Zwack is most definitely a thing. A terrible, wretch-inducing thing. I’ve never drank Malort but I’m guessing they’re similar.

Fuckin’ Derek Roy... that tiny motherfucker was a thorn in the Sens side for a good four or five seasons in the mid-aughts. Proof that everyone who grew up in Ottawa always brings their A game whenever they’re playing the Sens.

Only 4-year-old (?) children, who probably didn’t have object permanence during the Blair Walsh kick, can have that kind of confidence in the Vikings.

NHL coaches are perhaps the biggest inhibitions to all teams’ success. Perhaps more so than any other league.

Warning: only Matthews should try this, because another Leafs player had to go 1 on 3 vs the Sens later that same night and lost the hell out of the game.

I’ll ride for the Winnipeg Art Gallery any day, but yes, you are quite right.

Kamloops: the Thunder Bay of the B.C. Interior. (Or is that Prince George now?)

Anyhow, Kamloops is awful.

On the other hand, Winnipeg gangs are probably the most intense in Canada. Dance-fighting with the Native Syndicate will not end well for you.

Voluntarily going to Thunder Bay is extremely fucked up.

I’ve seen the bridge in person, and let me tell you: it is a thoroughly adequate bridge.

Oh, I’ve been there plenty, I lived in Victoria for three years. Maybe last call was more like midnight, and you’re right, they coulda been weekdays. Nevertheless, the bar scene was miserable. I DID go to one wild rave at some old warehouse place in East Van c. 2012 but everyone I knew at that party has since moved to…

Toronto as strip-bar paradise for Americans was my main takeaway from that video, which is sad because Toronto’s strip bars are NOTHING compared to what goes on in Montreal.

My Winnipeg-residing grandmother (RIP) would ALWAYS have her TV set to the weather channel for the express purpose of commenting on the weather “down there” in Grand Forks and Fargo, as if they were some promised land of personal freedom and marginally better shopping choices. 

*looks out at humid, grey, slushy Toronto streetscape from office job I have to work to be able to afford rent in my tiny West End apartment after saying that the recent cold snap made me realize I prefer bone-chilling temperatures to this nonsense*

I dunno, Phoenix doesn’t strike me as being any less sleepy than Winnipeg—that’s where 80% of Winnipeg’s septugenarian set spends its winter anyhow. Sunrise is a ways out in the Miami burbs and is surrounded by a swamp, and getting from Newark to Manhattan is probably more trouble than its worth, but I’ll spot you…

I think New Brunswick usually gets the label for Canada’s backwoods deep south equivalent. Winnipeg, while definitely racist as hell (see also: all of western and rural Canada), has more of the industrial-wasteland, heavily-Eastern-European, overly-friendly(-to-white-people), still-kinda-soulful vibe you get from your…

The Winnipeg Appreciator has logged on to say that the city is not sleepy, at least relative to other Canadian cities with NHL teams. (Note: all Canadian cities are sleepy in comparison to their American equivalents, with the exception of Montreal).

very, very good comment

We have found the Kinja account of Jurgis Didziulis, apparently.

Is very possible that Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars ripped them off for “Uptown Funk”... I mean, the songs are very similar, except for the catchiness, feel, lyrics, ability of the songwriters, geographies referenced and general goodness of the music.