Neil Young And The Tar Sands

Just to stave off the usual complaints about Neil's being a washed-up rocker.  It's true I don't wait for his new music  like I used to, but every once in awhile he can still pull off a real corker.  It usually involves screaming guitars and feedback.

 And all the money he raises will be real enough.

Right Guy, Wrong Album

One of Neil Young's discs is the obvious and only credible choice for top Canadian Album, ever, but I think in choosing Harvest Bob Mersereau picked the wrong one. For my money, #1 can be no other than the vast, soaring Live Rust (1978), with its one side of pretty folks tunes, and its three sides of feedback and other varieties of electric mayhem. Highlights include PowderFinger (written for Lynyrd Skynyrd just before the plane crash) and a fifteen minute version of Cortez the Killer where Neil tries out his pidgin-native-Indian accent towards the end.

Pizza & Boobies

Only in Winnipeg, where the land is flat but the women are not, could someone have dreamed up an outfit like Porno Pizza:

Entrepreneur Corey Wildeman said the hot and saucy hook for his Porno Pizza business -- which offers pornographic pictures beneath the pies in delivery boxes -- has caught on in a far bigger way than he had ever imagined.

After launching the delivery service a little more than a month ago, Wildeman is turning to local talent for models after initially using only photographs supplied by a national content provider.

"Researching" this post, I found the website for Mr. Wildeman's little venture. Featured pizza's include the Missionary Position (Old Reliable), Bareback (Western), and Fuzzy Taco (Mexican), which sounds a little unhygenic.

As for the pictures themselves:

“They range from softly-lit, lube-on-the-lens pictures like in Playboy, to raunchy, hardcore photos,” owner Corey Wildeman said.

“The image is revealed as you eat the pizza.”

But do you get your money back if it makes you gag?

A city so ridiculously boring that it gave birth to the frenzied rock-and-roll of both Neil Young and the Guess Who has now spawned this example of entrepreneurial genius. Will Porno Pizza put Winnipeg back on the map?

(Literally: in about 1980 Winnipeg was removed from the map of Canada and replaced with a symbol indicating frozen tundra. Not even people from Winnipeg know where Winnipeg is.)