You know you're old when: shag rugs + wood panelling are in a museum!

Saskatoon museum has recreated a 1970s living room, complete with orange shag carpet, wood panelling and recliner chairs.

"It's a three-tone orange shag rug on the floor," Daelick pointed out during a recent tour. "Wood panelling on one wall and nice orange wallpaper on two other walls."

Orange is also featured on the furniture.

Among the more iconic pieces in the display are hanging macramé plant holders.

(Seems like the only thing missing is the Avocado kitchen!)

Movie about *BLEEP*s and *BLEEP*s wins Academy Award

Some television viewers in Asia are angry after the annual Academy Awards broadcast in the region censored the words "gay" and "lesbian" from acceptance speeches.

Pan-Asian satellite TV network STAR carried the glitzy Hollywood ceremony in full during the live telecast.

However, viewers who watched subsequent repeat broadcasts noticed that the sound periodically disappeared during the acceptance speeches of Oscar winners Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn, the screenwriter and lead actor of the drama Milk, respectively.

Hey Dude Where's My Car?

Michael Otero parked his new red truck in front of a convenience store in Laguna Beach, California and went inside for only a few minutes. When he returned, the truck was gone! Since he had left the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked, Otero assumed it had been stolen. Police watched the surveillance video and found out what really happened.

Seniors: Out of the closet, into the system

The Canadian health care and social service sectors are fairly saturated with resources for senior citizens, and now more than ever, workers in these fields are beginning to recognize that “seniorhood” is not a stand alone section of the population – health and social work programs tailored to meet specific needs of immigrants, different ethnic groups, and other intersectional diversities have been cropping up more frequently in the last decade.

But while recognition of visible minorities in the community is an important step in eldercare, other, less visible groups remain on the margins. Seniors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transsexual are often doubly marginalized, their needs ignored or overlooked by both elder care systems and gay communities.

Mr. Gay Ireland becomes Mr. Gay World 2009 in Whistler

Mr. Gay Ireland, Max Krzyzanowski, becomes Mr. Gay World 2009 in front of a sold-out audience at the grand finale in Whistler, Canada.

Hunky Dubliner Max Krzyzanowski (37) has been crowned Mr. Gay World 2009 at the first ever Mr. Gay World contest, in Whistler, Canada. Max, who won the Mr. Gay Ireland title in Dublin in October, beat 19 contestants from around the globe to take the coveted role.

Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Tewksbury hosted this year's extravaganza of showbiz, stars and Speedos in a glitzy ceremony high in the Canadian mountains. After a busy weeklong schedule that included fashion shows, photo shoots, interviews and even a wilderness survival course; Mr. Gay World President Eric Butter named Max the winner. Max works as a security guard and martial arts coach in Dublin.

Evangelicals get top PMO jobs after shuffle

More proof Harper close to religious right: Egale

A shuffle in the Prime Minister's Office has put another evangelical Christian figure near the top political post in the country.

Darrel Reid, the former head of Focus on the Family Canada, has moved from the position of director of policy to become the new deputy chief of staff.

"It's something we've suspected for a long time — that Harper has deep roots with the religious right, and this just further acknowledges that that is in fact the case," says Egale Canada executive director Helen Kennedy. "This is pretty overt though — we haven't really seen that in the past."

UFO sightings soar in Canada

Strange floating objects and eerie bright lights were among the record number of Unidentified Flying Objects that Canadians spotted in the sky in 2008, according to Winnipeg-based Ufology Research.

The volunteer group of a half-dozen researchers said Canadians made a total of 1,004 UFO sightings in 2008 — up more than 25 per cent from the previous year and the highest number in the 20 years Ufology has been keeping track.

"It's astonishing to me that we had such a dramatic increase," spokesman Chris Rutkowski said.

"It could be an indication that there's actually something up there seen in greater numbers than ever before, it could be that there are perhaps more military flights, it could be … that people are more able to access websites where they can report the UFOs."

London at night

Some beautiful pix of London at night. Click through to see more.

Puck U : "Pansy" no more

Hockey commentator Ron MacLean faced off against a gay-rights advocate over the use of the word "pansification" during Saturday's Hockey Night in Canada broadcast.

Hockey Night commentator Mike Milbury coined the expression to describe how the NHL would lose its edge and go soft should the league heed calls to ban fighting.

Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale Canada, told MacLean the group was "inundated with emails and phone calls who were upset and offended by the use of the word."

"It's used in a derogatory fashion to bully young, effeminate, gay men. It's a word that was coined to basically bully young men in Britain, many years ago," Kennedy said, adding that the word is also used to bully "kids who are perceived to be gay."

A VIDEO OF THE INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE AFTER THE LINK

Get a lesbian to fix it!

The first government collapse of the global economic crisis is about to yield the world's first openly-gay leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir, a former air hostess, is expected to be sworn in as Iceland's Prime Minister by the end of the week.

The 66-year-old politician lives with her partner, Jonina Leosdottir, a journalist and playwright. The couple were joined in a civil ceremony in 2002. Don't expect them to show up togetherfor photocalls, however – that's not the Icelandic way. Though she is famous across the island, having been a top politician for years, her lesbian union was no big deal in this calmly progressive nation of only 300,000 people.