September 30, 2006 – 4:00 pm
Yeah, that’s going to make the PR top ten list for sure. via Fark.
When Sonnie Martin recently broke down in Calgary in her Hummer H2, she said she was met with a string of horns, fingers, obscenities and rude comments.
“On that day, I was embarrassed to be a Calgarian,” she wrote to the Calgary Herald.
However, [...]
September 30, 2006 – 3:41 pm
Cafferty struck a somber tone tonight after the House passed legislation that includes a war crimes immunity clause. He rightfully asks, “what are we becoming?”Cafferty: President Bush is trying to pardon himself. Here’s the deal: Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies, in some cases punishable by death. When the [...]
September 30, 2006 – 3:20 pm
“A couple came up to me after it was all over and shook my hand and said, ’We’re from South Carolina, and we just want to thank you, that was the best bar fight and greatest entertainment we’ve ever had,’ ” said Scott Richard of Cody.
Forget Texas; don’t mess with Wyominginans either, apparently. Fark has the [...]
September 30, 2006 – 1:47 am
so blogging will be a little erratic. That’s okay, though: I know that if you’re a reader of this blog you’re very into the erratic arts.
FYI you know how the tarmac on runways and taxiways has those rubber tire marks, in big swooping circles and straight lines and some, heart-stopping times, a series of juddering dark grey [...]
September 29, 2006 – 9:28 am
Head over to Jesus’ General and pay your respects.
If you have no idea what this is about, check out this remix of a classic, by Karl, one of the General’s loyal soldiers, or the Colbert Report below it.
As long as we’re rewriting the values our nation has so long held dear (from liberty and justice [...]
September 29, 2006 – 7:34 am
Now, are they not a lovely couple, in a May/December way? But not so lovely when you realize it’s also in a child/progenitor way.
Say hi to Bruce McMahan, McMahan’s Furniture heir, former PaineWebber and Bear Stearns honcho and current (clock ticking) chief of McMahan Securities. She’s Linda Marie Hodge McMahan Schutt, PhD (Psych, natch; draw your [...]
September 29, 2006 – 4:54 am
No, really. This Flash animation from Maps of War and via Fark, shows five thousand years of history in ninety seconds, and all of a sudden things make a lot more sense. Heck, I’m Christian and even I’d forgotten about the Crusader Kingdoms; I guess in Iraq and Afghanistan we have version 2.0. Well, this puts [...]
September 29, 2006 – 1:37 am
Yes, it’s the well-beloved classic from the Arrogant Worms, as enacted by a group of landlocked Canuckistani teenagers. These guys are evidently so Saskatchewani that they can’t even find a puddle to use as a backdrop, and make do with a playground and some barns instead. All in the adaptive, piratical spirit of the original, it [...]
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September 29, 2006 – 12:49 am
This is not the Arrogant Worms; this is Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, and they are performing The War of 1812. Do try to keep your Canuckistani Comedy Troupes straight. We wouldn’t want to have to invade!
O….Come back proud Canadians,
To before you had TV.
No Hockey Night in Canada,
there was no CBC.
In 1812 Madison was [...]
September 28, 2006 – 2:14 pm
Bluey, they called him. I guess they’ve got creativity rationing in place in Blighty. And maybe not so much “Giant” as “Really more than you could eat at one sitting.”
Anyhow, this Ananova report is the third in the “bizarrely-coloured lobster” series, a semi-regular feature on the raincoaster blog. He wins on sheer size and age; he’s [...]
September 28, 2006 – 9:16 am
via Jesus’ General:
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? The parties who may be arrested may be charged instantly with a well defined crime; of course, the judge will remand them. If the public safety requires that the government should have a man imprisoned on less probable testimony in those than in other [...]
September 28, 2006 – 7:16 am
God, I hope I don’t get to liking this succeeding at this; I’m already online so damned much I’m thinking of getting a “Hubba Hubba Heinie” mold for my computer chair. No time for yoga, dammit! Don’t worry, it’s not as if I have anything to say anyway.
September 28, 2006 – 6:43 am
That about sums it up.
In an interview with Baba Wawa on 20/20, Terri Irwin has said that she will not release the video footage of her husband’s death by stingray. This article comes from the BBC, via Trenchcoat Chronicles.
“What purpose would that serve?” she asked presenter Barbara Walters in an interview with US programme 20/20…
His [...]
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September 28, 2006 – 5:28 am
Does Odeo have a fast forward button? I’m really not feeling the iTunes monologue, but am desperate to try this Odeo thang, and me luves me some Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, good Canadian content, so here it is.
Gee, am I CRTC approvable now? If I can figure out how to do this and [...]
September 28, 2006 – 4:23 am
Was it Oscar Wilde or GBS who said, “There is nothing so provincial as a provincial celebrity”?
Well le voilà:
and Gawker is all over it:
Gladwell did the ad for charity, so we’re going to let it go this time, but, uh, wow, they really have a different idea of celebrity up north, don’t they? Also, we [...]
September 28, 2006 – 3:01 am
This is from an email newsletter I receive from Robert Genn, a painter here in BC.
His emails are pretty wide-ranging, but at the core is always the topic of creativity.
I thought this one in particular worth sharing.
Neuroarthistory
September 26, 2006
A new art buzzword is “neuroarthistory.” It’s the brain-blatt of a couple of U.K. professors. Art history expert John [...]
September 27, 2006 – 9:46 pm
This came out a couple of years ago; take a look at some of the local wildlife and maybe you’ll understand why I don’t like to swim in the ocean.
West Coast of Vancouver Island an 80lb Octopus Doflieni - Giant Pacific Octopus, tentacle spread of 16ft, charges an underwater robot (ROV)and wraps a tentacle around [...]
September 27, 2006 – 8:53 am
From Defamer:
Every once in a while, a reader will send in something just interesting or odd enough to totally mesmerize us, something that we we feel oddly compelled to share despite our complete inability to find a blogworthy angle. If you need a context for the attached photo, it’s merely a sign from San Diego’s [...]
September 27, 2006 – 8:08 am
Make of this what you will. Personally, if I’d been an Aussie, I’d have died to portray Steve Irwin. Russell Crowe apparently feels differently.
Actor Russell Crowe called reports that he may play “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin in a film biography of Irwin’s life “appalling,” he told CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight.”
“This is my friend,” Crowe told “Showbiz [...]
September 26, 2006 – 11:12 pm
So you might as well get some of those presents out of the way early. In case you’ve got any lonely and unpersonable men on your list, here’s the girl of their dreams, from eBay via Gawker: the Elizabeth Hurley fembot from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Even though this version comes with a [...]
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