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Tag: Photo Essay

  • Why we can’t be friends when you’re in Hawaii

    My cousin is in Hawaii right now, and I have vowed that she and I can NOT be friends until she is home. Now. She’s a professional photographer, so all of her pictures of her little “vacation” are fucking gorgeous, and because I am not at all petty or jealous, I’ve decided that I’m going…

  • 300

    What do you do when it’s +2 in the middle of February? You stage the EPIC BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE in your back yard. Here are the Spartans. They are few in number, but they are brave. This is the leader of the Spartans, King Leonidas I. He has a wicked six-pack: The Spartans armed themselves,…

  • CFL Coaches: A Pictoral Essay

    Well. Here we are. Only two coaches left. The most difficult, and the easiest. First, let me just say that I haven’t an appropriate photograph for the first coach (who is, coincidentally, the most difficult coach to find a celebrity lookalike for). The Montreal Alouettes are an excellent team, and have earned every inch of…

  • CFL Coaches: A Pictoral Essay

    Today, you get a special two-coach deal. Why? Because tomorrow is the Grey Cup, and I’m saving my very, very favourite CFL Coach look-alike for tomorrow. The Hamilton Tiger Cats (otherwise known as the Ti-Cats) have a long and proud football tradition. Which includes losing to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, except on those occasions when we…

  • CFL Coaches: A Pictoral Essay

    I hope you are enjoying the pictoral essay of How To Identify CFL coaches. It’s like a trapping/hunting/survivalist animal identification course, but it has less spoor.Yesterday, we learned to spot subtle differences between Yankee actors and CFL coaches, and we also learned that Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Ken Miller used to be a CBC children’s…

  • CFL Coaches: A Pictoral Essay

    I want to make it clear that I am not forgetting anyone in this pictoral essay of the CFL. There is method to my madness, you see, and I am leaving the very best CFL coach-a-like until last, so you can enjoy it on Grey Cup Sunday. Yesterday, we learned how to recognise the Head…