Great review, just would like to point out that Terence Blanchard typically plays the trumpet, so I’m not sure if “Terence Blanchard guitar” makes sense as written.

You could say that Andy is... an upset ex-employee of the Roanoke Times.

This is definitely a joke with continued staying power

I’m glad I’ve summoned the five other people in North America who watch Detroiters. Clearly it shall be us and only us who shall be saved during the Rap2ure.

Ennnh, the rules aren’t THAT different. Guy goes to ground with the ball, his team maintains possession in both. Guy lets go of ball and it goes forward in rugby, other team gets the ball; ball goes backward, it stays with his team. 

See also: Mort Crim’s recurring bits on Detroiters, an excellent show that not nearly enough people are watching.

Either 1: May 1994, family visits Montreal to check out a (very hot and good) Expos team on a Sunday afternoon. They’re tied with the Rockies at 3 apiece after 9 innings, and my dad, military guy that he is, decided we needed to hit the road to make it back home to Ottawa instead of sticking around for extra innings.…

Dale Hansen is a goddamn treasure and should run for senate or president or some shit.

Yeah, I know this is all entirely a pipe dream, but... there are still tons of monstrously brutal hits in rugby, even with the wrapping rules. A lot of the big open field hits in rugby initiate contact with the shoulder, albeit with the arms outstretched to preserve some semblance of a “wrap,” and those are just as…

The more and more arcane this gets, the more I think all of the “what’s an illegal hit?” conversations can be solved by just forcing players to wrap tackle a la rugby. A little less sexy, yes, but definitely easier to implement and understand.

I used to work with a guy who claimed to have NEVER farted in front his wife (of about 5 years at that point). Before they moved in together, he said he refused to shit in her bathroom, and would instead leave her building, pop down the street to a Tim Horton’s, drop a few timbits in the coffee pot, then head back,…

No ham ate? Guess he’s gonna be a Muslim or a Jew now.

Ah, the CR. Up Island needs more respect. Any place that you can wander down to the beach and pick up 15 oysters for dinner FOR FREE is basically my kinda paradise.

Yeah, the “skiing” around Toronto is crap, but at least in Ottawa, you have the Gatineau Hills and Laurentians very close by (plus Mt Pakenham!)

I figure Regina’s too small a city for this ranking. Regina sucks. There’s nothing to recommend about Regina.

Oh, there’s plenty of stuff to recommend about Quebec and Ottawa (I grew up in the latter) during winter: great skiing, skating, general bon vivance, etc. They’re just cold as hell and dark.

What’s the longest family road trip you’ve ever done? Google tells me that the Ottawa - Winnipeg - Boulder - Ottawa trip my family took around 2001 clocks in at 66 hours of driving time. Virginia Beach - Winnipeg return appears to be about 57 hours. Both trips were very useful for getting to see states I’d have no…

Victoria is the pretty hippy sister with a serious drug problem to Halifax’s drunken brother who plays in a surprisingly good indie band.

This is why I question myself for leaving Vancouver Island for Ontario every damn day in the winter.