Ditto.

How pathetic that a Canadian network figures it's a real coup to show Canadians two American NFL football games on Christmas Day.
Why don't they just pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
This used to be no part of a Canadian Christmas.
What's next, flying the Confederate flag on Parliament Hill?
Maybe Trump is right... Canadians want to be the 51st state.


 

I was a landlord for about 10 years.  Never, never again.
The world of real estate investing was not simple.
 

51st state?
I'd like to see the Trump bunch try to deal with Quebec.  Ha!

I've covered many years of those awards and I am lucky enough to have seen them as a reporter in the earlier days where things weren't so slick.
Like going to the Junos when they were held in
a ballroom at the Royal York hotel in Toronto and watching Carol Pope grab her crotch in leather pants, in the same company as Anne Murray or Murray McLauchlan.
Also got to interview kd Lang one-on-one when she won her first Juno which she accepted in a white wedding dress.
At the Gemini awards I interviewed Rick Moranis who made fun of me apparently because I asked him how it felt to get a lot of American recognition as well as Canadian.
I grew tired of covering those awards when they eventually isolated us reporters back stage and were only able to ask the celebrities questions as they stood on a stage separated from us.
Also I grew tired of starting my coverage at about 6pm and working under stress and pressure and not getting finished until about 2 am.




 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sljSf7KVlQ

Hmmm... the Brazilians might have something there.
The two songs do sound a lot alike.
I'm sure a trained musician would be able to better explain it.
That being said, it's a rather simple song.  I don't know what the lyrics are in Portuguese, but the Adele word are rather depressing.


 

I hope they've done some retooling.
The show improved with each episode, but I still think they needed to add or replace a couple of characters.
The woman police commissioner was weak and I thought the main woman character was rather bland.
It had not risen to the same quality as the other Law and Order versions that had some big stars or at least actors who grew and became big.

 

He was trounced pretty badly in the civic byelection, and he lost his previous bid for mayor.
So far he seems best suited for Toronto Sun style right wing blatherings including a stint on Sun News Network, run by the vile Ezra Levant.

 

The idea of the show is perfectly good.
It's just presented by a bumbling dolt.
But then I suppose it's better than three hours of Jerry Agar praising Donald Trump.
 

I usually listen to 1010 on Sunday morning for maybe half an hour or so of Trivia, then the bumbling Jason Agnew gets on my nerves.  His go-to fill in when he's gone is the ubiquitous Richard Crause, who is always entertaining, But today it was a bit odd.
He had a bad cold with a sore throat which prompted contestants to offer suggestions for home cold remedies.
At first it was amusing, but the topic almost took over completely from the trivia show, and became quite boring.
But something also made me blink.
Almost every caller began their call with "Morning Richard, how are you?"
To which, Bizarrely Richard replied, "I'm very well thankyou."
Huh?
The whole show was about how not very well he was.
And people were asking how he was, knowing he had a cold and they were giving him home remedy advice.
Anyway after about half an hour of that I tuned out.
Weird.


 

Speaking of train wrecks, I am increasingly concerned John Moore is either burning out or dealing with other issues.
He constantly forgets names of people and things.
But he now routinely jokes about how he never remembers names or gets details wrong.
No, he's not supposed to.
He also uses words or phrases repeatedly, like how many times does he use the word "existential.?"
who even knows what that means? (I do as an old philosophy student.)
Still, I pretty well tune out Agar when he comes along.
Ugh... the other day I did not tune out fast enough, and heard him refer to Trump as a "master negotiator" and referred to his Art of the Deal book as "brilliant."
Actually the co author of the book, Tony Schwartz, claims to have actually written it because Trump's attention span was so short.




 

I hate that ad too.
It was probably written by some Gen Z 20 something type.
Collab is a word used by Internet influencers -- another term I hate.
Influencers try to "collaborate" with other influencers or trades people, in hopes they will get something for free.
For instance you might be an influencer and want to get a photographer for your wedding.
You might contact a photographer and ask for free wedding pictures in exchange for "exposure" for the photog.
In other words it's a new form of begging and freeloading.
There's an influencer from Toronto who posts to Youtube and she hates this sort of thing.
Her name is Charlotte Dobre and she made up a little song to use on such freebie seekers.
"It costs so much because it takes me fucking hours..."
Anyway back to the Tim's commercial.
I doubt if many Gen Z types would be watching conventional TV and see it, so most people would have no idea what "collab" means.
As for "original collab..."


 

Yes, that ad is now on every ten minutes or so on 1010 and am 640 at least.  And yes the makers seem to not be interested in recutting it with the proper pronunciation for pina colada.  PEENEE colada? is it meant to be a deliberate joke?
And by the way the ad I believe is for Goose travel.
I'd never heard of it before this ad.
Maybe the reader has had too much Grey Goose Vodka
 

I used to hate those stupid Canadian tire ads that help you spend like Santa but save like Scrooge.
They ran for years and I always thought they made no sense because at the end of a Christmas Carol Scrooge is converted to a kind and generous benefactor, so there is no more miserly Scrooge.
Now I am driven up the wall by the Wal Mart Christmas ads that feature for no apparent reason a plump Asian guy playing an elf.
When the other guy guy dresses like a Christmas tree and scares the middle aged white couple the Asian guy elf admonishes him "That's a bit much."
That's apparently supposed to be amusing.
It's just kind of weird.
There's a couple more ads with these two characters and they are just strange and awkward.