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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Michael Slade’s Cowboys and Indians

October 31, 2007 – 10:31 pm

So there I was in the hallway, sitting stoically at my Shebeen Club trade show table at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference.
And there, in the room right in front of me, was Jay Clarke, retired Vancouver criminal lawyer, better known as Michael Slade, notorious writer of gory best-selling thrillers. He was talking with some consternation [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Books, Canada, Celebrity, Crime, Family, Historical, Humour, Literary, Lush Life, Politics, Vancouver, War, cowboys, drugs, economics, government, humor, philosophy, terrorism | Comments (5)

London Calling…from beyond the grave

October 31, 2007 – 7:16 pm

Perfect for Halloween; the tribute to the late Joe Strummer from the Grammys. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, Pete Thomas, Steven Van Zandt, and Tony Kanal.

By raincoaster | Posted in 80's, Celebrity, Entertainment, Fans, Generation X, Halloween, Videos, YouTube, anarchy, music, sad | Comments (17)

LOLitics: Mannifest Destuny

October 30, 2007 – 8:35 am

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Now, it’s not the first time the Yanks have made a move on our land. The last time they pulled this my ancestors had to go down and loot and burn the White House to discourage this kind of thing, and as we know from recent example, the gene pool has bred true.
But this [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in 80's, 911, Allegory, Canada, Culture, Generation X, Hoaxes, Humour, Politics, U.S., Weird, bigotry, flamewar, government, humor, terrorism | Comments (9)

quiz: what kind of candy are you?

October 30, 2007 – 3:13 am

What does it mean that I’m a kind of candy you can’t get in my country? I’d rather be something nice and Canadian, like Maple Toffee or something.

Butterfinger

They call you sticky fingers for a reason!

What Kind of Candy Are You?

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Halloween, Holiday, Quizzes and tests, chocolate, meme | Comments (29)

Season of the Witch

October 29, 2007 – 12:31 pm

The firecrackers have started in Chinatown and the first of the Skytrain costume parties is over. The stores are decked in a crazy clashing kaliedoscope of pumpkin orange, black, red, and green as Christmas tries to force its way through the doors before all passengers have disembarked, the passenger in question being Halloween.
Here is something [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in 60's, 70's, Blogroll, Christianity, Entertainment, Fantasy, Generation X, Halloween, Holiday, Humour, Religion, Videos, Weird, YouTube, bigotry, chocolate, humor, mashups, music, warlocks | Comments (19)

Cat Found!

October 29, 2007 – 2:05 am

from Flickr via PostmodernGirl
What do you think? Should we tell them? I’m pretty sure this was a Looney Tunes episode many years back…

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Humour, Wildlife, animals, cats, humor | Comments (27)

the (second) fight of my life

October 28, 2007 – 11:39 am

In retrospect I must say that I really couldn’t have picked a better fashion choice than Farmer Zombie for the street fight.
A little background, perhaps?
I live on the Downtown EastSide, an area where the average life expectancy has been estimated as low as 33 years, thanks to AIDS, Hep-A, Hep-B, Hep-C, tuburculosis, and a whole [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Canada, Crime, Etiquette, Justice, Lush Life, Police, Vancouver, diary, kids | Comments (49)

what this world needs is more singing, dancing contraception

October 27, 2007 – 9:51 am

If they could somehow work jazz hands into this, it would be just about perfect.

NSFW if your boss is really, really uptight about cross-sectional illustrations of gay sex, or maybe also wooden dildos
Here, via The Manolo, is the singingest, dancingest Bollywood-fabulousest subtitlediest condom commercial you’ll ever lay eyes on. They’re like [...]

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Who wore it best: Jesus, Elvis, or Axl?

October 26, 2007 – 10:26 pm

We’re talking about the trademark Sacred Heart look of
The King of Kings, Jesus Christ himself.

The question: Who wore it best?
The King?

or drama queen Axl Rose?

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The Vegan Anthem: a challenge and war cry!

October 26, 2007 – 1:06 pm

First, some motivational music. Preeeeeee-senting the Arrogant Worms performing their breakout hit (Arrogant Worm nerds: no backtalk, please) Carrot Juice is Murder. Stolen from Seismic Twitch, and cross-posted in a couple of days to TeenyManolo. Lyrics over the jump, philosophical thesis statement, below.

And now, to the debate.
I’d like to introduce [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Britney Spears, Canada, Entertainment, Etiquette, Hoaxes, Humour, Lush Life, Weird, animals, celebutard, cooking, death, environment, horror, humor, murder, philosophy, sad, tasteless | Comments (4)