The Ever-Incredibly Depressing Jian Ghomeshi redux Well, I already wrote another post. This one I jotted and set aside. But anyway. Jian is interviewing Eugene Levy, and throughout the whole “chat,” Jian is sucking and blowing and wheedling and whinging and desperately trying to out-Oprah Oprah, and he’s doing it
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Zorg Report: Can’t Get a Decent Sandwich? Blame Subway’s Advertising Budget
Man am I getting sick of saturation Subway advertising. There is no nook or cranny they can’t squeeze themselves into. Canadian radio, American radio, TV, shows on my computer, you name it. One ad trumpets how healthy they are, the next shows you a new cholesterol bomb they’re pushing. That
Continue readingZorg Report: Necrescent Rex Murphy Slams NDP for Seeking to Replace Leader
View here: http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2011/11/24/thenational-rexmurphy-112411.html You would almost think his privately ordered Sea King dropped him off at the wrong port. Still, good to see Rex really back. Cough, cough, dribble. Rex sure did take that opposition to task (never one to touch sitting Conservatives, Rex), calling out the NDP for having
Continue readingZorg Report: Necrescent Rex Murphy Slams NDP for Seeking to Replace Leader
View here: http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2011/11/24/thenational-rexmurphy-112411.html You would almost think his privately ordered Sea King dropped him off at the wrong port. Still, good to see Rex really back. Cough, cough, dribble. Rex sure did take that opposition to task (never one to touch sitting Conservatives, Rex), calling out the NDP for having
Continue readingZorg Report: Rogers, Nissan Lead in Christmas Crassness Sweepstakes
Oh, I like Christmas. I’m lucky to live in a place where there’s often snow at Christmas, and I like the lights, the crowds, and so on. Sure, the commercialism is soul-destroying, but for anyone with a long historical perspective, one knows that it was ever thus. I see no
Continue readingZorg Report: Rogers, Nissan Lead in Christmas Crassness Sweepstakes
Oh, I like Christmas. I’m lucky to live in a place where there’s often snow at Christmas, and I like the lights, the crowds, and so on. Sure, the commercialism is soul-destroying, but for anyone with a long historical perspective, one knows that it was ever thus. I see no
Continue readingZorg Report: Bubble Gum and American Expression: A Multi-Generational Romance
Bubble Gum and American Expression: A Multi-Generational Romance (It is a “romance” because everyone is involved–like snakes in the Arizona desert.) 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90, 00s—there would be no surer thing than to find a villain who chewed, obviously, gum. This is a peculiarly American phenomenon—one doesn’t
Continue readingZorg Report: Bubble Gum and American Expression: A Multi-Generational Romance
Bubble Gum and American Expression: A Multi-Generational Romance (It is a “romance” because everyone is involved–like snakes in the Arizona desert.) 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90, 00s—there would be no surer thing than to find a villain who chewed, obviously, gum. This is a peculiarly American phenomenon—one doesn’t
Continue readingZorg Report: Galleons o’ Torrents – Your White Wine Guide
Galleons o’ Torrents I noticed I had a category for Wines – Red. I was a bit taken aback, for I mainly consume white—there’s an old oenology fundamental which asseverates that the more you drink wine, the more you drink white—once you drink white, you’ll never go back. Of course
Continue readingZorg Report: Galleons o’ Torrents – Your White Wine Guide
Galleons o’ Torrents I noticed I had a category for Wines – Red. I was a bit taken aback, for I mainly consume white—there’s an old oenology fundamental which asseverates that the more you drink wine, the more you drink white—once you drink white, you’ll never go back. Of course
Continue readingZorg Report: Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities?
Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities? Well, I guess it’s because they don’t have an integrated, mature society in which others care for one another. I often have heard Obama talk about values American cherish, I’ve heard him embrace Reagan and so on, but you just know his heart
Continue readingZorg Report: Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities?
Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities? Well, I guess it’s because they don’t have an integrated, mature society in which others care for one another. I often have heard Obama talk about values American cherish, I’ve heard him embrace Reagan and so on, but you just know his heart
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Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Starbucks: Two Lines for Coffee or Lose All Your Coffee Business Just like the whole world, I have long noticed that there are two kinds of coffee buyers—people who want coffee, and people who would like to buy something else. –also a coffee, to be sure,
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Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Starbucks: Two Lines for Coffee or Lose All Your Coffee Business Just like the whole world, I have long noticed that there are two kinds of coffee buyers—people who want coffee, and people who would like to buy something else. –also a coffee, to be sure,
Continue readingZorg Report: What is with the half-face photo thing for people on webpages?
I really don’t get around much on the web, you may have noted, but now it seems that, everywhere I go—friends, acquaintances, total strangers—they all seem to be putting half their faces on their webphotos. Is this cool? Why? –Perhaps this is like getting a tattoo—a way for deeply conformist
Continue readingZorg Report: What is with the half-face photo thing for people on webpages?
I really don’t get around much on the web, you may have noted, but now it seems that, everywhere I go—friends, acquaintances, total strangers—they all seem to be putting half their faces on their webphotos. Is this cool? Why? –Perhaps this is like getting a tattoo—a way for deeply conformist
Continue readingZorg Report: Mira Bergman-Tonic (drink recipe):
1/2 part lemon juice 1 part acquavit (chilled in freezer) 2 1/2 parts tonic water (preferably Canada Dry) * in certain quarters, the surface of the drink is decorated with once-rinsed capers This is a _very_ dry Scandinavian cocktail. Partakers often like to listen to Goldstein’s _Wiretap_ on CBC while
Continue readingZorg Report: Mira Bergman-Tonic (drink recipe):
1/2 part lemon juice 1 part acquavit (chilled in freezer) 2 1/2 parts tonic water (preferably Canada Dry) * in certain quarters, the surface of the drink is decorated with once-rinsed capers This is a _very_ dry Scandinavian cocktail. Partakers often like to listen to Goldstein’s _Wiretap_ on CBC while
Continue readingZorg Report: Harper Goes to School on Chretien
Harper Goes to School on Chretien Stevie wasn’t just building a firewall around his unilingual desk when he was sitting across from John, oh no. Note the shrugging, empty phrases—you dance with the one that brung you, Harper says, and if it’s 1 in 3 of the 2 in 3
Continue readingZorg Report: Harper Goes to School on Chretien
Harper Goes to School on Chretien Stevie wasn’t just building a firewall around his unilingual desk when he was sitting across from John, oh no. Note the shrugging, empty phrases—you dance with the one that brung you, Harper says, and if it’s 1 in 3 of the 2 in 3
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