we’ve been poisoned…

Premier Binns and Minister of Environment Gillan enjoying a crystal clear class of warm-blooded animal feces
I was sitting in the waiting room of my ENT doctor’s office, and I heard the regular music broadcast interupted with a boil order followed by the cancellation of all the Charlottetown area schools.

Looks like boiled-water sponge baths and hair dippings for the next week or so. Unless you want to attempt the whole javex-in-the-tub suggestion for killing e-coli.

 

it’s official, nothing is sacred

I don’t know what to think. Somebody jumped Cookie Monster and kicked his ass.

One cool thing is that guy who beat Cookie’s name is ‘McPhatter’. What a great last name.

 

a little something for potential tourists

Alex, a friend of mine, has been busy taking pictures of pretty island things. He sent me a collection of them.

You get so used to scenes like these living here (if you ever drive out to the country), you tend to forget why the tourists keep coming.

 

People of Earth! – aov takes to the radio

Home sick yesterday, the big boss man passed on a call from CBC Radio. The good Mitch Courmier, keeper of charlottetown.cbc.ca was doing a story on Human Portals (blogs) for the local morning show.

Mitch and I had a great chat about the state of web logs. He was inspired by Human Portals, the Brill’s Content article about Matt Haughey from MetaFilter.

Kevin O’Brien, Peter Rukavina, and Don from IslandEdition (R.I.P.) all got props. The definite highlight for me was that the story Mitch choose as an example from aov was that of my father, the city councilor, cleaning up the garbage on the streets with his wife and son. Too humble to tell anyone about it, but his big mouth son gets the story across the whole province. Happy Father’s Day, dad. 😉

Listen to CBC Radio’s Human Portals (RealAudio).

 

“NX makes me happy. What’s better?”

Ed Chigliak from Northern Exposure - his films make me cry
aov has been host to some interesting discussion of television and some less interesting rants by myself on the topic. I was pointed to a great Northern Exposure website where a fellow fan spoke nicely on my behalf.

The whole site is great. They have 1-megabyte windows help file with everything you could ever possibly want to know about the show. It’s pretty too.

 

the cat is fine.

So these days I’ve been taking care of my step-mother’s cat while she is out of the province. The cat is a female of the grey and white variety whose only passion in life is aquiring cardboard boxes for her own inscrutable reasons.

Hank, the cat, has not run away. It has apparently been in the house all along, hiding out somewhere. This still does not explain why it has not eaten its food, or more importantly, why the kitty-litter has not been used recently. These are questions for an inquiring mind, and as such I will have nothing to do with them.

Much like Hank, I have not run away. I’ve been on AOV all along. The explanation for the lack of posts is simple: I haven’t been interested in writing anything that fits with AOV, and writing something just to fill a space is bad form. But I have been writing.

Recently:

Continuining coverage of the CFL on Forget
“If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it?”
Are You Watching The CanadianFootball League?br /
The still beta Five Feet of Dirt: all original content by myself and Kent Bruyneel, featuring:
31 Days of Kelly Gruber*

* If anyone has, or knows the whereabouts of, a few decent pictures of Kelly Gruber, send them in this direction. And no, I’m not going to add a link to my email address here, because frankly, I think you’ve been coddled enough.

 

now what will i listen to?

… is what millions of preteens and teenyboppers are asking themselves as the poor Backstreet Boys seem to be having some problems according to Salon.

As far as I can tell as an innocent bystander, boybands (unlike the Moffats) are still all that and a bag of chips among hip young people and I know that genres don’t just vanish, but, could this indicate the beginning of the end of the boyband era? Or are the Backstreet boys getting too old and ugly?

 

a limerick


There once was a man from Chicoutimi
Who was kind enough to lend his canoe to me
But when I fell in
I couldn’t swim
Because canoeing was new to me

 

“it must be something in the ink, or something”

I have recently been informed by an avid AOV reader that for some reason (no doubt chemical or theological) when you burn a cup from McDonalds, you get a greenish blue flame.

I anxiously await my next campfire experience.

 

our world is an interesting place

While summer doesn’t officially start for seven days, it may as well have. It is beautiful where I live. While Matt from MetaFilter plays in the sun, I’ll toil in a stuffy basement (I love it here).

Nothing marks a beautiful pre-summer day like a set of random links. Enjoy: