A newslet has landed on my plate this afternoon from my native country, Iowa City...
Lizard head found in Applebee’s salad Presence of animal parts appears to be accidental
...Which I think speaks for itself. Less apolitical perhaps was the following quotation from today's Globe and Mail, on the changing American stereotype of Canadians, given Canada's failure to support the US in Iraq, and its impending approval of gay marriage and marijuana decriminalisation, amongst other things...The image of 'bland niceness' may be on the way out:
Imagine a story in the [Wall Street] Journal that reports: “A Canadian landed immigrant from Libya was late for his lesbian sister's wedding to a black activist, who runs Vancouver's public heroin-injection site, because he became confused about the location of the church while smoking pot on the rapid transit train from New Westminster on Saturday. The betrothed couple are planning their honeymoon in San Francisco.”
Which sounds like my kind of nation.
Also, my Latin dictionary describes the word 'prox' as a 'comic representation of a fart'.
This is all.
Posted by aloysius at May 12, 2003 04:25 PM |