Archive for February, 2007

RADAR. A magazine by and for dicks. Oh no, wait….just BY dicks.

EDIT: in case you’ve stumbled on this post from anything other than the home page, be sure to hit the follow-up post.
Radar Magazine launched a few years back. It was smart and funny as hell. Then, like so many great magazines, it went belly-up.
Oh, wait, i skipped a part. Before that, I signed up for [...]

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Perfection

If there’s a better advertiser than Volkswagen out there right now, I’d sure like to know who it is. I found this just stunning.

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Vault of Atrocities

The fact that this could be a Canadian hit way back in the day says something about our musical culture here — it took 20 years and a shirtless Sean Paul to put dancehall on the mainstream map south of the border.
In this video, his only hit, Snow looks more like a member of Huey [...]

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RIP Molly Ivins

Sad news.

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died yesterday in Austin. She was 62.
Ms. Ivins waged a public battle against breast cancer after her diagnosis in 1999. Betsy Moon, her personal assistant, confirmed her death last night. Ms. Ivins died at her home [...]

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Quote of the Day

The quote of the day comes from Torontoist, which is getting stronger every day.
Stephen Harper sends John Baird to Paris while his attempt to make the Tories look like environmental leaders crumbles. Meanwhile, the Fraser Institute and Cato institute - both predominantly run by and consisting of conservative economists - boldly contradicts the scientific community’s [...]

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