Talk about a Sad Country, not just Silly
This is utterly sorry. Count on the CBC.
It contains narcissism of the sort that the most insecure narcissists have.
Beginning Monday, January 5, CBC Radio 2 invites Canadians to help select the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that would best define our country to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.
His playlist could definitely benefit from some Canadian content, especially given the depth of our musical offerings – spanning a wide variety of genres and representing our culture from coast to coast.
It also has a happy dose of major windbaggery:
“One of the best way [sic] to know Canada is through the depth and breadth of our artistic expression,” says Denise Donlon, Executive Director, CBC Radio. “We're excited about the new President and we want him to be excited about us, so we're asking our audience to help compile the list of our most definitive Canadian songs!”
I shake my head in dismay. What a lofty goal - getting some songs on Obama's iPod!
Radio 2 used to feature a lot of good programming. Now they have a small amount of good programming surrounded by a clown show.
As an aside, if you follow the links, and check out the comments, we are off to a very bad start. The comments seem more a way to show off than to make serious suggestions.
Labels: CBC, ridiculosity, silly
More on Canadian Politics
Paul Wells, out of the country for most of the fun, has a
lovely summary:
From a springtime of committee chaos to a summer of ultimatums to a fall election, a December crisis, a tasty prorogue-y holiday feast, and the near certainty of another New Year psychodrama. I could swear there was a pattern in there. Blame the opposition if you like, but what olive branch did the PM hold out that they refused? Stephen Harper spent his whole adult life complaining that the state was no good for anything. Now, under him, it is so. Consistency at last.
Meanwhile two people who WERE in the country have assembled a
more detailed description of the last couple of weeks, well worth the reading.
Whatever the outcome, the parties and their leaders all look different now. Harper survived into 2009 only through improvisation, occasional demagoguery, and constitutional brinksmanship. His reputation for strategic savvy is permanently damaged, as might be his party’s prospects among Quebecers who don’t view the Bloc as fair game for demonization. He still has only a minority, and now faces opposition leaders who distrust and dislike him, and long to humble him, more than ever. His advantage in facing Dion, a lame duck, is suddenly lost. Ignatieff might be tougher.
Labels: Canada, politics, silly
I got an e-mail form Sarah Miles!
No wait - it says "Sara", not "Sarah". Rats, that is disappointing.
Worse, it cannot be the right woman - she says
My name is Sara. i am 25 and live in the USA. I am looking to meet some new friends and maybe my Soulmate (if i can find him) was sondering if you might like to chat.
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Well, 25 I am not interested in, nor "sondering", whatever it might be.
But the real
Sarah Miles (the mother in the wonderful "Hope and Glory", and now in her sixties), well that might be another matter. Dream on!
Labels: silly
