The daily paper - Wikileaks , Don Cherry and Christmas

Holy shit, Don Cherry could be the Prime Minister and Rob Ford could of played in the NHL.....ya right they only wish.

Why in the hell was Don Cherry present at City Hall swearing in the new Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? It would be like Regis Philbin swearing in the Mayor of New York. Or Oprah swearing in the mayor of Chicage.

Speaking of swearing, shit and fuck are my two favourite ones to use and I often use them one after the other. Like when I lose in poker.


How about Wikileaks, wiki-waki, wonki, who-cares...Apparently wiki leaks chief is in jail on sex assault charges. Who knows and who cares, this story has been in the news for 3 weeks. First wiki leaks spread some information the government wanted to keep from the public and then some idiot olitician from Canada said wiki leaks chief Julian Assange should be assassinated and now Assange is behind bars. Is this the way of the future? Internet Crimes? ---Crimes of information and charges for leaking information. I remember reading the book "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg , his publisher Lawrence Ferlnghetti was on trial for publishing elicit material back in the sixties and when all things were said and on October 3, 1957 Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, and "Howl" went on to become the most popular poem of the Beat Generation....its freedom of speech people, freedom to share information. Now I wonder if these sexual assault charges on wiki leaks chief are really true or a fabrication to try and silence the man. But wikileaks seem to be doing fine regardless if their boss is in the clink. They are carrying on and spilling more sensitive info that the government doesn't want the public to see. In the mean time other web-sites and journalists are fighting and taking a stand for the protection of free-speech

Whatever..wikileaks-its been too long in the press, on the front page of papers, if revealing e-mails passed around by senators and diplomats is big time news than I don't wanna buy anymore papers, who cares!! but the more the story runs the more spicy its getting, all in all I am so tired of hearing about it.


What else is going on?
30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. Sad way he to die for an amazing human being. His killer is still behind bars for the shooting death.

I have to start doing some christmas shopping. I am trying not to leave it all until the last minute this year.

World Cup 2018 & 2022

The Fifa World Cup announced two future tournament sites. It will be played in Russia for 2018 and Qatar in 2022. Brazil will be my pick to win in both tournaments

Leafs blow it

The leafs lose another game. This time they had a two goal and blew it with under 3 minutes to go in the game. The Lightning lit it up and squeezed out an overtime win.

Kulemin had two goals for the leafs. One was a flukey bounce off the back bards to an open net and the other was just as flukey. He took a bad penalty on the boards. I say you send him down to the AHL for some conditioning and give some other guys a look on forward. One thought is look within the team. So many people are saying Brad Richards. Why? Give him a big salary and screw signing some other freee agent who would be just as good. They have Kaberle why not try him on forward he would be like a Lecalvier type. Someone who can bring the puck to the net and make things happen.

Poor leafs, poor leafs nation

More coffee

The lighter the roast of the coffee means the more caffein in your cup. Some drink coffee for the boost that they need in the morning. Those folks would get a light coffee and those who prefer the dark rich coffee wont be getting the same caffein intake but would have a richer cup. I drink dark but I think my next cup will be an espresso.

Do we love the writer more than the story?

Today I still love both but in the end it is all about the story because the name is only on the front of the book

War

The War between the Left and Right,.. I can't take it anymore!

The Giller Prize

I have been looking for a few good books to read. Even just one. So anyways, here is how it goes. I am up early this morning with my coffee in hand and the globe and mail in the other. Reading thru the arts pages I notice the short-list for the Giller Prize in the Books section. The Giller is worth a lot of money and goes to Canada's best novel of that year. I don't know If life of Pi won or not in its day...but Yann Martel had another terrific book about a writer and a taxidermist and it has failed to make the Top 10 if great Canadian fiction of this year. That was a fantastic book so I say to myself "Great" here it is, five Novels by Canadian writers. All the best fiction of 2010 that our country has to offer. One book you can even get in stores its on back order and the other four aren't any I have read more than 10 pages For now I will list the novels, there are: Two books of short-stories; one by Alexander Macleod (Son of great Alistair McCleoud) with his debut title "Light Lifting" and Sarah Selecky with her book "The Cake is for the Party". Both are books of short stories.The novelists include Kathleen Winter's book "Annabel" she is published by Anansi Press who also publishes Michael Winter who happens to be one of my favourite writers, I am not sure if theses two are related. Either way, there is also two other writers who maade the short list. Probably the two that I will find the most fascinating from their descriptions are David Bergen's "The Matter with Morris" said to be about a journalist who loses his son in Afghanistan to a friendly fire accident. The writer has trouble, etc.. further and lastly a novel "The Sentimentalist" a debut by Johana Skibsrud. Also dealing with war on some level. All 4 books you can get in chapters or other local book stores but The Sentimentalist is currently unavailable but you can be put on an order list and as soon as Gaspereau press has all the material they are going to print a 2nd press of the the book.'Gaspereau' press is a small press in Nova Scotia, it has only printed off 2,000 copies and the owner says, they are currently waiting on a paper delivery to continue with the second print. So I the mean time I think I will begin reading "The Matter with Morris" and I you are finished and feel like commenting and adding our favourite read of 2010 the by all means share... Until then continue to read the blog for other news and stories