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WP2 nationalpost.com W E E K E N D P O S T NATIONAL POST, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011

W E L O V E

This new format

for the Snap

Judgments column!

So much more

room to share our

feelings with the

world in three sen-

tences or fewer.

And pictures!

W E R E N O T S O S U R E

About the Amy Winehouse biography

to be written by her father. The

proceeds go to children who are

disadvantaged through

illness and substance

addiction but his goal

of writing it to help with

my personal recovery

seems a bit off.

W E LO V E D

The season finale of Breaking Bad,

which somehow gets better with each

passing season. The long-anticipated

showdown between Walter White and

Gustavo Fring was as, er, explosive

as we hoped. There is only one

season left, though thankfully it

will be a longer-than-usual 16

episodes.

W E R E N O T S O LD O N

Bacardi Oakheart smooth spiced rum. While

were hardly experts in all the manifestations

of the venerated Caribbean spirit, the styl-

ized bat logo and promise of a rum straight

from the heart of a charred oak barrel had us

thinking more about our Halloween party cos-

tume than hints of cinnamon, dates and burnt

molasses. In that case, the Oakheart might

make for the perfect pirate prop.

JUDGMENTSSNAP

THEWEEKINPEAKS OURFIVE-DAYCULTURALMOODSWING

M T W J F

World celebrates MichaelJackson the only way it

knows how: by listening toCee Lo and wishing the Black

Eyed Peas were there.

Dont worry, Drakesnew album is coming,

eventually. Can we getyou a coffee and some

Shatner while you wait?

Samuel L. Jacksonjoins Twit ter, and

then, for symmetryssake, Jonathan Taylor

Thomas does, too.

Classy fellow Michael Ondaatjedecides hes won enough GGsand takes The Cats Table outof the running for the prize.

Can Tim Allens newshow be the next

Playboy Club?

The movie Drive inspires manto throw hot dog at Tiger Woods.

121 years in jail for thecreep who forced world

to look at nude pictures ofScarJo? Seems fair.

Whitney Houston refuses tobuckle up on an airplane. If youdid it, itd be dumb. For her, the

operative four-letter d-wordis diva. Sorry, thems the rules.

Does it involveOwen Wilson?

Steve Martin, JackBlack, birds ... what,do you have some-thing better to do

this weekend?

I show up to Jackies tea party with a box of Mae Wests undermy arm.

I guess withPETAhavingmade its crackdown, I say, itsnowup to ushumansto reclaim thetea partyfromcircuschimpanzees.

PETA wouldnt letyou serve this crap to a monkey, shesays,taking thesnackcakesand chucking them onto thekitchencounter.The guests children ransackthem andrun upstairs.

Kids arelucky. Theyget to explore thewholehouseand findoutwhat thehostsare reallyabout.They tear through drawers

andsearchunderbeds,whilewe poor adultsare chainedto theliving room with only theoccasional tripto thebathroom foraquick rummagethrough themedicinecabinet to learn whats

what.I siton thecouch, eavesdropping on a conversationabout

annuities, andwishing I hada MaeWest.

The highcosts ofhaving a friendwholives in themoment

JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN

My Week

THURSDAY

I call up Howardto tell himSaturdays picnicis on.Theweathers going to be gorgeous, I say.

Spoiler alert!Howard yells.When givingaway whats go-ingto happen, have thedecency to first sayspoileralert.

I thought that wasonly formovieplots, I say. Not theweather.

From nowon I want to keep everythinga surprise, he says.I dont wantto livemy lifewithonefoot inthe future,becausethatll mean havingonly onefoot in thepresent.

And that wouldleave you without a foot in the nut house?

I ask.Imso committedto this, he says, unimpeded,that Imnot

evengoingto usethe futuretense.You just did.DidI?he asks.Well, maybe I dont knowwhat thefuture

tense is.Good luck with it, I say. I haveto goshopping for the pic-

nic, so Ill seeyou later.Please, hesays beforehanging up,dont tell me that!Personally, I love thinking about thefuture. I dont think Ive

everthrown outa singlefortune cookiefortune. I dont go so farasto foldtheminto mywallet,butI dousually hangon tothemin some way, maybe tossing them into a sock draweror placingthem in thepagesof a book Imreading.Theressomethingaboutthrowingone out thatfeels likean actof bad faith, be-cause allprophecies about thefutureshould be taken seriously even iftheyre propheciesthatcome incookies atthe end ofamealof moo goo gaipan.

I also love theidea of serendipitously re-discoveringthese

predictions of thefuturein thefuture holding them in myhands andthinking about what once could have been, butnever

was, yet might,one day, still be. The futureoften feelslarger,more boundless, than thepast, or thepresent.Perhapsit needstobe because itis wherewe store our hopes.

At the grocerystore, the first thingI throwinto my cart is abox of Mae Wests. The second is a bag of fortune cookies.

Spoiler alertsahead, Ill tell Howard, slipping a fewinto hishands. Jonathan Goldstein is thehost ofWireTap on CBC RadioOne,airing Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. Fol-low him on Twitter @J_Goldstein.

Weekend Post

FR ID AY

ISSUINGA

SPOILER

ALERTFORTHE

WEATHER

REPORT

JEANNE BEKER ,Host o f CTV s Fas hion

Television, picks

Mark Fast. Not only for

his experimentation with

knitwear but for

his gutsy approach to

making his voice heard

on the world stage.

MARK FASTLondon- based

knitwear designer

MICHELL E WATSON

of Michi picks

Mark Fast. Everything is

one-of-a-kind. And Eran

Elfassy and Elisa Dahan

of Mackage. They took

winter coats to a new

level.

ERAN ELFASSY AND

ELISA DAHAN

of Mackage pick

DSquared2. Dean and

Dan love displaying their

Canadian heritage.

DENIS GAGNON

picks Renata Morales

Shes an artist first of all.

I love her work. And Rad

Hourani: If you see his work,

you will understand

everything.

STEPHEN WONG

of Greta Constantine

picks Denis Gagnon.

Its amazing that hes

one of the older design-

ers and that hes the

most edgy.

JAY MA NUEL,TV personality, picks

DSquared2 have their finger on the

pulse of the fashion world. Also,

Greta Constantine. The way they

wield fabric, one gets a sense of pure,

feminine sensuality.

DSQUARED 2

Dean and D an C aten

RENATA MO RALES

picks Clayton Evans of

Complexgeometries. Hes

always innovating with new

cuts, new fabrics and hes

using new technology.

CLAYTON EVANS

of Complexgeometries

picks Renata Morales.

Her discerning eye

guarantees that the finalproduct looks elegant,

effortless and perfectly

balanced.

PAY IT

forwardOur newmonthly chart

beginswith a search for themost innovative fashion

designers in Canada

DOUG COUPLAND,author and artist,

picks Evan Biddell

He seems to really

enjoy being alive andliving in the world.

ROBIN KAY,

preside nt o f the Fashion

Desig n Cou ncil of Ca nada,

picks Don Green and Michael

Budman.

The personal intricatemarketing story that the boys

built around the [EARTHnega-

tiveshoe], forever instilled a

style of branding that was as yet

unheard of in Canada.

DON G REEN,Roots co-fou nder, pic ks

DSquared2. Dan and

Dean continually evolve

season-to-season, all thewhile staying true to their

Canadian roots.

EVAN BIDD ELL

picks Cristina Sabaiduc.

I met Cristina a couple

years ago where she was

showing dresses that

had these coral reef

looking flower like

embellishments all over

them. It ended up

being lead shards she

had thrown on to the

dresses with magnets

sewn inside.

CRISTINA SABAIDUC

picks Jeremy Laing.

His design aesthetic has

matured amazingly over

the seasons and his

presence in the global

fashion market is

stronger than ever.

RAD HOURANI

declines to pick, saying

The choice of the

most innovative can

only belong to a certain

illusion that each one

may believe in.

JENNIFE R WATERS

of House of Groves

picks Denis Gagnon.

What hes doing re-

flects himself and his

own visions and not ne-

cessarily following what

other people are doing.

Michael Douglasto play Liberace.

MICHAE L BUD MAN,Roots co-fo under, sa ys

Douglas Couplanddisplays

a certainfearlessness in his

evolution as anartist. He

boldly takes on newmediumsandtakesit to anotherlevelByMelissaLeong