October 12, 2006
Former Blue Jay Dies, Tension Escalates in Korean Peninsula, David Miller Promises Parks, Pamuk Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
In a bizarre and tragic scene yesterday, former Toronto Blue Jay (and current New York Yankee) pitcher Cory Lidle perished after flying his plane into an apartment building in New York.
The United States heads to the United Nations hoping for a UN resolution that will impose sanctions on North Korea. And North Korea threatens retaliation if Japan goes ahead and imposes sanctions in response to last weekend’s nuclear test. And George W. Bush denies the U.S. is about to attack. This is going to end well…
It's election time, which means promises that will no doubt never be fulfilled. Mayor David Miller makes a pledge to finish all the planned parks along our waterfront by 2010.
While the front-runners were Syrian poet Adonis, Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth, Swede Thomas Transtromer - there were even some whispers of our own Margaret Atwood – in the end Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The schoolhouse where five Amish girls were murdered two weeks ago is razed.
A key Michael Ignatieff backer quits his leadership campaign and another distances the Liberal Party from Ignatieff’s statements. Is this going to have any effect on the campaign?
In entertainment news, there’s now some debate as to whether Bon Cop, Bad Cop, really is our country’s all-time top grossing Canadian film, or if Porky still holds that title when you take inflation into account. Also: Alanis Morissette
is going to be appearing on Nip/Tuck.
And finally: people eat cockroaches. PETA upset.
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it's interesting how different -ists have been covering the plane crash. besides the obvious at Gothamist, DCist used it to remember the Pentagon and SFist used it because he used to be an Oakland A
It's official. Cory Lidle is the 1st Yankees pitcher to have an impact this October. >:O)
form watching the coverage last night on CNN you'd think that al-queda had taken out all the yankees and was threatening the american pasttime.
yeh, it was tragedy and all but damn them yanks are easily distracted. oooh look, a shiny ball ....
A plane crashed into a building in New York City.
Extensive coverage on the Cable NEWS Network. How dare they? Where do you live that this would not receive wide coverage?
Distraction! Look over here! Look at that! Keep looking! Forget everything else! Be distracted now!
Is it wrong that I like this newspost because the image makes it look like he, personally, is sad about dying?
I`m sorry, I forgot that I was dealing with the parallel universe here. The TIFF, Nuit Blanche, Film Friday, pictures of inanimate objects, adults reading books, whatever else that passes for art, well that`s just earth shattering shit.
Something as insignificant as a plane piloted by a high profile athlete crashing into a building in NYC, that`s just a distraction for us mouth-breathers. It`s my fault for turning the channel to a news network.
I saw on the news last night an interview with someone in the street saying "I heard this loud explosion above me, and y'know, since 9-11 you've got to look up".
I'm sorry, but pre-9/11 - if I heard a loud explosion above me, I'd fucking look up!
Looks like someone deleted my reply.
The plane crash is (or was) the top story everywhere for no particularly good reason. Far more important news should have drowned it out as the unfortunate but minor accident it was. (I listed some examples but I guess they offended.) I wasn't contesting the relevance of it to Torontoist -- the guy lived here or something because he was paid to, I guess, so that means it's Torontoist fodder -- but elsewhere, in the "real" news, it was nothing but a distraction of the kind which cable "news" channels regularly flog for ratings.