Author: Joey deVilla

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

— originally William Makepeace Thackeray; later by Eric Draven in The Crow

I thought I’d go with a slightly different Mother’s Day greeting: a scene from the 1994 film The Crow in which Eric Draven — the hero known as The Crow — cures a woman of her drug addiction and reminds her that she needs to be a mother to her daughter. It’s a little darker than your typical Mother’s Day greeting, but I think my points across.

To all you moms out there, and especially mine: Happy Mother’s Day!

This graphic made me chuckle:

It also gave me an excuse to throw together the graphic below. I think that a completely-in-charge-of-everything George Lucas (as opposed to an only-in-charge-of-some-stuff George Lucas) is the equivalent of meth for the Star Wars films:

If you want to see some actual ads meant to scare you away from even considering trying crystal meth, check out my post from 2008 on Montana’s anti-meth billboards.

I’d like to contribute this data point to the study.
It’s still the best accordion picture ever.

The abstract for a study conducted by three French researchers and published in the journal Psychology of Music has a rather dry way of putting it:

Men’s music ability and attractiveness to women in a real-life courtship context

This experiment tested the assumption that music plays a role in sexual selection. Three hundred young women were solicited in the street for their phone number by a young male confederate who held either a guitar case or a sports bag in his hands or had no bag at all. Results showed that holding a guitar case was associated with greater compliance to the request, thus suggesting that musical practice is associated with sexual selection.

Simply put: Ladies love musicians! I could’ve told you that, and the Globe and Mail explains the study in more detail.

Everyone also seems disillusioned with the latest movie version as well.

Boston area-based Bekka Wright’s site, Bikeyface, features comics about urban cycling. Contrary to what Toronto’s stupid mayor will tell you, biking is actually a practical way to get around a big city that offers a number of advantages over the car and public transit (and yes, I also use them too).

Her How to Build a Bike Habit comic shown above offers ideas on how to make more and better use of your two-wheeler. I’m at phase 4: I often bike commute from home in High Park to client meetings or social events downtown, take the bike to do grocery shopping and even use it to explore less-familiar parts of the city.