Blog: Our Kitchen Sink

Up here in Canadia today everyone's talking about how Toronto-based Fucked Up won the 2009 Polaris Prize (a $20,000 prize that's pretty much my country's equivalent to the UK's Mercury Prize . It's funny, to me, because most papers that want to announce that Fucked Up won the Polaris can't actually print the band's name. But what's funnier (albeit not in a knee-slapping, pants-shitting, beer-coming-out-your-nostrils way) to me is that Mos Def shouted out Fucked Up in his New York Times playlist/article and even he couldn't write the band's name. A rapper that can't swear [...]