto Up Close: Yonge & Charles

Hey, you know what we haven’t done lately? We haven’t visited Toronto’s Yonge/Bloor district — aka the “Glittering Shithole of Toronto-the-Shabby” — lately! So, hey, let’s go!!!

One block west of Toronto’s Yonge & Bloor intersection is some of the most expensive retail real estate in Canada. One block south of Yonge & Bloor is Charles [...]

WORDS, Check Out All The Ways You Can Play With Your

Today’s Scrabble™ Word-of-the-Day:

7 Points (click image to visit Hasbro adult games, full-screen capture here)

Entertainment Weekly Narrows Target Audience to Unfathomably Stupid, 12-Year-Old Girls

By now we’ve come to accept the fact that the wheezing corpse of print media is on its last legs and seeking new target audiences wherever it can, and that the 12-year-old girl market seems ripe for exploitation. And so Entertainment Weekly once again has its cover graced with, what, the 700th Twilight story?

But apparently [...]

The Devil Wears Prada

Reminder: People, it’s National Condom Week. Use ‘em, y’all.

(Image courtesy Joe.My.God.)

ADDENDUM: Before someone else points it out, no, das pope doesn’t really wear snazzy, red Prada shoes. He wears Jesus.

Escalators Redux

As if the hilarity resulting from the Toronto Transit Commission’s “Move With The Grooves!” campaign — to teach people how to ride those newfangled escalators becoming so popular in big cities like Toronto — was not enough, blogTO reports…

And the TTC is reporting that escalator related injuries and property damage was up in 2008. I [...]

He’s Just Not That Into ANYTHING

I dunno. Is it because it’s February? And miserably cold in Toronto? I’m just finding it hard to get worked up over stuff an’ shit.

I was at the gym this morning and after my iPod battery died (in the middle of a particularly fun remix of Grace Jones’ “I’m Not Perfect [But I'm Perfect for [...]

Move With The Grooves!

Because if you have a subway system — whole sections of which are out of service for hours (or days) every time a mouse farts on the track or a flake of snow falls (in January) — and a bus/streetcar system — whole routes having published schedules bearing no resemblance whatsoever to actual bus/streetcar arrival [...]

And What Are The Hot, Smart People Saying These Days?

Rogers SmartPhone Subway Ad

According to the marketing folks at Rogers Communications, hot, smart people are saying this:

XO, IRL, UNLTD, LOL, BTW, MUAH, UNLTD, LOL, ROFL, AKA, 4EVR, BFF, L8R, AYK, LMAO, MUAH, MUAH, BTW, LMAO, CUZ, 4EVR, BTW, UNLTD, LOL, BTW, LMAO, BRB, UNLTD

Good to know.

Hey, speaking of hot, smart people… After failing twice [...]

Signs o the Times

On the way home this evening:

Nish Sends His Gay Lovers Leters Here (Nice to Know)
(Outside Queen Subway Station, Toronto, 29 January 2009)

Coins Jamed (mouseover image)
(At Bloor Subway Station, Toronto, 29 January 2009)