Rose's Cantina

Bobby Orr turns 65 this week. Huh. Another one of my schoolgirl crushes is becoming a pensioner. This does not fill me with great joy. It reinforces the fact that I'm getting old myself. That's not the worst of it. Ilya Kuryakin turns 80 this year. Ditto Michael Cain. Robert Redford is 77. WTF? I pride myself on being young minded. Many people think I'm much younger. Because I'm immature and I have a potty mouth. But deep inside, I know the truth. I'm crushing on seniors now. I take blood pressure medication. I actually bought my own blood pressure cuff at Costco this week. I watch CTV News at Noon. I know how reverse mortgages work and I'm thinking of getting one of those tubs that Pat Boone is selling. If only I could find someone to crush on who isn't a geriatric time bomb. Like Ryan Seacrest. Or Matthew Perry. But they're kids. And I'm no pedophile. Besides, being menopausal, I have low hormones, therefore I have lost m...

I hate being patronized by Americans, especially in our own Canadian media. There's an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail today by the actor and director Robert Redford who emplores us, as Canadians, to reject the Jellystone pipeline. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think there's much I can do about the pipeline. I suppose I could write a letter to my MP, but he's a Liberal and I doubt that the Harper government will listen to him. I suppose I could rail in this blog against the pipeline and its impact on the environment but I don't think it will do any good. So I'll probably lay on the couch this afternoon and try to figure out how to make enough money to pay my Hydro bill. What I can do is stop buying the Globe and Mail , until it stops running drivel written by actors who are supposed to be experts on the environment. Really, Bob, the whole Jellystone thing is more about ruining your backyard than mine, isn't it? I doubt Bob Re...