Watch our show tonight

If you want to see what a record number of Take Back the Night marchers look like...

Plus, see the poor guy with the cute little girl, who was roped into commenting for my camera, because of the lovely pack of women he was travelling with.

"We need a man to comment."

"Oh, he'll do it."

:)

It was a good night.

In the first eight minutes of the show, guaranteed.

Tonight 6 pm

Iqaluit Take Back The Night March. Starts up by the High School and ends by the Parish Hall. I'll be the guy with the microphone asking questions. Say hi when you see me.

Say it ain't so Sam

I have been a Toronto Raptors through all of the bad, and the semi-sweet. Come up to me and say, "Vince Carter Rules" and you are likely to catch a swat from me. Being a Raptors fan is like being a Cubs fan, without the tragic shame of history crumbling around you.... mostly.

Being a Raps fan requires a colourful vocabulary. You might as well swear, because they aren't going to get any better overnight. If Andrea Bargnani could hear what I have to say he might, I don't know, leave town or pick his 7 foot ass up off the court and hustle for his $$$.

SAm Mitchell has been my favourite coach to handle the squad. He is no nonsense, and when his car commercial is on TV, The Boy says, "Look, he is smiling now."... because he doesn't in games.

Plus, really sharp dresser, which actually counts in the NBA.

Which is why I was so disappointed to read THIS.

Sam gave up cursing.... cold turkey.... what the fuck?

How can you coach the Toronto Raptors and not curse.. even a little bit?

"It's something to let (the players and public) know that, one, I'm growing and maturing every day," he said. "Two, I'm trying to get better not only as a coach but as a person; and, three, who wants to be screamed and yelled at and cursed at every day?"

I DON'T CARE IF THEY WANT IT, THOSE GUYS NEED TO BE CURSED AT EVERY DAY... ESPECIALLY THAT LANKY EUROPEAN FUCKSTICK WITH THE DULL GLARE OF AN UNDERACHEIVER IN HIS OVERPAID EYES. RED AUERBACH WOULD HAVE BURNED HIM WITH A CIGAR BY NOW!

Fuck that Sam, fucking let them fucking have it, right between the fucking eyes. Get their fucking attention, and never fucking let go. You are in a division with Dwight Howard and Kevin Garnett. That would have me waking up at night in a cold sweat, cursing loudly.

I'll be watching the pre-season game tonight, and Sam, I don't expect to see you cursing. It is still the pre-season, you have time to work into it. BUT DON'T LET UP ON THESE FUCKERS.

You fucking know it. I fucking know it. They fucking need you to fucking stick it to them.

Except for Chris Bosh. I want him swearing at his teammates too.

During my fake Presidency

PAris Hilton is running for President, or at least putting videos up on Funny or Die.

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

In her first video, she gave her plan to get America off of foreign fuels, and it sounded as reasonable as the actual candidates... even though she was poolside.

This one, she has history's most esteemed Fake President, Josiah Bartlett, there to help her campaign.

"During my Fake Presidency, the kitchen is often where we went to debate the fake issues of our time."

Forget Paris Hilton, Bartlett for President... he was a Fake Economist, and the economy is all fake anyway. It should be as effective as the Obama/McCain idea of a celebrity Treasury Secretary (and no, I'm not kidding, I think even suggesting appointing Warren Buffet as Treasury Secretary is low level pandering to a culture with limited attention span).

JIMMY SMITS STABBED A GUY

I am a fan of much maligned dramatic actor Jimmy Smits. He was great on LA LAw, The West Wing, the abymissal Cane and even carried it off in Star Wars.

I was really enjoying him on Dexter, until I found out, HE TRIED TO KILL A GUY.

Courtesy Contact Music.com

A TV stuntman is lucky to be alive after actor JIMMY SMITS stabbed him for real during a fight scene for TV show DEXTER.
Smits grabbed a real knife instead of a prop knife during shooting and plunged it into action man Jeff Chase.
Chase was only saved by a piece of plastic placed over his heart - which Smits miraculously hit.
He says, "For the scene, I was bound in Saran Wrap, duct tape over my mouth. I couldn't say a thing as I saw Jimmy grab at the knife. He picked up the real one by pure mistake. It was a mean looking knife.
"I heard fellow actor Michael C. Hall yelling at Jimmy to stop - but it was too late. I felt the thud in my chest. I didn't have on a metal breast plate like a lot of actors do in a scene like that.
"Instead I had a piece of acrylic clear plastic about the size of a Post-it note over my heart. It was a quarter of an inch thick and not attacked. In eight out of 10 takes with the prop knife, Jimmy had missed the plastic. But by a miracle, an act of God, the knife landed at the very edge of the plastic.
"I really thought I'd been stabbed in the heart, but I didn't have a scratch. Jimmy was devastated and couldn't stop apologising. I told him, I felt more sorry for him than me."

Buck 65

Unless you live under a rock, you have likely heard that Buck 65 himself is hosting a show on CBC Radio 2.

88.3 in Iqaluit, from 3 pm to 6. Great way to finish out the day... highlight of their schedule... feel like I'm in Halifax, listening to the campus radio, except with higher production value.

Come 3 pm, my radio is turned on. Come by the office, and enjoy.

**** Jesusie Rich, I go to recommend you to people, and you have to play fucking Spearhead.... man.

EDITED TO ADD: Kathleen Edwards singing the words "I know where the cops hang out" make up for it. You are forgiven.

Good eats

Tuesday night is the new Friday in Iqaluit. Italian buffet at The Water's Edge, all you can eat for $35. There is even a chef on the buffet line to do up custom pasta for you, along with all the lazagna, Italian sausage, and tasty tasty chocolate cake you can eat.

As for the real Friday, Jack Layton -- and presumbably his moustache -- are coming to Iqaluit to tell us all about The New Strong. All I know for sure, I know who I'm talking to on Friday.

That's two leaders so far. Mr. Dion has been here twice previously, but I wonder if he'll make a third trip.

If Elizabeth May makes it up here, I would like to know why the Green Party logo looks so much like the British Petroleum logo. Think I'm crazy, look here:





Spooky, huh?