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Shelah Horvitz's avatar

This is now becoming a ritual. Every day I read your post and it is so much fun. I don't know the details about Canadian politics but I don't need to.

I had been bemoaning lately the dearth of crone archetypes, that we were stuck with wicked witch and sweet woolly-brained ineffectual old lady, and that's not enough. Your mashup of Wise Old Woman (which the general culture doesn't seem to believe in) with the Wicked Witch is perfect. I am reminded of a conversation I had with my cousin, in which we were bemoaning the lack of good female role models. She said she wanted to age like Jane Fonda. I said no, I want to age like Jane Goodall. Now I change my mind. I want to age like Margaret Atwood. You are beyond cool.

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Kathleen Kells's avatar

I wonder who the evil sherif of Nottingham will be. The new police chief perhaps? And who will play Robin Hood with Jack Layton and Joe Cressy gone from council? Certainly not Brad Bradford who favours the rich over the poor and who has now been appointed housing tzar by King John of Muddy York. Perhaps Josh Matlow? As for Maid Marion, Janet Davis could handily take on that role. In any case, we need our own Magna Carta now and for council to force King John to sign it on pain of being boiled in oil at the next Medieval Times event and then drawn and quartered and hung up in full view of the citizenry at Nathan Phillips Square with the Toronto Symphony present and playing a classical rendition of, “I did it my way”.

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