7/01/2013

Tangent - Canada: FUCK YEAH


AW SHIT IT'S CANADA DAY EVERYBODY.

TIME TO SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE THIS COUNTRY AWESOME AS HELL.



LOOK AT THIS STERN MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE.

HE'S WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING.

KING WAS THE LONGEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY.

HE ALSO HELD SEANCES WITH HIS DEAD TERRIERS.


THIS CRAZY SON OF A BITCH ALSO GOT US THROUGH WORLD WORLD II.

NOW WHO'S THIS UP IN THIS JOINT?


OH MAN IT'S GRAMMY-, JUNO- AND POLARIS-WINNERS ARCADE FIRE.

THEY PLAY ACCORDIONS ON STAGE BECAUSE THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK AND STILL SELL OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.



NEXT IN THE RING IS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ACTOR AND DIRECTOR SARAH POLLEY.

HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST THESPIANS OF HER GENERATION. ACTS IN A ZOMBIE MOVIE ONE DAY, DIRECTS A STIRRING DEPICTION OF ALZHEIMER'S THE NEXT.

IN TERMS OF UNPREDICTABILITY JAMES FRANCO'S GOT NOTHING ON HER.


OH JESUS WHO IS THAT.

CALM YO TITS, IT'S SIMPLY JAY ONRAIT, THE FUNNIEST PART OF TSN AND THE ONLY SPORTSCASTER I'VE EVER ENJOYED. IT'S LIKE HE'S THE DRUNK COMMENTATOR FROM EVERY OTHER HOCKEY MOVIE BUT REAL.

HE'S MOVING TO ESPN SO NOW I'LL HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO WATCH TSN BUT STILL.

LOOK AT THAT STACHE.


LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST IS COMIC BOOK WRITER AND ARTIST JEFF LEMIRE.

HIS GRAPHIC NOVEL ESSEX COUNTY IS AN INCREDIBLY MOVING WORK AND SHOULD BE PART OF THE CANADIAN LITERARY CANON.

HE'S ALSO WRITING THE BEST SERIES ON THE SHELVES RIGHT NOW.

I'VE MET HIM A COUPLE TIMES AND HE'S A REALLY NICE DUDE TO BOOT.


MAN I SHOULD BLOG ON CANADA DAY MORE OFTEN.

HAVE YOURSELVES A SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE CANADA DAY EVERYONE. AND HAVE YOURSELF A CELEBRATORY TOM MCCAMUS.

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