Adam PuddingtonBack in Town (Hay Sale)Although Adam Puddington is an Almonte, Ontario, guy, his latest release, Back in Town, could refer to the east coast. Produced by Dale Murray, recorded in Dartmouth, with featured performances by local talents such as Kinley Dowling, Dan Ledwell and former Guthries Ruth Minnikin, Serge Sampson and Brian Murray, it’s […]
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Beck
BeckModern Guilt (Interscope)Beck Hansen must have spent hours listening to his old vinyl when writing the mellow Modern Guilt. The LA sound is shot straight out of 1960s Laurel Canyon, complete with psychedelic guitars, surf-rock riffs and acid-freaky piano sounds that’d make Sergeant Pepper proud. But this current-day hippie keeps it contemporary, thanks to Danger […]
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condolences to Ron MacLean
typical Olympics–you’re sitting there laughing at Martin Short’s synchronized swimming, and then CBC sports hunk Ron MacLean comes on to explain that his mother just died about two hours ago. She’s been sick with pancreatic cancer for a long time but she broke her hip about 14 days ago, so his wife went home early […]
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Synchro scares
This is why people are scared of synchronized swimming. There should be some kind of kids warning on it. Better watch this instead: Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
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Powerful update
So unfortunately, Halifax’s Adrienne Power didn’t qualify for today’s 200-metre sprint semi-finals. She ran 23.51 seconds in the second round of women’s 200-metre sprint, finishing sixth in her heat, according to the Chronicle Herald, although the CBC reports her in seventh place. hmmm. Power’s personal best is 22.86 seconds, which is nothing to sneeze at…No […]
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mwhahahahahaha
That’s the sound of me laughing while I watch the women’s race walking. Which is mean, I know, especially because it’s pouring rain, but there’s something about that sport that makes me revert to 10-year-old maturity. What am I going to watch when this is over? Who will make me laugh? Cry? Stay up late? […]
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please stop
For the love of gold, Aliant, if you’re going to buy up every second of CBC commercial time can you please find a new song? If I hear Suzie MacNeil’s “Believe” one more time, I’m going to let the shotputters and javelin tossers practise with my TV set. We get it already.
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Tie heart-breaker
Oh gymnastics. Right now there’s a camera in American gymnast Nastia Liukin’s face, and she looks like she’d like to wrap it around a pummel horse. She was tied with China’s He Kexin, and after two tiebreakers (as reliable as rock, paper, scissors, apparently) they were still tied to the thousandth – 16.725. Liukin’s actually […]
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More bouncing around
So I was just reading this story on CBC.ca. Trampolinist Jason Burnett, who’s going for gold tomorrow morning at 9:15am (AT), says, “Usually, right before my turn, I’ll watch the judges to see who’s up there. They’re the scariest part of the competition, you know, five suits sitting there getting ready to watch us…” This […]
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Gold medal treats
Carlito’s on Quinpool Road has Olympic Spirit cupcakes with buttercream icing. You can get cute ones with the Olympic rings made in icing, or a patriotic maple-leaf sugar candy. They’re tiny treats, about the size of a shotputter’s thumb. Totally off-topic and unappetizing, I watched the women’s marathon last night and saw my first puke […]
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Love, love, love her!
OK, so maybe it was the wine (hey, I’m not in training), but I love Laval, PQ’s Jennifer Abel, who came in 13th in the three-metre springboard, narrowly missing the finals. She’s a total honey, and gave a really composed, charming interview for someone so young. Oh, she’s only 16… Watch for her in 2012. […]
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Happy now?
All your whining has paid off. Carol Huynh has guaranteed Canada’s first Olympic medal. She defeated the tough-ass lookin’ Kazakhstan wrestler, advancing to the gold medal match of women’s freestyle 48-kilogram wrestling. Oh, and we’re beating the Americans in men’s baseball, 4-3, 6th inning… So can we stop talking about Phelps now? Please? Even though […]