Archive for November, 2006
Toking Tory
So, the provincial Liberals have their shovels out again and they’ve unearthed a 30 year old university newspaper article Conservative leader John Tory wrote when he was 21. In it, Tory admits to having smoked pot and to driving while high. All I can say is, it’s about frickin’ time. Did anybody actually believe Bill [...]
Read More..>>Review: An Inconvenient Truth
This film is a documentary about Al Gore’s lifelong campaign to get the U.S., and the world at large, to take seriously the issue of global warming. Sounds pretty dry, huh? Well, it’s not. It’s fascinating, alarming and should be viewed by everyone, sceptics and environmentally responsible people alike. Gore has gathered scientific evidence and [...]
Read More..>>Review: You Me and Dupree
I’d like to suggest a more specific and accurate, if wordy title. An Inexplicably, Increasingly Paranoid Dude, His Sweet and Far Too Tolerant Wife and a Half-Written Role To Get Owen Wilson In The Movie By Telling Him “We’ll Fix It In Post”. It’s disappointing and an excellent example of one of my comedy pet [...]
Read More..>>Dad And The Double Banana
My Dad is unintentionally hilarious. Although he was the cool Dad who would put our baseball team on the back of his truck and ride through town so we could shout “We’re number one!” and then go for ice cream, he was also unable to remember anything that we thought was cool. When Meatloaf’s Bat [...]
Read More..>>Humble’s House of Slime
Humble Howard has released a book called The Slime That Men Do. It’s a very fun read for a really good cause. The stories are all apparently true and collecting them began with a radio bit. With a few exceptions from men tattling on bad women, the stories come from women, about the truly awful, [...]
Read More..>>Politics? No Thanks
The question posed to me on air this morning was, would you ever make a run for political office? The wise answer is “never say never” but I was quite comfortable in saying “NEVER!” I don’t trust career politicians, never have, never will. However, I don’t know how some people have the stomach for the [...]
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