aquabooks:

Kids in the Hall legend Kevin McDonald does Kelly Hughes Live! on Friday February 5 at 7pm. (Poster by Julia)

juliasegal:

yokelly:

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aquabooks:

This Week’s New Books Page now live

trixietreats:

mudwerks:

The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz - Vintagraph -

A theater poster for “Fred R. Hamlin’s Musical Extravaganza, The Wizard of Oz,” showing the Tin Man. Created by “The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York,” 1903.

brentgilliard:

“One Great City” by The Weakerthans

thetruenorth:

Yesterday I mentioned that the United States people have an extraordinarily high opinion of Canada.  Today, though, I was pretty bummed to look into the reverse, only to find that Canadians don’t necessarily feel the same way about the United States.

It’s frustrating that the Pew Global Attitudes Project, my source, didn’t collect data in 2004, 2006, or 2008.  What’s obvious though, from this source and others, is that Canadian public opinion of the United States has reversed a slight decline at the same time as the Bush Administration’s disastrous approach to foreign policy drew to a close.

Now, even though the data infer an improving opinion of the United States, that the sentiment fell to such a low—in 2007, 42 percent of Canadians held an unfavorable view of the United States—is worrying.

Interestingly, Pew’s questioning does one futher than Gallup’s.  Pew explicitly tested for opinions not just of the collective ‘United States,’ but of its people as well—a distinction even former Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish of “damn Americans, I hate those bastards” fame was willing to concede.  Yet what Pew observed built me up, you Canadian buttercup babes, only to then break me down and subsequently mess me around.

The approval data show a slight dip in 2005 but, for the most part, display a consistently average approval.  Canada seems to have liked the United States people during that time, even if it wasn’t in like with them.

Yet the disapproval figures are more compelling.  It worries me that, in 2005, nearly a third of Canadians expressed an unfavorable attitude of the United States people and not just the United States collectively.  That figure goes well beyond a light, forgetting-to-send-a-thank-you-note displeasure: just four years ago a third of Canada thought of the United States people as something just this side of frenemies.

Brendan O’Connor, in Anti-Americanism: Comparative Perspectives suggests that this might be the result of Canadian politicians, especially within the Liberal Party, ‘playing the anti-American card’ at the same time that George W. Bush helped, in his own way, from Washington.

This still doesn’t fully explain the quirks of the data, though.  Why, for example, does peak Canadian disapproval of the United States people occur two years prior to the peak Canadian disapproval of the United States collectively?  How closely are these trends connected, if at all, and what does that imply for future bilateral relations?

Ugh!  I have so many questions now.

In the end, this is a pretty fascinating area, and one that I’d like to really dive into.  I’m going to do my best to pool some hard, quantitative data and see what I can pull from it.  (I hate, hate, hate anecdotes and abstract arguments.  Give me numbers.)  For that, though, I’ll try to have something more insightful once I’ve actually spent a real bit of time in Canada.

trixietreats:

Let’s Go Shopping (via pietschreuders)

[brainwashing courtesy of A Little Golden Book]

turnofthecentury:

akubizone:By the sad sea waves, performing arts poster, 1898

nerdgasms:

Mr Grinch Loserface, my employer.

lickystickypickyme:

James Brown - This is a man’s world.

scandyfactory:

Ella Fitzgerald | Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town

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