Ryan McNutt

Another Conservative crosses the floor, bringing Liberals 1 MP shy of majority | CBC News Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals.

Underrated detail of today’s floor crossing news is that, by timing this the way he did, Michael Ma got to attend both the Conservative AND Liberal holiday parties. Tis the season!

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

IMO Halifax's transportation problems arent very complicated.

People just don't like any of the actual solutions.

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Fav Onion story in a hot minute. A good chuckle.

About as comprehensive a "how this all happened" overview of the streaming age as you can jam into 2,000 words.

Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

no idea

Update - Waverley Road Water Main Repair - Precautionary Boil Water Advisory in Effect for Customers Impacted Effective Immediately

Read full PSA here: halifaxwater.ca/notice/preca...

Judging by the state of grocery store shelves (even on the peninsula!), Dartmouthians impacted by the water main break are hoarding H20 at Immortan Joe levels.

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

Very curious how Cruise's pairing with Iñárritu goes next year. Regardless of what you think of his films, Iñárritu's definitely the most "auteur" filmmaker Cruise has worked with since... god, is it since Spielberg? (I guess you could count Stiller. And apologies to Doug Liman.)

No, per your other comments, you have to have a concept that's attractive too (and that sense of "theatricality" all the execs talk about). But just that directors like Tarantino and Nolan are really the STARS of their films and Leo seems very happy to be second-billed in a way that's not universal.

By "more enticing elements" do you mean... the director? Because I'd say the difference between him and that list above is he seems the most comfortable being part of movies where the main attraction (and perhaps primary selling point) is the director-as-auteur.

Some real "First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" energy here.

YouTube video by Ryan Reynolds Freddie Freeman Knocks It Out Of The Park for SickKids

Part of the problem of the Jays/Dodgers showdown this year is that while, systematically, the Dodgers are CLEAR villains... on a player-by-player level few of them are remotely hate-able. Freddie Freeman, in particular? The best. This is great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iG5...

The Netflix Warner Bros' purchase is a colossal (perhaps catastrophic) change to the film and television landscape in so many ways — but closer to home, you have to wonder what Bell Media's angle is on this, given their entire streaming gambit (Crave) is HEAVILY dependent on WB/HBO content.

If ever there was a time to use this meme, it's now:

Whenever Google Maps tries to tell me how best to get home during bad traffic, the alternate directions it provides feels like it's assuming...
a) I'm an assertive asshole willing to just push myself through intersections,
b) other drivers are super easy-going and will let me do that, or
c) both

Christmas construction project 2025 complete: our growing municipality of Whoville now has a proper sapling.

If we’re forced to continue living in the shadow of Trump’s America, the least they can do is let Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig keep making these wonderful little mystery movies about all the terrible people haunting its dark corners.

If you actually have to do work, AI often just makes more work because you have to spend so much time making sure it didn't lie to you again.

“I was just following otters.”

It was a popular one! Have seen them three times but that show was the best mix of performance, atmosphere and song selection.

I feel that way about the last time Tom Petty was here. I recall the ticket price being a little foolish for 2012, but not so foolish that I shouldn't have gone.

Hon mentions
- Radiohead, Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, 2008
- REM / Modest Mouse / The National, Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, 2008
- Manic Street Preachers, Webster Hall, New York, 2009
- Broken Social Scene (Junofest), Halifax Forum, 2006
- Fiona Apple, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2012

Five fav concerts:
1. Bruce Springsteen, Fenway Park, Boston MA, 2012
2. White Stripes (10th Anniversary Show), Savoy Theatre, Glace Bay NS, 2007
3. Wilco, Alderney Landing, Dartmouth NS, 2006
4. Prince, Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax NS, 2011
5. Joni Mitchell & the Joni Jam, Gorge, George WA, 2023

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

1999:
Record Label: You get that cover shot for the new Garth Brooks Christmas record?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin dark and evil magician-coded just like you asked
Record Label: what

Should’ve gone with this meme in the first place