I don't care if it's for ladies' wear, it's still awesome
Mind the quality
Is that even in the NFL Rulebook?
Ben Dreith in 1986
Ron Cherry last Saturday
From insidethecbc.com
I'm smilin'
At the CBC Headquarters in Toronto, ON
Visitor is in one of the elevators. Clearly, he’s lost. Nearly every floor button is pushed. A CBC staffer gets on and rides one floor down.
Visitor: How do you get out of this building?
CBC staffer: You can’t.
Visitor: Huh?
(door opens, CBCer walks out saying): It’s how we get funding. We hold visitors for ransom. Have a nice day.”
The visitor doesn’t smile.
Heard - Discussing the devestating wildfires in Greece, one of my co-workers told me that "It's hard to put out a Greece fire" If it's any consolation, I agree it's too soon
Read - Looking up the Wikipedia entry for Havre, MT, I discovered many travellers get to Havre, then Turner, but can never make it to Climax.
Seen - Leno's dollar-store shopping spree
Seen and Heard - will.i.am - I Got it From My Mama
Read - This headline from Yahoo! Canada on Friday
The irony is about as delicious as a less hazardous chocolate cookie
Honourable Mention: Heard - You remember that old SNL sketch with Mike Myers, who plays a proprietor of a store called "All Things Scottish"? Well imagine a 9-year-old kid towing bagpipes spouting the famous line from that sketch on a TV news report.
It happened, on Global Calgary Friday night
Heard - Richard Crouse, CTV Canada AM's movie critic, just reviewed Daddy Day Camp. Well, actually he didn't. Instead, he gave a list of things more enjoyable than watching Daddy Day Camp
1. Cutting an apple in half and watching it turn brown.He actually gave it some credit in the fact it's not Rush Hour 3
2. Watching colonoscopy videos.
3. Poking sharp sticks in your eyes.
4. Eating bugs.
5. Latrine duty.
Two weeks after its release, the Simpsons Movie is finally showing at the Cinema Twin theatre in Swift Current tonight.
Too bad I already saw it.
Sorry, local business community, I couldn't resist. I had that Friday afternoon off and decided to drive over to Moose Jaw to see the movie, and shop at Sears. I must say though, it was well worth the 90 minute drive in 31-degree heat, but like I'm going to do that every week. My car doesn't run on tap water, you know.
I wonder what will take Cineplex to open up a Galaxy here. That was a great theatre.
According to VH1, NBC has confirmed Jimmy Fallon will take over for Conan O'Brien once he takes over for Jay Leno in 2009.
In a somewhat related story, my bedtime will be exactly 10:30pm (11:30 in the Winter) as of 2009.
Today is the North American release day of the Simpsons Movie. The most hyped, most anticipated movie in the history of cinema. Already, even before I see it, it's my favourite movie of the year...
...and it's not opening in Swift Current!
Time-coded photograph of the only movie theatre in Swift Current
Now, I realize a locally-owned small-town theatre has their commitments and reasons to show certain films, and I apologize in advance if anything I say rubs anybody the wrong way, but honestly, I think 1408 could wait for a couple of weeks or so until we all have the chance to see this movie locally at the same time as everybody else who live in the bigger cities.
If you're unfamiliar with the province of Saskatchewan, the larger city of Moose Jaw is located 90 miles east from Swift Current. The city's only enclosed shopping mall is anchored by Sears, Zellers, and a large chain-supported theatre that is showing the movie tonight, among other first-run films. I hope it doesn't come to this, but I would not be surprised if many people take the trip over to Moose Jaw, or even Regina, just to see that movie. That will probably not be the only thing they'll do, though. There's a football game in Regina tomorrow afternoon, and, well, an enormous moose in Moose Jaw that can be seen anytime, and they could see the movie in their touristy-downtime.
Now, I am planning a trip to Moose Jaw or Regina in the near future (I'd rather buy my clothes and whatnot at a Sears store than through the catalogue), and my plans may include seeing the Simpsons Movie in their theatres, but if anyone from the local theatre is reading this, don't take my plans, or anything else you may have read, as an insult. Once the movie opens here, and I'm sure it will, I will see it here, even if I already have someplace else.
It seems like every Tom, Dick and Harry in the Blogosphere is making up Simpsons lists in time for the release of The Simpsons Movie. I wouldn't be able to make any sort of a shortlist of my favourite episodes or moments, nor will any other lists reflect my choices exactly. But you can't help but see them try.
I found another at VH1's Best Week Ever website. It lists their 10 best Simpsons endings.
10 - You Only Move Twice - Homer owns the then mediocre Denver Broncos as a gift from a former employer
9 - Mom and Pop Art - Homer floods Springfield to make a mini-Venice
8 - The Otto Show - "Hail to the Bus Driver..."
7 - Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodily - "Ol' Painty-can Flanders!"
6 - Lisa's First Word - Maggie's First Word
5 - Treehouse of Horror IV - An homage to this classic ending
4 - Duffless - "Raindrops keep falling on my head..."
3 - Lisa's Wedding - "I ate seven pounds of fudge... [and] I rode the teacups"
2 - Bart Gets an Elephant - Stampy's a jerk
1 - And Maggie Makes Three - "Do[n]'t for[get, you're] her[e forever]"
Good news for motorists, the traffic signals at the intersection of Central Ave. N and George Street are back in operation. They were taken out in the windstorm back on June 30, and it took the city 18 days before they were fixed on Wednesday. Until it was fixed, the intersection was controlled by a 10-lane 4-way stop, and only one auto accident occurred in that time.
Yesterday on Ryan Switzer's morning show, he said he's happy that the lights are working again. If it took the city any longer to get them fixed, he would have to put the Monty Python classic, "I Like Traffic Lights" on a continuous loop until they got fixed.
If you haven't heard the song before, it starts after the unnecessarily long drum-roll
Honestly, it was the funniest thing I have heard on local radio in some time (it was only played twice. Once on its own, the other through the intro of Tarzan Boy - Baltimora). You know, Ryan, plenty of trees were also uprooted in that storm, then how about playing The Lumberjack Song until the clean-up's done?
In advance of the release of The Simpsons Movie, CTV released their choices for the Seven Greatest Simpsons Episodes of all time. They are (hotlinked to their Simpsons Archive summaries):
7. - Cape Feare (1993)6. - Homer vs. the 18th Amendment (1997)5. - Homer and Apu (1994)4. - Homerpalooza (1996)3. - Rosebud (1993)2. - Marge vs. the Monorail (1993)1. - Last Exit to Springfield (1993)
Transformers is showing at the two-screen theatre here in town. I've been hearing good things about the film, so I think I might go see it, especially tomorrow since it's tightwad Tuesday and I am not working that night for the first time in a while.
If you don't know what Transformers are (where have you been in the past 25 years?), they are robots disguised as cars, vans, ambulances, semi-trucks, and Rascal scooters?
Must be a new alien Transformer made for the movie. Now I can't wait!
Edit made July 18 at 9:32am: I did see the movie last night, and I most certainly was not disappointed. It was a great movie, everything I wanted and more, and definitely one of the movies of the summer. But the Rascaltron didn't show up. Maybe in the sequel.
A couple of Sundays ago (during the May long weekend), CBC ran a documentary celebrating the 24th anniversary of Bob and Doug MacKenzie's Strange Brew, a movie that I own, and have watched and enjoyed multiple times (I also watched it that same evening). Now during that documentary, they showed the press surrounding the film's release, and a movie review from Bill Casselman, who at that time was on The Journal.
The excerpt, posted by CBC, can be seen below. The only thing I can say about is, Bill, Barbara Frum woulda liked it.
By the way, if you missed that documentary, you missed 60 minutes of great television. Hopefully they release it on DVD soon.
An actual billboard for the Saskatchewan Pork Council in the city of Regina,SK, as reported by Ron Petrie of the Regina Leader-Post
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