Current status: still awesome.

Current tunes: none. But I got "Bananas and Blow" in my head.

So as part of our glorious leader David Miller's new plan to clean up the city and make his illegitimate children forgive him for years of neglect and missed school recitals, everyone in Toronto is encouraged to spend 20 minutes cleaning up the city today.

Environmentalists used to annoy me when I was a kid. Both of my kid-schools used scare-and-shame tactics to keep me from littering or being wasteful. And as many pills as I take to numb the pain of that childhood trauma, I still haven't been able to un-learn that lesson.

Sean told me once that low-level environmentalism (whatever that is, and I don't want to know what the creme de la creme of environmentalism is) is messed up in its intent. These are the environmentalists who don't think to rally against the companies who dump masses of pollutants into the world with complete impunity. Rather, they chase you down the street if you throw a soda can into a garbage can and set themselves on fire to protest your littering.

Another fact brought to my attention courtesy Chris: Second Cup Coffee Co. (Canadian) insists on using Styrofoam cups vs. other places that use paper cups. You corporate bastards, spend the three extra cents (or however negligible the cost is) on something that can--one day, eventually, in less millions of years than Styrofoam--biodegrade. I don't want to remember my inferior coffee cup in 2 billion years when it's all I have left to eat (the horse-sized bees will have eaten everything else by then).

Newsflash: littering isn't pollution. It just makes the place messy.

God, where did my cynicism come from today?