it's one of the few places even more whitebread than America
You've been to the wrong bits of Canada, my friend. There's a reason they wave their mosaic banner every time someone mentions the US melting pot.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - May 05, 2006 11:40:27 am PDT #9845 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 05, 2006 11:51:37 am PDT #9846 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Vancouver and a swath from Windsor to Toronto. But the only people I saw the whole time who weren't WASPish worked in a Thai restaurant.
Admittedly my own section of America isn't too whitebread, what with living on the edge of Memphis' Vietnamese neighborhood.
§ ita § - May 05, 2006 11:54:16 am PDT #9847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Toronto has the largest Jamaican population outside the island itself, IIRC. And Vancouver has the largest Chinatown outside of China.
P.M. Marc - May 05, 2006 12:22:06 pm PDT #9848 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Toronto has the largest Jamaican population outside the island itself, IIRC. And Vancouver has the largest Chinatown outside of China.
Plus a huge and long-established Sikh population.
Spidra Webster - May 05, 2006 12:39:42 pm PDT #9849 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Minearvearse 5: Objects in pants may be larger than they appear.
I love this.
Kristen - May 05, 2006 2:15:05 pm PDT #9850 of 10001
Craig Silverstein's pilot, PRIMARY, got ordered to series by FBC.
Oh and that Gina Torres chick is in it.
Polter-Cow - May 05, 2006 2:18:55 pm PDT #9851 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I assume it's not a show about Western blots.
WindSparrow - May 05, 2006 2:26:54 pm PDT #9852 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Minearvearse 5: Objects in pants may be larger than they appear.
I'm with Spidra: This is brilliant.
aurelia - May 05, 2006 2:39:40 pm PDT #9853 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Minearvearse 5: Objects in pants may be larger than they appear.
I dunno. I find it very disturbing. It sounds like we're talking about Tim, and while he may or may not appreciate it, I don't want to go there.
§ ita § - May 05, 2006 2:46:41 pm PDT #9854 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm with aurelia.