I Take it Back, What I Said

The American flavour fake cheese tastes bad, like multicoloured stirrup pants made of Lycra blend fabric. Bad like this picture of David Lee Roth.

Apparently, the reason scrambled eggs taste so good is not because eggs are delicious. It is because they are scrambled with milk, cooked in butter and topped with cheese. My lightly-scrambled in some olive oil with Tofutti topping and so much hot sauce I should probably buy shares in Tabasco? Gag-tastic. But I’m not itchy.

Speaking of Tabasco, I just found my dream snack: Tabasco flavoured cheese popcorn.

Nobody cares about Canadian football, right? Even when there is no hockey, nobody cares about football. But look: there is a Prefontaine playing for the Toronto Argonauts. I’m excited about there being a Prefontaine to cheer for! Maybe I will become a Canadian football fan! The coach (Mike (Pinball) Clemons) said,
“We’re not the Las Vegas showgirls. We’re not flashy and we don’t win pretty.”
Remember, Mike: there’s always someone younger and prettier coming down the stairs behind you.

The understatement of the day comes from a story about the negotiations (which I am watching with equal parts bated breath and vested interest) between PSAC and the federal government:

“Union officials say some progress is being made, but that it’s slow because government negotiators must get all proposals approved by their superiors.”

The key words there, in case you missed them, are government and slow.

Speaking of news, I heard a fun piece at the end of this afternoon’s local news broadcast on CBC radio. Hold on to your bowler; apparently more men than women play Fantasy Role Player Games. (FRPGs)
Professor Kevin Schut, who heads up The Obvious Department at Trinity Western University was interviewed about his PhD thesis. He proposes, in part, that:

“…men simultaneously experience the pressure to be (1) a respectable man who’s the all around “good guy”, (2) a rough and tough man who’s the athletic bad-boy, and (3) a grown-up boy who’s not supposed to take anything too seriously.” [He] says men can rarely fulfill all three roles at the same time, particularly in an office setting, where most middle class men find themselves.”

Ah, so they pretend to be drag0n slay0rs on the internet? Novel.

Schut goes on to explain that:

“For many years, the [gaming] industry has tried very hard to get females to buy their games. They can’t figure out why women won’t buy them—but it does make sense. These games are made by men, for men.**”

Perhaps there was just enough time for a bit of filler at the end of the newscast, only everyone had gone to the bathroom so the babies in the studio daycare had to come up with something? I do not know. Today is one of those days when I don’t admire the CBC so much as want to burn it down and start over using a jar of pickles and my catt’s powerful brain waves.

In other news, The Tyee is an online publication geared to British Columbians. It is never as good as I hope it will be but it’s better than most and I think it is improving as it ages.

** See also: most pornography, crotchless underpants, cars that talk, war and Fear Factor.