What can I say? It is mid-February which ought to be named something else. Like bleaksville or un-summer. Nearby Oswego - where we go - is getting hammered with snow this week (over 80 inches so far this week) and we sit north of them hoping the snow band doesn't flick north again.
- I have never been to a reunion. But I am being sucked back in this May in Halifax when the undergrads of Kings from the classes of 1985 to 1989 are getting together. Shiela C. set up a Yahoo group and everything. Can't wait until people sit around and tell me how I have gone to hell. Woot.
- Hmmm. Canada's economy continues to boom...and the largest tyranny in history says we are missing out by holding them accountable for human rights...hmmm...what to do?
- The older I get the more I like people making fun of Rush Limbaugh. I think the moment passed for him so long ago but he seems to hang around, etching out an era that, in the future, will be an embarrassment to those found out to have listened to him. That is why I like Deadspin:
Every debate needs comic relief, and God bless him, Rush Limbaugh is always good for that. The former director of promotions for the Kansas City Royals in the early 1980s, and at one time the word's fifth-leading importer of OxyContin (behind Brazil), Limbaugh has become in recent years obsessed with the race of NFL quarterbacks. First it was Donovan McNabb, and now Rex Grossman.
Making fun of Rush Limbaugh should be a part of every day. - Who really needs these smart-alecky kids at the ScienceCentre anyway?
- The new to beer blogging but much respected beerman Lew Bryson has started a campaign called the session beer project which is worth a moment's consideration from all of you. Canada is awash with beer. Beer in Ontario transacts at 3.2 billion dollars annually. But we don't think about it that much. Lew wants you to and wants you to ask why can't I get a lower alcohol fair priced beer that gets me through an evening without going through all my friends.
- I would like to see an all accoustic Daltry and Townsend show. If you care for me at all you would buy me tickets.
Comments
gr - February 9, 2007 8:50 am
Friday already?
gr - February 9, 2007 8:56 am
Ah yes, I am class of '87 from college, 20 years ago in June. There are pics of me at my blogspot showing me and my big hair from that memorable spring. I am not a reunion type of guy, though, too many ex-girlfriends and other crimes and misdemeanors.
cm - February 9, 2007 9:01 am
I would have liked to have gone to my 10 year high school reunion, but ended up suffering through my first buyout. My 20th was a bust, pool at Dooley's and the one I wanted to see not on the list, so I didn't bother. I didn't have many friends at university, but may go to my 20th there just for the sake of going back.
Alan - February 9, 2007 9:02 am
We only had 200 in residence at our undergrad so we don't so much have ex's as "classmates with knowledge who have already had a few margaritas years ago with the person you married anyway so it is too late."
Gordo - February 9, 2007 10:01 am
When I mentioned Rush's penchant for overestimating the failure rate of condoms (he claims up to 50%) to my wife the other day her response was "He's still alive?"
I love the Science Centre's response: "The formula's <i>not</i> incorrect". Apparently, bring shown up by an eight-year-old isn't humiliating enough, This flack has to deny it, too.
Alan - February 9, 2007 10:11 am
Classic Canadian humourlessness: the authority figure says the sky is green so the sky is green.
gorthos - February 9, 2007 10:12 am
I was always anti-reunion mainly because I disliked High school. My nerdly crew and I (5-6 of us) still talk daily by email and honestly, none of us relished the idea of visiting with a whack of people we didn't like (i.e. a. wouldn't date us, b. picked on us, c. made fun of our playing D&D at lunches in the school basement). We eventually decided to go to one a numer of years ago and as it turned out, we who went had better jobs, better looking spouses/partners and nicer shinier cars than all the portly, thinning haired, methadone clinic visiting folk who never moved from good ol' BelleVILE.
So, reunions are good if anything to boost your ego.
(well, unless you are a methadone clinic frequenter who works part time at the local used car dealership).
Alan - February 9, 2007 12:28 pm
Damn. Now I have to sit through the Grammies. Double Damn. I just realized all my coolest lps in the milk crate are now hitting 30 years old.
Chris Taylor - February 9, 2007 12:56 pm
This is yesterday's news and off-topic to boot, but I have to bitch about MLB's scheduling. I get one (1) Detroit-Toronto series at home all season. And it's the week of the home opener. Meanwhile we play Seattle(!) and New York at home at least three or four times. What a load.
Alan - February 9, 2007 1:04 pm
Rule One, circa 1458:<blockquote class="smalltext"><i>Where there doth be ye topik chusen for discourse, discord shall not claim yclaimed agsint he that doth speak of bayse unt balle...</i></blockquote>I think you are fine.<p>But seeing as the JAYS SUCK I have little sympathy. The JAYS SUCK in fact so much I won't go there to see the Red Sox, blessed be their name.
Alan - February 9, 2007 3:32 pm
NCPR on Oswego and the snow.
Chris Taylor - February 9, 2007 3:37 pm
It's too bad the Jays suck... I have a couple of Sox series (Apr, Sep) and I know for a fact that Wanda will pass up at least a couple of those games. But I appreciate the indulgence of the baseball diversion anyway.
Alan - February 9, 2007 3:44 pm
I kid. Can't you tell I was kidding. I kid like that. I am a kidder. I kid around.
ry - February 9, 2007 9:36 pm
(asshole alert. asshole alert. Incoming asshole. You've been warned.)
WRT China: so when are we supposed to use soft power then, hmmm? Partnering up with tyrants is bad but directly confronting them is bad too. Whichever is worse seems to be whatever we're trying to do on a given day.
I'm no fan of the PRC. If they so much as send a fishing boat with 10 armed and drunk sailors to capture Taiwan I want that boat sent to the bottom of the sea with every mother's son on board going down with the ship.
That said, is there a soft kill available on China? YOu bet. If you're willing to wait 60 years for it to work. If you're willing to wait a lifetime for change to occur we can have it by cooperating with the bastards. Being belligerent economically has done squat to bring down Castro and did little to change S. Africa.
Guess what? People who are going to be abused and murdered there are going to die if you take the moral high road in the same massive numbers. One pathway leaves open a possibility of a decline in that number. The other cements it at that proportion. People are going to die no matter what you choose. It's not a question of having blood on your hands, it's already there brother, but how to staunch the flow. That's a cooperative one with China. Now excuse me, I have to see if I can cleanse my hands(out, out, damned spot).
(outgoing asshole. outbound asshole. Asshole is gone.)