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Showing posts with label canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canada. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Dressing our Olympians for er, success?
No this isn't a reveal for a new line of gay and lesbian GI Joe toys, yup you’re looking at the newly unveiled Canadian Olympic uniforms.
Opinions are like rear ends, everyone's has one, just some are better than others. Some liking the styles, some not, I have to say I’m on the ‘definitely not’ side.
At first glance they remind me of Hugh Heff's hand-me-down pajamas or some late period Jackson Pollack painting. The only thing I am sure of is that they certainly don’t appear to be fitting for the national Olympic team, but rather more in line with a Saturday morning jaunt to the surplus store.
Suddenly, I'm having vivid memories from my childhood. I see visions of the bargain basements at the BiWay, Kresge’s and Giant Tiger. Remember those terry cloth jumper suits? Anyway I regress back to the present, but the designer of these fashion travesties sure hasn't. What’s with the 80's aerobics instructor headband on the one guy?
These are, apparently, eco-friendly and organic. Why mess with success? Our bold red and white Canuck Maple Leaf combo is known and respected world wide, why give us this? The clincher to this madness has to be that the materials used in these leisure suits. Apparently to help keep out the Chinese smog.
“Designers have incorporated an element into the gear, called a B-Tube, which could help protect athletes from Beijing’s pollution. The sun-blocking polyester tube can be worn as a head cover, hair band or mask to filter out the particulate matter in the air.”
How about a mini, portable oxygen tank?
Our Canadian athletes’ suits also use materials such as bamboo, organic cotton, and cacona, which is, so I’ve read, derived from coconut. When the suit gets wet can you ring it out and make a fruit drink out of it?
How eco-friendly is this crap if its made in China and shipped into Canada? But that’s not to be spoken of. It’s a far better marketing strategy to con everyone with the eco-everything adverts and remove as much cash from today's consumers, and forget the real-time pollution and environmental costs behind the vendors’ ‘green’ claims.
I applaud the designer for trying to continue Canada's trend setting ways at the Olympics. Remember the backwards Roots cap? But the new Canadian outfits are embarrassing. The German team will wear to Beijing a uniform that is conservative, maybe a little boring, but at least their athletes will look professional.
Later,
Kenaz
Sunday, March 16, 2008
80th Canadian soldier dies mysteriously in Afghanistan
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Monday, March 03, 2008Saying goodbye to a Canadian guitar innovator
Jeff Healey of Toronto died Sunday of cancer. He was 41. Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career.
He lost both his eyes to cancer before he was eight-months-old, but never let that slow him down. What makes Jeff Healey different from other blues-rockers is also what keeps some listeners from accepting him as anything other than a novelty -- the fact that the blind guitarist plays his Fender Stratocaster on his lap, not standing up. With the guitar in his lap, Healey was head and shoulders above his competition. By the time he was a teenager, Healey had formed a four-piece band called the Blue Direction and was playing in clubs throughout the Toronto area. His best known work came when he formed the Jeff Healey Band several years later with bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen. His career took off when he appeared in the movie Road House, which starred Patrick Swayze. In 1988, his Grammy-nominated album See the Light included the major hit single, Angel Eyes. In 1990, he earned the Juno for entertainer of the year. Healey became an internationally-known star who played with musical greats that included B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Always remembered, in tribute here is my favourite Jeff Healey song, aptly, "While my guitar gently weeps" Later, Kenaz Sunday, November 18, 2007Two more Canadian's fall in Afghanistan
Sunday, November 11, 2007Lest We Forget Our Fallen Heros in Afghanistan
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