Quick: which of these facts is most absurd?
London, Ontario, that is.
Waste management is a big story that will keep getting bigger. But in my town, the world’s dirtiest job is a soap opera.
The latest? Toronto Mayor David Miller has announced plans to buy a landfill site in London, to which Toronto will ship its trash. The plan stems from the failure of the city’s current waste situation, which has us shipping our trash to Michigan. This plan will be phased out by 2010.
So to my Michigan friends: when we stop sending our trash your way, will you make sure that we never hear from Kid Rock again? It’s only fair. If you really need to get rid of him, well, just do what we did with Bryan Adams. Ship him to London.
Somebody at work flipped this over. It gave me a vision of having a root canal while listening to Kruder and Dorfmeister. I couldn’t decide if that was a good thing.
(Via Coolhunter)
He’s almost as irritatingly ubiquitous as Bono. He’s as precious as Chris Martin. And if the price is right, he’s as keen to sell his “creations” as the mighty Bob Seger.
He is the vanilla techno-irritant born Richard Melville Hall but better known as Moby, and his latest attempt to claw his way back to some sort of relevance was to announce on his website that he’s taking a break from the Internet and email until January 1, 2007. Oh, and he doesn’t have an answering machine, so if his friends want to get in touch, I guess they just have to let it ring. It’s a “big experiment,” he announces in his signature naif manner, which mostly seems to mean never, ever using capital letters.
But by Sunday, that is, two days later, he’s announcing the following (again, on his website):
i’ve lapsed a couple of times for work, etc.
i’m an apostate.
which is a hard word to pronounce.
it’s not healthy to spend 4 hours a day on-line, is it?
doesn’t it do odd things to our brains?
doesn’t it establish a weird and arbitrary and quick pacing that corrupts that natural happy neurochemical homeostasis that our brains long for?
or maybe it’s just fun.
i don’t know.
Thank GOD he’s back to share things like this with the world.
Where the hell was this picture taken, anyway? Montana? He looks like he’s about to have a tofurkey dinner with Karim Rashid and Ross Perot.
Sean Penn has been fined and/or scolded for lighting a cigarette indoors at the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m sure he simply assumed that smoking indoors is okay, just like back home in California, where, as we all know, cigarette smoking is legal absolutely everywhere, and has been for years.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the recent Montreal shootings “a cowardly and senseless act of violence”. Nice to know that our P.M. isn’t afraid to take such a controversial position — that a gun-toting would-be mass killer is cowardly, senseless and, er, violent. Banality aside, what really irritates me is that I think he may have actually just stolen the line from post-911 White House press releases.
But in classic form, stupid reality bites Harper’s nether regions as he realizes that many of his policies don’t line up with what Canadians actually believe. Because, you see, Harper has always promised that he will reduce, rather than step up, Canada’s gun control laws.
Especially in light of what went down in Montreal, I’ll wager that his position will continue to be unpopular with ordinary Canadians. He’ll have some time to think about that after the next election, when he loses his job.
I can’t believe it! I just can’t fathom it! And I could never, ever, ever have predicted it!
Only a few years after Jay-Z, arguably hip-hop’s most overrated MC, claimed that he would retire after releasing “The Black Album” — and subsequently bagging buckets of free ink from the gullible press — Jay-Z is releasing another album! It’s called “Kingdom Come”, and its been getting a lot of press because, of course, it marks…yes, that’s right…the end of his retirement!
See how easy it is to manipulate the gullible and bovine press corps? All you have to do is bang Beyonce, lie a bit and watch them beaver away at cutting your PR bill in half! For extra points, stick Coldplay lead whinger Chris Martin somewhere on the album — and be sure to mention that fact in each and every interview.
This record will be about as relevant as its Yacht Rock equivalent, the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over. Or Michael Jordan’s baseball career.
And if you did, too, you need to see it. Cheney gets an earful — in his own words — as he hems and haws in the aftermath of Katrina. On live TV.
