Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦

Speaks to the power of TikTok on/in GenZ culture.
Government had to give.

Now, will the GC grant thumbs up for the public service to use it?

Sign on white paper, stuck on a vending machine: "OUT OF ORDER Removing this sign will not make it work"

Monday Mood

Partial section of the face of a full-size chocolate cat being held over the face of an actual cat.

Phantom of the Opurra

One reason the federal race in Alberta is more competitive: the independence question.

Those who strongly support Alberta independence overwhelmingly vote Conservative.
Those who strongly oppose it lean strongly Liberal.

Details: abacusdata.ca/federal-pol...

Timeline cleanse.

Hiking up his pants like a proper gentleman.

There's no way Trumpism ends when he's no longer president. All the more reason why Canadians should be wary about notions of a return to normal in our bilateral relations in a post-47 future. Attitudes like this don't simply fade away.

My paternal grandfather fought and lost his brother in the Things Like This II. My mum’s dad served in the Great Things Like This.

holy shit

This might be one of the greatest shots that I have ever seen.

35 years ago today
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go" gave The Clash their only U.K. No. 1 single.

The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go (Live at Shea Stadium, 1982)

#theclash #punkrockhistory

On this day in 1986, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith record parts of their song "Walk This Way" so Run-D.M.C. can transform it into a hip-hop jam. Neither act is thrilled about the collaboration, but it becomes one of the most influential and important songs of all time.

remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum

WTI jumped 18% today. Now at $107.33/barrel.
The American war against Iran and Iran’s retaliation against US allies in the Middle East is sending oil prices skyrocketing. 🛢️☠️👀

A five-time draft dodger bringing back the draft for *other* people is peak Trump shamelessness.

I'm excited for the debate in the House of Commons this week about who is to blame for high gas prices.

Country Joe McDonald: Protest counterculture icon dies at 84 'Country' Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose 'I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag' was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84.

'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

A very modified Sunbeam Tiger in metallic orange

Five minutes before this, I told my kid, “It’s too nice out. Where are all the cool cars? I demand to see a cool car.”

‘WILL YOU LEAD IRAN?’

Terrible

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle."

On who's really in charge:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

TV person here: it is nearly impossible to run a a 4-month-old video BY MISTAKE particularly when the original video is brand new and a part of your on-going coverage.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

“We deeply regret you noticed the error.”

As though we needed any more evidence that Fox "News" is a mendacious propaganda machine and not remotely a serious journalistic enterprise.

Still, this is pretty astounding.

a woman is standing in front of a red maple leaf with the letter x on her belt ALT: a woman is standing in front of a red maple leaf with the letter x on her belt

Canada is the Gen X of countries; fairly laid back, no desire to be a superpower or “leader of the free world”, mostly uninterested in everyone else’s bullshit, fiercely independent, and happy to be left alone.

Like, don’t step up on us, we won’t step up on you. Just be cool, bruh. Very Gen X.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Looking for an adventure this summer that doesn't involve fascism? Come to Yellowknife! It's magnificent up north 😍🍁

"Why do we have Daylight Savings?"

"To conserve fuel for the war!"

"But there isn't any--- dammit!"