Your teachers lied when they said this wasn’t a popularity contest

1. Go to the CBC website and search for “M a n s b r i d g e heat v i s i o n” (leaving out the extra spaces). Because the kind folks at This Hour Has 22 Minutes want that to be the number 1 search for the week. And because they (and I) told you to.

2. Also at the CBC – it was recently brought to my attention that North Bay was in the top ten cities to be Hockeyville Canada, and then we made it into the top five. Go us? (I’d be more excited, but like I said, I just found this out and haven’t been able to whip myself into a froth of civic frenzy.) This amuses me because Noelville is also in the top five, and it’s less than an hour from here.

3. Band Madness is so much fun. It’s a full-on, battle-to-the-death, ladder contest between a series of bands [1]. Some of the matchups confound me (who the hell are the Aphex Twins?) Some of the matchups tear me apart (Leonard Cohen or the Dropkick Murphys? I can’t decide!) Some of results amuse me (The Clash are kicking Little Feat’s ass). There’s still some time to vote in this round – it’s still in the first round, and they’re being done in pools.

I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve voted for one of these three things on more than one computer – mostly my work computer and my laptop at home. But also a few of the circulation computers.

[1] Or, as we use to call them in fencing, repechages. But we were all snooty and French like that.