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When I was just a little girl
Dec. 6th, 2005 11:50 pm
High temp today, here: -7. Dewpoint then: -11. High dewpoint: -10.
High temp today in TO: -4. Dewpoint then: -12. High dewpoint: -10.
Latest update from Forecaster Franklin: "THE END IS IN SIGHT. IT REALLY REALLY IS. BUT IN THE MEANTIME...EPSILON CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN HURRICANE STATUS."
We have just watched Heathers, which somehow neither of us have ever seen before. What a strange movie. One of those things that can't decide what it wants to be.
You know what it reminded me most of? RoboCop. That late-'80s satire tone.
Michael Ignatieff will never be prime minister, even assuming he manages to hang on to Etobicoke Lakeshore. You know why? Not because he's too smart, though that obviously doesn't help. Not because he supported the Iraq invasion, which really doesn't matter anymore. Because he's too grouchy. E.g.: we saw him speak at the Congress, née Learneds, last spring, and at the end of his talk, when it was time for questions, he noted that a question is usually a short sentence, ending in a question mark. Hey, nice snarky line, but you just don't get to be prime minister with that kind of lip.
Which is another example (see also Jack Layton) of how members of The Media seem to arrive at their ideas of who has charisma not by asking themselves, "is this person appealing to me?", but by asking themselves, "does this person have the sort of qualities that I think would appeal to people"? Well, that's journalistic objectivity, I guess.
High temp today in TO: -4. Dewpoint then: -12. High dewpoint: -10.
Latest update from Forecaster Franklin: "THE END IS IN SIGHT. IT REALLY REALLY IS. BUT IN THE MEANTIME...EPSILON CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN HURRICANE STATUS."
We have just watched Heathers, which somehow neither of us have ever seen before. What a strange movie. One of those things that can't decide what it wants to be.
You know what it reminded me most of? RoboCop. That late-'80s satire tone.
Michael Ignatieff will never be prime minister, even assuming he manages to hang on to Etobicoke Lakeshore. You know why? Not because he's too smart, though that obviously doesn't help. Not because he supported the Iraq invasion, which really doesn't matter anymore. Because he's too grouchy. E.g.: we saw him speak at the Congress, née Learneds, last spring, and at the end of his talk, when it was time for questions, he noted that a question is usually a short sentence, ending in a question mark. Hey, nice snarky line, but you just don't get to be prime minister with that kind of lip.
Which is another example (see also Jack Layton) of how members of The Media seem to arrive at their ideas of who has charisma not by asking themselves, "is this person appealing to me?", but by asking themselves, "does this person have the sort of qualities that I think would appeal to people"? Well, that's journalistic objectivity, I guess.
