Archie and Veronica

Well, I was always a Betty guy myself. Even over Wilma.

But this is a standard comic book trope nowadays. Flash marries Iris. Flash dies. Spidey marries Gwen. Spidey reboots. Reboots again. Superman (yes he did) married Lois. Reboot. Superman dies.

So Archie is going there too. Archie marries Veronica. Archie dies. Reboot.

Welcome to Spudtopia

The community built around Tuber Gigantus Butleriana

Spudtopia, an offshoot of this genus of giant potato, Tuber Gigantus Butleriana, was founded around the turn of the century. After discovering that giant potatoes could be grown, there was much hope for solving the problems of hunger and homelessness – after all, now, not only could everyone afford, they could simply grow their own sustenance and housing! Anyone who came to this community was given spoons and yearly, granted a huge potato from the annual crop, thus they not only ate well, but carved their own dwellings while so doing! Alas, in The Great Bake of 1912, when fire spread so disastrously throughout it, the promise of this grand utopian community ended.

fMRI humour from UWO

I don’t usually, well, at all if I can help it, crib posts from BoingBoing, but this one fits in with the general theme of this place. fMRI humor ar ar ar points to a page of jokes at the UWO psych department fMRI for Newbies humour pages.

So it’s from London, it’s about brains, it’s supposed to be funny, so it qualifies.

Ignatieff / Harper

The Arctic Snow Turtle

This article: Tropical Turtle Fossil Discovered in the High Arctic on Wired prompted the memory of an image I worked up for a Christmas card in the late 1990’s.

A strikingly preserved tropical turtle fossil discovered in the Canadian High Arctic is giving scientists a look into an ancient, carbon-dioxide-warmed world.

The freshwater turtle, dubbed Aurorachelys, was an Asian species that researchers believe migrated across the North Pole 90 million years ago as temperatures were peaking. The find suggests that animals moved into North America via a polar route rather than around Alaska, as was previously believed.

Three Spirits

 

On Christmas Eve, PM Harper is visited by three spirits a la Dicken’s Christmas Carol

Stephen Harper Flashdance

http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/12/22/a-good-day-for-democracy-maybe/#commenting

Memories of butter

  

 

A song for the moment

Harper, Dion, Duceppe and Layton wait as anxious children. The Governor General’s plane flies in. I hear this song.

She’s makin’ a list an’ checkin’ it twice
We’re gonna find out whose naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to town…
Santa Claus is coming to town…

Coo! Coo! Coo!

Stephen Harper: Pussycat

Who haven’t we heard from yet?

Harper plays dead

Harper hangs himself

"Okay, I'll play nice, if you play nice.... are you ready to play nice?"

Based on this:

…Stephen Harper has to wear this political mess himself. He personally ordered the incendiary paragraph inserted into Thursday’s fiscal update…

from Don Martin: Harper has no one to blame but himself linked from Kady O’Malley’s UPDATED: Behind the scenes at PMO: Wait, so this wasn’t Ryan Sparrow’s fault?

Captions?

A brief tour of downtown

While Googling something else, I came across this site of photos and comments by Dmytro Doblevych about our London:Curious facts and photos

“In the very downtown, a schizophrenically-happy-looking woman is trampling other people’s cars!”

As it ever was

I hope you realize I’m not going to subsidize this elitist crap with my tax dollars!

Update: Sunday; September 28, 2008
David Apatoff posted a story of the last king of the Ashanti Empire who, as his last act after being conquered, commissioned a work of art.
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