Yay Anne!
'Ariel'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
At the moment, I'm savoring my coffee and doing my morning internet rounds.
Happy US Thanksgiving-Observant Buffistas. Don't want to wish unearned happiness to those sly Canadians now. I see through your plan.
HEY!! We deserve all the happiness we can weasel out of you. 'Cause were the nicest country.
I was backpacking long ago, travelling from Montreal with a Canadian friend across North Africa. She had a long-standing issue with Americans (mostly) who tagged on a Canadian flag onto their luggage so they'd be treated more nicely.
That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?
However, if you're that nice, you shouldn't bogart the happiness on this oh-so-special USian day.
C'mon, you can tell me, you guys just crammed it in before Christmas for an extra day off, right?
No, we crammed it in before Christmas to have an extra two days off. Why else would it be celebrated on a Thursday?
And Canadians have Thanksgiving, just not today.
That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?
My friend's uncle was minister of Indian Affairs during the Oka crisis, and my friend said he's never heard such racist things come from someone's mouth as his uncle.
We're no means perfect.
Hey ita, did you hear reports that they found info on the Montreal Metro system of one of the Madrid bombers? I was watching the news last night, and I kept thinking, "Not Montreal!" [link]
It feels too early to be awake. 6:15, when it's this dark outside and in, is somehow a huge indignity.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Ack! Leave Montreal alone!!!
Chinese float liquid condom concept.
It's dark inside because not everyone's up yet. I'm sure the rapid clicking of powerbook keys and the ghostly glow on our faces will wake them up soon.
Or maybe I'm too much of a morning person with insomnia to understand the persistence of a holiday sleep-in.