Things may be a little strange for the next few minutes. Blog-wise, I mean. I’m sure things are strange in other ways too but I’m not taking responsibility for strangeness beyond the blog. edit — all done!
Hemp Bliss?
Hemp Bliss? Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Found on the shelf at Loblaw’s. Of all the things to name a hemp beverage…
Found poetry
Update: More here As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia,continue reading
The chocolate and the cluelessness
Couple arrested for carrying raw chocolate “We have a lot of exotic stuff,” she said. They had also packed some raw, organic chocolate – made of unrefined, unprocessed cacao, maca root, hemp seeds and goji berries. “At first the (customs officials) said, ‘Oh, you guys are just holistic.’ Then the dogs came.” The animals wentcontinue reading
And now, a word from our spammers
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP DEAR AMERICAN: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OFcontinue reading
Ben Kerr
This is old news but I just re-discovered it while cleaning out my RSS — Ben Kerr gets a laneway: On Sunday May 25, at 1 pm, the City of Toronto and the Chatham West Residents’ Association will name a local laneway that runs parallel to Danforth and Chatham, east of Jones Avenue. Kerr livedcontinue reading
A is for Aisle
A good new kids’ album for those interested who haven’t run across it – Snacktime by Barenaked Ladies. Tested on a recent long car trip with success. Worth getting just for the alphabet song, which starts with “A is for Aisle” and goes downhill from there. The kids may not get it but they’ll want tocontinue reading
Big whoop
…is among the words new to the OED this month. A colourful and ironic expression of dismissiveness in the face of the unimpressive or ordinary, this North American colloquialism reverses the expectations one might have on first meeting the term, of unnecessary hyperbole and excessive celebration. How I love the OED.
From the WSJ, not about Wall Street
From the back page of the WSJ last week, buried under all the financial meltdown news, a thoughtful and evocative piece, if sad in the context, which has been reproduced in a few other places: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
From the office of the Fearless Leader
Full credit where credit is due — hackers and spammers sometimes do good work. An e-mail sent to a PMO media distribution list, purporting to come from we’re-better-off-with Harper: from Stephen Harper to ALLNEWS_E@lserv.pmo-cpm.gc.ca date Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM subject Why you shouldn’t fear me Hi The Average Canadian, Stephen Harper wantedcontinue reading