Pie Palace

Telephone poles know the truth. This one, seen on Bank street, provides the 411 on who Jesus hates. The list is pretty long, but here are a few of the highlights:

- Christian rock, rap, techno (then again, who doesn’t?)
- catholics
- yoga and martial arts
- lotteries
- tolerence
- “dirty human rights commissions/tribunals”
- Canwest Media
- buddhists, scientologists, hindus, muslims, wiccans, etc.

(There’s the usual rants as well. We hear those often enough that I won’t bother repeating them)

It sounds like heaven is a pretty lonely place.

The Slaughter Daughters (née Bytowne Blackhearts) have joined Blogawa. Welcome aboard ladies.

And what do you mean there isn’t a league game until May 30? Awww…

A Midwinter’s Dream Tale is a fantastic play. The plot is loosely based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Winter’s Tale. Fairy king Oberon is horrified that his fairy queen Titania has borne him a child, and orders it taken away by a pair of bumbling mortals. The mortals make off with the child, and Titania follows after them. In that, you could kinda/sorta say that it has something to do with the original Shakespearean plays.

The two mortals: Pommes Frites (an oaf) and ‘Restes (an idiot) are a mix of Bob and Doug McKenzie and Inspector Clouseau. They stumble through the plot wonderfully, never quite understanding what’s going on, or what they should be doing. Coincidentally, they happen to be the core of the Company of Fools company, and some of the stronger actors.

A Midwinter’s Dream Tale isn’t Shakespeare redux. The dialog is fast, modern, and (kinda) witty; there are more dance numbers than soliloquies; the pacing is quick; and the characters are fun.

Go see this play. Pick up the phone, call the Gladstone Theatre (at 613.233.4523) and order tickets. Seriously. It’s only on until Saturday, and this is probably the best play that’s going to be produced in Ottawa this year.

According to the Citizen, bus ads stating “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” are being planned for Ottawa. You can donate to their purchase at atheistbus.ca or the Freethought Association of Canada websites.

Phew. The upgrade worked. I’ve redirected the old feed URL to the new URL, and everything should be smurfy on Blogawa itself.

Of note:

• Comment links should now work (thanks MG).
• We’re now displaying 25 posts/page (thanks RG).
• Updates should occur much more often now. If I’m hitting your blog too often, let me know.
• If you’re an author, and you want your gravatar to show up, email erigami@piepalace.ca and let me know.

As far as I know, all of the feeds imported properly. Let me know if there’s anything amiss.

Blogawa will be down briefly for the reskinning. Stay tuned… (I have the power. But do I have the grace?)

As alluded to last week, Blogawa is undergoing a reskinning. The new site will be pretty much the same in terms of functionality, except that it should look a bit nicer. The only major change will be the use of Gravatars to provide avatars for authors.

The URL for the RSS feed will change. I should be able to set up a forward to send your RSS reader to the appropriate place, but I may not. So if you find that your feed reader breaks, come back to blogawa and resubscribe.

Aaaany day now…

Four hours, dear reader. Four hours. That’s how much time is devoted to policy discussion at the upcoming Green Party convention. Doesn’t seem worth the effort of dragging myself 1400(ish) kilometers to Pictou.