Aside from the opportunity to sign in-person at La Grande Bibliothèque in Montréal, the Québec (provincial) government has set-up an on-line book of condolences, all to be presented to Leonard Cohen’s family at some point in the near future.

I came across this little guy in his Halloween costume a few days ago and was instantly smitten. Turns out a lot of other people were, too, because he’s made it onto the CBC’s radar.

Almost instantaneously, I found myself muttering: since (we now know) she was heading home to Chappaqua, on doctor’s orders, might it be a fair assumption that the fit and hang of her pantsuit look slightly different because she was allowed to remove her Kevlar vest?

Tonight being their final show of their final tour with Gord Downie* as lead singer. Responding to public demand — a petition that actually got somewhere, in record time — the CBC has come through and will be broadcasting/streaming the entire concert, commercial-free, from The Hip’s hometown of Kingston, Ontario,…

I just shared this on TamTams’ post (downthread) but thought I’d repost for any who might have missed it. It’s pretty stern stuff.

The other 6 Gawker Media sites appear to have been spared but still, this is bittersweet news:

I’m bypassing the Fur-Face Friday comments section because ^^^^^ tweet merits a stand-alone post, especially on a day like today on the heels of the week that’s been this week. Plenty of love and spontaneity to go around in this family photo, that’s for sure. That it’s an astronaut’s official NASA portrait? Even…

Un-be-lie-va-ble. I’d love to know what Anderson Cooper thinks about CNN’s latest hiring decision. Or even Christiane Amanpour, for that matter.

So, GTers, have you ever been seriously “fooled”? Or, conversely, have you ever exceeded your wildest expectations in doing the “fooling”?

No new posts in close to 12 hours? Now that’s odd.

As a follow-up to BrighterSideofLife’s Gloria Steinem-related post downthread, here are the details regarding Ms. Steinem’s apology. Between her ill-chosen words and Madeleine Albright’s, the behind-the-scenes damage control must be frantic right about now.

It’s sure to create controversy, its message misinterpreted by some (or, more likely, many), but it’s taking the right people to task: lawmakers, especially Republicans, whose platitudes are indeed meaningless pablum on a night like tonight.

Good satire is meant for sharing, so here we go. Some tense moments were reported on the set of GBBO recently, involving an unscheduled appearance by American trophy-hunter dentist Dr. Walter Palmer. Clearly, he was thirsty for fresh prey but, have no fear, nobody puts Berry in a corner, carrowing or clutching her…

Well, perhaps that was too optimistic — as he quickly downgraded that prediction to 10-to-15% — but this report from Capital New York is pretty interesting and gossipy with respect to what went down during yet another meeting with Gawker Media employees, held yesterday in a Williamsburg bar.

Both Tommy Craggs and Max Read are resigning from Gawker Media, as of today. Just my two cents but they sure are picking an odd hill to die on.