Jack and Meg of White Stripes surprised their fans by showing up on a Winnipeg Transit bus and playing Wheels on the Bus, and Hotel Yorba! What An awesome surprise! Sorry I don’t mean to be rude but I wish the people on the bus would shut up and listen to the music.

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7-Eleven turned 12 of its stores into the Simpsons’ Kwik-E-Marts. 11 of these are in the US and the store locations are mentioned on 7-Eleven’s website. The remaining store is in Canada :-). I tried finding out where that Canadian Kwik-E-Mart is located but this info isn’t mentioned anywhere online. I’m pretty sure it’s not Kingston :P. I’m guessing it’s in Toronto “centre of the universe” but you never know.

Any ideas where that Kwik-E-Mart is in Canada? I’d love to visit that store!

Here are a few pics of one of the US Kwik-E-Marts:

Click here for more pictures of Kwik-E-Mart

Feeling nostalgic? Miss the spectacular cartoons of the 80s? I Came across this awesome list of links to cartoon intro videos. Enjoy 🙂

1. Action Force
2. Bravestarr
3. Captain Planet
4. Care Bears
5. Centurions
6. COPS
7. Defenders of the Earth
8. Denver the last dinosaur
9. Ducktales
10. Dungeons and Dragons
11. Ewoks
12. Flash Gordon
13. Galaxy Rangers
14. GoBots
15. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
16. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle
17. The Flinstones
18. Galaxy High
19. Garfield and Friends
20. G-Force
21. G.I. Joe
22. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
23. Gummi Bears
24. Heathcliff
25. The Incredible Hulk
26. Inspector Gadget
27. Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
28. Jem
29. The Jetsons
30. Macross
31. M.A.S.K
32. Mighty Mouse
33. My Little Pony
34. Pac Man
35. Plastic Man
36. Police Academy
37. Popeye
38. Potato Head Kids
39. The Racoons
40. Rainbow Brite
41. The Real Ghostbusters
42. Ring Raiders
43. Robocop
44. Rubik The Amazing Cube
45. Smurfs
46. Shazam
47. She-Ra
48. Snorks
49. Strawberry Shortcake
50. Silver Hawks
51. The Muppet Babies
52. Teddy Ruxpin
53. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
54. Thundercats
55. Transformers
56. Voltron
57. Visionaries
58. Wuzzles
59. Yogi’s Treasure Hunt
60. Starcom
61. Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
62. Robotech
63. Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
64. Alvin and the Chipmunks
65. Fraggle Rock
66. Tiger Sharks
67. Dino Riders
68. Dennis the Menace
69. Legend of Zelda
70. Bionic Six
71. Blackstar
72. Gravedale High
73. Astroboy
74. Dinosaucers
75. King Arthur and The Knights of Justice
76. The Littles
77. Star Blazers
78. Inhumanoids
79. Thundarr the Barbarian
80. Spiral Zone
81. Pigeon Street

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With yesterday being Canada Day and all, I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate our great nation than with a McDonald’s post featuring the greats of our great national pastime. Unfortunately, they haven’t made any MickeyD’s ads about curling or lacrosse, so we’ve had to stick with boring old hockey.

I think this clip, cute as it may be, serves as a great reminder regarding sports figures and acting. I would’ve liked to think we learned our lesson after Space Jam, but not a year goes by where we don’t see some charisma-less hack toss a football for Coke or hit a home run for Wendy’s.

That being said, there are a few sports stars who seem more than capable of making the transition. Was anyone else surprised at how much fun it was when Peyton Manning hosted SNL a few months back?

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.

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Most of you have probably never heard of Wesley Willis. I certainly hadn’t until today. Wesley Willis was an interesting individual — a diagnosed schizophrenic, Wesley became something of an internet sensation rather late in his short life with a string of literally thousands of short but catchy tunes showcasing his completely tone-deaf poetry-and-rhyme vocal skills. I didn’t realize it, but I was already quite familiar with one of his bigger tunes. “Rock and Roll McDonald’s” was featured briefly in the documentary Super Size Me, and ever since hearing it on my first viewing I’ve caught myself humming it from time to time.

Now, thanks to the glory of the interweb, I can share that catchy catchy tune with you. When it came to posting this, I had to choose between posting a live version of Wesley Willis performing it several months before his death or this mostly unwatchable piece of internet-animation. Since the song was what I really wanted to showcase and his live version was a little too mumbly-mouthed, I decided to stick with the animation. My apologies in advance for the low-quality and occasionally strange imagery.

Both the song and the video have a clear anti-McD’s agenda. I figure it’s a good way to balance out the fairness in our McDonald’s Mondays posts, seeing as most of them are just me rambling on about my love of scary clowns with hamburgers.

If you want to know a little more about Wesley Willis (and you should, it’s an interesting story) check out his entry on wikipedia.

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.

I seriously think I may have found my new favorite blog. Celebrities Eating is, as the name would suggest, a blog about celebrities eating. They collect ever picture they can of A-list stars and starlets shoving their faces full of food, and who can blame them? It’s nice to know Nicole Richie, despite her blatant anorexia, can wolf down a twelve inch hot dog with the best of them.

This pic, from a post back in September 06, shows Ben Affleck wolfing down a Big Mac behind the wheel. Naughty naughty Mr. Affleck, you’ll get mayo all over your blouse.

The one thing that really freaks me out is how wide he can open his mouth. It’s like watching a snake eating a gopher.

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.

10 simple-to-make meals that fight fat, build muscle, and save you time, all for less than 50 bucks. A must read article for all university students and those who find themselves eating more fast food than their body can tolerate.

Click here to read the article and recipes

Just a heads up for the next time you forget your cell phone at home. As of last week, the cost of a local call on a Bell Canada payphone is 50 cents. I think it’s safe to assume that other payphone companies will follow.

It’s a been a long time coming — not only has there not been an increase in payphone costs since 1981 (back then they were a dime) but competition from mobile phones has pretty much rendered the standard payphone obsolete. They’re really only there for the small percentage of the population that hasn’t gone cellular yet and for when the rest of us forget our mobile devices on the charger at home.

In a different age I could see a lot of people getting bent out of shape about this, but really – does anyone care that the cost of a phone call has doubled?

I like this ad. It’s clear, to the point and not as cheesy as Apple’s usual ads. At least they’re sort of attacking their own product, and not a Microsoft product for a change.

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For years I’d been told that this is the way Egg McMuffin’s were made, and when I saw them use one of these egg logs in Clerks II it felt like a confirmation of sorts. But it turns out I was wrong! Out of curiousity, I asked a McManager the other day and they assured me they use real eggs every morning. Who knew?

If there are any former McEmployees out there that can prove otherwise, I’d love to hear it. This was always one of those myths that made me chuckle and it kind of breaks my heart to find out it’s not true.

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.

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Since we’re having a cute baby contest, Bluerose suggested I post this video 🙂

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Also with the help of Alajen, ilovemykids, prue, irenewpg and bcteagirl, I compiled a video of all the cute babies in the Smart Canucks Cute Baby Contest 🙂

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You can vote for the cutest babies here

If you’ve already submitted a photo please make sure your photo is included. Click here and check that your baby’s photo is on the list.

If you haven’t submitted a photo yet today’s the last day to do so. Click here for submission instructions.

Google added an exciting new feature to Google Images: a face filter to search for faces!

If you go to Google Images and type in the word you’re looking for and then append &imgtype=face  to the end of the search results url, Google will return images with faces only.

Here’s an example:
Searching for “Canada”
Searching for “Canada” with the face filter

Here’s a website that automates Google’s face search

Just got word from the fine folks over at fjetsam (ok, that’s me) that the flagship Sam the Record Man store on Yonge St. will be closing its doors for good on June 30th. It’s a Canadian landmark, and an absolute shame to see it go.

More details and editorial over at fjetsam.