things I can't stand today

I have in the past couple of days heard 2 interviews with Adam Leith Gollner on CBC radio, and while he sounds like a sehr interessante bloke, having penned some O.K. pieces in Vice and other mags, this new book about fruit just sounds tedious. I loathe food writing, cannot think of a more stultifying subject. I am particulary perturbed because of the damned hypertrendiness of food writing. Taras Grescoe, another Mtl writer I admire, who wrote the brilliant 'Sacre Blues', a fascinating look at Quebec culture and recent history, has also recently written 2 books about food. Are they cashing in, or are they genuinely interested in food? I myself am interested in a lot of weird stuff, but food is right up there with interior design as a topic to be avoided at all cost by writers and intelligent people. I strongly believe food should be eaten, but never discussed. What else? Am also hating the formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, which just wrapped up here. My downtown neighbourhood was overtaken by Eurotrash, American Ginos, bimbos, and Ferraris, although I got some free anti-wrinkle cream and chocolate at the huge Garnier tent that had been set up in a parking lot on St. Lawrence Boulevard, which was a plus. Am also hating Mariah Carey's infantilism. I have been working all weekend, and TV screens dominate my workplace, many of them mutely tuned to Musique Plus, the French-language version of Muchmusic, itself Canada's answer to MTV, albeit with less reality TV, and more music videos, so sort of like MTV 15 years ago, I guess. Anyhow, the latest Mariah Carey video has been playing, in which she is seen dressed like a sexy schoolgirl, lying in bed writing in her diary, and hopping onto private planes with Nick Cannon, etc. It's funny that her take on sexiness has always been this Lolita version, kneesocks, hot pants, finger suggestively in moutn, and girly waves goodbye: holding her hand up, and fluttering her fingers just so. There is just nothing womanly about her, despite the fact that she is 38, 2 years older than the age at which Marilyn Monroe killed herself...