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Election special!
Jan. 23rd, 2006 08:26 pm
High temp today, here: 1. Dewpoint then: -3. High dewpoint: -3.
High temp today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -3. High dewpoint: -1.
Low today on the balcony: -2.5. High: -0.2. Currently: -2.5.
So, I figure, while I'm making wacky predictions, I might as well go whole hog, before the results start coming in.
Popular vote:
Liberals: 33%
Conservatives: 31.5%
NDP: 17%
Bloc: 12.5%
Green: 5%
Others: 1%
Seats:
Liberals: 112
Conservatives: 110
NDP: 28
Bloc: 58
Green: 0.
Others: 0.
To come out right, I need about a 6% poll-booth switch from the latest polls.
In other news, I've been re-reading Toni Morrison's Beloved, some eleven or twelve years later. I'm amazed, as usual, how little of it I remember, and perturbed at how many things I wouldn't have picked up, at the time. I'm surprised at how much it reminds me of McCarthy, but then I have McCarthy on the brain, a bit--but I don't know that it should be so surprising, given the similarity of time and place and brutal subject matter. (Among other things, I had forgotten just how brutal Beloved is.) 70 pages to go; can't remember how it comes out in the end ... I suspect not with the evening redness in the west (I had a look at a newer edition today, with a foreword from Morrison, in which she says that it started with her asking herself what it is to be free, a free woman--and whatever it is, it is, for her, a good thing, if with qualification), but we'll see. (What is odd, I guess, is that it also reminds me of It's a Wonderful Life--the narration often has the same cadence as Joseph's narration of George Bailey's life. Which one might think a less flattering comparison, though I might not be given to think that way myself.)
High temp today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -3. High dewpoint: -1.
Low today on the balcony: -2.5. High: -0.2. Currently: -2.5.
So, I figure, while I'm making wacky predictions, I might as well go whole hog, before the results start coming in.
Popular vote:
Liberals: 33%
Conservatives: 31.5%
NDP: 17%
Bloc: 12.5%
Green: 5%
Others: 1%
Seats:
Liberals: 112
Conservatives: 110
NDP: 28
Bloc: 58
Green: 0.
Others: 0.
To come out right, I need about a 6% poll-booth switch from the latest polls.
In other news, I've been re-reading Toni Morrison's Beloved, some eleven or twelve years later. I'm amazed, as usual, how little of it I remember, and perturbed at how many things I wouldn't have picked up, at the time. I'm surprised at how much it reminds me of McCarthy, but then I have McCarthy on the brain, a bit--but I don't know that it should be so surprising, given the similarity of time and place and brutal subject matter. (Among other things, I had forgotten just how brutal Beloved is.) 70 pages to go; can't remember how it comes out in the end ... I suspect not with the evening redness in the west (I had a look at a newer edition today, with a foreword from Morrison, in which she says that it started with her asking herself what it is to be free, a free woman--and whatever it is, it is, for her, a good thing, if with qualification), but we'll see. (What is odd, I guess, is that it also reminds me of It's a Wonderful Life--the narration often has the same cadence as Joseph's narration of George Bailey's life. Which one might think a less flattering comparison, though I might not be given to think that way myself.)
