Wow. Thanks. I'm not quite sure how we've pulled this off five times in a row, but once again we've been voted #1 blog in the Montreal Mirror's Best of Montreal poll. Either you really, genuinely love us, or we have a name that's easy to remember. Or something in between. Nonetheless, we really, genuinely love you, our readers, and we're exceedingly happy to keep bringing you our coverage of the best stuff this city has to offer. Even if you stopped voting for us, we wouldn't stop working for you. That's a promise.

All our love in 2012 and beyond,

The Midnight Poutine Crew

Cool. We've just been named one of Montreal's "stylish" websites by fashion/career site Style Nine to Five. We're not sure we're as hot as some of the other blogs/bloggers listed, but we'll accept the compliment anyway. Perhaps we'll celebrate by going out to buy some new outfits. Or maybe we'll start working on a new look/design for our homepage.

The honour reminded us, though, that we're in desperate need of more posts in our Fashion section. If you'd like to write about any aspect of Montreal's fashion scene, please get in touch (editors *at* midnightpoutine *dot* ca)

What? We're celebrating the birthday of a crown corporation? Do we have nothing better to talk about (like, perhaps, the fact that Justin Bieber might have reproduced!). We here at Midnight Poutine are far too low on the media totem pole to weigh in on the big-guy rivalry going on, but since the airwaves are buzzing with Peter Gzowski-esque enthusiasm today, we figured that - just maybe - it was worth mentioning.

On a scale from 1 to 10, where do you think this weighs in as important?

After a Supreme Court decision to keep a Vancouver safe injection site open, there might be grounds to start opening them in Quebec.

You might have heard Mike Finnerty's interview on the CBC Radio this morning, in which the radio host tried a number of times to get an U de M professor to name specific neighbourhoods where these sites would supposedly open. We all knew what he was getting at: what he really wanted to ask was: "Where are all the drug addicts in Montreal, and will opening a safe injection site in my neighbourhood be a lure for the city's drug dealers and crack addicts?"

What do you think, though? Is this a staunch case of NIMBY?

In case you were worried to go outside for the last night of Pop Montreal, you can rest easy: that huge bus-sized mass of metal that NASA's been warning us about for a few days landed safely outside Calgary sometime around midnight (poutine time) last night. Given that they had calculated a 1 in 3200 chance of it hitting a human, it's pretty amazing that nobody was hurt.

Guess I'll just have to hold out for getting hit by lightning or winning the lottery now (that's how statistics work, right?)

Pop Montreal is here! Have you figured out what you're going to see? Are you low on cash like me and you and everyone we know? Maybe you'll be among the hundreds, the thousands -- or hundreds of thousands?! -- of people that will most likely take over downtown's streets tomorrow evening for the golden children of the Montreal music scene to give their free show. Arcade Fire will go on stage at 9pm, only after Kid Koala and Karkwa warm them up.