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It's Thursday August the 17 around 10:37AM and

Georgia Straight Watch: Gris, Is the Word

Welcome the best and worst of this week's edition of the Georgia Straight. The issue is focused on education. The cover art of a cartoonish Gordon Campbell eating babies...okay he's just reading people, calm down... and the promise of the "Education Speciall" really just wasn't enough to make the this week's top 5. or 10. PS: Where was the Samuel F'n Jackson on the cover yo? Gosh! Anyway, roll the clips:

5. I wish I could learn to not read the City Single of the Week in the Straight. I really wish I could. But I'm compelled. I know it's sick. I'm sick. This week is 38-year-old Daphne. Here's a question: is this really the best photo she has? I mean this is what she submitted? Honestly. But I like how she answered three questions with the same answers. We get it you're into teeth. It's creepy and gross. Click.

4. Look, when Jurgen Gothe speaketh about the Gris, you just listen okay. Then you buy, and then you drink. And then you thank him damn it. When he starts talking about Gris Grappa you don't question this either. You may want to. But don't. Don't anger the Gothe.

3. Naturally this week they have the scoop on some of the "Snakes on a Plane" snakes. But when it comes to movies, I think this line was the best in the paper all week: "...he and the five members of the group went off to shoot a movie that makes Dukes look more like A Very Long Engagement." Never thought I'd hear that Ian Caddell you little scamp. Well played.

2. Love the shout out to the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Love it. And as they say, Beards, they grow on you.

1. Break out the tin foil hats! Spend a little time with Canada's Michael Moore Barrie Zwicker. I love a guy who thinks Noam Chomsky just isn't quite left wing enough for him anymore. That takes some balls.

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Posted by: Douglas

August 18, 2006 01:28 AM

The Georgia Straight covers are often knocking down right wing politicians and conservatives values. This paper articles and columns often is done unfairly too by not informing the full story or being bias. Meaning twisting and slanting the stories against the right and conservativism, favouring consistantly the left ideology. But then it's a left-wing entertainment paper.