List: Things I will never do (child birth edition)

If I ever have a baby, I promise to never

• post an album's worth of Caesarean section photos on Facebook

that is all.

National Film Board online

Canada's amazing National Film Board has just unveiled its revamped website (nfb.ca), which now plays hundreds of classic Canadian movies from the institution's illustrious history. Yes, McLaren's Neighbours is here, and the utterly charming Log Driver's Waltz, and OMFG The Sweater. But the best part is clicking around and finding stuff you've never even heard of (which, admittedly, in Canadian film is a lot of stuff), including this:



Some of the more popular videos seem to be experiencing trouble loading. Hopefully it's a sign of heavy traffic and not just technical difficulties.

Going gentle into that good night

In reference my previous Onion-beats-up-on-Bush post here:

After one more (Spiders Hatch in Bush's Brain), it's over.

I'm still not sure I completely get it.

I'm reading the Clarissa year!

That is, I'm reading the epistolary novel in "real time", reading the letters on the dates that they were "written". It should take until November.

And I'm not doing it alone. Follow us here.

The Onion's feud with Bush continues

A follow-up from a previous post about The Onion's series of satirical news stories detailing increasingly violent things happening to outgoing President Bush.

The latest:

Single-Engine Cessna Crashes Into Bush

It's like a morbid cross between fan-fiction and a snuff film, if said film was to be rendered as a newspaper article.

I would kill for -10C

Oh, come on.







You know, if Britons would only figure out central heating, this wouldn't be such a big deal. (That's right. Brits don't have central heating. Even in some newly built houses. Why? I don't know!)

Fine lines

Preparing to teach Pride and Prejudice this week and thinking about the careful ways that we define our social relationships. For example, this is how I recently explained to a friend of mine my relationship with another acquaintance:

"Let's put it this way: She knows I'm on Facebook. I know she's on Facebook. But neither of us has friended the other."

I'd like to see Facebook come up with a status for that.