…and it will magically make sense!

Has this ever happened before? Quebec clothing chain Simons has pulled its newest catalogue after getting hundreds of complaints that the models in it were too thin. The genesis of the complaints may have been a story about the catalogue (and complaints) on Radio-Canada (Canada’s French-language national broadcaster) about a week ago. “Models are too [...]

If you opened a large music store and just shelved everything alphabetically, then installed a large number of computer workstations with live links to music-map, AllMusic, Wikipedia and large review sites like Pitchfork, how would it do? Personal anecdote: I spent ten minutes in an HMV last month looking for Bonnie Prince Billy’s “Lie Down [...]

One of the things I love about my fiancée is that together, we form a pretty cohesive “cheap entertainment” unit, as we can pretty much just walk around and look at stuff and have a good time doing it. And when you’re with somebody who has a compatible sense of humour, Bed Bath & Beyond [...]

I don’t have time to read any long books. Other than that: help me out!

Thanks to Kali for sending this along. By “thanks” I mean “you have scarred my eyes and my mind.”

There are few joys in this world as joyous as watching one of the great geniuses of the 20th century get loaded and expound about champagne.

I’m not sure when McSweeney’s started to become more eye-rolls than chuckles, but how long have they been mining exactly the same schtick?

All snark aside, a couple of other observations about Season Five of The Wire: It’s kind of neat (and a bit telling) how the Sun manages to miss or give short shrift to the major beats of the “Bawlmer” storylines — Prop Joe and Omar’s passings get mentioned in, well, passing, but bumped from the front [...]

For those of you who don’t have 10 hours to catch up on the last season of the Greatest Show on Television, this will get you there in under 60 seconds. (warning: major spoilers) THE WIRE, SEASON FIVE Detective “Bunk” Moreland grimly surveys a body lying on the sidewalk. His friend and colleague, Detective Kima Greggs, is [...]