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Chana Tower has frogs, snails, mushrooms and adventure
We cherished the girls, grog and laughter
The Poetry of Actor William Smith. You may be familiar with William Smith as a "that guy" from hundreds and hundreds of movie performances, usually the heavy, such as bare-knuckle brawler Jack Wilson in 1980's Any Which Way You Can. But his poetic contributions have gone largely unnoticed, and courtesy of his still-up website -- Williams passed in 2021 -- you can read poems like The Reaper or thrill to these poems read in Williams' own roadworn voice.
Lil Jon has a guided meditation YouTube stream
10 different 10-minute guided mediations by crunk progenitor Lil Jon. Lil Jon is very serious about meditation, and sharing its benefits. These 10 guided mediations include ones focusing on boosting focus, gratitude, grief, deep sleep, and much more.
Lo-fi beats to smash Tokyo to
The Godzilla Meditation Series, lightly animated stills from kaiju movies with ambient music. From Kaijutopia.
All the Garbage I Found on Substack
From Backderf to Munch; Crumb to Pollack; Kirby to Xbox
Every Chip Stand is a project to illustrate every chip truck in Ontario.
"The chip stand differentiates us from our American neighbours. It is not a food truck. It is not a diner. The very nature of the chip stand is defined by it being a combination of both." Every Chip Stand, by illustrators Chantal Bennett, is an attempt to illustrate every chip stand in Ontario and some neighbouring provinces, "thus chronicling the visual history of these structures that are slowly being replaced by professional food trailers and trucks."
Bwah ha ha ha ha
Keith Giffen, legendary comics writer/artist (Ambush Bug, Justice League International, Legion of Super-Heroes, Trencher, the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle, and much, much more) has passed away at 70, and left a final Facebook post for the ages.
He will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.
A B.C. study gives cash to unhoused people, with positive results
"The cash transfer is such a no-brainer. But nobody is willing to try it:" Dr. Jiaying Zhao, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, was part of a team that gave 50 unhoused people in Vancouver $7,500 and then followed them for a year.
Philanthropy’s equivalent of “All Lives Matter”
Non-profit writer/speaker/thinker Vu Le discusses a recent joint statement by philanthropic leaders "protecting pluralism." Vu Le previously and even more previously.
Shoulda done an AskMe
103 covers, 62 designers, 54 imprints
ride a zombie train / salads and cucumber
Just a bit of silliness from over a decade ago; appropriate for the season. Fellow MeFite (and my partner) Kitteh and I were singing this to each other today and I was surprised it had never been shared here: from back when the Internet was fun, a goofy Hallowe'en treat.
'Cause t'es gone nulle part avec ta 9 piece luggage set (chuis jet set)
Chiac is a French/English dialect from the Canadian province of New Brunswick, fluidly mixing English loaner words into principally French speech. Listening to chiac as song lyrics can be a delightful -- or disorienting -- experience for people, especially those with passing knowledge but not fluency in French. There are a lot of opportunities to find out, as there's no shortage of bands and musicians who record in chiac, from rap like Radio Radio's "Cliché Hot" to Lisa LeBlanc's "Gossip" to the bonkers brilliance of P'tit Belliveau's "Income Tax".
Jailhouse Mox
Lovelace and Lamarr, Burnell and Boye
Don't fold back spines, asking nicely
LOCO: the 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus
LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus The spread of online conspiracy theories represents a serious threat to society. To understand the content of conspiracies, here we present (...) an 88-million-token corpus composed of topic-matched conspiracy (N = 23,937) and mainstream (N = 72,806) documents harvested from 150 websites.
An app that hijacks Twitter and Facebook with right-wing propaganda
The Wire India has released a report on Tek Fog, an app claimed by whistleblowers to "hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience" for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party of the Republic of India. It allows users to directly hijack Twitter and Facebook "trending" data, phish WhatsApp accounts, exploit databases to harass private citizens, and allow operatives to destroy all traces of their activity.
A celebration of blasphemy, with 17 kinds of poutine
Consider the hagfish.
"We're a single engine, that's it."
The following is an actual legal dispute. Like, for real.
Podcast to the head!
Venerable Canadian comedy troupe The Frantics have pored over their entire CBC radio archive for a (planned) 50-part Best Of Frantic Times podcast. Perhaps better known outside Canada for their relatively short-lived TV sketch show Four On The Floor, The Frantics were a four-man comedy troupe most famous for Mister Canoehead, the ubiquitous-for-Doctor-Demento sketch and song Ti Kwan Leep and Boot to the Head, and a fairly well-received Star Trek sketch in the early days of the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Some of the material is... anachronistic is the charitable description; "sexist as hell" is the more accurate label. But for Canadians of a Certain Age, this was the cornerstone of our pre-KiTH comedic development.
Get Out of Cell Jail Free
Hint: there's a lot of stuff having to do with chords
ANY QUESTIONS?
The Cleveland Team
"Do I save the robin, or do I eat it?"
Margaret Atwood (and artist Johnnie Christmas) have created Angel Catbird, a comic book about a winged human/cat/bird hybrid. It will be published by Dark Horse, and chronicles the adventures of a genetic engineer whose DNA is mixed with that of a cat, and an owl. The comic is part of her advocacy work for Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives.
This post is under 24 hour video surveillance
Brockville, Ontario is the newest place to add an Internet Purchase Exchange location to their municipality -- this one in a video surveilled section of the police parking lot. The idea seems to be relatively recent, but catching on, starting with one of the first in Mobile, Alabama and now with locations in Texas, Massachusetts, Virginia, Utah, and across Canada. With over 100 murders now linked to Craigslist, is this an idea whose time has come?
For Men* Who Desperately Need Autonomy
Nora Samaran writes on men, autonomy, and how it is created, not taken. "Emotionally immature men who believe that autonomy is something you take, rather than something you create, may live their lives in a continual nightmare of ‘needs they can’t meet’ that they never come to understand."
Part Two: The Tricks of Shame and Hope
‘Myths of rape should be dispelled’: Ontario Court Justice Zuker
“The myths of rape should be dispelled once and for all,” he announced near the long-awaited end of his verdict. “It doesn’t matter if the victim was drinking, out at night alone, sexually exploited, on a date with the perpetrator, or how the victim was dressed. No one asks to be raped.”
He underlined that last line, literally.
All work and no play makes Aes a dull Rock
"We don't know why it came to this."
What audiences are saying is, "that wasn't funny."
The Canadian Library Association has been dissolved.
Members voted to dissolve the Association at a Special General Meeting on January 27. Their intent is to form a new "Federation of Library Associations" to create a "strong national voice" for libraries. The full proposal for the creation of the Federation is here. This is, obviously a hot topic at the Ontario Library Association OLA Superconference happening now in Toronto.
Over an hour of swingin' jazz
Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed in 2 days and 4 hours.
The Marshall Project couldn't find any tools providing detailed information on upcoming executions. So they built one. The Next to Die defaults to showing the next scheduled execution in the United States, but users can also browse by specific state (including Missouri, where execution rates are surging) and, from the intro page, view racial and method-of-execution breakdowns for executions to date.
Earth has been restored to 1-day simultaneous rotation.
First created in 1997, Gene Ray's Time Cube disappeared on August 24, 2015. Timecube.org now points to nothing. Twitter mourns. Snapshots of Time Cube continue to exist on the Internet Archive. The status of Gene Ray, creator of Time Cube, who would be 87 this year, is unknown.
In Israel: casual dress, handle business cards with respect.
This blog features a lot of drawings of kitties.
239 issues of trailblazing feminism
The British Library has put every issue of Spare Rib in their digital journal archive, with full access, for free.
Few titles sum up an era and a movement like Spare Rib. When the first issue came out in July 1972, many women were starting to question their position and role in society. The magazine was an active part of the emerging women's liberation movement. It challenged the stereotyping and exploitation of women in what was the first national magazine of its kind. It supported collective, realistic solutions to the hurdles women faced and reached out to women from all backgrounds. Spare Rib became the debating chamber of feminism in the UK. It continued until January 1993 and the full archive of 239 magazines provides a valuable insight into women's lives and this period of feminist activity.
This is Richard. His parents are doing OK.
Generational thinking is just a benign form of bigotry
Like Lehrer and MacNeil, but with moustaches and puppets
A hard-hitting panel show that isn't afraid to tackle the tough issues, with a balanced panel of right-wing, left-wing, libertarian and other guests, No, You Shut Up! "takes on the issues of the day until everyone gets too angry to discuss them any further."
There's a tear in my beer because of bad legislation in Ontario, dear
A 2000 report leaked to the Toronto Star details how the Harris government struck a sweetheart deal to ensure major brewers a stranglehold on Ontario beer retail. Long suspected but never before proven, the report details how the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) was forced to submit to a subsidiary role in beer retail in the province; the then-LCBO head has confirmed that Harris forced the deal onto the province. Martin Cohn reports in the Toronto Star.
Beyond the sweeping majesty of the snorfle snorfle snarf
It's called Vindaloo.
Stickman's Tips for Having a Table at a Comic Book Convention is actually a pretty good primer for having a booth or table at any convention, ever.
There is much to be learned from Reggie Watts.
Now drop and give me 12 Wolverines
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