My 2 Second Shelf Life

2008-10-12T12:10:00.001-04:00

Best Man Fail

(via Cynical-C)

2008-10-12T11:06:00.002-04:00

You fell asleep watching a DVD

Click on image

2008-10-10T21:18:00.000-04:00

It's all Europeans, not just Italians...

2008-10-10T14:09:00.006-04:00

Avert your eyes...
Madonna enters...
key God Save the Queen music...

I don't know who's worse...Madonna, who doesn't want to have any contact with the help, or the pretentious little back up dancer Robyn with a "y".

'Every Heartbeat' singer Robyn, who performed before Madonna on the tour's European leg, revealed she and the show's crew were under strict orders not to approach the pop icon, speak to her or ask for autographs and pictures.

She added to a Swedish newspaper: "My worst nightmare would be to turn into a Madonna because of her constant chasing of the latest trends. As an artist I do not want to be someone who does not feel safe in the creative process."

2008-10-10T11:33:00.002-04:00

Go on, you know you want to...click on the image to play.

(via BlogTO)

2008-10-09T16:47:00.001-04:00

Fathers and Daughters

Marni Horwitz's collection of photographs.

(From Uncertain Times)

2008-10-09T16:33:00.002-04:00

Keith Sweat is a real parent...

"Her name is Lisa Wu-Hartwell. She is the ex-wife of singer Keith Sweat and the current wife of NFL player Ed Hartwell.Lisa currently stars in the reality television show “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo"

The drama on Bravo’s new The Real Housewives of Atlanta series began long before the cameras ever started rolling.Lisa Wu Hartwell, one of the five women showcased in Bravo’s latest Real Housewives incarnation, tells me she was hoping to have all three of her children on the show, but her ex-husband, late-’80s R&B hitmaker Keith Sweat, has gotten in the way.Hartwell and Sweat have two sons together, 13-year-old Jordan and 11-year-old Justin. “He didn’t sign a waiver,” Hartwell complains. “He’s like, ‘Lisa, it’s nothing personal. I just really don’t know how they’re going to edit and if they’re going to make you look crazy. I just don’t want the kids to be, you know, overexposed or anything.’ “

What?
A non-custodial parent actually being able to do some damage control?
I can hardly believe it.

No kid needs to be on a reality show.
Not one.

2008-10-07T17:11:00.001-04:00

Today's LOL

Canadian books have trailers?

(From Popped Culture)

2008-10-07T13:42:00.002-04:00

The out of touch Canadian art elite speak out...

Yeah, if Harper was about to take away the trough I've been feeding at for decades, I'd be upset too.

(That shit about voting for Duceppe is just out of it.)

2008-10-07T13:05:00.004-04:00

A friend of ours gave me a Aimee Duffy CD recently, and I'm loving the hell out of it.
I don't know much about her, except that apparently...according to my friend...she's a "Welsh bird".

2008-10-07T12:18:00.001-04:00

A Japanese restaurant has taken an unusual approach to employing waiters - they have two trained monkeys who wait on their clientele.

I love the monkies...but, I don't want them touching my food

2008-10-06T09:45:00.003-04:00

I believe that this film by Vladislav Starevich was the first stop animation film ever made:

2008-10-05T13:36:00.001-04:00

Gingerbread at Papamo

2008-10-04T22:36:00.003-04:00

I've never been a fan of Stephen Leacock's work...so sue me.
I'm Canadian, and it doesn't matter how many CBC readings I hear done by Stuart McLean, I still can't appreciate him.

Probably because to me, he represents the small town Ontario that I don't care for...and really, they didn't/don't care much for us.

When I say "us", I mean non-British immigrants, and many of his statements were quite racist. While Canadians like to say that he was "a product of his time" as an excuse, because he was so celebrated all over the world...There's a tinge of that "something" in his writing that never grabbed me.

That's why I find it delicious that the school that was named for him is as diverse as it is:

2008-10-04T22:27:00.003-04:00

Apparently, we imitate animals differently all over the world.

Click on the image to hear how other cultures imitate animals.

(Found at List of the Day)

2008-10-03T06:36:00.002-04:00

The Canadian Leadership Debate

I only caught the last half hour.
Jack Layton constantly speaking in the 3rd person was pretty humourous.

Jack Layton wants you to vote NDP.
Jack Layton wants you to know that he's concerned about what's happening at the "kitchen table".
Jack Layton Jack Layton Jack Layton.

Gilles Duceppe knows that he's not going to be the Prime Minister, and says so...more than once...in the half hour that I'm watching.

Stephane Dion is desperately hanging on to Chretien's decision to stay out of Iraq...which is ironic, since we're there anyway. But, if he's elected, could further deceive Americans into thinking that most Canadians speak French.

Stephen Harper thinks that Canadians are more concerned with the stock market than they are jobs or mortgages...yeah, I'm worried about my shares...LOL

Elizabeth May makes sense but is more or less dismissed.

It's a sad state of affairs people.

2008-09-30T22:30:00.000-04:00

Canadian Leaders Speak on the Election

2008-09-30T21:10:00.000-04:00

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

2008-09-30T20:57:00.001-04:00

Are you plagued by Stuck Tune Syndrome?
Do you have a tune stuck in your head you just can't get out?

Take heart friend, for your suffering is over. The Maimograph Machine, through complex analysis and calculation, will find an even catchier tune to counter-act the one you already have.

Click here to play.

(from Dark Roasted Blend)

2008-09-30T19:55:00.004-04:00

Observation

I've met a lot of women recently who seem really proud of the fact that they don't know how to cook.

I find this interesting since there's never been as many cooking shows available to watch...I mean, there's a whole channel dedicated to it.
Cooking really only requires the ability to read and comprehend what you've read, and then follow the directions.

It's not rocket science.

Maybe it's because so many women don't want to be perceived as "house-wifey", or they want to appear too career oriented for that sort of thing.

When I was single...I rarely ever cooked, but I never saw it as something that I couldn't do.
I just didn't do it because it seemed a waste of time to do it for one person...especially a person who was perfectly happy with a sandwich.

Most of the women I've run across recently who proudly state that they can't cook are married, and some with children.
Now, perhaps their husbands do most of the cooking...or most of the food their families consume is processed, or frozen and shoved in a microwave or oven.

It would certainly explain why so many children can't recognize fresh vegetables.

It's always been puzzling to me why someone wouldn't cook fresh food, since it's pretty quick and easy...as you can see on The Food Network.

It's just something that I've noticed recently, and I find it ironic...what with all the programs on TV, and all the talk about organic food and the like.

...as a side note, The Mister and me know a West Indian family in which, miraculously, astoundingly, astonishingly...not one woman in that family can cook.

We always cringe when we're invited over for dinner, and I always marvel at the amount of inedible food that is served. Dishwater Callaloo, dry macaroni pie, little sandwiches with unidentifiable pink and green goo...really...I also sigh, because I look forward to dinner at someone else's house because that means I catch a break. Not so when we go there.
We're always starving when we leave....

It's just wrong...

2008-09-29T13:11:00.003-04:00

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence.

*Schnort*

2008-09-29T08:48:00.003-04:00

The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters

I saw Bryan Caplan interviewed this morning on Canada AM.

He says that if you aren't schooled on the issues and policies of the candidates, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

He likens it to doing surgery without training, or flying a plane without lessons.

...and while he makes excellent points about ignorance at the polls ruining the economy by putting the wrong people in office...he's so fucking superior, and arrogant that it pisses me off that I agree with him.

I hate that.

BTW, I notice that Jack's come out guns a-blazing.
It's kind of sad... it's like Willy Wonka is heading the NDP.

2008-09-27T23:06:00.001-04:00

R.I.P. Paul Newman

2008-09-26T19:32:00.004-04:00

Today's Great Find

If Ersi Arvizu was dark haired, I'd be looking at my favourite stepmother Nada's doppelgänger.

More found Ersi goodness:

(from Guanabee)

2008-09-26T17:17:00.004-04:00

It's about time.

Now, if only we could give tickets out for being self-righteous.

...on second thought....