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Life

Apparently, It Did.

Incomplete graffito on a brick wall: "SHIT HAP"

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Life Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Storefront of the Day: “Ontario Giant Runt Club”

Ontario Giant Runt Club

The person who took this “Ontario Giant Runt Club” photo – who goes by the online moniker “Bourbon Baby” (oddly enough, it’s not a pseudonym for bourbon aficionado David Crow) – did a little research and found that “giant runt” refers to a breed of pigeon; this is a pigeon fancier’s club in Toronto.

In case you were curious, this place is located at 615B Brock Avenue, just off Bloor Street West, halfway between Lansdowne and Dufferin. West End pigeon fanciers unite!

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Life The Current Situation

Michael Steele Wants You to Know He’s the Best Boss Ever!

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Before the “Bush 43” years, and especially during the early ‘90s, when I was at Crazy Go Nuts University, I often voiced my observation that:

  • Conservatives were people you didn’t necessarily agree with politically, but found likeable and would gladly invite to a party, wedding, kegger or road trip, and
  • Liberals were people with whom you might agree on a political level, but were tiresome and always threatening to invite you to some rally or other tiresome crashing bore of an event.

I miss the Barry Goldwater conservatives of yore and look forward to the day when they oust the Fox News/End Times-insane among their ranks. I don’t know if any of the Republican Party interns in the photos below posing with Chairman Michael Steele are the more sensible sort, but at least the poses in these photos – which are rather like the poses I’d do with my boss and coworkers – are a glimmer of hope that not all conservatives have gone tragically, completely and humourlessly off the rails.

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Life

The World’s Most Terrifying Children’s Book

The blog Awful Library Books recently featured what I consider to be the world’s most terrifying children’s book: Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy: A Child’s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse:

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It would seem that Satanists have their own version of “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”:

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Form follows function in this book, with dreadful pencil-crayon illustrations matching the dreadful prose:

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For more, see these articles in Awful Library Books: Satan for Kids and Satan for Kids, Part 2.

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Life Play

The Ugly Truth

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Life

Now THAT’s What I Call a Snappy Comeback

Guy countering a schlubby corduroy skirt-wearing woman with a "Homosexuality is sin" sign with his own "Corduroy skirts are a sin" signPhoto courtesy of FBomb – click the photo to see the source.

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Life

Happy American Thanksgiving!

Hey, American readers! Whether you celebrate with the smooth flavour of Camel cigarettes as shown in the ad below or if you’re one of those conspiracy nuts who thinks smoking is bad for you, I’d like to wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

(Can’t read the text in the ad below? Click it to see it at full size.)

Old ad showing how Camel cigarettes are an important part of Thanksgiving dinner