June 4, 2007
Open Crystal, Buffalo Thinks We're Neat, Overbay Out
Have you checked out the officially unveiled ROM Crystal yet? Some cool dudes like David Foster, Deborah Cox, Jann Arden, K'naan, Natalie McMaster, David Suzuki and Governor General Michaëlle Jean [AND CLAY AIKEN!!!—Ed.] were on scene for the dedication.
A 18-month-old boy is dead after falling off of a 28th-floor balcony of an apartment building near Victoria Park and Danforth Avenue yesterday.
Stephane Dion to One Cent Now: No.
The Buffalo News on Toronto: "Toronto is funky, tolerant, multi cultural, young, with an artistic sensibility and an inherent dignity. It’s not New York. It’s not Chicago. It’s more...earnest. More...harmonious."
The Blue Jays' awesome first baseman Lyle Overbay will be out of play for the next four to six weeks after breaking a bone in his right hand. OOOOOOOOh no!
This just in from Leah McLaren: "I don't want to buy Mac products anymore, maybe, for some reason." Thanks, Leah.
Rosie O'Donnell is planning a memoir, Celebrity Detox, that will also document the last year of her life.
"Dear Diary, Barbara Walters is such a bitch..."
Photo courtesy of Reza Vaziri in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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Leah's column: iLame.
Mathematicians have discovered that Leah McLaren's level of interestingness (x) is the exact inverse to how fascinating she thinks she is (y), factored by her inability to accuately self-identify the level of obnoxiousness (n).
The most ironic and unsurprising part of that article is how she owns pretty much every product that starts with "i".
That story in the Buffalo News was actually from The Detroit Free Press. They just picked it up off the wire.
Marc, you mean...she has an inter-uteran device? Interesting, but TMI my friend!
Ha! Someone needs to do an Apple iUD parody, stat!
Umm yeah...so what kind of bill did we foot for that plug?
Someone should tell that Buffalo columnist that the Canadian dollar is closer to 95 cents US than 85 (actually, please don't, for the sake of our tourism economy).
I love Leah McLaren, always have, always will.
And I am always amazed at how FREQUENTLY people have to bring her up, to reconfirm their dislike publicly, using the same "she's vapid-self-absorbed and uninteresting" argument. Uninteresting enough to be talked about week after week after week. But then again, am I just as bad by using the same rebuttal over and over again to your same arguments?
In this instance, Leah isn't bad so much as she's just so late to the party; take, for instance, her points about Apple's "PC vs. Mac" ads (that there's an "adorably nerdy PC guy ...sparring with an irritating Gap-clad alterna-guy"). Slate's article about that very topic, which McLaren quotes from, is from June last year.
No, Leah's bad. She isn't motivated by the quality of Apple's products, she just senses that they are losing their hipster cachet and are about to become utterly mainstream like last season's shoes.
Paige, I once dated a girl who turned her bitter wit against any target that she thought deserving. At first I found it both hilarious and refreshing but it didn't take long before it became obnoxious. She could only see the things ironically and trivially. It didn't suit her sense of humour to give anyone the benefit of a charitable evaluation, let alone a fair one. That's vapid and self-absorbed and that's the way Leah McLaren comes off.
Okay, complain about the proliferation of lame iKnockoffs and iTrivial products, I don't think too many people will disagree with that assertion, but no Globe op-ed piece is going to change the ease of use and reliability of Apple computers.
Go ahead, Leah McLaren, switch to PC, but please, when you're explaining to people why you did it, at least come up with better reasons than image and popularity (and good luck with that, too).
You think McLaren's column in the Saturday Globe was bad? you should have read Christie Blatchford's on Ballerina flats and headbands!
Geoff
Probably PTSD from Afstan. Or more likely writing about the Black trial.
Well - this 'American' paper story (Detroit or Buffalo) is just the minimum they could write - nothing to be so much excited.
note also, that they even cannot recognize that CN TOwer is the highest building - just citing it as a mere another attraction.