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Courtney bought me this ridiculous Chippendales nail file in Vegas. I love it. So does Charlie.
Unfortunately, Julio (that’s Mr. Nail File’s name) has a giant bite mark in his face now.

Taken outside my window about 20 minutes ago.
Sure was a rainstorm we had there, eh Toronto?
Edit (June 1): Check out these sa-weet rainbow pictures on Torontoist!

Another classic courtesy of Sarah Haskins.
How am I not watching the The Cougar already? It looks so awesome terrible!!!
Check out a few of the “cubs” from the show behind the cut…

Photo credit
This post is a sequel to “Intercultural Dialogue: Italy, ur doing it wrong“. Maybe I should start a column where I tell other countries they suck while promoting the supremacy of Canadian-style cultural policy.
There’s an excellent article by Michael Wines in the New York Times today about the demolition of the Old City of [...]

Things with faces:
1. You, probably.
2. Me, definitely.
3. The video for “Two Weeks” off the new Grizzly Bear album Veckatimest (above). Holy crap, this album is incredible; you need to get it. The facial movements in the video are mesmerizing.
4. My research. Just finishing up my final paper for my class on theories of affect. One [...]

Andy Baio of Waxy.org had the brilliant idea to isolate the backgrounds of the Internet’s most famous memes. All your old meme friends are here! Except they aren’t.
Eerie.
Via Pete.

Oh, SYTYCD posts (previously). I imagine more will follow now that the American series is starting, soon to be followed by the Canadian. Get used to it.
Mr. Bird did a great series of posts last week where he counted down the Top 12 SYTYCDances in four categories: Hip Hop, Ballroom, Contemporary, Everything Else. We’re [...]

I love Ellen and everything Ellen does. I was a huge fan of her sitcom in the mid-1990’s. I had her book, My Point…and I do have one, which is hilarious btw. I even enjoyed the critical flop Mr. Wrong, which also starred one of my other favourite celebrities, Bill Pullman. And obviously Finding Nemo [...]

Well, now they’re on the internet! Some things never change…

Some items of note:

Pink
Purple
Stars (the five-pointed ones)
Stars (the squeaky-clean teen dream ones)
FIVE instances of the word 3-D
That Jonas Brother with the cravat is clearly the Isaac Hanson of the bunch. However, with time Isaac Hanson has much improved. I’m crossing my fingers for you, Kevin.
Bop TV [...]

Gahh! I hate this stupid bee!!!
Every day, it comes and hovers in the middle of my deck. It, or one of its ancestors, did this all last summer too. I try to coexist with it, but it dive bombs me when I’m sitting on the deck floor trying to do yoga in the sun. And [...]