Most of us have a pretty good idea which team will win the Superbowl (Hint: it’s the team led by a robot). But Amazon.com will go you one better: they are already listing a book titled 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots. Order now…it’s sure to become a collector’s item on [...]
Here’s little video done by the CBC documenting the hijinks at Test The Nation. There’s a lot of footage of the bloggers being cocky, so it’s good we won. I may also make an appearance towards the end.
Entry the Second: Kids in America I don’t want anyone to get the idea that a ‘weird’ song is necessarily a ‘bad’ song. True, the first entry in this column, Styx’s horrendous Come Sail Away, is a crime against nature. But sometimes a song is great because it is weird. Or, the apparent weirdness signals [...]
In case you missed the various blog posts, Facebook messages, morse code messages, attempted mind control and vaguely threatening late-night phone calls, Nunc Scio is now a finalist for a Canadian Blog Award– Best Non-Partisan Blog. Which is super keen. To actually win the award, I need people to vote for me. So, if you’ve enjoyed my blog [...]
Chuck Klosterman has a brilliant essay out about what I’ve been unofficially calling the ‘Tom Brady Effect’- the strange paradox of grimly predicting a Patriot’s victory while secretly hoping they lose. A sample: If the Patriots win, they will just become this thing that scorched the earth for five months before capturing a trophy that [...]
If your mind is easily exploded by rampant dumbassery, you may want to stop reading now. Last Thursday, the National Post reported that ‘Canadian’ is now used as a racial epithet in the American South. And today, Gawker has picked up the story. Apparently, Southern bigots were tired of all the bad PR surrounding the N-word, and [...]
Today marks the 50th anniversary of everyone’s favourite building block and/or choking hazard, LEGO. To celebrate, the Danish toy brickmaker will be holding an international competition to find the best Lego Builder in the world. I would totally enter, except I think I’m a bit too old. And I suffered that near career-ending finger injury [...]