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 [...]
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Posted in 70's, Art, Celebrity, Culture, Generation X, Heath Ledger, YouTube, death, hipsters, music, sad, tragedy
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February 28, 2008 – 5:26 pm
You know what they say…
Passed along by Mistress Cowfish at CelebratingTheAbsurd
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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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Posted in 70's, Celebrity, Cthulhu, Generation X, Literary, Science, Squid, Weird, YouTube, animals, environment, fish, horror, television
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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 [...]
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Posted in Family, Humour, Lush Life, Sex, Singles, Weird, Work, capitalism, government, humor, parenting, tasteless
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Etiquette, Hoaxes, Humour, Lush Life, Porn, beaver, cocktails, drugs, humor, meme
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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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Posted in 80's, Entertainment, Fans, Movies, Quizzes and tests, Science Fiction, animation, geek, meme, robots, technology
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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 [...]
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Posted in Allegory, Art, Canada, Censorship, Etiquette, Humour, Lush Life, Northern Voice, Porn, Vancouver, Weird, beaver, humor, tiki
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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 [...]
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Posted in Allegory, Art, Culture, Entertainment, Fans, Humour, Science, Weird, animation, beauty, death, gross, horror, humor, sad, television
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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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Posted in Blogroll, Hoaxes, Humour, Northern Voice, Open Source, capitalism, computers, geek, humor, marketing, sad, technology
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February 25, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Oh, why did I not find this heartwarming seasonal slideshow in time for Christmas last year? Alas, it is too late to make it part of my past traditions, but there’s no reason not to post it now and make viewing it a yearly thing from this point forward. It really sets the perfect tone [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Entertainment, Family, Humour, Movies, Weird, YouTube, animation, horror, humor, tiki
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February 25, 2008 – 11:43 am
(Photo: 2 WordPress dudes and 1/3 of a volunteer WordPress chick by penmachine)
Or more like stream of unconsciousness. For god’s sake, I woke up at eight o’clock this morning! What kind of TOPSY TURVY WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN when raincoaster wakes up without an alarm at eight o’clock in the morning on a Sunday?
Obviously, [...]
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Posted in Art, Blogging, Blogroll, Canada, Literary, Northern Voice, Vancouver, Wordpress, computers, friends, technology
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February 23, 2008 – 5:25 am
Of the many and varied delightful creatures which enliven the drear, dark depths, there are perhaps more mysteries than certainties. From time to time a trawler will snag something huge, something strange, something unspeakable; briefly it surfaces on Ananova or Reuters, only to be tossed back into the void, too disturbing for true contemplation.
We live [...]
February 22, 2008 – 10:13 pm
stolen from nurse myra at the Gimcrack Hospital who stole it, obviously, from rotten.com
That last line’s a doozy, eh?
Let us now review, apropos of nothing in particular, the difference between Theory and Practice.
The distance between theory and practice is always so much smaller in theory than in practice.
Thank you. That concludes today’s Ugandan Discussion.
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Posted in Culture, Education, Family, Lush Life, Public Service Announcement, Sex, Weird, advice, death, how to, marriage
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February 22, 2008 – 5:13 pm
Eh? Answer me that! But after you do, click on this link and hit Reload a couple of times to find out just exactly what Barack Obama really has done for you that you didn’t even notice, you ungrateful wretch!
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February 22, 2008 – 11:37 am
I know, it’s not an original title, but after watching this a couple of times I can’t really think straight; I can only sit smiling blankly, Buddha-like, into the face of the full moon. Watch and listen as Hawai’ian Jake Shimabukuro takes the ukelele to places in the human heart and the heart of the [...]
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Posted in 70's, Culture, Entertainment, Fans, Hawaii, Jake Shimabukuro, Weird, YouTube, beauty, hipsters, music
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February 22, 2008 – 6:48 am
Zeta Male theory or no, I continue to wish this rotten old computer would let me play in Second Life. And from Metro comes just another reason for me to sit here, eating my heart out.
Squid-O-Grams. Kissing Squid-O-Grams.
Cuddlefish Junction Kissing Squidogram! You set up what you want the squid to say and send it off [...]
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Posted in Cthulhu, Entertainment, Humour, Jokes, Second Life, Squid, Zeta Males, geek, gross, humor, practical jokes, tasteless
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February 21, 2008 – 10:15 pm
Many and varied are the service pieces that we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog consider posting for the benefit of our many and varied readership, but among them certain universal qualities recur. The piece must be practical at the bedrock level. It must be actionable, easy to put into practice. It must appeal to [...]
February 21, 2008 – 3:24 pm
Pivot Report Finds Kids Lost in Child Protection System
Vancouver, February 20–The plight of British Columbia’s poorest children is the focus of Pivot Legal Society’s new report, Broken Promises: Parents Speak about B.C.’s Child Welfare System. Based on interviews and affidavits from service providers, social workers, lawyers and, in [...]
February 21, 2008 – 11:33 am
This beautiful photo of the lunar eclipse was taken by ecstaticist near Victoria, BC, and posted to Flickr. And many thanks to Lydia for phoning and reminding me of this. I only saw the last one because CG was out on the patio smoking something and thought he was hallucinating for a second. What would [...]
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