New York Times for January 4, 2011.

I am not "a reader". Fiction rarely catches me, websites and blogs too, and boring non-ficton, never. But there are a few things I do love reading. I loved harry potter. I love Foucault. I loved the girl with dragon tattoo series. I loved Jean Vanier. I love reading descriptions of learning disabilities. I love reading the comments after CBC news stories about gay people and I really love reading the New York Times.

I love reading the New York Times because I like the way the writers write, the photographers shoot and the editors find me stories I wouldn't of read about otherwise. I always find myself surprised or interested or curious when I read it.

She mailed me a copy of the January 4th New York Times, the day after her return to the city and the day before she left again. On January 4th a disabled Haitian dancer made the front page.  As did a photo of a person holding a massive collection of party balloons in a subway station. You can't even see their body but I think there might be just one person. I feel like this has been me on actually more then one time in my life.

I learned that there will be a new film about french monks facing "terrorism" in Algeria - Des Hommes de des Dieux. Looks good. Reminded me of when I watched the black and white classic La Bataille d'Alger while staying in Paris for the first time. I didn't know there was a bomb attack New Years day outside of church in Cairo. People are still protesting and fighting. There is flooding in Austrailia and red-wing black birds are falling from the sky in Arkansas. Also appeartly people were protesting outside of a Orthodox Jewish man's house for not granting his wife's divorce - called 'a get'. I guess there is a YouTube video about it too. A woman named Ziporah Reich can evict old auras from your house before you move in and the US congress is talking about something called a Shield Bill which will make basically anything related to the military up on wikileakes considered espionage. I also learned about all of this Palin Tea Party business. Those people are wackos. hmm... no to health care, sustainable energy and taxing the rich? who says no to that? Sarah Palin does.

This ad, cracked me up. Filed under "things you would never see in a Canadian Newspaper: Hospital's taking out ads for anything other then fund-raising campaigns.

And once I skipped past the pages about football, I was saddened to see that the actor Pete Postlethwaite died at the young age of 64 from Cancer in the obits section. He was in "in the name of the Father" amongst other films. I really liked him.