Ok, my whirlwind trip to Toronto out of the way, I am ready to really buckle down here in Ottawa and produce some exceptional, award winning work for the loyal reader base I have. Quality work like the following:
Shake it shake it to the East
Shake it shake it to the West
You’re the one…um…that I love…best…
hmm….
Whatever, let’s see you do better.
Jay Pinkerton
A Faint Odour of Insight 
I like the east/west dichotomy, which alludes to the perceived duality of global culture and the underpinning social global inequality and North American hegemony.
Entertain me.
East is east, west is west, never the twain shall meet. Good luck.
Nick, I have been checking the links on your on your blog roll, and I can’t stop laughing, I mean laughing out loud. I had to shut my office door. Thank you, I don’t know how I could ever repay you.
Cristina, the only way to repay me is by pledging allegiance to my blog and all that dwells within… oh, and a small fee of $19.99.
Other than that, it’s been good to have you as an active part of the discourse over here. Let’s say you brought some new life to things. It is I who should be thanking you.
there is something about this post that intrigues me nikolai… who in fact do you love best? east or west? i can only speculate the east since you dwell there, but the west has so much to offer, since i live there… please explain, and put my mind at ease…
i didn’t know such a simple post would garner this much response… did you?
Josh, do not forget that we live on a globe, not just one country upon which the cardinal points of east and west are to be judged. My roots are beyond these borders, as are my thoughts. I am surprised to hear such a North-Amerocentric viewpoint from you. I for one, tend to think of Canada as Canada; yes, it’s geographically large (and diverse), but culturally, it is almost not worth differentiating between east and west (save for minor lifestyle variations).
Yes, it is strange that arguably my worst post (save the universally disliked ‘Adventures of Martin Plow’–which I personally find to be one of my most endearing) has elicited the largest response.
my bad mr. worldview…