Lock oot

...is over. Everyone's coming back on board next Tuesday. Well, sorta: there's the small matter of the NHL opening weekend, and you know the CBC deal had nothing to do with that, right?

The Torstar's lovely & brilliant Antonia Zerbisias found this blog. Here's a sample pic, featuring the victorious Locked Out Gnome with a (slightly wasted?) Joe Schlesinger. Yes, the veteran CBC foreign correspondent, Joe Schlesinger :) Don't get too comfy there, Joe. I expect to see you & your talented compatriots fully in "the shit"* by next Tuesday's National.

Oh, and make sure you all remember to shave-off your lock-out beards (I'm looking at you Paul Hunter).

Honestly, it's gonna be awesome to have them all back at work. I can't take another minute of CTV's Kate "Hepburn" Wheeler or Global's "what you don't know, could kill you" newshour.

*nowadays there isn't so much one "shit"; in no particular order, options for "shit" include Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Darfur, (the ironically named) Democratic Republic of Congo, & a country to be named later.