So every now and then you poke around and find cool stuff. Dave Burke has a cool thing he's doing with converting photos into illustrations. must be digital, i'm guessing. They look to me like B&W versions of what the hip-hop club kids do with their album covers and stuff. and I think Levi's had this kinda stuff in their ads for a while, must be a term for it but i don't know the name. this style was popular with the dj's and club set in holland a year and a half ago

We Americans are 4% of the world's population, but whether it's the Coca Cola, MacDonalds, Hollywood movies, Network television, Blue Jeans, or quality Pantyhose, everyone has an opinion on the US. So what do you think about us?

Well here is a bit of what the rest of the world thinks across a range of issues and a range of countries, as broadcast from a BBC program you can listen to here.

It's a bit lengthy but interesting nonetheless. Tom Cruise is afraid of America! The world loves Homer Simpson! We are arrogant, but the great benefactor. All this you may have known already, except that bit about Tom Crusie being afraid of America.

So this weekend was the South Side Street Spanktacular . . . and I participated minimally. By that I mean, Friday I went to happy hour at Havana, which was cool for the most part. The I went to the Rex to see Louie and the Humans. Missed the show but saw the Humans.

Saturday, I went to Cleveland with Madge and Kathy Jo to see Gord Downie play at the Odeon. What a cool venue and an even cooler show. way different from the Tragically Hip show we saw in Buffalo. Much more chill, and Gord was close enough you could like see his face, if he didn't have his hat pulled down way low.

Softball Sunday was cool. I got a glove so's now I don't have to borrow somebody else's. As I'm thinking about it... the glove I used as a kid was my older brother's mitt. So this is the first glove tha'ts mine, and I'm 29. Hmmm . . . :)