Never did finish that oral history of ESPN tome, but what little of him I read was less than laudatory.

Probably too CanLit, but either the Bascove painting for the cover of Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" (the one with the quadrant'd face for the hero, heroine, confidant, and villain) or else the lineart raven from the cover of Mordecai Richler's "Solomon Gursky Was Here."

And getting the priest to join in.

The couplet at the end is just so much win, with the added bonus of the shout-out to "Too Short a Season." Word.

I dunno… I thought it was okay when I saw it on video, but that was mostly for the meta-awareness of Seth Green at various points. I was fairly surprised when the announced the sequel, and thoroughly "meh" by the result.

Y'all are lucky. Here, she's shocked at the intense tongue action that Owen Wilson's getting in "Marley and Me" in the Netflix Canada ad.

…and you said nothing because you weren't a muppet? Lemurs aren't far off in my book, buddy.

Zaat's a paddlin'.

The section about realizing that he was stuck being himself after seeing the boy in the other car was especially well done. Encapsulating it as "stuck being himself" makes it sound trite, but that section was compellingly written and especially moving.

I started in on "Deadwood" this week, though I only did the first episode. Season two of "Archer" proved to be a better antidote to the strike-action blahs, so it took up the time. Spring break's a week away, so I'm sure that I'll be digging into the grime of 19th Century Dakota Territory right quick.

The world is your oyster, buddy.

Better still was the band those guys came from - man, I miss the swagger of late-'90s Philosopher Kings. "Charms" is still one of the best, sinuous pop songs I know, even with the CanCon overplay advantage for it.

…do they have a song other than "Sex and Candy?" I can think of so many stellar one-hit wonder songs that stay with me from that era - "Flagpole Sitta" or "You Only Get What You Give" - and can't say that the bands released enough to be horrible enough that the one song was a shocking node of quality.

I just went back over the singles from "Tragic Kingdom" yesterday for whatever reason, and really liked most. "Sunday Morning," as doctorhawkes said, is top notch.

"Interstate Love Song" - YES. I love that song so unashamedly. (I think there's a sequence or two on the album before that one I still like ashamedly, but there's nothing wrong with that song.)  To Youtube!

Ye gods, really?

Which song, though? All I can remember is either "Still Waiting" (or whatever that one was with the video that riffed on The Strokes' "Last Night" video) or else the one with the hair-metal-goof at the end.

Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" helped me. Well, and first-year English in college, I suppose, since that's where it was assigned.

By this point I'm wondering if there's an artist I like as much where I've only got one album - the one that came out in when I was high school, The Future. And I love that album. The essential reason's likely that the high school listening pattern works to make everything you buy vital, but probably also because it…

Hell yes! Perfectly done, too.