Archive for November, 2007
The Return of the Screaming Pizza
Little Sister had a bad day yesterday so when she arrived home all peckish I offered to make her some food. You see, she loves those little frozen pizzas but ever since the evacuation incident caused by her overcooked ‘za, she has been avoiding the oven altogether. “Please buy microwaveable food” she recently beseeched me! [...]
Read More..>>Gossiping About Girls
A fascinating piece in the latest edition of Maclean’s Magazine and followed up on by 680′s Showbiz Editor Gloria Martin, about the double standard in gossip reporting. In general, women get skewered while men get a pass. Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears can’t make a move without photographers and entertainment journalists doing a double page [...]
Read More..>>Modern Segregation
So some wizards in Toronto education are reviving the concept of “Africentric” schooling. They believe that only black teachers should teach black youth in a black focused environment. They’ve decided that the reason more black young people drop out of school before graduating is because they need more black adults to bring relevant black education [...]
Read More..>>Review: American Gangster
Directors get the big bucks and the star treatment – not as much as movie stars themselves do, of course – but I wonder how much film fans understand about what a director actually does. I’m not sure I completely understand it but I witnessed the brilliance of Ridley Scott managing the tones and performances [...]
Read More..>>Women Are Just So Into Greg Behrendt
We women can be pretty stupid. No, really, we’re kind of dumb sometimes and we can’t get smart until we finally admit it. Somehow, somewhere in our childhoods or in a fairy tale we were read or maybe it’s even part of our genetic make-up as the bearer of children and keeper of the nest [...]
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