CP24 is a television channel in Toronto that is like a parody of Headline News, and you cannot escape it. I see it in elevators, subway stations, bars, restaurants, shops… I feel like I'm in a satirical science fiction dystopia. Youth in Revolt dir: Miguel…
Date Archives September 2009
"Not I," said the cat.
I saw this in the Globe and Mail: 20 percent of British women aged 18 to 50 have heard of bread and chicken skin being used as forms of contraception, the BBC reports. Bread? Worse, some women said they'd heard of kebabs and potato chips…
Möbius strip
Möbius strip
Weekend Poutine
Greetings from Toronto. The free wi-fi sources I used last year no longer work, inconveniencing me somewhat. Healthcare, wi-fi — I know which one I need more… The Trotsky Jay Baruchel (Undeclared) plays a high schooler who believes that he is the re-incarnation of Leon…
The T.O. Show
How to blow $400 on movie tickets: Friday September 11 PERRIER'S BOUNTY (88) 05:45PM RYERSON THE TROTSKY (113) 09:00PM RYERSON DAYBREAKERS (98) 11:59PM RYERSON Saturday September 12 THE WHITE RIBBON (145) 05:15PM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 1 ENTER THE VOID (155) 10:00PM AMC 6 Sunday September 13…
The Lonesome Crowded West
Nine years ago today, I launched this web site. I have now devoted over a third of my life to it. As Adam Riff™ enters its tenth year, I increasingly wonder if I foolishly held fast as people moved on to MySpace and Facebook and…
Consumption
The United States now has 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage space. (The Self Storage Association notes that it's now "physically possible that every American could stand — all at the same time — under the total canopy of self-storage roofing.") [source] Since New England's…
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Styrofoam Boots
As Seen on TV (a running list) 1. Henry Rollins rapes Peg Bundy while wearing a Michael Myers mask. Sons of Anarchy S02E01 The previews that air during Mad Men's end credits are excessively ominous. I didn't notice that they've already recast Bobby Draper twice….
James Dean
Run-DMC from: Raising Hell to: MTV reality star / VH1 pundit Beastie Boys from: "Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" to: Fight the Bush administration and cancer Public Enemy from: "911 Is a Joke" to: Flavor of Love / Air America Radio Ice-T from: "Cop…