ENOUGH already

OK, OK... I'll update my damn blog. Now stop with the emails...

The truth is, there isn't much to write about these days. Life is pretty rote. The highlight of my day is reading my boy Miceail's blog. Rouge is currently overseas ripping up the Irish Special Olympics Co-Ed basketball league. Or something like that.
All I know is it's better than the Kelowna Men's Basketball League, though my team is sitting pretty in second place. Anj's team is in first, but I'm coming for you next, son...
So Christmas is coming. Hallaluejah. Great. Can you say "credit card debt"? I think I might just celebrate Festivus instead. Anyone got a six-foot aluminum pole? ;)
Actually, the plan is to hit Victoria on Christmas Eve, where I will partake in Christmas dinner in the Bengal Lounge of the Empress Hotel with my moms. I just hope I can remember which fork goes with which course.
After that, it's back to White Rock for Christmas Day with my pops, stepmom and gran. Then I have - believe it or not - another week off, which I will spend accumulating the aforementioned "credit card debt."
New Year's Eve is still a toss-up: Whistler or Vancouver? My boy Jon is helping open Ric's Grill's new martini lounge in Whistler, while Dee is holding another comedy show at a club in Van... Ahh, decisions, decisions.
I drive back to K-town on the second, where I will start work again, as I begin the long and drawn-out process of dodging creditors until I get my tax return in April...
Oh, ya... somewhere during the holidays I'll have to figure out who I am going to vote for in this coming election. Which leads me to THIS: (nice segway, eh?)

THE DAILY SHOW POKES FUN AT CANADA, MAKES FALL OF GOVERNMENT IT'S NO. 1 ITEM

By Lee-Anne Goodman
TORONTO (CP) — The Daily Show with Jon Stewart usually concerns itself with ridiculing the American government, aiming most of its gleeful disdain at President George W. Bush.
But on Tuesday night, the award-winning “fake-news” show — considered the hippest on the U.S. airwaves — made the collapse of Paul Martin’s government its top item, devoting five minutes to a Canadian story that many election-weary Canadians are not finding terribly funny.
The show, airing in Canada on CTV and the Comedy Network, opened to the backdrop of a Canadian flag before Stewart directed his trademark sarcastic asides at the fall of the government.
When Stewart noted that the Liberals had been defeated amid shocking revelations of widespread corruption, he added: “Shocking that somewhere a liberal party is ruling.”
The biggest laughs from the crowd came when a picture of Martin, the word “Hosed” emblazoned across the top of the photo, was flashed — an apparent sign that the American love affair with those famous Canadian hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, is an enduring one.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper didn’t escape unscathed: Stewart poked fun at Harper’s insistence Tuesday that when the Liberals criticize the Tories, “it’s like the thief who cries fire in a crowded restaurant.”
That was met with one of Stewart’s vintage pained and confused looks.
“In that, it’s confusing?” he asked in bewilderment.
Stewart then threw to “Canadian bureau chief” Samantha Bee, the Toronto-born comedian who’s a featured player on the show, in a segment called Maple Grief that poked fun at American ignorance of all things Canadian, including its location on the North American map.
“Where is Canada?” Stewart asked.
When Bee pointed out its location on a map, Stewart replied: “I always thought that was just some kind of desolate no-man’s land.”
He then egged Bee into saying “eh” and “a-boot” to the roars of the crowd.
The Daily Show’s spinoff, The Colbert Report, also had some fun Tuesday night at the expense of Canada’s reputation for politeness.
As the show opened with a rundown of the day’s headlines, the words Martin Smartin’ appeared as Stephen Colbert intoned: “Tonight, Canada’s government falls. Will the streets murmur with quiet disagreement?”
Stewart was in Canada in October and perhaps took to heart a command by one of his audience members who couldn’t help but put Canada — and its apparent insecurities — on the agenda.
“Mention us on your show!” one man screamed out as Stewart prepared to take his final bow after a stand-up appearance.
“What should I say about you?” he asked.
“Toronto rocks!” was the reply.
To which Stewart retorted: “That strikes me as a relatively insecure request. I think Winnipeg knows.”