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Month: November 2005

National Beard Month

Unofficially, November is National Beard month. If you’re considering face-fuzz, The Morning News offers a run down of the basic beard styles (or Wikipedia). If the benefits of beard growth alone aren’t worth it and you need some sort of reward, I suggest working towards an entry for the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championship. Lastly, if you need inspirational support for your archipelago nightmares, you could try visiting the beard group or the Team USA weblog.

Improving crappy comics: Fart Machine

Improving Comics: Fart Machine

This may be faulty logic, but follow me through. The Globe and Mail is supposed to be Canada’s high-brow, more intelligent newspaper, the New York Times of Canuckland if you will. As such, you will find me doing the challenge crossword on any given day of the week (like any good igloo-dwelling citizen). Now, we all know the Times invented the crossword, but they stay away from cryptics — it promotes a weird level of pomposity. For good cryptics, you want to turn to the New Yorker and Fraser Simpson (he authors the Saturday cryptic in the Globe).

So, what does all this newspaper name-dropping have to do with comics? Well, the Globe publishes a view comics next to their challenge cryptics. We can only assume that’s it’s some vain attempt at reproducing the cerebral air of the New Yorker’s strip. Long story short, the Backbench comic next to the cryptic wasn’t particularly funny until I made a few changes. See if you can spot them!

Women of curling nude calendar

The women of curling are gaining greater exposure via their nude calendar (insert obligatory playing with rocks joke here). You can purchase the calendar via The Curling News. They also have a weblog about the sport; it offers some details about the calendar and today’s media response.