I assure you, “The Daily Squizz” was not meant to be some stupid ironic title. I did have ambitions on doing daily blogging. And I do — between this site and my alternate-alternate world, I’m churning out hundreds of words a day. And the churning will continue indefinitely, I’m sure.
But sometimes, as with all artistic [...]
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Why TV news isn’t actually news, exhibit #9,438
I wish I could pull together the time and inclination for a full blog post… instead, I’ll let you watch the following two videos and remind yourself of why “TV news” is an utter joke… or at least, it would be a joke (as in, funny) if the 24/7 TV news cycle wasn’t completely eroding [...]
Phallic symbols: The cure for what ails ya
So, if recent (terrifying) polls are to be believed, Rob Ford looks poised to be the next mayor of Toronto. For you non-Torontonians, an update: Ford is a long-time city councilor with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, a dubious history with sports teams, previous problems with boozing and is, to some, “the kind of guy [...]
Open wide for some potential attitude adjustment
The yearly arrival of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, and the concomitant gustatory atrocities — this year’s marquee features are deep-fried butter and cheeseburgers in a bag — always cause me to momentarily think about food in a broad way.
This year, that contemplation is heavily shaded by the recall of 500,000,000 eggs in the [...]
Good at dancing? You might be evil
Like most men, I hate dancing. Rather, what I hate is feeling that my movement to music needs to follow some set, aesthetically appropriate pattern. I’m all for spastic, cathartic flailing (I quite enjoy that, actually). But actual, legitimate dancing? I’ll pass.
And that’s surely a good thing, based on the news today. Not only did [...]
Baseball players, drugs and inevitable questions
Damien Cox of the Toronto Star evidently saw fit to turn his shit-disturbometer up to 11 earlier this week, when he wrote a blog post essentially insinuating that the Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista was using performance-enhancing drugs. Bautista was an unheralded free-agent acquisition by the Jays two seasons ago, whose previous claim to fame was [...]
Remember, it could always be worse
As some of you may know (and if you didn’t, you’re about to), I’m one of the millions of people living with an undiagnosed illness. Thankfully, it’s relatively minor compared to some of the other conditions I’ve read about, though when it gets especially bad, I certainly find myself lapsing into “why me?” mode every [...]
Dreaming of the transit that could have been
While much of what I write here is pretty esoteric, this post is going to be especially useless, in a very nerdy way. You’ve been warned.
Earlier today, the Toronto Transit Commission’s Customer Service Advisory Panel released its report with dozens of recommendations on improvements for the TTC. The report reminds us that the day-to-day operations [...]
Weighing in on a non-existent “debate”
To the surprise of no one, the Park51 project — that is, the building of an Islamic centre in lower Manhattan, a few blocks from the former World Trade Center site — has gotten plenty of people riled up, due in large part to thinly-veiled bigots such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, and the [...]