Her Lips Are Sealed

The GG takes a break from the rubber chicken circuit:

Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered around as the Governor General made a gesture of solidarity with the country's beleaguered seal hunters.

Jean knelt above a pair of carcasses and used a traditional blade to slice the meat off the skin.

After repeated, vigorous cuts through the flesh the Queen's representative turned to the woman beside her and asked enthusiastically: "Could I try the heart?"

Afterward Jean grabbed a tissue to wipe clean her blood-soaked fingers, and explained her gesture of solidarity with the region's Inuit hunters.

Or, the purple version:

First she gutted it. Then she had the heart pulled out of its furry, flabby carcass. Finally, she swallowed a slice of the mammal's dripping organ.

And then...

Talkin' 'Bout My Re-Relegation

It's not dead, squire, it's just resting

Coffin, nail, final.

Sliced Kiwi

Maori pseudo-scientifically pwned.

Fireworks

The wife and I went to see Animal Collective at the ex-Docks on Saturday. I don't think I've ever felt so aged: apart from one late-40ish-looking couple we were by far the oldest people there. At least Jo received the compliment of being carded by security. Which circle of hell is it where you're packed in like sardines with swooning hippies with b.o., fratboy doofuses and young men with bad halitosis (as opposed to good halitosis)? Must be in the top ten. It was certainly in the top five during opening act Grouper's set--too tedious to be engaging and too sonically annoying to be decent wallpaper music.

The show was very good, although I was disappointed they largely skipped over Feels and Sung Tongs ("Leaf House" was really cool). All of the current Merriweather Post Pavilion hits were there, along with some nice reworkings of older tunes like "Chocolate Girl."



Victoria Day fireworks with the girl on Monday, fortunately making us feel young again.

Taking RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (By Sparkler)

I've Broken Free From Zionist Control

Well, they let me go really, once they realized I wasn't much good at anything.

Police Estate

"I haven't seen a car in a house in a long time."


"Allo, allo, what's all this then..?"

Happy Australia Day

Cheap Laffs

Checking out, cashing in:



Ah, memories:

What Friggin' Recession

$18 mil per for erratic, injury prone quickie with 'tude.

These only just back in stock.

Throwing out new shoes becomes fashionable.

Still Here

Been busy.

Another Burnside

Hadn't heard of this one before.

Ours has nicer whiskers.

Back To Ron In The Studio

Two words: The Meng.

Darwin Awards Entrant

Photographic section.




Note the Smeato-like hard-as-shitness of yours truly--not a peep.

Gimme Some Mo'

The seemingly unsackable CIC National Prez Mohamed El-Masry at it again:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is indifferent to Omar Khadr’s plight because the Guantanamo Bay prisoner is ``brown-skinned” and a Muslim, the leader of one of Canada’s largest Islamic groups said today.

Harper’s resistance to calls to repatriate the Canadian citizen shows he is pandering to Islamophobes, said Canadian Islamic Congress president Mohamed Elmasry.

“In this case, Mr. Harper is playing politics because of the backdrop of Islamophobia in this country,” Elmasry said.

[...]

Elmasry contrasts Khadr’s case with that of dual Canadian-British citizen William Sampson, who was freed from a death sentence in Saudi Arabia in 2003.

Prior to his release, the federal Liberal government of the day made pleas on Sampson’s behalf to the Saudi government.

“Why is Stephen Harper so callously indifferent to Omar Khadr’s case?” Elmasry wrote.

“It’s painfully obvious: William Sampson is a white Westerner while his fellow Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, is brown-skinned and a Muslim.”

Cat/Mouse

About all Mighty Mouseses are good for...

Several Pints Of Bitter

Caught this interview with Alannah Myles the second time 'round. See how far you can get without cringing or hitting pause.

Q: when people who "visualize" their successes fuck up, is it due to improper visualization of the success or a failure to visualize the failure?

Shit

You should see the other guy.

Scooby Snacktime--The Remixes out August 4

An excuse for a smart-ass headline.

Advice: just say...

mp3: They Might Be Giants--"No!" (from No!)

Belle River Haiku

Jim came to visit
He had a glass of water
And we bad-mouthed Will

The Goat Next Door

I guess my neighbour's not so bad after all.