November 6th, 2009: I mentioned I like out-of-genre cover songs and you guys sent me so many out of genre cover songs! THIS IS EXCELLENT. I also like money and solid gold cars you guys!

Here's some of the cream of the crop! The Baseballs do 50-style covers of modern music, and Umbrella has a great video to go with it.. It's a window into a universe where rock and roll never stopped rockin' and rollin'!

Kate Nash has done a few of these (and she's got a great voice!), Hollaback Girl is one of my favourites. Amanda Palmer does Creep on the ukulele, and here's Karen Souza doing a sexy lounge version of the same. And I've linked to her before, but fellow Torontoian Kay Pettigrew's cover of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme is totally rad.

With more irony we've got Jenny Owen Youngs doing "Hot in Herre", and you're probably already familiar with Alanis doing My Humps, Mat Weddle doing Hey Yah, and The BossHoss who do pop music "in the original country and western" and who I've even seen live! How about we go with I Say A Little Prayer from them.

Anyway hooray for music that sounds like other music!

– Ryan

November 5th, 2009: I think I have a "thing", and this "thing" is for hip young women singing out-of-genre covers of pop songs with a pure sincerity that completely transcends irony. Enjoy Molly Lewis doing Poker Face and Pomplamoose doing September. Enjoy them knowing that I just listen to them back to back, one after the other, over and over again!

– Ryan

November 4th, 2009: I've got Christmas Cards for sale! A bunch of TopatoCo artists have made cards and you can buy 10-packs of your favourite design. MINE IS THE AWESOMEST THOUGH BECAUSE IT HAS T-REX ON THE FRONT

– Ryan

November 3rd, 2009: I've got Christmas Cards for sale! A bunch of TopatoCo artists have made cards and you can buy 10-packs of your favourite design. MINE IS THE AWESOMEST THOUGH BECAUSE IT HAS T-REX ON THE FRONT

– Ryan

November 2nd, 2009: I took a flight down to NY this weekend (TO PARTY!!!) and on the flight back we were delayed several hours because the President was landing at same airport we were at and so nobody else was allowed to use any planes. You guys, this was probably the closest I've ever physically been to President Obama! Was he also saying "Wow, you guys, this is probably the closest I've ever been to Canadian cartoonist Ryan North"? He was certainly not; there is no possible way he was saying that; we are all allowed to dream but that is the most ridiculous dream imaginable and you should feel ashamed.

– Ryan