Thursday, December 20, 2007

Your boyfriend

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

George in '84 and now ...



even 23 years ago he was using the word "awesome!"



... now if he would just close his mouth and hold still we could make a plaster-cast
of his head and reproduce it so that everyone could have his head on their mantle-piece.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Doofus of Laws

Monday, November 12, 2007

Friday, November 2, 2007

George Stroumboulopoulos's Greatest Hit



Still the best "George" moment.
The evidence suggests that he was offered the chance to be a judge on Canadian Idol

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Finally ... Paul McGrath does a great post at The Hour's blog

Stroumboulopoulos: "... we're Canadian, we don't care about anything."

And Stroumboulopoulos will be celebrating the best of Canada's contribution to TV on Oct. 28 while hosting the Geminis in Regina, a city he thinks is the perfect setting for such a show.

"Doing a show like that in a town like that is way better than doing a show in Toronto or Vancouver, and I'm from Toronto. The problem with big cities, we're Canadian, we don't care about anything. It's like 'Oh, blah, blah, it's an award show, who cares?'" he explains. "You go to Regina? Party!"

from dose.ca

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Cool chicks who don't want anyone to know their real names

This is a very slick site, possibly created by the same group that did the defunct Hour Forum, and they can't stop thinking about George.




And yet even though they are always going to agree with George, and say how much they like him, they are still too embarrassed to reveal their true identities.
Can't say that I blame them.

Back To The Limo Service



From The Hour's blog ...

"George had an accident on his motorcycle last night. He says he was driving home, not going very fast and he pressed the brakes to slow down and something locked. He went over the handlebars. He says a homeless guy came over and stood up his motorcycle to help him on his way.

He broke his collarbone. He's in obvious pain. He's wearing a sling but not taking pain-killers so he can stay lucid for the show"

I never, ever want George to get hurt in any way, but I would like to see if The Hour would improve if he were on painkillers.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

George Lets Paul Try His Pajamas



I love the picture.
And the tiny coffee cup next to George's mouse.

Oddly, this set up of G's is exactly as my own office was when I was half George's age.
Of course there were no computers then, and one picture was of a new album "Morrison Hotel" on my corkboard, along with a symbol for someone's idea for a new concept that was still months away - Greenpeace.

I see Paul Bates here more as the straw man in the Wizard of Oz, and George as the obvious Elvis wannabe.

Would the letter on the wall above the lamp be George's first draft of his attempt to get out of his contract with the CBC?

George appears to be looking for more lyrics to print at his Strombo.com.

The stuff on the bulletin board could, and should, just go into a scrapbook. And in fact the whole board could just be replaced with a yellow sticky that reads "DO A BETTER SHOW THAN YESTERDAY".
But if all that stuff helps George to remind himself that he's interesting, then who am I to spoil his "comfort zone".

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Ryerson has no depth either




A Case for George
... perhaps the kind you keep a ventriloquist's doll in ...

Burn Out Boy

Friday, July 13, 2007

Thursday, June 21, 2007

related content

Thursday, June 7, 2007

OH, AND MEANWHILE:


From today's National Post ...



Ben Mulroney and George Stroumboulopoulos are the ying and the yang, possibly even the Salt N Peppa of Canadian television. And now, according to something that the latter let slip recently, it turns out George was actually supposed to be Ben!

While doing a guerilla-style online video interview with the Web site The Stroumboulopouli, the host of CBC's The Hour strongly insinuates that he turned down a job at Canadian Idol.

Musing on his career track, the so-called Strombo, who certainly doesn't have Ben's cufflink collection, had this to say: "I mean, I took that show in the States and it bombed, and it was an amazing experience, and I was offered a show that's a huge show here now and I turned it down. And people said to me 'that's the biggest show in Canadian history, why don't you do that show?' "

In a later interview with yet another Web site, insidethecbc. com, Strombo denied having been approached about Canadian Idol, though he didn't say what the aforementioned biggest show could be.

- - - - Shinan Govani

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Huh?