DAVID FOSTER WALLACE - CONSIDER THE LOBSTER
Via Books Rule
read the entire essay at the link, brilliant
“…the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker, which is highlighted as an attraction in the Festival’s program, is right out there on the MLF’s north grounds for everyone to see. Try to imagine a Nebraska Beef Festival at which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right there on the World’s Largest Killing Floor or something—there’s no way.”
Dave Brubeck is playing the Montreal Jazz Fest on Saturday
To go or to… not go? Note that this is 100% against my prudent, somewhat curmudgeonly nature. Help?They strike when there’s the most amount of tourists in the city.I knew Spadina would get the worst.
This is almost as bad as what’s accumulated in my bike basket on Queen West.
“If my mom can’t take them, give them to Diana Ross.”
Modern-Day Martin Luther Nails 95 Comment Cards To IHOP Door
SIOUX FALLS, SD—Managers of an area International House of Pancakes discovered 95 comment cards nailed to its front door Sunday, which were later identified as the work of local resident Ronald Lyman, a 53-year-old contractor and onetime regular customer who is calling for wide-scale reform of the venerable chain.
Happy Canada Day!
That is, of course, unless you live in Toronto, where it will be known as Acrid Stench
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Paul McCartney - How Kind of You
Brace yourself. It’s a McCartney song made within your lifetime that doesn’t suck.



