I know we’re gonna meet someday in the crumbled financial institutions of this land.

galerie loevenbruck online.

Growing up in a small town in a bilingual land means learning most of your french from the backs of cereal boxes (Flocons de maaaaaize! Capitaine Crouche!), canned and pacakged goods (champignons! d’anananas! pamplemousse!) and various signage seen out and about (go on, say it). So… “sortie de secours” in this work by Werner Reiterer made me a little homesick. I know I say it wrong (“sortee day secoors” ) – but I don’t even pretend I can speak French. Don’t worry. Bien luh.

Title credit: Andrew Bird, Tables & Chairs

Koh projects > MAINstREetBUS

Insanely great. Germaine Koh is one of those artists that just keeps churning out amazing things.

I saw Self-portrait at the Ottawa Art Gallery in 2003/4 (?) and almost cried. Self portraits rarely have that effect on me, but the idea of all self-portraits layered onto one panel. Effing perfect. Sightings is funny and weird and makes my archive+collecting+travelling urges make a little more sense. Pledge (and other currency projects) is so simple and so smart, it frustrates the bejeezus out of me.

Yay for mid-career artists!

But what I do like about this job, is that there’s no one standing around, to bring me down

» Help name the new Douglas Coupland park

Cool. Stubbies & Corn Syrup park? Doug & Kathy’s? jPark? Don’t Fear The Gum Thief Greens? The Eleanor Rigby Memorial Park? All Families are Psych– ok ok… that one is a bit of a strecth.

Title credit: The Rheostatics, Secret Red Canoe (my vote for the park name)

I want my MTV

Canadiana for one of my favourite Americanos…

Happy Birthday Hungry Detective! 25 Years ago today, Muchmusic (huh?) went on the air. You were 13. And if you had been further north, this would have been a very exciting way to spend your birthday (24 hours of music! CanCon! Veejays who say Eh!)…

See that sign behind them?

It’s gone now, despite the outcries of 8000+ fbook fans:

Title credit: Dire Straits, Money for Nothing (the sweatband CG will blow your mind!)

I swear, It sounded like a train.

Holy eff.
{Ontario residents assess damage, begin massive storm cleanup – The Globe and Mail}

Title Credit: Drive-By Truckers – Tornadoes

When I get older…

Listening to Sound Opinions yesterday during Magazine Layout Blowout August ‘09 (MLBA’09!) and I was reminded of this song, which I watched on my ma’s TV, performed live on Parliament Hill on Canada Day, with a little patriotic lump in my throat.

K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

Title credit: K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

Some things are better than others

Things that cheer me up… on-line.

To be continued, I’m sure.

Too cool for school…

Goddamn it Mr. Coupland – does everything you touch turn to primary-coloured-gold?

The giant Downy bottle… the white miniature replica CN Tower… Mousetrap as sculpture, for chrissakes? Even your pizza box looks intentionally brilliant.

I’m almost as excited about your new book as I am about the Mad Men season 3 premiere.

My friends are scattered like leaves from an old maple

from Mita on Flickr

Great Flag Debate

3,541 entries were submitted: many contained common elements:

• 2,136 contained maple leaves,
• 408 contained Union Jacks,
• 389 contained beavers, and
• 359 contained Fleurs-de-lys.

I love that beavers trumped Fleurs-de-lys. Oh Canada.

Why is it that I can’t get ANYthing done the day before I leave for home? It ust be the kid-on-Christmas-eve effect. See you tomorrow Canada!

Title credit: Neil Young, One of These Days

A monkey takes the reins of an empire… with daddy’s gold bananas, he’s a monarch.

I’ll be frank with you Frank, I don’t know about the passport issue,” Mr. Bush told the crowd of 6,000.

Ugh. I hate it when former presidents get cutesy. Boo.

If you don’t feel like clickin, neither Bush nor (or is it ‘or’, grammar heads?) Clinton knew that starting Monday, passports would be required for back-n-forth border crossing. God. At least pretend to be informed.

Title credit: Luke DOucet, Vladivostok