Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Here's a custom ringtone site that makes a ringtone for your name. Guess which name isn't there.

Coming back from lunch today, I walked through Chinatown and there was a sandwich board on the street in front of a resturant hand painted with Chineese characters - which I imagine is the menu and the special of the day. Right in the middle of all this caligraphy, there were three English words "Stampede Panflake Breakfast" in old time cowboy type. Yep - stampede's a comin' alright.

Now that the Canada Day weekend is over, I've been reading through some of the Blogs around Canada and some older stuff. The Western Standard Shotgun reprinted Trevor Lauten's Canada Day column the Winnipeg Free Press , with what sounds like old man grumping about how things were in "the good old days" - but many of the points he makes are correct. To wit: There seemed to be a fresh new dawn in the 1950s, that decade scorned as boring and repressive by those who weren't there for it. The Canadian vocabulary unashamedly included kindness, thankfulness, manners, and such, and citizens quite often even put those words into practice. The actual and linguistic horrors of lifestyle, fulfillment, liberation, orgasm (good, better, best), closure (what of importance is ever closed, especially the death of the loved?) and that tool of the institutionalized New Bigotry, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all gratefully lay far ahead .... Now Canada is uber-enlightened an...

How about The International Hedgehogs club? for the little spiny creature in all of us. The IHA is a registered charitable non-profit organization established with the purpose of educating the public in the care and betterment of hedgehogs and to facilitate the rescue, welfare, promotion and care of hedgehogs everywhere.

LiveVault: The Institute for Backup Trauma Now this is a GOOD marketing site. Just the thing needed for the Friday Funny - but a little late. But John Cleese is aways funny at any time. Watch for ex-klingon Micheal Dorn.

Saw this on Bob Geldorf's concert and I saw the article where he takes a strip off of Paul Martin for not spending as much as he wanted. I also saw the article where he tore a strip off of the poor guy who got a free ticket to the concert putting it on e-bay to make a buck for himself. I'm seconding McCracken's thought: I'm not attending or watching the Live 8 concert. Even if he apologises Canadians Should Boycott Live 8 Concert By D.L. McCracken Jun 22, 2005, 17:00 Bob Geldof, an aging punk rocker and former member of the 1970s era band, Boomtown Rats is best known not for his musical ability or his short acting career but for his political activism. He became a household name in 1985 when he organized the Live Aid concerts which were touted as a world event to raise funds for the famine-stricken African country of Ethiopia. The event was broadcast via satellite around the world from four major venues - London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney. It was estimated that...

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