It's The End of Toronto As We Know It

No, this is not a post about the no-confidence vote that dissolved the Canadian parliament, but rather a link to Grady Hendrix's very funny take on Kirk Cameron's el-supremo-cheapo Left Behind movies. Apparently, if you spend $1.65 (Canadian), Toronto can stand in for "New York, Chicago, and Israel. Also, Washington, D.C. And Egypt. London, too."

I almost want to watch the movies now, just to see if they made the same mistakes the Glitter crew made when they included shots of the CN Tower in their "New York" backgrounds. I'll bet when they pan across the Western Wall or some Cairo neighborhood, you can see the Sky Dome, or pay phones with little maple leafs on them.

On a dark, sticky, stygian level, it pleases me to know that while Jerry Bruckheimer makes high priced crap like National Treasure (a movie that must be seen to be disbelieved), Kirk Cameron is up in Canada making even crappier movies for less money. Economic efficiency, that's what NAFTA was all about.