Canada’s Most Reliably Awful Company

I’m going to largely letthis articlespeak for itself and only say that if there was a better option for internet, TV and cell phone service around here, I’d switch in a heartbeat. Oh and fuck off Rogers, you money grubbing, telemarketing, predatory, radio and TV station ruining sonsofbitches! Rogers Communications, the country’s second-biggest internet provider, …

You Almost Wouldn’t Know It, But I Really Am Looking Forward To The Home Run Derby

Question. How can anybody take a home run derby seriously when itdoesn’t have Jose Bautista, Adam Dunn and Joey Votto in it?They’re only leading the major leagues in home runs. Forgive me for not being up on my derby history since I’m sure this has happened before, but it’s upsetting me today so I figured …

That’s The Kind Of Career It’s Been

Photo byconnect2canada.Lloyd Robertson has announced that he’ll beretiring as anchor of the CTV National News next year and that Lisa LaFlamme will be taking over. That’ll be strange. Robertson has held that job longer than I’ve been alive, and his voice has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. When …

Some Weird Ads For Ya

It’s time once again for an episode of what the hell is up with these commercials? This one took us a while to put together, and it has less in it. There’s been this ad campaign pushing Ontario as the place to be. I think it started when we moved into this apartment, because I …

And A Partridge In A Pear Tree?

Thanks Ann for this one. I think I’m even going to use her subject line as my title. Wow! How big is this guy’s ass that he was able to smuggle into jail: a cigarette lighter, rolling papers, a baggie of tobacco the size of a golf ball, a smaller baggie of marijuana, a 1-inch …

Finally Some News Worth Watching

This is pretty cool. The Onionisgetting its own show on the Independent Film Channel.The show will be called Onion News Network which I assume means it will be similar to the videos that are already posted online under that name, and will begin airing next year. “It just seems to us, CNN, Fox News and …

A Couple Of Late So Longs

I want to take a second to mention a couple of deaths that I’ve been meaning to post about but haven’t for one reason or another. First isFess Parker,most famous for playing the roles of Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone. He was 85. My dad really loved both characters and watched them whenever he could, …