There are bad writers. There are bad sports writers. And then there is the woeful Dave Feschuk.
His formula is simple.
Something happens
Feschuk hates it; worst thing ever
Feschuk liberally sprinkles positively entombs his article with the kind of bad pun dust you’d find in the staff newsletter of a small accounting firm.
Here’s what Toronto’s own Debbie Downer [...]
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“I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,” he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.
Read on
UPDATE: Here’s stuff from his last interview.
This would be better if it was about 60 seconds shorter and Bill O’Reilly wasn’t in so much of it.
Okay, any of it.
And better still if Bill O’Reilly didn’t actually have a show at all, but washed dishes at my store. And then I fired him for being an arrogant, ignorant dink with no [...]
In classic Toronto fashion, the wizards at City Hall have managed to organize Bike Week to coincide almost exactly with a massive crackdown on cyclists. People all over the city (including me) were nabbed for various traffic infractions.
Most of them richly deserve it, and I’m all for better behaviour on the part of bikers and [...]
Creepy+weird+hilarious. It’s slow motion baby!
Slow Motion Baby Laugh
No matter what else changes in the world, one thing remains the same: reporters always piss Lou Reed off, and Lou Reed always leaves. Seems in this case they were trying to goad him. Mission accomplished.
NY MAGAZINE: Sirius’s impending merger with XM is anticipated to boost earnings. Do you own any stock in the [...]
There’s been a bit of Tom Waits chatter with various people since I posted that press release/interview thing.
This prompted me to go digging for some goodness. Mission accomplished.
This vid combines three common threads in my world: food, comedy and selling stuff. Who better to do it than Ricky Gervais?
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A jumbo black watermelon auctioned in Japan on Friday fetched a record $6,100, making it one of the most expensive watermelons ever sold in the country.In a society where melons are a luxury item commonly given as gifts, the watermelon’s hefty price tag followed another jaw-dropping auction [...]
