Andy "FIFA Peace Prize Runner Up" Beaton

On hold at my library now. Thanks!

If he ate that Singapore mai fun, that's just inviting the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbour again. Something something vigilance.

I'll pay for book recommendations - I have a hard time finding books I want enough to displace another book on the overcrowded shelves.
But for that kind of space fact money, I want facts that will drive my friends mad with awe and envy. Can you guarantee that?

Things that will never grow old:
1) Charlie Kirk jokes
2) Charlie Kirk

(yeah, I stole it, don't know the source)

December 7, 1941 is worth remembering. Not because there's likely to be another sneak attack by the Japanese on American naval bases, but because we should remember how fast a government can turn on its own citizens and send them off to concentration camps for racist reasons.
(Yeah, Canada, you too)

The Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (yes, anyone can join!) has a telescope loan program for members who want to try equipment out before they spend the cash. I'm sure many other local astronomy clubs have similar programs.

The book I recommend is Terry Dickinson's Nightwatch. Either way, I think a good guidebook is important. Beginners are often stuck at the "I've looked at the moon and Jupiter - now what?" stage.

If I were a billionaire, instead of clicking on hearts or likes or what have you, I'd send $100,000 to the creator of every post that made me laugh.

I think I could make a credible case that the Ford government's priorities involve pandering to the rural and suburban Ford Nation base, and that the interests of Toronto residents, such as transit, are not merely ignored but actively opposed.

Yeah, tough nuts, my rural cousins want to drive their pickups to the grocery store as fast as they want to buy cheap vodka and get back to their online sports betting.

That’s why we boil zucchini

That overrated smirking hack whose whole schtick is taking 70’s genre pictures and remaking them with extra racist slurs and graphic violence?
I haven’t seen the Fiona Apple thing but I don’t really need to, do I? I already know how it goes.

Oh hell, yes. Tarantino is the most overrated hack of the 21st century. Hackers is pure cheese (I know a lot of hackers, and all of them together* couldn't muster a single character's worth of cool), but it is >fun<.

*Ok, except for you, Reid.

Clutching my Casablanca DVD with a grip of iron

a woman with long black hair is standing in a room with a ceiling . Alt: Madoka from Orange Road sticks her tongue out

Kimagure Orange Road - high school triangle romance comedy with added psychic powers

Ringo was a star but Sid only pretended to be vicious.

I was in Venice a few years ago, sitting in a sidewalk cafe drinking outrageously expensive prosecco and I thought to myself “Venice has been lightening the wallets of travellers for a thousand years and now I am part of that history”

this shit is just beyond parody, man

A weird, hallucinatory, very medieval film. I loved it.

There was a lot of demand to Spock $5 bills

Ironically, I probably would have enjoyed the movie more without Alan Rickman - he made everyone else in the show feel boring in comparison when in fact they were probably fine.

Cool! For the record, I will not be trying to roll out of my chair or - and I want to emphasize this - attempting to leap on the back of a horse with my hands bound behind my back.

Aww, now I feel bad

I think the answer lies in A Fish Called Wanda:
Wanda: You think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

Gristle Rustrod

Ehhh, you may find that you and I have very different taste in movies. And if not, there's always Alan Rickman.

I'm a Canadian and I voted for a leader who would oppose a tinpot dictator and I can't rewatch The Wire because I'm too upset about what happened to Wallace.