seems that my faith in justin timberlake has been affirmed, again, by pitchfork, who have named 'my love' the number one track of 2006. it's really a pretty bizarre list, though.

after nearly a decade, the Falun Gong protest in front of the Chinese Embassy practically across the street from our building just disappeared. no idea why - after 24 hour a day meditation-as-protest for something like 8 years, though, they're suddenly gone. any Torontonians have an idea ( Read more... )

so pitchfork asked their favorite artists to provide 'best of' lists for the year in music, lists with the expected mentions of stuff like TV on the Radio. what i found particularly striking, though, is that the most popular solo projects were Joanna Newsome and Justin Timberlake - and not for wholly ironic reasons, as a lot of them explain. (if ( Read more... )

"Left Behind: Eternal Forces," is a teen-rated PC strategy game based on the wildly popular Left Behind Christian book series. Set in New York City after millions of Christians have been transported to heaven, its players are charged with recruiting, and converting, an army that will engage in physical and spiritual warfare with the Antichrist and ( Read more... )

as i move thru grad school, my prep for writing is getting more and more ridiculous. i've compiled something like 40-45 pages of research notes and quotations, mostly single-spaced - which is more than i'll actually have to write between my 2 papers. it's so much that it isn't even functional or reasonable in any way for me to work from these notes ( Read more... )

so Dion has won the liberal leadership and the Globe and Mail is reporting that the liberals have leapt into the lead in the polls, opening up a 4 point lead (as i recall) on the conservatives ( Read more... )

we should get a clearer idea of who the next liberal party of canada leader is tonight (via their speeches, if not the first-ballot vote, which is expected to look just like the last delegate vote), and it's shaping up interestingly, if unfortunately in some respects ( Read more... )

from the Toronto Star on prime minister Stephen Harper's trip to Vietnam and 15 minute meeting with China's president: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? ( Read more... )

WARD 20 TRINITY-SPADINA 59/60 POLLS REPORTING ( Read more... )