Bono Reaches Out to Me

Or that's what it looked like to me and everyone else in the theatre last night. I went to see the new U2 3D Imax concert film last night. Now I've not seen really anything in 3D before, so as it stood I had no idea what to expect.

Wow.

It's hard to describe what this movie is like unless you actually see it. U23D is some of the best concert footage I have seen anywhere. As of now they say there are no plans to put it on DVD (and really, I imagine it loses its power significantly without the 3D aspect). If you care at all for concert films and/or U2, do not miss this.

The Stephen Harper Retirement Plan

Hey, are you a Tory ex-premier who's been drubbed out of office by the electorate of your province. Don't worry, Canada's Newest. Guvmint. EVAR. has a deal for you! Our man Steve Harper will make you the ambassador of whatever country you want. Just look at Pat Binns who's now off to Ireland! He will have an exciting time representing Harper's, err... Canada's interests in Ireland which include, ummm, ignoring Bono?

Seriously, yes I know that the predictable Conservative response would be to point out that the Liberals do it, blah blah blah. Whatever, I'm not a Liberal party apologist, the point to me is that Harper got up and said all this stuff about clean, accountable government. It just means that once again with patronage pretty much every party is the same.

Devin has more.

What I learned at the G8 (about our leader)

Well, I didn't actually go there, but wow, Harper comes off as a total bush-league politician (pun semi-intended). What a petulant, small-minded, anti-social man we have to lead our country. Ideological fellow-traveler Nicholas Sarkozy goes for a stroll with Harper and starts shaking hands with the public. Harper will do no such thing because some of the people in the crowds might be *gasp* media.

Now it's not like Sarkozy is Mr. Warmth, he looks like a character actor who tends to play grim detectives - Law & Order Paris if you will, and yet Harper makes him look like Bill Clinton when it comes to working a crowd.

Harper played the petulant child part when the matter of carbon emissions came up. All of his posturing was essentially "We are different, Alberta Canada needs special treatment!" One doubts that he would similarly demand special treatment for Ontario's manufacturing sector or the East Coast fisheries.

Now it comes out that he will not meet with Bono. Apparently this is in part because Bono has had the audacity in the past to meet with Liberal governments. Maybe they should send in The Edge instead?