Another Canadian entertainment legend is gone. The truly funny Norm Macdonald died of cancer today and that is truly shocking and sad news. In addition to his legendary stint on Saturday Night Live and elsewhere, he was also a big poker enthusiast who actually was host of the High Stakes Poker TV show. Sad to…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has survived the recall: what a waste of time that was
As if I don’t have enough politics in my life already, tonight I tuned in to California recall election night coverage. It now seems certain that Gov. Gavin Newsom will survive the recall, and easily. Folks, what a colossal waste of time and effort this all was, to gather all the signatures and then waste…
Where were you 20 years ago today?
How did you find out about the 9/11 attacks on America? Me? I was in Toronto, where I was glued to the television set in shock for days on end: The top news headlines just the night before in New York City: Below, David Letterman on his first show since the attacks.
Farewell to Jasper, America’s dog
Well, my Labour/Labor Day was going great until I heard this news: Jasper the Dog has died. His owner Dana Perino pens this tribute.
The Twitter mob goes bananas as Joe Rogan announces he got COVID-19
The Twitter social media angry mob reacted in positively spectacular fashion on Wednesday upon hearing the news that their loathsome archenemy, the supposedly anti-vax UFC commentator Joe Rogan, came down with COVID-19 while on a comedy tour this past week. “Just desserts!” was their reaction. They erupted even more when Rogan revealed on Instagram that…
Now, the Bad News Roundup to end a month full of bad news
I haven’t posted much this month, mainly because I don’t feel like posting about all the bad news in the world. Besides, there still isn’t much good news to report: The war in Afghanistan has ended… in defeat. Hurricane Ida socked Louisiana so badly that the power could be out in New Orleans for weeks….
Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana coast as Cat. 4
Well, it is been a miserable week for the United States of America mainly due to what’s going on in Afghanistan and the recent explosion there at Kabul that killed several American service personnel and lots of Afghan civilians. Plus, the Delta variant is running rampant and filling the hospitals across the unvaccinated ‘States. Now,…
What else is there to say? The debacle in Afghanistan is hard to watch
This headline in the Daily Mail sums it up — for the British, but also for the Canadians who also sent troops over to Afghanistan for years, many of whom also lost their lives. And the American troops, too. It was all for nothing , it seems, all their efforts over the years. It’s beyond…
Election is called in Canada, which means summer is officially ruined here in the Great White North
Well, great. At a time when the COVID-19 Delta variant is causing a fourth wave, at a time when wildfires are out of control in B.C., and at a time when Canadians in Kabul are desperately trying to get out as Afghanistan falls to the Taliban —- today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called an early…
Now, the last word on A.J. McKee and his total destruction of Pitbull #Bellator263
Last night was a big one for the sport of “MMA”, as the Bellator promotion basically blew out the competing UFC for entertainment value at their event at the Forum in Los Angeles. There, the featherweight title was decided in no time flat as A.J. McKee dominated reigning champion Patricio Pitbull to take the belt,…
Greetings from the Okanagan, the current “worst place in all the world.”
Welcome to this exclusive Special Report! Today, we are reporting from our West Coast bureau located in the central Okanagan, a place that has to be a frontrunner to claim the title of worst place to be in the entire world at the present time. Well, it ain’t the best, that’s for sure. First, this…
My latest movie box office column, complete with Space Jam 2 news, is now up!
Read it here. I know, it’s not much of a blog post from me today, but I’m on vacation.
The sports story of this weekend was Conor McGregor breaking his ankle!! “This is not over!”
Well, of all the major sports events that were going on this weekend — Euro 2020, the NBA Finals — the one that of course captured the imagination was the third fight in the Conor McGregor – Dustin Poirier trilogy in Las Vegas. Why was this non-title fight such a big deal? Because McGregor is…
The CFL-XFL collaboration is off. Good! Time to move on for both leagues.
Well, the big news today is that the CFL announced that their talks with the XFL about a collaboration have broken off. My reaction: good! These “talks” and merger speculation were getting to be a big sideshow and a complete distraction, and it was starting to take away from the CFL product itself. It was…
West coast of Florida is under a hurricane warning right now
Hi! Tampa Bay is under a hurricane warning. Elsa is now Cat. 1. Hopefully, the streets aren’t flooded for tomorrow night’s Stanley Cup game. As an aside — isn’t it a bit early for hurricane warnings? Not to mention wildfires over on the other coast?! What is happening?! Hurricane #Elsa Advisory 27A: Elsa Regains Hurricane…
Cosby walks free, Surfside disaster, Elsa threatens in latest News from Nowhere
Welcome to a special July 4 edition of News from Nowhere. It has been a wild and woolly week, despite the holiday. The big news of the week, in my opinion, was the shocking release of Bill Cosby from jail. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court not only threw out his sexual assault conviction, but also barred…
North America is BOILING and crawling with rattlesnakes! The big heat wave is on
Well, folks, we are quickly learning how they live in the Mojave Desert, and the Sahara Desert, and every other hot place in the world this week in western North America. We are scorching, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Portland and Seattle are boiling. In British Columbia they are experiencing a big heat wave with…
Sad times following the Surfside building collapse
I am sitting here watching the streaming Channel 7 Miami news while waiting for the sports highlights show to come on. And I am reminded watching the grim special reports that I should post something on the awful building collapse of a condo at Surfside, Florida. They are still trying to find people in the…
Breaking news: F9 surges to new post-pandemic record opening of $70 million!!
Breaking news: the pandemic is still over in the USA. (‘Delta variant’: what’s that?) This summer’s domestic box office keeps on recuperating nicely from the devastation of the pandemic. These last few days are the clearest sign yet that North America is returning to a sense of normalcy. This weekend saw the opening for F9,…
CONAN wrapped up on TBS this week, but it didn’t feel like an ending
It’s hard to believe that Conan O’Brien’s show CONAN on TBS is over. It just seems like yesterday that this blog was following all the drama with Conan’s contentious Tonight Show NBC exit. Where has the time gone? It’s an end to an era, for sure. The last link to the immediate post-Carson late show…
Single game sports betting is coming to Canada! The Senate passes C-218!
It’s a proud day today to be a Canadian — as opposed to most days recently, when you feel like you want to put a bag over your head for one thing after another. So, for a change, it’s a great day. It’s great because the Senate voted to pass Bill C-218, better known as…
Freedom from COVID-19 still a ways off in many places in the world
Optimism is in the air. The COVID-19 pandemic is coming to an end in my part of the world, Canada, thanks to a robust vaccine rollout. Here, the Canadian Football League even announced it is returning Aug. 5! That’s a sure sign life here is finally, at long last, getting back to normal. Not so…
CFL is poised to end its long shutdown, finally
The Canadian Football League votes on Monday on proceeding with August 5 as a date to start the 2021 season. I’m confident they will give the go-ahead — in fact I would be shocked if they didn’t, given the decline in COVID-19 cases we are seeing across the country. It looks like Saskatchewan and Alberta…
Netanyahu out in Israel after 12 years
I am watching the news coverage right now of the vote in the Knesset to oust Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and replace his government with a multi-party coalition with Naftali Bennett installed as prime minister. This was coming for a while, and it’s been interesting to see this whole drama play out in Israel…
Scary movies racking up all the dough at the box office
I haven’t posted about the movie box office in a while. Maybe I should, because it surely seems like the pandemic at the cinemas is, ahem, over. The weekend hauls in North America these past two weeks look more and more like what you might normally see on a regular basis at the cinemas. It’s…
Once again in Canada, it’s one set of rules for the NHL and another set for everyone else!
The ridiculousness never ceases here in “Shutdown Nation”, even when there is good news. What is the good news, you ask? The news is the NHL is getting a cross-border travel exemption from the Canadian federal government for the next round of the Stanley Cup playoffs! Yes, after months of refusing to grant travel exemptions…
Goodbye Leafs, goodbye Lakers, hello Logan Paul: a review of the week in sports
We’ve come to another weekend after a long week in the world of sports. And for a few fanbases, it definitely was a long week. Good riddance, Toronto Maple Leafs. The Leafs were bounced from the playoffs by the Montréal Canadiens in a shocking upset this week, blowing a 3-1 series lead. Afterwards, I tuned…
The fans are finally back at NHL arenas, and it’s about time!
You know, these Stanley Cup playoffs have so far proved a stark contrast between the United States, where sporting venues have opened up thanks to mass vaccinations, versus Trudeau’s “One-Dose” Canada, or as I refer to it, “Shutdown Nation”. While venues in Tampa, Carolina, Nashville, Vegas et al. have had buildings with lots of fans…
Happy day off, folks. Sports roundup for Monday
Today is a holiday here in “Shutdown Nation” (a.k.a. Canada), so I have been spending my day at home, trying to get good at poker both by playing it online and by watching poker on TV. Heck, there’s nothing better to do here today, especially since it’s raining. This is going to serve as my…
It was a wild and woolly day in the crypto market, as crypto takes a big dive
It was a bad day in the cryptocurrency markets as a number of cryptocurrencies took the plunge today. Bitcoin was down 30 percent at one point before rebounding. I understand others like Ethereum and Dogecoin were less fortunate. (In the case of Dogecoin, it deserves to be less fortunate, but that’s just my opinion.) Making…
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