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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Heath Ledger’s Nick Drake video: Black-Eyed Dog

February 28, 2008 – 7:50 pm

Unfortunately, the video is marred by the incessant nattering of a group of twangy Australian talking heads, some of whom grin in the most merciless fashion while discussing Nick Drake’s suicide and Heath Ledger’s depression, no doubt thinking all the while of their ratings. If I find a version without them, rest assured I will [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in 70's, Art, Celebrity, Culture, Generation X, Heath Ledger, YouTube, death, hipsters, music, sad, tragedy | Comments (9)

A thousand words

February 28, 2008 – 5:26 pm

You know what they say…

Passed along by Mistress Cowfish at CelebratingTheAbsurd
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By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Dating, Family, Humour, Weird, children, humor, parenting, sad, tasteless | Comments (15)

Arthur C. Clarke, Cephalopodcaster

February 28, 2008 – 1:27 pm

Enjoy this fine, fine television programming from the golden days of the Seventies: so much to mock, so much to adore. Charlie’s Angels. Watergate. Jethro Tull. Fat Ties. Fat Lapels. Fat Elvis.
Arthur C. Clarke.
Chariots of the Gods.
Sea Monsters!

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By raincoaster | Posted in 70's, Celebrity, Cthulhu, Generation X, Literary, Science, Squid, Weird, YouTube, animals, environment, fish, horror, television | Comments (22)

Wanted

February 27, 2008 – 3:18 pm

Job posting of the year, this one.
I have a friend. My friend is smart. My friend is funny. My friend is possessed of a wide and varied range of interests and a keen appreciation for what people call “having a life” that precludes her putting mundane concepts like Calvinism, Liberal Guilt, or Suburbianism ahead of [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Family, Humour, Lush Life, Sex, Singles, Weird, Work, capitalism, government, humor, parenting, tasteless | Comments (32)

i can has low interest rate and no user fees?

February 27, 2008 – 12:08 pm

i can has 10% interest rate Mastercard and a musical welcum?
frum kittuns?
Yes. Yes, u can has.
You’ve just gotta luv a banking website that has the wait warning: “loading kittens. loading ukelele. loading glockenspiel.” Bankwest in Australia has done the research on generating web buzz and they’ve looked at i can has and as a result [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Pets, animals, capitalism, cats, humor, lolcats, marketing | Comments (11)

drunk beaver shot

February 27, 2008 – 6:58 am

Beaver shots have naturally, month after month, continued to be one of the most popular features here on the ol’ raincoaster blog. From Old Parliamentary Beavers to Beavers sniffed, fondled, played with by Wetmore Woman, to the cyborg perversions of the Hairy Robot Beaver, we have endeavored to bring you all the up to the [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Etiquette, Hoaxes, Humour, Lush Life, Porn, beaver, cocktails, drugs, humor, meme | Comments (21)

quiz: which Transformer are you?

February 26, 2008 – 9:27 am

I didn’t do too bad despite being too old young to remember much about the original series, and having had no interest whatsoever in watching the Giant Fucking Robots Movie.

I AM
70%
OPTIMUS PRIME
Take the Transformers Quiz
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By raincoaster | Posted in 80's, Entertainment, Fans, Movies, Quizzes and tests, Science Fiction, animation, geek, meme, robots, technology | Comments (26)

the Tale of the Tahitian Temptress who TKO’d a Tiki Bar

February 26, 2008 – 1:11 am

Now, it is not every day you hear a story like this. Indeed, it is not even every night, unless one leads a very unusual nocturnal life indeed and from me, that’s saying something.
I’m not sure what. But something.
She’s something alright. And she was probably even more of a something fifty-some-odd years ago, when she [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Art, Canada, Censorship, Etiquette, Humour, Lush Life, Northern Voice, Porn, Vancouver, Weird, beaver, humor, tiki | Comments (9)

the Animatus Collection: life, death, and Acme

February 25, 2008 – 11:23 pm

Behold, ye, the poignant, yet magnificent, splendor of Korean sculptor Hyungkoo Lee’s soul-chillingly beautiful Animatus Collection.
From the ethereal elegance of the Geococcyx Animatus…

To the cunning, resolute malevolence of the Canis Latrans Animatus…

This is a collection destined to haunt your nightmares, and to distort and pervert your formerly peaceful daylight [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Art, Culture, Entertainment, Fans, Humour, Science, Weird, animation, beauty, death, gross, horror, humor, sad, television | Comments (6)

The open source solution solution!

February 25, 2008 – 4:11 pm

Trust Dr. Boli to come up with a product which answers the needs of both large corporations and bureaucracies and those of the lowly peons who actually perform the work functions. I only wish I’d seen this before I went to Northern Voice! It would have been HUGE!

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By raincoaster | Posted in Blogroll, Hoaxes, Humour, Northern Voice, Open Source, capitalism, computers, geek, humor, marketing, sad, technology | Comments (4)