Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Category Archives: America
Poster of the Day
December 10, 2007 – 2:42 pm
I took a photo of this “Hillary Clinton” poster done “old school” style, which was hanging in the waiting area of Gabby’s, a pub not far from the office:
Photo by Joey deVilla.
Poster of the Day
December 9, 2007 – 12:00 am
Rich Silverstein of Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners (the people behind the “Got Milk?” ad campaign) put together a series of posters that summarize the current U.S. Administration quite nicely — there’s one made up solely of names, one made up of events and the one below, made up of slogans that you should find both [...]
Citizen’s Insertable Swiftness Manifest
November 21, 2007 – 8:30 am
Being the day before Thanksgiving, today’s a busy day at airports all across the United States. If you’re flying today, the Citizen’s Insertable Swiftness Manifest will guarantee that you’ll breeze through security*!
* Straight into the body cavity search room, that is.
Adios, Pendejo!
August 27, 2007 – 10:37 am
It’s nice to start the working week with some good news: the world’s most sleazy amnesiac, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned. Says the A-G, who’s stepping down on September 17th:
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as Attorney General have been better than my father’s best days.
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Karl Rove: In Touch with the Kids (in 1972)
August 21, 2007 – 9:57 am
Back in July, I pointed to a YouTube video of an NBC Nightly News broadcast from July 4, 1972. Here’s another one, found via Boing Boing, featuring a young Karl Rove in his role in the Young Republicans as the “GOP College Director”. Then-reporter “Gunga Dan” Rather describes Rove’s group in a voice-over as “an [...]
T-Shirt Design of the Moment
August 20, 2007 – 11:17 am
Right now, my favourite T-shirt design over at Busted Tees is “Canada: America’s Hat”…
Click the photo to see the web page for the shirt.
7 Wonders of the Totalitarian World
August 9, 2007 – 10:59 am
Man Hands!
It’s all about the giant hands:
Photos from Esquire, courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Here’s what these wonders are:
Fist Crushing U.S. Fighter Plane, Libya
Monument to President Laurent Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lenin’s Mausoleum, Russia
Monument to President Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan
Mao Leading the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, China
The Hands of Victory, Iraq
Monument to the [...]
How Long Did I Wait for My Sleep Lab Appointment?
July 7, 2007 – 1:36 pm
In response to the article Where I Slept Tuesday Night,, my article about my night at the sleep lab at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, a “goatchowder” commented:
If you’d been living in the USA, that test would have cost you US$6000.
An anonymous commenter replied:
The flipside in Canada is [...]
Scenes from NBC News, July 4th, 1972
July 7, 2007 – 9:51 am
The Evening News, 35 Years Ago
Here’s something that many (but not all) of you regular Accordion Guy readers might not find familiar — it’s five minutes from an NBC News broadcast from July 4th, 1972:
Some interesting differences between the nightly news 35 years ago and today:
There were far fewer superimposed graphics, [...]
