Remember, you can still submit suggestions for inclusion in this Tuesday’s Carnival of the Canucks. The details are here, and you can submit suggestions in either the comments or by emailing me.
By the way, David Janes is looking for a blog to host the Carnival after I do — any volunteers?
Although my personal schedule appears to have a gazillion clashing parties, one that I will be attending is Gideon Strauss’ Blogger Convivium. I’ve never met Gideon in real life before, but his blog always makes for interesting reading, and we’ve had such nice email and blog comments exchanges.
And yes, I will be bringing the accordion.
Happy Festival of Lights to all my Jewish friends, especially my good friends Cory and Deenster, Syd, the greatest accountant in the fuckin’ world, boss’ boss Elliot and especially The Redhead.
If anyone’s doing some dreidel-betting, could they put twenty bucks on gimel for me?
I’m receiving a steady trickle of emails to suggestions for this coming Tuesday’s Carnival of the Canucks, a feature moving from Canadian blog to Canadian blog in which the host blogger points to Canadian blogs and blog entries of note. This week’s Carnival is hosted at the music blog Switching to Glide, and it’s organized around a theme called “The $6.99 Breakfast”. I’ll organize mine around something both seasonally appropriate and Canadian.
If you’ve got a suggestion, let me know in the comments or drop me a line!
In the meantime, enjoy this lovely Hugh McLeod comic on what blogs are about, taken from a Guardian article written by Rebecca Blood, called The revolution should not be eulogised.
It’s a busy day for me today, but hopefully these links will tide you over…
‘Low-carb burgers’ are wrapped in lettuce. The American burger chains Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. are introducing these. Cool, but did it have to be iceberg lettuce?
Hippies whining about the Atkins diet. The diet may prevent obesity, diabetes and related diseases, but we’ve got spotted owls to save here!
Soccer players are weird, man.
Craigblog. Craig “Craigslist” Newmark’s blog.
Five geek social fallacies. “Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interpersonal wack-ness. It is my opinion that many of these never-ending crises are sparked off by an assortment of pernicious social fallacies — ideas about human interaction which spur their holders to do terrible and stupid things to themselves and to each other.”
A dearth of dating. The Boston Globe’s story on how dating is out and “friends with benefits” is in. In spite of stories like Worst Date Ever, I still prefer dating over um-friending.
I didn’t know that comic book lettering was a hotly-debated topic in the industry.
The most popular web page in Shelbyville. It’s for an organization called C.U.D.D.L.E., which is an acronym for Cousins United to Defeat Discriminating Laws through Education. In other words, a site about cousin marriage. Even if you find a topic a bit icky, they do have a useful chart that makes it easy to figure out what a “third cousin twice removed” is.
The music blog Switching to Glide (named after the Kings song of the same name) is the current host of Carnival of the Canucks, which is:
a weekly roundup of the best posts from Canadian blogs. Carnival of the Canucks is a weblog collaboration design to gain exposure for blogs and posts you may not have seen during your regular week’s readings. The Carnival will be hosted at a different blog every week. Each week’s host blogger is responsible for gathering their favorite posts and posting their Carnival on Tuesdays.
Carnival of the Canucks is modeled on Carnival of the Vanities and Carnival of the Capitalists, so have a look at those if you need more info.
This week’s inaugural edition has a theme: The $6.99 Breakfast and covers all manner of goodies by all manner of Canadian Bloggers, some you undoubtedly know, and some you might have never read before.
This week’s edition was compiled by David “Ranting and Roaring” Janes, Mike “The Campblog” Campbell and Alan “GenX at 40” McLeod.
Next week’s edition, the just-in-time for Christmas edition, will be compiled by the proud Canadian pictured below:
Cue the stereo screams from opposite ends of the political spectrum: Kathy shaking her fists at Heaven, crying out “Dear God, not Accordion Chump!” and Deenster, her face buried in her hands, asking “Isn’t his ego already big enough?”
But seriously, folks, it’s a honour to be asked to host next week’s Carnival of the Canucks. If you see a particularly noteworthy blog entry written by someone based in Canada between now and next Tuesday, let me know, either via the comments for this post or by email. I’ll add it to an extra-special category that I’ll create just for this occasion.
American military training produces fine soldiers, but the euphemistic and managerial way in which they are taught to speak certainly drains all poetry from their language. The New York Times, in the article U.S. Officers Display the ‘Rat Hole’ Where Hussein Hid, quotes Colonel James B. Hickey, who led the raid that resulted in the capture of Saddam “Scruffy” Hussein:
“From a military point of view, if you lop the head off a snake, the snake’s not going to be so viable after that,” he said.
It gets the point across, but Arma virumque cano it ain’t.
Perhaps I should try some mil-speak flirting with The Redhead:
“Please rendezvous with this officer for a dinner sortie, to be followed by accordion operations, the deployment of wine and dancing maneouvres. Your pants will not be so viable after that.”