My lone Edmonton “winter” experience as actually in the early spring: late March 2014, temperature ~-30 C in the AM, and just. frigging. dark. Edmonton and the Peg are both great cities in their own special way—lots of culture, great bands, nice people—but you have to know where to find it. I would take living in…

Sure, but there aren’t any cities in Atlantic Canada that would be on a list with my arbitrary cut off of min. 500,000 ppl (plus Victoria cuz it’s pretty)

Canadian winters in order of terribleness, from most to least:
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Quebec City
Ottawa
Montreal
Calgary
Toronto
[every other city in the country]
Vancouver/Victoria

Ah man, assuming this was in Ottawa, where I had a similar encounter with him, Spez and Neil at Grace O’Malley’s on Merivale. The gigantic white Hummer parked out front, middle of the summer on a Tuesday night. Inside, though, Emery was sorta huddled up against the bar, not doing much of anything, which seemed out of…

Extremely on the other hand, I very much look forward to a Sunday in December 2022 when I can watch three World Cup soccer matches, a slate of football games with playoff implications, and generally meaningless basketball and hockey games while ignoring my relatives and loved ones.

“10 Telltale Signs that Daddy’s Home” is probably the creepiest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

The Packers should just throw in an ownership stake for Rodgers’ next contract.

Guess they’ll call it Megan, Alexey and Ryker (ugh) Falls now

Where the fuck is raptors_mascot.gif?

I’m a Packers fan who’s been to two NFL games in my life: the Fail Mary and the 2015 NFC Championship games. I’m batting 1.000 for the worst possible historic outcomes.

I’m not sure on the precise etymological roots of the term, but in Central America, “chinear” means to spoil or pamper a child, which my Costa Rican spouse suspects has something to do with the impression that the Chinese families there dote on their children more so than average. Also, convenience stores are…

Don’t!

That’s the only cleaning up Colombia’s gonna do in Russia this year :(

They lost to Trinidad & Tobago

Aren’t they playing footsie with the idea of a 48-team field for 2026? Even then, that’s no guarantee that Canada would make it in, but at least it would mean that some other, much more worthy teams from Concacaf (Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, basically everyone but like St Lucia, seriously, the Canadian men’s team is…

It was great when the biggest concern with the Sens was not selling out a round 2 playoff game. Fuck the Sens, fuck the entire city of Ottawa, fuck Eugene Melnyk till his liver falls out, and fuck me for ever caring about this franchise.

I sure as hell hope so.

Very glad that I started dating a Tica in spring 2014, given that I had grown up cheering for (and being regularly disappointed by) England. Now that we’re married, I am the most annoying Juan-come-lately Tico supporter you’ll find north of Peñas Blancas. In terms of talent/population in this World Cup, I figure only…

Since we’re discussing dumb but awesome new basketball rules, one small tweak I’d like to see is that, whenever a ball goes out of bounds, the last player that touched the ball on the team who has possession has to inbound it. I think this would set up all sorts of fun scenarios where bigs are desperately trying to…

Dwane is a good man. Good for Dwane.