User:Bearcat

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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 sandbox.

Contents

[edit] A few of my favourite things

[edit] Music

American Music Club - Tori Amos - Laurie Anderson - The Arcade Fire - Band of Horses - 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 - Christine Fellows - The Grapes of Wrath - Grievous Angels - Emm Gryner - Sarah Harmer - Kristin Hersh - The Hidden Cameras - The High Dials - Indigo Girls - King Cobb Steelie - LCD Soundsystem - Daniel Lanois - Lava Hay - The Lowest of the Low - Massive Attack - Sarah McLachlan - Metric - Joni Mitchell - Bob Mould - Modest Mouse - Morrissey - New Pornographers - Nirvana - Sinéad O'Connor - Mary Margaret O'Hara - Out Hud - 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 - 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.

[edit] Literature

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

[edit] Media

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

[edit] Feel the wikilove...

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.
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.
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)
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)
For your dedication to the development of knowledge about Quebec in the world, for your faithfulness to French America and the homeland of your ancestors, for your altruistic work as the citizen of an external territory, for your courageous and wise defense of Quebec-related articles, I proudly award you the Quebec Barnstar of National Merit. Liberlogos 07:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
For your dedication to the development of knowledge about Quebec in the world, for your faithfulness to French America and the homeland of your ancestors, for your altruistic work as the citizen of an external territory, for your courageous and wise defense of Quebec-related articles, I proudly award you the Quebec Barnstar of National Merit.
Liberlogos 07:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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For making a difference! I know you made much more than that, I'll create a 1000+ soon, by Pseudoanonymous 02:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
I give you this, The Working Man's Barnstar, in recognition of the long tireless work involved in getting the List of census divisions of Canada by population updated. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inukshuk of distinction

I have no particular attachment to barnstars, and had no idea what they were until I read Barnstar, but I have noticed on many occasions the vast amount of work you have undertaken to keep various categories and subcategories well ordered. Since categories often assist the reader in finding related articles, it seems appropriate to award you an Inukshuk for your tireless efforts at maintaining and improving Wikipedia categories, as well as for fighting the good fight against those editors who insist on placing an article in both a parent category and a subcategory.

Your efforts are much appreciated. Skeezix1000 21:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fametracker

This isn't exactly what I meant when I dreamed of being famous...