It’s been forty years since Woodstock and the last Kennedy is dead. My heart is broken, Pumpkins. The age of Aquarius has left the building. And that Trudeau kid is kind of a ninny. Some of you may…
A cougar cruise? Shuuut up! The cougar clubs, cougar shows, cougar dating sites and cougar competitions are in an absolute feline frenzy over it – circling and yowling and snarling themselves into a kitty snitty. And no wonder. …
Ontariariario was flying off the rails last night – houses and trees and cars tossed about like dry grits in a pig pen. Damn near jarred my preserves when the thunder struck. No wonder Americans don’t all come back now.…
Press releases are tricky. Make them too dry, and nobody prints them (unless you’re an advertiser, and that’s a whole other column). Make one little typo, and the Globe devotes half a page to it – and not in a…
OK, we have gender profiling, racial profiling, profile profiling, and now airport personnel are going to run around detecting “behaviour.†Brilliant. I feel safer already. They should try detecting their own thieving, drug smuggling, biker gang baggage handlers. And stop…
Air Canada says paying commission is bringing in the business. Well, Pumpkins, with the millions of dollars you’re now costing them, it better. It’s not like they have much to spare, and shareholders aren’t reallly big on charitable gestures. Some…
Oh my god! I had no idea! That strange queasy feeling I’ve been nursing for the last 35 years – apparently it isn’t indigestion. According to the University of Chicago, it’s happiness. That’s right Pumpkins. And you have it too.…
Seems Porter is expanding beyond their little propeller offerings. This morning’s Post says: “the Toronto Island upstart is moving closer to an initial pubic offering as it ponders another aircraft purchase.†[quoted verbatim at 9:16am, 5AUG] Throughout history,…
A dapper young man at a recent function leaned in close and said “Do you tweet?†Well. I excitedly flipped through my mental Mae West riposte library, preparing for some hot repartee, when it struck me he was talking about…
A dear Pumpkin has written in with a rather acute observation on VIA’s recent big ideas. (I looked up possible rhymes for VIA and got gonorrhea. Wait, I didn’t get gonorrhea. Holy Maria. The search results I got came up…
