SNOMG! It's The Snowpocalypse, A Snownami!

“But first, let’s check the death count from the killer storm bearing down on us like a shotgun full of snow!” – Kent Brockman

“Well Kent, as of now the death count is zero, but it is ready to shoot right up.” – Meterologist

“Oh my god. Damn you, snow!” – Brockman

I think the Simpsons, as usual, captured it best. Though we did out best at work today, crowdsourcing the terms: oblizzarate, snowmageddon, The Blizzard of Oz and The Fast and the Flurrious.

Previously on Popped Culture...

Tragedy: Snow in Toronto

Groundhog Day: Rodent Prognostications

Adventures in Reporting

Actresses in the snow

Ann Sheridan (Photo by Scotty Welbourne), Audrey Hepburn, Anna Karina, Carole Lombard, Grace Kelly (with Princess Caroline), Julie Andrews, Marilyn Monroe (Photo by Andre de Dienes), Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Yvonne De Carlo, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (in "Swing Time"), Debbie Reynolds, Sharon Tate, Catherine Deneuve (in "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" de Jacques Demy), Joan Bennett (via).



Williams Glackens, Central Park, Winter c1905

Boris Kustodiev - Maslenitsa

Edmund Dulac - The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night


Claude Monet - La pie (via Dimitri Salon artfact http://dimitrisalon.blogspot.com/)

Mazanov Leonty Nikiforovich

Tom Thomson - Night (via deluneauxautres.canalblog.com)

Ivan Shishkin - Na severe dikom

Adventures in Reporting

Global Toronto reporter Rob Leth gets nailed by a toboggan while filming a segment, but still manages to finish his report. Points off for not sticking the landing though. This hill is just a few blocks from my house, and is covered in ice.


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Tragedy: Snow in Toronto

It really is that overblown somedays...