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Toronto’s a very multicultural city, full of proud hyphenates. Every time a team wins, loses or ties some international sporting event, members of that community pile into their vehicles, drive up and down Yonge Street, and scream at pedestrians.

After today’s 1-0 loss to Japan, Russians were upset and rioted in Moscow, leaving one dead in the aftermath. In Toronto, an SUV full of tearful Russian-Canadians tore up and down Yonge Street with one of the guys leaning out the window, waving his flag and screaming at all of us on the sidewalks.

Russia’s a big country. But I’m quite sure that if Tonga was playing today a) you’d find an SUV full of Tongan-Canadians yelling at pedestrians and waving the flag of Tonga. I imagine there’s a flag-selling warehouse in Toronto where the clerk goes, “Nauru? Yeh, we got that flag in the back.”

I really feel sorry for the Tony Awards.

First they get cut up over two networks: an hour on PBS and two on CBS. Then the winners get possibly the shortest acceptance speech time of all the major award shows. It’s really sad to hear Elaine Stritch say “Please don’t this to me” as the orchestra blares and the network cuts to commercial.

The Tonys need an arts friendly network – perhaps A&E – to give them the love and respect they need.

[Update]: Stritch was pretty ticked.

If you have trouble sleeping, don’t worry: E! is working on a cure for you.

They’ve now signed Anna Nicole Smith to star in her own Osbournesesque show. Does the network exec who greenlighted that concept really hate us that much?

In other reality news, it appears that the next installment of Survivor will follow a group of paparazzi as they try and find real topless photos of Anna Kournikova.

I can’t remember where I first read about this, but I saw the commercial today:

Miss Piggy and Kermit are doing ads for Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast! Has she assimilated herself so far into the dress and boa wearing human world that she’s willing to eat strips off her relatives.

At least frog legs aren’t on the menu.

I could always try and claim that aliens made me do it, but I actually sat down and watched Fox’s Celebrity Boxing 2.

Perhaps I wanted to see Darva Conger get KO’d (she won), but still, there was something satisfying in seeing Ron Palillo get his clock cleaned by Dustin Diamond.

I feel so bad…

MacEdition’s Codebitch mentioned Digital Hit in her latest article. She pointed us out as an example “ [that] plenty of sites that aren’t ‘about’ Web standards and Web development now use CSS layouts.”

We’ve recently changed our news area to a CSS design. Translation: The site still looks stylish in newer (version 5+) browsers but will look plainer in older browsers like Netscape 4.xx. This means that devices like PDAs and tools for the disabled are better able to access those new pages. Wouldn’t have been able to make the jump without inspiration from CodeBitch and Jeffrey Zeldman. Thanks!

In his speech about Cuba, President Bush said that “Well-intentioned ideas about trade will merely prop up this dictator, enrich his cronies and enhance the totalitarian regime. It will not help the Cuban people.”

Why is it that the US will not trade with 11 million Cubans but will trade with 1 billion Chinese, who live under a regime that frequently, consistently and systematically abuses human rights?

Gee, do you think it’s because there’s more money to be made with China and Cuba’s a “cheaper” country to be all righteous about?

My girlfriend’s back from her holiday. It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon and she’s decided to watch Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.

It’s a shame that so many of the video transfers of the old films are so bad in terms of sound and image quality. The orchestration in the title sequence warbled like a warped record and there’s a ton of scratches and hairs in each scene.

It’s a shame that this is how many of the classic films are seen by new viewers.

A new Dairy Queen opened up in my area recently. I hadn’t really been to one since I was younger, so I’ve tried it a few times. I don’t know if they’ve changed their methods, but the ice cream doesn’t taste like I remember. Each of the few times I’ve gone I always end up thinking I should’ve just walked on by.

I felt sorry for one guy today though. They had him dressed up as a giant soft-serve cone. I tall desserty-type of guy with big shoes and an ice cream-eating grin. The sort of thing you’d expect if Disney was run by dairy farmers.

Actually, I guess that’s not as bad as the Hershey theme park where employees have to go around dressed as chocolate bars and Kisses.

A mouse in pants is one thing. I just don’t want to make conversation with my food.

I hear that Darva Conger will be boxing Olga Korbut in the next round of Fox’s Celebrity Boxing.

a) Darva: Your fifteen minutes are up, please go away. b) I thought she wanted to regain her privacy. Perhaps the Playboy spread didn’t help…

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