Finally found some confirmation that there may in fact be a second season of Flight of the Conchords, which is only our favourite show ever. Apparently the lads have some serious writing to do since they apparently exhausted almost all of their material on the first season.Â
Here’s hoping the lads can come up with some gems, I don’t doubt there will be goodness. Stay tuned.
Just in time for a huge winter storm; here’s another rant for you; morons who drive snow covered vehicles. I’m sure there is a little-used bylaw that covers this somewhere, but they really should enforce it a little more. I just love driving behind these guys, the snow blowing off their car and obscuring the view of everyone behind them.
Or even better are the drivers that have several week’s worth of accumulation on there, iced and packed into a deadly snow frisbee. These things release spontaneously at high speed on the highway and smash down onto the hood and windshields of cars behind them. It’s enough to cause an accident, and I’m sure it has at some point. Most often it’s the people with minivans and trucks and SUVs that can’t seem to be bothered to brush the snow off the roof of their vehicle. I can say that because I own a minivan and you will never see me leave snow on there.
So remember tonight when 30 cm of snow is falling, clean off your cars people. It has nothing to do with you, but the guy behind you.
I guess I need a cup of coffee or a hug, or both this morning. I will ask the guy in the cubicle next to me if he minds.
When I caught this story about a grandmother, mother and children all caught together while shoplifting from a store, I thought to myself; man what a perfect racket. I mean who would ever suspect a whole family like that? It’s the perfect way to get away with stealing something, really.Â
These folks were caught while stealing from a Target store, which is sort of a lot like, oh say, an Old Navy up here. Yeah, apparently they were caught on video opening boxes and stuffing the contents into their bags and backpacks. That was probably why they got caught, if they had just stuck to putting things into something less obvious, like say a stroller, they definitely would have gotten away with it. I’m positive of it. Absolutely sure of it, you could say.Â
Don’t ask me how I know this.
When I saw the cover of Sunday’s Ottawa Sun I knew I had to write something about it. After all, we just finished trashing Mexico’s longest skating conga line here and now we have Winnipeg’s claim that they have the longest skating rink in the world to contend with.
Well it’s not even a real problem, since it turns out Winnipeg’s longest skating rink amounts to basically an icy path, and not really a rink at all. It’s embarrassing for them, really. We can relax since I sincerely doubt that many people will flock there to shuffle along Winnipeg’s “longest rink”. It is longer I suppose, but it’s only 10 feet wide, which if you have actually been on the Canal is laughable at best. You would be constantly dodging people and getting tied up in traffic. How many simultaneous hockey games can they play on it? Not even one, while we could probably realistically manage 50 or more, with room to spare for beer gardens (which in hindsight is probably a bad idea, serving alcohol on an ice surface). I would liken their “skating trail” to connecting to the Internet via dialup. Sure you are technically skating, but it’s slow and definitely isn’t any fun.
Winnipeg may have a longer rink, but as we all know more bandwidth is always better. Anybody else agree?
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade runs a website for citizens of Australia called Safe Travellers, and apparently it has decided it has had enough and decided to call Canada a risky destination for Aussie travellers. Chile, South Korea and Latvia are among the countries listed that are deemed to be safer than Canada. Yep, apparently there are just too many avalanches, forest fires and earthquakes. Here’s a quote from the Canoe article:
Apparently our problems stem from the threat of terrorism, heavy snow, ice and forest fires that can erupt “at any time.”
British Columbia, in particular, was singled out as being in an active earthquake zone and “subject to avalanches” along with Alberta.
It’s true, you know. Hunt Club was a mess this morning, there were two forest fires jackknifed at Riverside, it had traffic snarled for quite a ways back.Â
You know what’s incredible? The absolute GALL of this coming from Australia, where literally every living creature there can kill you as an afterthought. I’m serious, I’ve been there. Even the smallest little spider is literally a crazed demonic fiend, lusting for human flesh, poisonous to even look at. It’s a wonder anybody can live there at all. Want proof? Here’s some links from Australia’s travel section on about.com: goaustralia.about.com
The list goes on, I just don’t have time to document them all. We must be some badass mothers living in Canada if Aussies are scared to come HERE. It’s hilarious.
Wilson sent me a link to a good article about the legacy that Bush is leaving for the next president next year. With the economy, war on terror, human rights issues, illegal immigration, healthcare, environmental problems and climate change, the list of incredible blunders goes on and on. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
What person in their right mind would want the job of President with this mess waiting for them? Say it with me folks, man it’s good to be Canadian. Sure we elected a boring Prime Minister, but really, you have to agree that boring is better than plain old stupid any day.