http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:25:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lance Armstrong returns to the Tour De France, as our Parisian sports correspondent reports... PARIS—He’s baaaaaaaaaack. Four years after he last wore the Maillot Jaune on the Champs Elysees – 2005 was his seventh consecutive Tour de France victory – Lance Armstrong, or as I like to call him, The Wristbanded One, ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/03/le-tour-de-france-avec-lance/ Damian Rogers wrote the poem "Dream of the Last Shaker" for The Walrus in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue. She's also written a short article about Shakers (and dancing) for Ryeberg.com, an elegant new Canadian "curated video" site that, according to its creator Erik Rutherford, invites smart, distinguished people to select and ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/02/shaker-your-booty/ Listen to a song from Walrus contributor Nick Hune-Brown's new musical, Just East of Broadway From the Dept. of Shameless Self-Promotion: We're pleased to announce that Walrus contributor Nick Hune-Brown has a new musical, Just East of Broadway, opening tonight at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Nick, who moonlights as the keyboard ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/02/audio-just-east-of-broadway/ Jonathan Richman doesn't believe in air conditioning. He doesn't think that our comfort is worth expanding the ozone hole for, and he feels that "when we refuse to suffer," we "cheat feeling." Fair enough, but the motionless ceiling fans above the Great Hall in Toronto, whose floors are slick with ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/30/what-would-jonathan-richman-do/ The first late night monologues written since Michael Jackson's death will be broadcast later today. The tone will almost certainly be different from the usual mentions Jackson receives. Along with Bill Clinton's promiscuity and George W. Bush's ignorance, Jackson's strangeness is a recurring trope in paint-by-numbers American comedy. And ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/26/long-live-the-king-of-pop/ An interview with Camille Paglia, on high art and why Twitter is for high school kids Interview by David Balzer.From her magnum opus, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson to Break, Blow, Burn, her recent anthology of 43 poems accompanied by close readings, Camille Paglia has become ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/26/qa-camille-paglia-in-toronto/ Eastbound, Bloor and Spadina — Toronto, ON Black woman, early 40s, wearing white sleeveless shirt, grey dress capris, thick-soled black sneakers, and carrying a turquoise leather purse. The woman beside her wants to talk. Would the man standing with the small child like her seat? Do the cars have air conditioning? What ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/25/twisty-ties/ Like most self-proclaimed serious readers, I maintain loosely-codified mental lists of books I feel I should read and those I actually want to. Then there are those volumes that bridge both categories, but that I've avoided because of their intimidating page counts. I feel certain that I'll eventually get around ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/23/dfws-infinite-summer/ Walrus writer Jon Evans talks about the creation of his new comic book for Vertigo/DCJon Evans is the writer of The Walrus blog World Fast Forward. Hear me, O my rapturous children, and I will tell you the saga of page thirty-eight. By which I mean: the lettered page proofs for my ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/22/from-page-to-um-page/ This is not news – the New York Times and Slate have already been on it – but I’m still astounded at how easy it is to make your own yogurt. Dairy products that go beyond milk tend to have an air of magic or sorcery about them. Yogurt, in particular, ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/19/making-yogurt-is-easy/