Vote For the Li'l Abner/Marryin' Sam Ticket In 2008
By Jaime Weinman - Monday, October 20, 2008 - 2 Comments
Their slogan: “It’s parity that no one understands.”
While I’m on the subject of what was arguably the greatest comic strip of all time (until its creator, Al Capp, burned out and started turning out unsubtle right-wing strips that anticipated the lesser episodes of South Park) Comics.com’s series of Li’l Abner reprints is currently in the middle of one of Al Capp’s brilliant, insane “Fearless Fosdick” stories, where he’d turn over his strip for weeks on end to Abner’s favourite strip-within-a-strip, the ultra-violent adventures of the world’s worst detective who worked for the world’s most corrupt city. The violence in these stories makes Itchy and Scratchy look like the Happy Little Elves; the meta-jokes about comic strips and their readers are some of the most elaborate satirical humour ever created. In this story, Fearless Fosdick investigates brutal murders being carried out by a talking Chippendale Chair.
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ITQ Election Watching Live-ish Blog! Sort of!
By kadyomalley - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:43 PM - 28 Comments
10:33 p.m.
Hello everyone! Man, it’s been a day, hasn’t it? My apologies, by the way, for taking so long to weigh in on this whole election thing — although really, it’s still going on, isn’t it? — but I spent the first part of the evening engaged in the classic Canadian tradition of bugging my East Coastian friends for early results – not for publication, of course, so all cricket according to Elections Canada law.
Anyway, I am watching the results roll in from an undisclosed location on Elgin Street, and — wow. Definitely a thriller, even if we didn’t have to wait for BC to weigh in before calling it as a Conservative minority, which happened at, like 9:32, I believe. That doesn’t seem to be about to change - but the Tories are definitely doing better than anyone expected, at least as far as the election pools. And the polls. Oh, polls. When will we ever learn?
10:46 p.m.
I actually don’t think this parliament is going to be that much different, at least as far as the level of functionality – I mean, a minority is a minority is a minority. (Sorry, that just came up during one of the seemingly unavoidable panellings.)
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ITQ BerryCam – Election 2008: And so it begins — with a lot of waiting around.
By kadyomalley - Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 11:22 PM - 11 Comments
Various shots from the first official day on the campaign trail, starting with the ceremonial dropping of the writ (not pictured) at Rideau Hall, liveblogged earlier here:
On the way to Rideau Hall, I spotted this adorable little Lapin-Canadian, but wasn't able to whip out my berry in time to get a decent shot, so you'll have to trust me that the brown blur is actually a bunny rabbit.
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Liveblogging the Liberals' Ottawa South campaign kickoff: It's almost like being on a leaders' tour (but not quite)
By kadyomalley - Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM - 12 Comments
Okay, so I’ll tell y’all upfront that I have no idea what to expect from this event, but since it’s local, involves a party leader, and it’s not like I have anything else on my election coverage schedule tonight, I’ll be liveblogging it starting at around — 4:30ish? Does that work for everyone?
In the meantime, check out Wells doing the liveblog thing from Quebec City. I hope I’m not giving away any ultra-super-extra-duper-secret inside information, but I’ve been told by senior party sources that Quebec is going to play an important role in the upcoming election. You heard it here first!
Check back later this afternoon for even more insight.
4:32:31 PM
We’re here! And that isn’t even a royal “we’ this time — I hitched a ride with the Ottawa Citizen’s Glen McGregor, which meant saving the $30 or so it would’ve cost to cab it here. Also, we were technically a carpool, so go us – carbon footprint a delicate size 6.Interestingly, we passed what has to be the very first protest of the campaign – well, other than those anti-war demonstrators who were out in front of 24 Sussex this morning. Remember that guy who Warren Kinsella was obsessed with during the last election? Who was involved with that “rural rights” group, “Back Off Government”? Well, they’re here, brandishing signs and presumably opposing the Green Shift (Soylen Green Shift is also farmers, I guess.) I say “presumably” because the signs I’ve seen so far don’t actually *say* anything about the Green Shift, but why else would they be here?
UPDATE/AFTERNOTE: I was thinking of Rick Randy Hillier (NOTE: That’s what happens when you liveblog two events in one day (with the first one involving a 5am wakeup time), who won a seat in the last provincial election, and is now a proud Ontario PC MPP, and the group in question is the Ontario Landowners’ Association.
