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Monthly Archives: November 2006

house-sitting: a paradigm shift

November 30, 2006 – 1:28 pm

It must be said that house-sitting is more attractive as a gig when you live, as I do, in a leaky, damp, cold, mushroom-sprouting festerment on the heart of the Downtown EastSide rather than, say, a $25million-dollar oceanfront mansion on the North Shore. Although I still bet I get more seawater than they do: I [...]

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how cocaine is produced

November 30, 2006 – 12:42 pm

The subtitles while the coke peasants at lunch are the most interesting part of this fascinating video from Defamer (unless you actually use coke, in which case the whole thing is a paranoid can’t-tear-yourself-away fantasy trainwreck; I wonder how many OCD-related suicides will result from viewing this video).
“Do you do drugs?”
[laughter] “No, the guerrillas don’t [...]

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Christmas on acid

November 30, 2006 – 2:59 am

Normally, I don’t like Christmas stuff before December 1st, but this year and particularly this Fall have just been so spectacularly crappy that I feel the need. I’ve gotta have a hit of the beautiful freakery that is the Vestibules‘ song Christmas on Acid, accompanied by bizarre out-takes of classic Christmas cartoons. My only regret [...]

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Bloom County on the endangered liberal

November 29, 2006 – 2:22 pm

We are a rare breed indeed.

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welcome to the panIHOPticon

November 29, 2006 – 1:49 pm

 
Would you like some surveillance with those flapjacks? How about a side of identity theft? Can I top up your presumption of guilt before offering you what we’ve got in the way of closed curcuit television monitoring, hot off the griddle? Here’s our daily special, fresh from the Department of Homeland Insecurity.
In response to a media [...]

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the Charlie Brown remix: an Outkast Christmas

November 29, 2006 – 9:28 am

Remix or original, Linus still has the best lines. It would make sense that he grew up to be George Clooney.

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Vancouver’s Chinatown in winter, a vignette

November 29, 2006 – 2:57 am

 
From Chowman on the Urban Diner Waiterforum. This will give you a bit of perspective on where I live and how immigrants adapt with creativity to our patented Canadian winters.
My favourite restaurant ice-clearing moment was at lunch today on Main Street. A cook was on his knees with a cleaver, hacking at the ice on the [...]

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THE definitive raincoaster quiz

November 29, 2006 – 2:28 am

My heart leaped up when my eyes saw this one! Yes, we’ve been quiz-heavy over the past 24 hours it is true, but there exists in this world not the slightest chance that raincoaster was gonna let this one get past her without taking credit where credit is, according to the Quiz Gods, due.
Bow down [...]

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quiz: which Disney character are you?

November 29, 2006 – 1:17 am

What the hell, it’s easier than writing my own content. And, apparently, more popular. We’re blogging quick and dirty today, both because we’re doing a temporary move at casa del raincoaster and because WordPress’s back end is going down for a few hours (gee, I must not have my sexual metaphors straight…thought that wasn’t how [...]

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The Canadian Justice System explained

November 28, 2006 – 11:54 pm

By Ricky of the Trailer Park Boys. See, it’s not just our prisons that are more humane, it’s our courts too!

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