Last night I attended the first in a new series of open-mic nights entitled "Awkward Show & Tell". Held upstairs in a trendy pub at Bloor and Bathurst, the first evening's installment was called "Things My Ex...
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Contrary to popular stereotypes about geeky, four-eyed bookworms, fiction-lovers are actually more socially adept than most, according to new research. The ability to empathize and consider all sides of a social...
"One of the most awkward developments for Bush administration and McCain
campaign officials to defend is the appearance of Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki in Iran, embracing and kissing Iranian...
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I can not even begin to imagine how they got there."A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital with fire brigade equipment early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis. Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward...
"Thanks to Dan Rather for making our show a success all those years, and sorry about firing you," does make for a rather weird speech. "Last night was the television news magazine 48 Hours 20 Year anniversary...
A look at why we shirk the people we love."Cold winters can make early mornings painful, but lately I've had good reason to get up an entire 15 minutes earlier than required -- to avoid people I know and like.While...
There are many border towns across Canada and the US who share everything, from Apartment buildings, Schools, Bars to Family Bloodlines, separated by an invisible line which runs through back alleys and...
(Framing to come momentarily)"In an unexpected twist of events, President Bush's bout of diplomacy in Asia hit a snag in dealings with longtime ally South Korea and drew a conciliatory gesture from "Axis of Evil" member North Korea.
Just hours after Bush suffered an awkward...
"Not only is the 2007 Serpentine pavilion not as awkward as I'd feared from the early publicity images - on the contrary, it is the best of these annual summer temporary structures since Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond's...
For Now Public Readers "This is must see TV" Not just for Politicians and Sports figures anymore. Nowadays, there's much precedent. Video-sharing sites like YouTube are ensuring that every TV anchor mishap is...
"I am - Kellie Pickler’s New Tits of the DayI am - Kellie Pickler’s New Tits of the Day
I used to think I was a great judge of who had fake tits and who
didn’t, but the fake tits I was spotting were the shitty jobs that
bitches with no money would get or the...
"Sixteen words may be all that stand right now between the apparatus of government and the Founding Fathers’ worst nightmare. And those words are starting to give.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
Actual News Guy pointed me to this very interesting piece, written by a public librarian, about America's libraries increasingly becoming a daytime "homeless shelter" for people who live on the streets. The article...
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by: John E. Carey"Life is composed of accidental moments. They are glimpses of who we are and where we live.
I guess this story has to start with the fact that I am married into a very beautiful and loving...
Recalling that it was her first date since September 2005, high-school
English teacher Melanie Fitzgerald thought it prudent to overlook the
grammatical errors of dinner date Aaron McPherson on Monday. "I really
had to bite my tongue when he said, 'After getting stuck in...