The Canadian Carnage Tour (Megadeth/Slayer) has been postponed. Tom Araya needed back surgery this week (related to his stage performances). Hopefully he will heal well, the tour will start again in the spring, and as long as they aren't up against Lyle Lovett again, I'll be there.

I know almost nothing about playing guitar, so kudos to anyone who can strum a chord that doesn't sound like a dying cat. And maybe this is actually pretty easy, but I'm pretty impressed, and at 23 million views, so are some other folks:

Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this figure?

Add your own "car tones".

I'd want the bassline from Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You" for cruising around, and the drum part to "Black Label" over 100 km/h.

On November 13, I'll have the pleasure of going to the Lyle Lovett and His Large Band concert here in Toronto. Tickets are purchased, excitement level is high. This morning I found out about another tour coming to town, Canadian Carnage, featuring Megadeth and Slayer. When does the tour hit Toronto? November 13. I wondered, how could they do this? How could they schedule this two shows for the same night? What were they thinking?

Then I realized, I am probably the only person in the cross-over audience. The intersection of the Venn diagram is me.

Does anyone know a decent place or places to sell/trade books, CDs, DVDs? Preferably in the GTA, but I'll travel to off-load crap I have no more use for.

(Pardon me, in case someone who might buy my stuff is reading. Not "crap", what I mean is "high quality merchandise I'm sad to part with that smells like rainbows and unicorns and love".)

If I were a guitar-playing custodian instead of a TV-watching statistician, I'd be Frazz.

Some may be familiar with my love of the TV show Wipeout. I'm not going to claim it's high-brow art, but there's always something entertaining about people getting hit in the nuts or falling such that their feet are behind their head (or head behind their feet). I laugh myself to tears every Wednesday, frightening the cat (and my wife). Good times.

Anyway, it should come as no surprise, then, that I greatly enjoy this:

Pursuant to chutchings post about annoying Facebook users, this is the proper way to post on Facebook.

I don't know why this is awesome, but it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC_gkcplz_4&feature=related

Warning: Considering the video, there's some inappropriate dialogue. Enjoy.

Long article (8 pages) from the New York Times on cooking, cooking on TV, and the impact on health and culture. It's an interesting read.

It's (almost) over.

Any guesses on my opinion of unions by now?

Smells like LMAO.

I seem to have a theme for the week, but this story is slightly more uplifting.

(And better written than anything I could do.)

Another cyclist hit and killed on a bike path.

I'm at a loss.

Yesterday, before 8 am, a group of 5 cyclists were struck down by a hit and run driver in Ottawa. They were traveling in a bike lane along a major roadway. Two are in critical condition at present. The driver has turned himself in, and so far has been charged with fleeing the scene of an accident. I hope that's only the start of the charges.

I don't know what I can say anymore. My thoughts go to the cyclists and their families.

In Canada, I get buzzed, ignored, threatened, and cursed. In Germany, I'd get a discount on hookers.

An interesting article on the European culture of professional cycling, and the doping inherent to it: Read me.