I couldn’t do it. I abandoned all hope of entertainment while Céline was caterwauling in that horrible dress. All the awards anyone cares about (other than the nominees, of course) were saved for the end for some unknowable reason, leaving the first drab two hours like a platter of celery sticks when we were expecting petit fours. And Ellen, sorry, was not at her best. I hear Helen Mirren won. Shocking…
Best line of the evening from the ultra super hunky winner of best short film, Ari Sandel, on his West Bank Story, a reworking of West Side Story taking place between Israelis and Palestinians:
I made a comedy musical about Israelis and Palestinians that takes place between two falafel stands in the West Bank …
The only film from the whole dreary mess I haven’t seen yet that I now want to.
One of the hundreds of massive building projects going on all over Toronto involves one of my least favourite of Toronto’s many architectural nightmares (the worst of which is the hideous exapanse of concrete marring the length of the Bay on Bloor): Nathan Phillips Square. I like the curvy city hall towers and I’m gratified they have been immortalised in a Star Trek episode featuring weird space architecture and stuff, but the square itself is a barren field of pavement whose sole point of interest is the skating rink featuring the most grating cover bands ever on weekend evenings.
The worst offense is the raised public promenade that is closed to the public and cuts the square off from both Bay and Queen. It’s not going anywhere in the makeover, however; some spectacularly idiotic do-gooders have named the now-closed collonade an untouchable (and unblow-up-able) piece of heritage architecture. Aren’t these decisions supposed to benefit the public instead of antagonise it?
But back to the facelift. The four final the design bids have been announced and they’re all quite interesting in their attempts to reclaim the reviled promenade for the public. Of course what remains unknowable is whether it reopens once the winning design is built, no matter how pretty they make it. Since it’s not going anywhere, I’m intrigued by Zeidler Partnership’s raised tree-lined promenade leading to the bizarre wavy gardens. Equally interesting is Rogers Marvel Architects’ upper path to a swoopy swath of urban countryside.
When I grow up, I’m going to marry Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian cutie with a killer smile and latest newly-discovered Lostaway they added because they’d killed off half of their main characters and made the rest too irritating to stomach.
It’s everyone’s favourite day today! Yay! Valentine’s Day! The day when single people worldwide are informed that we’re pathetic lumps of some unknown blobby, emotionless substance with no worth to society in general or to that phantom potential someone in particular.
To make everything that much more fun and real, also on this day in 1389 in Strasbourg, 2000 Jews were accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning the city’s wells. All 2000 were then burned alive and Jews were subsequently banned from the city for 100 years. Similar murderous acts were committed against Jews all over Europe around this time.
Hurray for being a single Jew on a day named after a Christian martyr for people who feel all superior because there are 2 of them! Hurray!
Hurray! Good news for lazy bums health conscious people like you and me! According to researchers, taking naps is good for us and will make us live forever and ever!
A six-year study of nearly 24,000 Greek adults found that those who consistently took midday naps had a one-third lower risk of dying from heart disease.
“Afternoon siesta in a healthy individual may act as a stress-releasing habit,” says the report.
I have always been led to believe that closing my office door for a little beauty sleep was a bad thing, that it demonstrates a complete lack of stepping-up-to-the-platedness and no initiative or team spirit and all that other jargon they use on The Apprentice. Now it turns out that I’ve been right all along. Take that, boss who once humiliated me in front of the entire accounting department! Ooooo! *SsssssNAP!*
According to researchers, bosses who push us to work harder and drink more coffee in order to work harder are really malevolent slave drivers whose sole desire is to watch us suffer through long and agonising diseases ultimately leading to death and eventual unemployment.
According to a Cornell University study, sleep-deprived workers cost U.S. industry $150 billion a year in reduced job productivity and fatigue-related accidents.
Harvard-trained research scientist Sara Mednick, author of the book “Take a Nap! Change your life.” told CTV News recently that sleep deprivation can lead to a whole host of health problems such as increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, decreased libido and obesity.
Heart disease and decreased libido?! They’re trying to kill us all and depopulate the planet (and take away our fun!), leaving the Earth a barren wasted orb across whose surface wander naught but cockroaches and roving bands of Boards of Directors.
So take your nap! Live free and full your life and fill the lives of others with joy and mirth! And when your boss yells at you for napping on the job, tell them they’re a murderer and then file a human rights complaint with HR. Do it. I dare you.
It’s everyone’s favourite day today! Yay! Valentine’s Day! The day when single people worldwide are informed that we’re pathetic lumps of some unknown blobby, emotionless substance with no worth to society in general or to that phantom potential someone in particular.
Hurray! Good news for 
According to researchers, bosses who push us to work harder and drink more coffee in order to work harder are really malevolent slave drivers whose sole desire is to watch us suffer through long and agonising diseases ultimately leading to death and eventual unemployment.
