why ask why? why not.

Would the opposite of 'the best of both worlds' be 'the worst of all worlds', since 'both' implies a finite number of worlds. Or would it be 'the worst of no worlds' which would come very, almost dangerously, close to meaning the same thing as 'the best of both worlds?'

the wasp

Today’s discussion concerns the wasp. That ever elusive creature that often times hides in plain sight while working deliriously behind the scenes.

Not this wasp:

wasp ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wsp, wôsp)
n.

Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.

But this one:

WASP¹ or Wasp ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wsp, wôsp)
n.

1. A white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
2. A white, usually Protestant member of the American upper social class.

I take shots about being black often enough, as much as I give the white guys I know, maybe more. I know white guys that crack me up about things they perceive about blacks that we take for granted or try our best not to acknowledge. White guys can generally see much about society but are acutely incapable of perceiving the things that are directed squarely at them because they believe they exist outside of it. So a white guy can see that a rap video that airs on MTV does nothing to help the images presented about blacks but he could completely miss the commercials that air after the rap video advertising consumer items marketed to middle class white kids, his kids. So the black guys are doing nothing for their people with those rap songs but MTV is using it to sell stuff to white kids who buy it up.

The thing that I find the funniest though is when those same guys, or generally different white guys say things like you’re not really black. I find it funny that white guys feel they can assume the role of judging how black a guy is. Maybe it’s a throwback to Jim Crow when white people would decide how black a guy is... I just think it’s funny that the most ‘urban’ black guys I know, even ghetto guys who are ignorant in lots of ways as we all can be, would never say that a university education makes somebody less black, while a white guy would say exactly that without thinking it’s at all a very ignorant thing to say, and claiming he is only kidding. Because basically he’s saying that black people are defined by everything that isn’t a mark of education or self restraint. And he's also saying that he buys it up

Stalked Like a Fox!

Photo courtesy of IMDb.com

Every once in a while I see my buddy, and yours, Pat ‘the Iron man’ Kerton in a movie. PK usually does stunts so you have to pay attention in order to see him, but it seems he’s graduated from just stunts to full fledged public relations stunts.

Sunday afternoon, while my butt was recovering from learning how to snowboard, I was watching Debbie Travis’ Facelift on Home & Garden Canada. The show follows the triumphs and challenges of Debbie Travis and her crew pursuing fantastic goals under terrifically tight deadlines.

Just before a commercial, they were lamenting an overnighter and mentioned that they might have run into some trouble with a neighbour, they cut to the neighbour and it’s your favourite winger/ center/ flanker and mine, Pat Kerton, doing the W5 slumlord walk away. You know, the camera’s following and he is trying to get away and hide his face. I couldn’t believe it. I called Tim right away because that’s what I do in these situations and Tim didn’t take the call because that’s what he does when I call.

When the show returns, I’m dying to see how this works out, right from the beginning I can’t believe that PK is being described as a complaining neighbour because if you could show me a guy that’s ever heard PK complain about anything then I’ll show you a liar. So they’re interviewing the first guy on the crew and he says that the neighbour complained and threatened to call the cops. They then interview three more guys from the crew who all say that they were making a lot of noise putting in the floor and explained that it’s really not something you can sleep through without pills and you know PK is all natural.

Even after the crew admitted they were making too much noise PK still came over the next day, apologized for putting them behind schedule, and began to help. Debbie Travis described him as “pretty handy” as they showed him using an array of tools usually reserved for carpentry experts, such as a ‘compound mitre’ and a ‘hammer.’

The weird thing was ever since he was introduced on camera he kept popping up everywhere. PK was there putting up a crowning, he was there when the neighbour returned and everyone surprised her, and he was even there when Debbie Travis was delivering her closing words (he was putting stuff away.) It was like he was being stalked by the camera, stalked like a fox!

The point is that for those of you that think PK is only awesome at rugby and being a stunt man, you’re selling him short. PK it seems is also capable of orchestrating public relations stunts with the manipulation and forethought of Vito Corleone. You should have seen him. Always smiling, always on camera but always making it seem as if he was just another guy putting in some work. I imagine they were forced to edit out the part where he invited everyone over to his bar Cunningham’s to watch his latest movie “Gaz Bar Blues,” pay attention he’s cop number six.