So, it's official now: Rosie O'Donell has come out of the closet, confirmed that she's gay.

So what? Really, is this important to anyone? Does it change the fact of her show being entertaining?

If you really think that, I have to quote one of her often used lines: "Are you smoking crack?"

Fact: this is a woman who gives away a ton of goodies to anyone who sits in on her show. Fact: this is a woman who's given guests trips (like newly married people, the Survivors), or needed supplies (people who just had multiple births).

Fact: when a young boy came on her show with an original piece of Titanic history, hoping to raise money with for a cause, Rosie right away bought it - for 20 thousand dollars.

She's one hell of a person. Anyone who thinks her sexuality changes that fact needs their head examined.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with jazz, but I have to say it:

Way to go Team Canada!!

I'm not a hockey fan in the least - but a) the game was invented in Canada, b) I am Canadian, and c) finally, we've regained the top spot in our own game.

For those facts alone, I'm proud.

Chuck Jones, animator, dies at 89

I saw Chuck at a special gala at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival in the late 1980s.

As an animator by schooling - hell, just as a guy who loved his work - this is sad news.

We have a radio station here in Montreal called CHOM. This station has been known for over 3 decades as the home of rock and roll in Monreal.

They just made a format change though: now, they're a classic rock station. they have about 977 tunes from the past of music history, and that's what they'll play.

Problem is, music grows and evolves. Instead of continuing to celebrate this, make us all aware of it, now they're just looking back.

I think the next ratings period will show a huge drop in listeners for them.

I may have some success at clearing up this apartment without selling off my memories... one of my friends has offered to store my comic collection of over 20 years.

He lives in Maryland - at least a day away and in another country from me. Regardless, it'll mean that when someday I move again to a larger place, I won't have to mourn the loss of irreplacable things, books I'll never see again.

I just learned that Princess Margaret passed away. Mere days after Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee (50 years as queen), her sister is now gone.

Yeah, we all go someday; this is just one more of my lifetime's royals we have to say goodbye to.

Man, I haven't posted in a week. Bad Andy - er, me!

Life changes are coming fast and furious right now: tomorrow I see an Adapted apartment, possibly where I'll be moving in the next few months.

I've been at the current place for almost 9 years now. I'll be a little sentimental on leaving it, but the new one'll have many, MANY plusses to it.