Today on the Scroll: a Kevin Smith-approved trip to Bear Nation; little man on big girl-laden campus sports logo of Montreal Expos; and pundits contemplate the slacker.
Bear Nation [official website]: Kevin Smith, in Toronto into the weekend to help announce the fourth annual Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament in Brantford, promote his new flick Cop Out, and perform for the fifth year in a row at Roy Thomson Hall, was also scheming promotional tactics for a documentary he executive produced for his Chuch and Wellesley-residing pal Malcolm Ingram — they met in 1994 at the premiere of Clerks. Bear Nation has been accepted for screening at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Before that, producer and director will record a “SModcast: The Live, Bi-curious Bear Edition” at the International Bear Rendezvous next Saturday in San Francisco — gracefully described on the online flyer as “A sexy girl-free chat between two fat guys who haven’t fucked. Yet.”
The New Math on Campus [New York Times]: Daniel Cope, a student at the University of North Carolina flanked by six young women in a Sunday Styles section story about how the gender imbalance at colleges helps even the biggest losers, effectively pronounces the Montreal Expos cap passé by being pictured in one during “country night” at a local bar — barely four months after the National Post published a story headlined “Hip-hop sparking Expos resurgence.” Still, the official team account on Twitter is sufficiently flattered: “If I see a guy wearing Expos gear,” replied a female follower, “it immediately gets him from 1st to 3rd base.” The viability of the logo was recently in doubt when the National Baseball Hall of Fame debated whether or not to have new inductee André Dawson engraved in the now-defunct team’s hat or one from the Chicago Cubs, but the new hipster doofus fashion statement prevailed.
How we fell out of love with slacking [Ryan Bigge, Toronto Star]: George Robitaille, the TTC Sleeper, gets his due as the starting point for a think piece about the disappearance of the golden Generation X era of workplace saboteurs. Leah McLaren concurs via The Globe and Mail, kind of: “So you thought Generation X was angry?” Left to comment on Facebook, a long-lost voice of the elitist anti-slacker, Danielle Crittenden Frum: “I’m SO tired of groups of young people alphabetizing themselves and letting their grievances rip: it’s tough (and has been tougher!) for every generation in human history. Before boomers there were those who got slaughtered in world war two (“The Greatest Generation”), those who got slaughtered in World War 1 (“The Lost Generation”) and millions who just got slaughtered with no catchy generational title bestowed upon them at all. There was the generation-that-slept-in-cardboard-boxes in the 1930s; not to mention the Potato Famine Generation, the Black Plague Generation etc. etc.. The economy sux right now, agreed. So stop griping and make it better Echo Boomers! Just thank God your pissy and annoying ancestors bestowed you a free and democratic society capable of infinite improvement.”
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