Bearcat (born 1971 ) is an underemployed gay freelance writer of Franco-Ontarian stock in Toronto, Ontario , who votes for the New Democratic Party , drinks Alexander Keith's , hangs out at the Church and Wellesley Timothy's (and usually succeeds in resisting the temptation to write dirty words all over Alexander Wood ), worships Jack Layton and Olivia Chow , doesn't exercise nearly enough, has at least two pieces of below-neck body art that I'll admit to in public, secretly wants to be Avi Lewis when I grow up, and is generally far too poor and depressed to be half as cool as I wish I were.
Most of my contributions are around Canadian history, geography, politics, media, arts and culture, since that's the area I'm most familiar with, but from time to time I'll correct glaring errors in other articles I come across, too.
If you're really nice to me, I might let you read my Livejournal .
In the unlikely event that you care what kinds of things I plan to write up in the future, here's my to-do list .
A few of my favourite things
For your extensive work in articles pertaining to the culture and geography of Canada Canada , I, Earl Andrew , hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit .
Music
American Music Club - Tori Amos - Laurie Anderson - The Arcade Fire - Be Good Tanyas - Beastie Boys - Art Bergmann - Blue Rodeo - Broken Social Scene - Buck 65 - Jeff Buckley - Kate Bush - Camper Van Beethoven - Neko Case - Tracy Chapman - Leonard Cohen - Jason Collett - Shawn Colvin - The Constantines - Cowboy Junkies - The Cure - The Dears - Depeche Mode - Ani DiFranco - Julie Doiron - Kathleen Edwards - Eric's Trip - 54-40 - Feist - Matthew Good - The Grapes of Wrath - Grievous Angels - Emm Gryner - Sarah Harmer - Kristin Hersh - The Hidden Cameras - The High Dials - Indigo Girls - King Cobb Steelie - Daniel Lanois - Lava Hay - The Lowest of the Low - Massive Attack - Sarah McLachlan - Metric - Joni Mitchell - Bob Mould - Modest Mouse - Morrissey - Bif Naked - Nirvana - Sinéad O'Connor - Mary Margaret O'Hara - Pavement - Carole Pope - Portishead - R.E.M. - Radiohead - Rheostatics - Stan Rogers - Royal City - Skydiggers - Sleater-Kinney - Sloan - Elliott Smith - Patti Smith - The Smiths - Sonic Youth - Spirit of the West - Andy Stochansky - System of a Down - Tegan and Sara - U2 - The Verve - The Weakerthans - Weeping Tile - Wilco - Wolf Parade - Hawksley Workman - Neil Young
Yes, fags listen to indie rock, too. Deal with it.
Literature
Bearcat, your extensive contributions, and your all-around coolness warrant a barnstar that has not yet been created, so I hereby award you the Original Barnstar. Ground Zero 20:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC) André Alexis - Margaret Atwood - Marie-Claire Blais - Dionne Brand - Wayson Choy - Austin Clarke - Lynn Coady - Robertson Davies - Timothy Findley - Steven Heighton - Tomson Highway - Nalo Hopkinson - Michel Houellebecq - Mark Kingwell - Naomi Klein - Joy Kogawa - Jonathan Lethem - Ann-Marie MacDonald - Gwendolyn MacEwen - Alistair MacLeod - Yann Martel - Lisa Moore - Alice Munro - Jim Munroe - Dale Peck - David Adams Richards - David Sedaris - Shyam Selvadurai - Sarah Vowell - David Foster Wallace - M.G. Vassanji - Colson Whitehead
Anti-Hit List CBC Radio Three - CJRT - CKLN - Definitely Not the Opera Futurama Michele Landsberg - Sook-Yin Lee - Avi Lewis - Stephen Lewis - Rick Mercer - Rabble The Simpsons Six Feet Under South Park Sports Night George Stroumboulopoulos - This Hour Has 22 Minutes
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