The American Primaries: As The World Sees Them.

A week or so ago, someone asked a German friend how Europe was seeing the race to the primary elections in the United States. My newspaper, Montréal's La Presse which is AWESOME (Hey, I'm preachin' a little, but I've been a paperboy for it when I was a teenager, it did win many international prizes and it's heavy as a motherfucker!), allotted the five first pages of its Saturday Edition to the American primaries (And the next two to Kenya's soon-to-be genocide. I'd personally switch them around, but hey, Africa's way too far off the radar!)

Here's a few (american) pie charts I've done (a pain in the ass, as I was sick and slightly drunk when I did this chart, using the highly-advanced MSPaint), faithfully copying La Presse's charts(I couldn't find them online). It shows the media space occupied by both parties and their respective candidates on every continent.

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Of course, there's plenty of room for interpretation, but I think some of you might appreciate this.

By the way, on any given continent, the primaries' share of all the published or broadcasted news never reached 2.20% (it's still substential)...Europe and Latin America are leading the way in coverage (Roughly, Democrats take 1.30% in both places, Republicans a little over 0.80%).

But seriously, this was not what I was supposed to do with a sickness/drunkness buzz!

Time to go rest my painful whole.

Not Happy!

The Montréal Canadiens won't make the playoffs, eliminated by their arch-rivals on the 82nd and last game of the regular season, the damn Toronto Maple Leafs, which prompted me to redisign the Habs(One of many nicknames for the Canadiens) logo:



The good news? Toronto were eliminated after playing their 82 games as the New York Islanders won in overtime against the New Jersey Devils, thus barely making the cut to the 8th position in the Eastern Association!

Karma is a Habs fan...

Dustmen

Following my own suggestion to this post on Charlotte's blog, here's a little drawing I did using the basic Microsoft Paint, inspired only by my imagination. My brother says it looks like my maternal grand-father in his youth. Weirdly enough, he's not wrong.



But wait, it gets better. If you reduce the image by half its size, then resize it to 200%, thus making it the same size as the original, it creates an interesting effect, blurring the pixelization and making it look more hand-drawn:



That's it, time to go to the damn bed!