Also, on the topic of Yogic Flyers…I hadn’t realized until recently their connection to the Natural Law Party, a group that ran John Hagelin for president a few years ago and to which I briefly belonged (before their Catastrophic Irrational Hatred of genetically modified food scared me off). He got about 0.12% of the vote! How frighteningly close to the White House they came! Now there’s an alternate history hook for you! Picture it: The US Army butt-hopping across Afghanistan in pursuit of the Taliban.

Chris

The dissidents against the regime would be the newly-awakened Druids of Cape Breton, the shamans of Mohawk Nation, and the secretly-rebellious demon-hunting Magic Cops of the RCMP (that one’s for and his Feng Shui character from college). Problem is, though, they all have to use dark magicks because the PM has changed the predominant magickal paradigm.
Leaping from the tossed-off mention of Cronenberg, what is the deal with Canadian content on TV? There are some families who sit in front of the television all day, hypnotized, some say. I foresee families eaten whole by their TVs, especially south of the border. When that patriotic, Bud-drinking NFL fan can’t stop watching the CFL and trying to obsessively figure out “What the hell is a rouge?” and focusing on that mysterious 55-yard line, well, he’s a lost cause. There’s nothing left in the morning but his recliner and a bottle of Labatt’s. And let’s not even mention those kids in upstate New York and elsewhere who watched too much SCTV and became part of America’s most subversive comedy troupe.
I could riff here on the 1979 “too many men on the ice” penalty between the Canadiens and the Bruins being some sort of intrusion of Dimensional Shamblers, but I’ve already had too much fun with this.

Now I know … and was not meant to know. The horror … the … horror …