The joke is the unintentional double-entendre in the headline

I saw this headline on the Macleans.ca News RSS feed:

Medium star Patricia Arquette weds actor Thomas Jane in Italy

My first thought was Medium? That's kinda generous.

Current Music: AC Newman - The Town Halo

Attn: Mmes. Empson, McKerricher & Tong, Messrs. Funnell, Ex Of Funk, Tanner & Yeo

Please get in touch with me ASAP, I need the thing we talked about by Thursday.

(Travis, get in touch with me extra-ASAP so I can tell you what the thing we talked about was.)

Current Music: Beirut - Postcards from Italy

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Best burns ever (Random quotes from my past, provided with some context)

me

And then there's this story about my sort-of semi-ex-girlfriend...

Other student 1

What the hell does that mean?

Other student 2

She sent you an e-mail once?

me

So yeah, that's the theory, that nothing can't be improved by either adding bacon or chocolate.

Dave

What about asparagus?

me

Bacon-wrapped asparagus, mm mm.

Dave

What about your mom?

Current Music: Jason Collett - We All Lose One Another

A call to arms

Right at the moment MSN appears to be down for a lot of my friends (judging from my sample of two). This is when we used to use ICQ as our fallback, but no one wants to do that anymore (I certainly don't). So I implore all of you, please, just give Google Talk a try. If you have a gmail account, just log in using Firefox or [shudder] IE and there's a web client right there. If you don't, send me an e-mail (either my real gmail or the one in the profile) and I'll send you an invite.

It's time we had a real fallback for when MSN is sucking. I'm not saying that GT will be more reliable than MSN if/when it takes off. I'm just saying that it makes a nice fallback for when you don't feel like opening ICQ (which is always). Google Talk might still be in development, but it has a number of nice features already:

• Chats are stored server-side in your gmail account, so that you can access your chat history anywhere you can get on the web;


• The voice chat is immaculate, rivalling Skype in voice quality;


• The web client is very functional and even works on my Mac.

For the techies, it's built on open protocols and they encourage the use of third-party clients, and are even working to add voice chatting code to Gaim (and by extension the rest of the GPL'd open source community).

If you do have it and you are my friend, add me to your list -- my real gmail account, not the one in the profile. If you wish to become my friend send an e-mail to the one in the profile.

Pretty please?

Why not just burn the flags?

I didn't write this earlier because I didn't want to jinx the series (and look how well that turned out), but was it me or were the anthem singers in the Stanley Cup final kind of crappy? Every time I listened to "AND THE ROCKETS' RED GLAAAAAAAAARE" and cringed at their pitch (or lack thereof). The singer tonight in Carolina was especially shameful. Her "home and native land" was particularly bad.

Canucks fans should feel grateful for Mark Donnelly.

EDIT (12:28AM, June 20, 2006): Jay Onrait agrees with me on the singer. His game 7 blog is a pretty good description of the NBC broadcasts I've been watching, which I've been impressed with except for the four ads they keep repeating. His takes on the Heineken Light and "America's Got Talent" ads made me smile and nod. He doesn't mention the Sprint Fair and Flexible ad they keep running, though -- if I see that one more time I'm going to go kick a Sprint salesman in the shins.

James becomes aware that someone else was in the house because Bridget is allergic to cherries

I just spent the last 40 minutes watching R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet". It just doesn't let up! Thanks, Victor!

I'm going to recommend that you watch all of it.









I hope you're still watching, because here's where it takes that step from pretty funny to absolutely must-watch, by any metric.









Current Music: R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet