Drive-by Tim-Bittings. I never thought I’d see it happen… What is this world coming to?
Archive for June, 2007
At lunch, I noticed everyone in Calgary (or at least everyone downtown) was walking around holding or wearing a cowboy hat. Nothing remarkable, of course, in this city of rednecks. Just a whole lot of white, new, crisp cowboy hats with a demure black band and a couple of black accents. Yup. Nothing remarkable.
I couldn’t believe how badly I wanted one.
I couldn’t believe how badly I wanted one considering that if I had one, I wouldn’t wear it, because I hate cowboy hats. Don’t I?
Clearly I only wanted one because everybody else had one and they’d gotten it from some central source that had escaped my noon-hour stroll. Clearly that’s the reason.
It wasn’t hat envy at all.
My latest obsession is a comic called Lackadaisy, I’m sorry to say. (Why sorry? Because the main characters are cats, that’s why. I also apologize profusely for having the entire ‘Thundercats’ series and for peeing myself a little bit when I saw the preview for the new Transformers movie. Protracted adolescence is highly embarrassing.) Anyway, it’s set during Prohibition, so there’s a whole lot of bootlegging and tommygunning and vaudevilling and flappering. The main thing is the dialogue, which is pitch-perfect and very funny, and matches well with the expressive faces of the cats - which are very expressive indeed considering that most cats I’ve met have two expressions: 1. Homicidal maniac, and 2. Patronizing bastard.
Go check it out!
This city causes me physical pain, but I’m trying to get into the Stampede spirit early. I figure I need at least a month to practice, since I a) actively loathe almost everything related to the Stampede, such as animal cruelty and country ‘music,’ and b) actively disdain the rest, such as faux cowboys with huge beltbuckles and bad attitudes. But everyone at the city is so damn gung-ho, and they seem so sincerely gung-ho, to the point of collective insanity, that I thought I’d better try to fit in as much as I could.
So I went to the Calgary Stampede website and went to the section labelled ‘Online Fun,’ which led me to the Stampede Nickname Generator. Which subsequently led to this horror:
I suspect it will take me some days to recover.
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