December 2009
“Sources said Harper would like to make suspending Parliament before the annual...”
– Commons shut down, opposition furious - thestar.com Wait, what the fuck?  A regular practice? Stephen Harper is a weak prime minister.  His ability to govern the country is only slightly lower than that of Joe Clark after Daniel Latouche brought down that minority government by accident back in...
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Harper to shut down Parliament →
Hey guys, let me know when Canada chooses democracy again, okay?
Dec 30th
On American Politics
alanharris: An American Senator, Max Baucus (D-MT), has been accused by the Right of being drunk while on the Senate floor, even engaging in a “drunken tirade.” As Faux News put it: “During the general debate on the health care legislation that recently passed the Senate, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, took to the floor of the Senate and engaged in a drunken tirade. Oblivious to the...
Dec 30th
“Admirers of the Dude are already dangerously close to becoming Internet-age...”
– Dissertations on His Dudeness - ‘The Big Lebowski’ and Its Dude Get the Academic Treatment
Dec 30th
Dec 29th
Stuff Parisians Like: Baguettes Tradition →
I guess I never really stop to think about it, but I never keep “regular” sliced sandwich bread in my house.  Only baguette.  Thanks French mom! I’m also very partial to New Orleans-style baguette, which is crunchier on the outside and lighter on the inside.  Makes for excellent pain perdu.
Dec 29th
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Maple bacon crunch ice cream →
Presented without comment.
Dec 29th
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Guinness and whisky.
The only cure for today.
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Titles of the Times →
We are built on the wounds and mercies of the past: everywhere we are is everywhere we have been. I traveled to America long before I came to America. I grew up in Ireland in the ’70s, a teenager reading Kerouac, Ginsberg, Brautigan, Ferlinghetti. I would walk the length of Dun Laoghaire pier — a moving corduroy of sea waves in front of me — with a paperback copy of “Trout Fishing in America”...
Dec 28th
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ListenMattfoley, L Contra, Michael Hutcherson - Last...
Dec 26th
La liberté d'opinion et d'expression
Earlier this week, my sister went to visit Le bureau du Père Noël (Santa’s Workshop) or whatever, and apparently it’s at the top of this long, long gondola ride.  Of course, my sister, being the outspoken, intelligent (and probably a little bored) girl that could only be my sister, informed all the other children that they were “fucking stupid” because “Père Noël...
Dec 26th
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Joyeux Noël/Merry Christmas from Geneva.
Dec 25th
My own piece of Obamabilia →
It can be nippy in Washington, D.C., in January, and I don’t mean in the House of Representatives. It’s the weather - cold, damp, not much snow by Montreal standards. Winter, nonetheless. On Jan. 20, I was in the U.S. capital to cover the inauguration of Barack Obama, “America’s first black president.” (Okay, first mixed-race president, if that’s important to...
Dec 25th
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French Schoolgirls Don Miniskirts In Dress Code... →
THIS IS A SEXY CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.  GOD BLESS US EVERYONE.
Dec 23rd
Dec 23rd
My Mom is one of those Moms that calls at the...
I don’t have the heart to tell her that she’s been getting it wrong the past few years.
Dec 23rd
Dec 22nd
How To Make Maple Syrup (Video) →
Patti Moreno, also known as the Garden Girl, shows us all about green garden DIY on her show about urban sustainable living. In this episode, she learns how to make maple syrup from a sugar maple tree in the heart of a city! I don’t know if I can fully get behind the maple syrup from a city thing.
Dec 22nd
Canada's Olympic women's hockey team announced →
The U.S. Team’s silver medal is going to look fantastic in the White House.
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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WatchWatch
The Sweater / Le chandail In this animated short, Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice “Rocket” Richard and wore his number 9 Canadiens hockey jersey, he was mistakenly sent a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey from Eaton’s. Unable to convince his mother to send it back, he must face his friends wearing the...
Dec 21st
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“But the problem with so many well-intended efforts is that they’re half...”
– Rage Against the Machine Bests Simon Cowell’s Pop Music Robots In Sony Pissing Contest Well put, foster.
Dec 21st
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30 inches of snow!
I’ve been snowboarding down hills and city streets all day. And drinking beer. Fuck yeah life.
Dec 19th
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WatchWatch
Poirier et Face-T en tournée au Mexique. Also, proof that there are Habs fans everywhere.
Dec 19th
Also,
walpaper: completelynormal: tumblr hates Jews. Truth. Where’s my menorah or my Kwanzaa leaf? Where’s my atheism blank.gif?
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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The 10 most irritating politicians of 2009 →
1. Michael Ignatieff 2. Pierre Poilievre (born in 1979 and has a pension!) 3. John Baird 4. Rick Hillier 5. Gordon Campbell 6. Mark Carney 7. Liberals on Twitter 8. Martin Cauchon 9. Environmental protesters 10. The NDP caucus I humbly nominate John Baird to be chairman emeritus of this little club. Sorry.  SHAME! I HUMBLY NOMINATE JOHN BAIRD TO BE CHAIRMAN EMERITUS OF THIS LITTLE CLUB!
Dec 18th
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New life goal:
Make it to age 27. (That would be just over six days from now.)
Dec 17th
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Oh, so my phone.
minou: I got this phone on New Year’s Day 2009, in a fog of crying/almost vomiting/wincing with every movement because the night before I had been more drunk than I have ever been in my entire life (texting ex boyfriends, of which thankfully no record remains since I left the phone in the back of a taxi driven by a two-fingered man moments later; making out with strangers in the street, ducking...
Dec 17th
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Currently baking.
As in 375º for one hour, not 420 maaaaaaaaan.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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A COMME AUDACE - ARTV | Campagne d'image automne... →
Basically, all we need to know is “NSFW” and “Catherine Pogonat” from Mange ta ville. Pierre Trudeau said there would be days like this. (via feeling nouveau)
Dec 16th
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Conservative boycott shuts down Afghan detainee... →
The Harper government has effectively suspended parliamentary hearings on allegations that Afghan detainees were transferred to torture – boycotting attempts by opposition MPs to continue a Commons probe of the matter. The move ensures for the time being that there are no more hearings to enflame a controversy that’s set the government back on its heels and begun to cost it support. It...
Dec 16th