Happy election day, US people!

I'm gonna pass along a song that was rec'd by a Montréal journalist, who covers French-language music & film for an English-language newspaper, in the aftermath of the Quebec election attack at the Metropolis.



Love you all. No matter what happens, we'll all be here tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after.

Livejournal, which of these things is more awesome?

• finding a "Trilingual Vocabulary of Nuclear Waste Management" while looking for French resources, or
• discovering that someone created a subject heading for "Radioactive Waste Disposal -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot"?

ETA to add this description of a French kids book about the awesomeness of grammar:

• "Two children cannot speak after surviving a shipwreck. When they meet Monsieur Henri, they learn about the beauty of language and learn to speak again." Yeesh, this book needs some dolphins, stat!

Headline of the day: Garbage truck lands on Saturn

Dear people who make animated films for kids:

The next time you need a spunky princess type heroine? How about this Canadian daredevil pilot who just married into the Jordanian royal family? Go Basmah Hasan!

The couple met while 33-year-old Hasan was working as the chief pilot at the Royal Aero Sports Club of Jordan last year. She had blazed a trail in the skies over the Arab world by becoming the first certified aerobatic pilot and a certified glider pilot in the country. The prince, 32, was a fixed-wing pilot trained at Britain’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

You know, Canadian hockey players, you aren't actually required to lose the first game to the USA (before coming back to win gold *cough*). In my myopic worldview, I'm calling this "having one Oiler beats having three Oilers." Ebs, RNH, feel free to prove me wrong.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU.

A Nickelodeon show about hockey players from Minnesota who become a boy band AND a BBC docuseries about a dude who woke up gay?

People, I fear for the fen of tomorrow. If they don't need to make this shit up, how will the fic ever come into existence?

Then again, there will always be sports. Where you don't even have to write it.

Hey, Hawks fans. At least there's a picture of the last time Toews ever smiled. Please to be noting the Oilers t-shirt.

From the Oilers' press release:
"Taylor (Hall) was telling me, ‘This is amazing, Jordan. This is something you should be proud of.'"

Question 1: Does this not seem to imply that Jordan Eberle is embarrassed about being nominated for the Lady Byng award for "gentlemanly conduct"?

Question 2: Does this suggest that T. Hall is the "proud mom" here? Since we know HE'S NOT THE ANNOYING LITTLE KID IN THE RELATIONSHIP, OKAY?

Also: They actually used their first names! At least, in Ebs's memory of this conversation.

There is a faux-art-film #nugeforcalder trailer!!!

Is that bb in the Oilers goalie mask & gloves RNH, or a random bb? The eyes say yes, but it's almost too good to be true, and I have crap facial recognition. And I can't find that pic anywhere online.

Tags: hockey

You guys, I was just tagging a Blackhawks fic, and started to spell "hockey" as hawk....

Oh, insomnia. How awesome are you.