"It’s normal to be afraid of something you don’t understand. For example, math, Tyler Perry, or whether or not girls actually fart are all quite scary things. However, I’m sure with a little research you’ll find that whatever was scaring you is really just Canadians with flashlights…"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
That'd make a good list: Things suspicious people can be doing with flashlights.
- ronin
"Many Lucy Maud Montgomery fans may be shocked next week when they encounter the dark themes in the final Anne of Green Gables book, but a literary scholar says it's a side of the iconic Canadian author that was always there."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
from Bookmarklet
*blink* Rilla of Ingleside (the 8th book in the series) was pretty damn dark. Anyone who is "shocked" by the new book must not have read the entire series.
- Soup
Soup I agree. I did read the entire series.
- Melanie Reed
@Melanie, It's embarrassing to admit but nothing makes me cry like Montgomery. I just WEEP.
- Soup
@Soup Sounds like you have the soul of a warrior-poet inside!
- Melanie Reed
L.M.montgomery suffered from depression for a good part of her life - any of her readers who didn't know that may not have read between the lines of her books which were about life, full of flowers and thorns same as her own -
- sally stokhamer
It's good for Canada's self-image when one of it's literary heros is shown to be human... rather than the purveyor of sweetness she's sometimes thought to be. I'm reminded of Virginia Woolf's image of "killing the angel".
- T. Brent, technopeasant
This coin’s exceptional design reveals just how immense the jaws of this formidable predator were—it’s an amazing find that any coin collector, nature lover and dinosaur hunter would be proud to call their own.
- AJ Batac
"Google Street View of Google Maps that shows high-resolution, 360 degrees street-level images on the web, is now live in some major Canadian cities. Google Street View is now available in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Squamish, B.C., Whistler, B.C., Ottawa, Kitchener, Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario and my favorite city Vancouver! Here’s a screenshot of my favorite street in Vancouver B.C."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
"In the Polar Bear Capital of the World Winter comes early in Manitoba, bringing some furry white visitors both darling and deadly." http://good.ly/wch4y related article: "Arctic Blast
For a couple of months in Churchill, Manitoba, the polar bears come calling" http://good.ly/whyug
This is where AJ Batac's from I believe...Winnipeg Manisnowba, he may look all civil and starched collar/tie, but when the polar bears come & threaten their igloos in Winnipeg they become feral spear chuckers, they also eat babbies :D [awesome photo essay]
- sofarsoShawn
For those who *still* don't know... I live on the coldest major city in the universe (and it sucks in the winter).
- AJ Batac
& it's not the one where you actually get to see the polar bears (that was jokes, though in the same province) but one wayyyy down south (Winnipeg) not far from the Canada/US border. Supposed to be nice summers though.
- sofarsoShawn
Yeah, we've had 2 weeks of 30C summer this year. It's been good to us. Unfortunately, it ends this week.
- AJ Batac
"Under the rarely used 1881 law – established when bare-knuckle bouts were in fashion – anyone associated with such a brawl could get a $5,000 fine or up to six months in prison."
- shanebe
from Bookmarklet