We usually have CBC Radio 2 on in the background at home (a sign of impending old fogeydom?). Saturday evening, they played a set of jazzy covers of non-jazzy songs, including “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” done by Sophie Milman. It got me and Sweet talking about a website that we both loved back in the day that closed up shop in 2003. Brunching Shuttlecocks made me laugh every week, but alas, it’s gone. They did movie reviews, Flash animation bits, silly things like the “Alanis Morrisette Lyric Generator” (yes, the site was that old…) and my favourite, Ratings. To taste what the Intertubes have lost, here is Brunching’s rating of the ways to leave your lover, as per the song (thank you, Internet Archive, for existing!). Most of the interactive stuff doesn’t work, but I’ve had a nostalgic giggle or two going through the ratings again.
And now, for Dan’s sake: Really, Really Big Tires! I tried to get the Really, Really Big IKEA behind them, but I had to take the shot I could as traffic only stopped for a moment, but you can kind of see it in the background…
