Category Archive: Wreckollection

Jan 01

Song of the Year 2012

Bitter End by Veer Union 

Although acknowledging a very good Try from P!nk and a Christian Rock band called Thousand Foot Krutch that Let the Sparks Fly from what was easily the best album of the year (albeit not one you will find on any of the mainstream lists), Bitter End merits top spot on strength of a never say die message for a year when hope was in such short supply:

Honourable mention:

Try by P!nk

War of Change by Thousand Foot Krutch 

Let the Sparks Fly by Thousand Foot Krutch

Somebody that I used to Know by Gotye

Jan 01

Best Book (I have read) of the Year 2012

World War Z  by Max Brooks

I actually listened to this one in it’s abridged audio book format. It is the only zombie story everyone needs to hear.  It is a tight and entertaining traipse through today’s human condition with enough brain candy for everyone regardless of their love or hate for the zombie genre. This incredibly fresh take on an otherwise stale story-line is made even fresher with the addition of a horde of accomplished narrators. If this doesn’t get you thinking about the world you live in, you might be a zombie.

 

What the other guys liked:  New York Times Bestseller List

Jan 01

Creepiest Commercial of the Year 2012

NFL Thursday Night Football:  A namby-pamby fop cites ad nauseam the reasons why everyone should consider tuning in to NFL Thursday Night Football.

 

Runner up:  Not to be outdone, TSN force feeds Canadians a backwater finger nails on chalkboard invitation to meander drunkenly across the Canadian tundra to see the 100th Grey Cup football championship in Toronto.

Jan 01

Unsolicited E-mail Message of the Year 2012

360o Travel : The majesty of nature and travel through the triumph of technology edged out my runners up as, although equally educational and thought provoking, they were a little hard on my sagging sense of being.

 

Runners up: 

Scale of the Universe:  Try this in lieu of diet if you are resolving to feel smaller in the New Year.

History of the World in Two Minutes:  Its Dust in the Wind meets Attention Deficit Disorder

 

What everyone else was watching: youtubes-top-ten-viral-videos-of-2012

Jan 01

Quote of the Year 2012

“It’s what I have always said as of today, you can’t be an action movie when you’re always running away.”

— Thing 1 after suffering through The Bourne Legacy, another of  Hollywood’s many attempts of late to stretch a short story into a trillogy.

 

Runner up:

“The Conference Board of Canada estimates that in 2013 the pandas alone will result in a 5.3 per cent increase in our Gross Domestic Adorability. That should be enough to ensure Canada leads the G8 not only in “cuddly” but also in “wuddly.” Your move, economic turmoil.

– MacLean’s Humour Columnist Scott Feschuk on the PMs alleged diplomatic coupe which resulted in China offering to “rent”  two Panda Bears to Canada

Jan 01

Joke of the Year 2012

I asked my girlfriend, “Can you please get me a newspaper?”

“Don’t be silly,” she replied, “you can borrow my iPad.”

That fly never knew what hit it …

Jan 01

Other Awards 2012

My “Wicked Witch of the West” award  goes to… New York City.

New York and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States melt-down in a rain storm that is merely a punctuation point on one of the hottest years on record worldwide. Are the rain storms getting worse?  Well let me just tell you sunny, “When I was your age, I had to walk barefoot across the living room to switch the channel.”  For shame!  Life’s a (Sandy) Beach when Global Warmnings shift from apocalypse to baseball rain delays.

 

My “Get Reddy for This” award goes to… the Communist-Industrial Complex

Shortly after their Yangtze river turns an unprecedented shade of red, Canadian authorities endorse a $15.1 billion take-over in the Canadian oil sands by a state owned Chinese drilling company.  I guess they never red the flood of articles polluting China’s environmental record because they were too busy rationalizing the bad ink surrounding China’s human rights policy (or lack thereof).  Move over Manitoba, there’s a new Red River on the Canadian horizon.

 

My “Home Body of the Year” award goes to… Charles Zigler

Michigan Police found the dead man’s mummified remains sitting upright in the living room.   His roommate said she kept his remains clean and dressed and  talked to the body often, especially when “they” watched auto racing.  She admits cashing his benefit checks since his death in 2010 (or six months ago by her estimate).

 

My “Apocalypse Now” (or “You’re not Smarter than an American 5th Grader”) award goes to… Canadians

With the American sub-prime mortgage melt-down fresh (and Eurogeddon foremost) in everyone’s mind, Canadians manage to roll their household debt up to an average of $1.53 for every dollar they brought in – just below where the U.S. was before its housing crash.

 

My “What`s so Great about the Outdoors” award goes to… The BioLite CampStove

This wood burning(?) energy generation device is voted recreational innovation of the year by Popular Science.  Now everyone can go out and play even if they don’t want to get away from IT all.

Jan 01

Headlines you won’t see in those mainstream Year-end Reviews 2012

(Hurting) Headitor’s note:  Its late, its New Years Eve, and I’SATIREd, sauced please accept that some (or all) of my wreckollections of the year gone by might be a bit scotchy.  You should double-check my fracts with some more staid and reputable news sources before using any of the stories that I have dismembered from last year in a serious conversation.

Jan 01

Now even the Kodak moments are bleak

The global economic picture continues to develop poorly. Kodak files for bankruptcy protection in January.  Later in the year Hostess follows suit, prompting fear that it might even be the end of the road (if not the world) for the Twinkie, America’s vaunted post-apocalyptic food staple.

Jan 01

Mass hysteria of biblical proportions

Scientists everywhere become unglued with news that a God Particle “might” have been created in the Large Hadron Collider.  The rest of our heads explode with a “Big Bang” as we try to understand why this is such a big deal and/or exactly what it means.  In a prepared press release we are enlightened by news that, “It’s important to realize it’s not responsible for most of the mass we are made of, but it’s involved in the mass of fundamental particles.

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