There are two men out there that get the hearts of teenage girls (at least, people who were teenage girls in the early 90s) pumping with gusto, mostly because of their resemblance to me:
George Stroumboulopoulos* and John Cusack.
Before now, you might have wondered if the two could somehow be combined to form some sort of überhottie (and then merged into me, but that would create a form of hotness that would start fusing hydrogen atoms into helium and create a star that would quickly consume the Earth, so let’s not ponder that).
Ever wake up one morning and think to yourself: I want to see cheesy, low-budget early 90s Québécois rap video that goes on for nine minutes about how awesome public transit is and how cool you can be if you follow all the rules and respect your fellow passengers?
Note: Please do not take this literally. Flyers fans are human too. If you see one trying to steal the purse of a helpless old lady, please report the matter to the police immediately and do not — I repeat: do not — beat the person to a bloody pulp.
I think we’ve found the real reason there was a riot around Crescent St. on Monday night: Bilal and CHOM’s Hockeyville (not to be confused with CBC/Kraft Hockeyville). Time to repent, Bilal…
More faces from the … ahem … “alleged” rioters of Monday night.
Also posted on YouTube is the security video of a Rogers Wireless store downtown that was looted Monday night. They couldn’t take any cellphones because those were tied to the display tables, and those prepaid phone cards are useless because they have to be pre-activated by the cashier. But have fun with those charging adapters, I guess.
April 14, 2008 – 4:57 pm |Also posted in Canadiens
Some might decry this as a lack of class, but really Canadiens fans deserved this after Boston beat us in overtime yesterday: Bruins fans heckling Habs fans in the bathroom at [Corporate name here] Garden in Boston, singing “you’re gay, you’re gay, you’re gay, you’re-gay-you’re-gay-you’re-gay”
On behalf of the city, we’d like to apologize to anyone who tried to sleep after 10pm last night. (And, very possibly, anyone trying to sleep after 10pm tonight or 10pm Tuesday night.)
39 years ago this week, major league baseball came to Canada for the first time with the creation of the Montreal Expos. For those unfamiliar with the story, they began in 1969, with the greatness of Expo 67 still in our minds, and played at Jarry Park until they moved to the Olympic Stadium, where they played until the franchise moved to Washington in 2004.
Thanks to the magic of YouTube, we can look back on the great moments of this glorious team, including some peeks at individual seasons (1977, their first at the Olympic Stadium; 1981, including the tragedy of Blue Monday, when they failed to make the World Series by a single run in a single game; 1982, including the first-ever major-league all-star game outside the U.S.) or fun little tidbits like a really-really young Céline Dion singing the national anthem or Fernand Lapierre performing the Expos theme song.
But my favourite is this goofy 1988 CFCF piece with Randy Tieman and Rob Faulds doing an Expos parody of Dragnet, “investigating” stolen bases.
If only rampant base theft was still a problem here…
This supposedly happened today at Central Station.
UPDATE: Another video of the event, which also involved a freeze in the food court of Place Ville-Marie. And another one, which shows CTV’s Paul Karwatsky, making it abundantly clear to everyone that this is an organized event, and another one.
UPDATE (April 15): Don’t ask me why they waited more than a week, but CFCF finally has a report on the freeze from Karwatsky in his “My Generation” segment.
After six years of failed contract negotiations, CUPFA, the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association, has instituted “rotating strikes” which sound more like “picketing between classes”. Among their demands are pay equity with full-time teachers (represented by another bargaining unit, CUFA) as well as basic job security, if only so that students don’t see “TBA” listed as their professors for upcoming courses.
Concordia University has declared that the show must go on though they will tolerate CUPFA’s tactics. Students must still complete all work, handing it in to departments directly if necessary.
Part of CUPFA’s tactics include setting up a YouTube channel and posting videos.
Here, head honcho Maria Peluso explains the skinny on CUPFA’s position.
The Domster points us to amazing special-effects videos of Patrick Boivin, who’s done commercials and other work with stop-motion animation or really cool CGI that looks like stop-motion animation.
He points to a couple of videos, but my favourite is this tribute to Evolution of Dance with Optimus Prime:
