November 22nd:
If you can't figure out who to vote for on November 27th, or if you know but still think things like this are fun, take the Vote Selector Quiz to find out.

My results:
Alexa McDonough, NDP - 100
Jean Chretien, Liberal - 73
Gilles Duceppe, BQ - 67
Joe Clark, PC - 57
Stockwell Day, Anti-Christ - 7

How did Joe get so high? Damn, that worries me.

November 20th:
Remember when they were the bad boys of the NFL? Those were some good years. Hunter S Thompson remembers with me. Yeah, those were the days. I don't want to complain when the Raiders are 9 - 2, but it was so good when they were so bad...

Okay, so Brian and I have a lot of running jokes about Stephen Hawking. Just this morning he was doing his Hawking impression and saying, "You want a piece of me?" and "I could kick your ass!" And then I find MC Hawking's Crib site (where you can download "F*ck the Creationists"), I'm convinced someone is spying on us and taking all our good stuff.

Over 900,000 names on the petition to force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Stock has said that 300,000 is too low for a referendum, so 22 Minutes is ready to meet the challenge. Hey, all you 'nucks -- please go sign!

Still November 16th:
From The Mirror:

BUSH THE EXECUTIONER
Tonight George W. Bush sends his 150th person to the death chamber in Texas, smashing all records for an American state Governor. His latest scalp has the mental age of six. Mr Bush has spent as little as FOUR minutes deciding who is executed and who lives.

November 16th:
The article "Stockwell Day's public appeal" explains why it would be a bad thing if Day were elected Prime Minister of Canada. Read the paragraph that begins with "His politics, however, are rooted in the social conservatism of central Alberta." (Plenty of Albertans complain about what he did to the province.) This is supposed to appeal to people, not repel them.

A radio show on CBC summed it up quite nicely:

Stockwell Day, he'll do what's right,
as long as you're rich, as long as you're white.
He's committed, he won't fail,
as long as you're straight, as long as you're male.

November 15th:
More voting! Yes, go to UTNE Reader's Alternative Press Awards poll and vote! It is especially important that you vote in the zine category for East Village Inky and hipMama! Go! Vote for yourself, for your dog, for your cat, for all the people in Florida who can't figure out how to do it!

In the news: a Lorena Bobbit wannabe, and the rising price of sperm.

November 9th:
Here's how to keep yourself entertained while awaiting the final count -- Presidential Candidate Dress-up!

November 8th:
Yesterday afternoon I thought the Magic 8 Ball had finally let me down. I asked, "Will Gore be President?" and got the answer, "Better not tell you now." So then I asked, "Will George W. win?" and it said, "Ask again later." And well, now it all makes sense....

For my November JAT project I scanned one of my treasure map collages.

November 5th, part 2:
Do me a huge favour and vote in my little poll, please! I will be ever so eternally grateful. Thank you.

The Raiders are playing the Chiefs today and I don't get to see the game. I think I'm going to have to move to Oakland.

November 5th:
I talk a lot about how bad Canada Post is (No mail delivery on Saturdays! Not reliable! Etc!), but I have to admit that decorating your own stamps is a cool idea. Why stick a picture of an orange maple leaf on a letter when you can stick embarrassing photos of friends and family members?

Brian won a door prize at the small press fair (by answering a trivia question) and got the very book I was about to purchase, What we do is Secret (among about 10 other things), so instead I bought, On seeing Montgomery Clift drunk as he was. Yes, go look at them.. they are amazing and beautiful handmade books. I've been wanting both of them for awhile.

November 3rd:
Okay, according USC professor Peggy Kamuf, I am some sort of sick sadist and part of a patriarchal conspiracy for reading to my daughter. And you know, she must be a twisted masochist, cuz she begs for it every night.

Oh geez, that's so bad I can't believe I wrote it. But still.. reading to your children is a violent act? Puhleez. Anyway, the MWT essay linked to explains it and says it the way I wish I could....

I used to check the Love Blender, an aesthetic review, site a lot back in like, 1997, and then I forgot all about it. I somehow stumbled upon it, and it's just as good as ever. I especially love the Blend O Matic where you can blend and get great bits of wisdom like, "When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat," Mark Twain, New Dessert Idea: "Wham, Bam, Thank You Flan," and It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars, Mr. Blue, 10/26/99.

Tomorrow is the Toronto Small Press Fair, and I am incredibly excited. I plan on buying some goodies, getting published in the anthology and schmoozing with all the cool literary types.