December 30, 2013 at 3:49 pm

news

Extra, Extra: Power (Almost) Totally Restored, Treacherous Bags of Meat, and Tweeting Sharks

By Sarah Sweet

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

Photo by Flickr user Anthony Easton.

We’re almost there: Toronto Hydro expects to have the power back on for everyone by the end of the day today—which means Toronto will soon be saying hello to city-wide warmth and light, and farewell to the out-of-town hydro workers who spent their holidays helping local hydro workers restore power to our city.

Co.Create has published a year-end round-up of its stories about storytelling and storytellers. Over the course of 2013, it talked to people like Margaret Atwood, Ricky Gervais, and Paul Feig about things like inspiration, insight, and the fact that our bodies are just treacherous bags of meat. That last topic comes courtesy of Guillermo del Toro: “From the moment we’re born, we already have a cancer gestating or an atrophied muscle or a malformed vein or aorta. We are almost like spirits or minds that are being hosted in a bag of meat that is treacherous.”
Do you know how to employ the “prepositional because”? Are you familiar with @darth? Have you ever perpetrated a hatefave or spent time with a hateread? If you answered “yes” to all of those questions, you are au courant and well informed and spent a great deal of time on Twitter this year. If you answered “no” and would like to be au courant and well informed about Twitter without actually having to spend a great deal of time on it, check out New York Magazine‘s “2013 Twitter Glossary.”
If you’re not a user of Twitter, you should know that you’re less technologically and culturally savvy than a bunch of sharks—sharks who, even as you read this, are swimming around while tweeting about it. There are currently 326 sharks tweeting their locations to people in Western Australia by way of radio transmitters in their shark stomachs. So be careful out there in the Twitterverse, because sharks. (See “prepositional because,” above.)