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Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Greatest Ho

March 31, 2008 – 6:34 am

I’m on a kick. I get that way sometimes; there’s no point trying to stop me if you, yourself, do not want to be kicked, whether in the privates, in the majors, or curb-wards (kerb-wards for our overseas readers!) you just have to stand clear. Sometimes I get it in my head to watch every [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in 80's, Celebrity, Fans, Movies, Singles, Steve Jobs, Viggo Mortensen, computers, marketing, obituaries, poetry, technology | Comments (16)

Guess who?

March 30, 2008 – 2:51 am

Let’s just say the experiment to become diurnal rather than nocturnal is not going well. On the one hand, I got up at five today. On the other hand, it probably wasn’t the five you’d expect.

By raincoaster | Posted in diary | Comments (22)

The “Humans” Project

March 29, 2008 – 7:24 am

A video challenge for the world from the great MadV:

What does it mean to be human?
Take part in The “Humans” Project, a community effort to pin down the elusive description of human nature and what humans are.
Post a video response with your original spoken sentence.
Examples:
“Humans are….”
“To be human is….”
“I am human because….”
“What makes us human [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Art, Culture, MadV, Manifestos, Videos, YouTube | Comments (0)

Okay, Vancouver, WTF?

March 29, 2008 – 7:05 am

Originally written like, a week ago, and been sitting in the Draft bucket since. For whatever reason, my internet connection also went down. And according to all the news sources, the following never happened.
Sure. Sure…
It’s 2:21am on a Tuesday morning and the BC Hydro “Oh Canada” blast horns have just treated us to an [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Canada, Emergency, Vancouver, Weird, anarchy, architecture | Comments (1)

over Steve Jobs’ dead body

March 27, 2008 – 6:28 am

Note: Belkin dock

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Apple, Celebrity, Hoaxes, Humour, Steve Jobs, Weird, death, geek, humor, iPod, sad | Comments (8)

im in ur blawggin klace teechin sew shall medja

March 26, 2008 – 11:53 pm

an boi r mai meemz tyerd

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Blogging, Digg, Education, Google, Humour, Operation Global Media Domination, Second Life, Technorati, lolcats, social media, technology | Comments (5)

blog fodder made easy: how to write epics!

March 25, 2008 – 9:41 am

We’ve all been there: When you open the Write Post page, the void looks also into you.
Here is the quick and dirty version of how to feed your blog on a majah scale: with EPICS! Who doesn’t like epics? They’re epic! Epically epic!
First: you need a setting. Rip one off from an existing epic and [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Books, Entertainment, Humour, Literary, Weird, advice, how to, humor, writing | Comments (20)

The power behind the throne

March 25, 2008 – 6:30 am

I’ll bet you’ve always wondered. Now, from MyConfinedSpace via Ectoplasmosis and a tipoff from dissfunktional comes photographic proof of what we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have always suspected. Paging David Icke, paging David Icke, we’re sorry about the misunderstanding…

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By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Art, Christianity, Cthulhu, Hoaxes, Humour, Photoshop, Religion, Supernatural, Weird, conspiracy, humor | Comments (21)

Peep Show

March 24, 2008 – 7:05 am

I don’t like Peeps. They remind me of those noxious, spongy banana candies that taste like the dandruff on Satan’s shoulders, only with artificial banana flavouring, corn syrup solids, and yellow dye #42. When I say I don’t like Peeps, I mean I actually and actively despise them. And I have never let one near [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Easter, Entertainment, Holiday, Humour, Lush Life, Weird, capitalism, comics, food, humor, meme, sad | Comments (11)

what we have here is a failure to communicate

March 24, 2008 – 4:50 am

But a very amusing one.
Now, I like British newspapers. I particularly like British newspaper websites; sure, the design is horrifically clunky and it’s impossible to find what you want, but you often find what you actually need (hey, is that a British informatics archetype? I seem to have heard it somewhere before). Compared to the [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Culture, Etiquette, Holiday, Humour, Literary, Sex, Travel, fetish, humor, tasteless | Comments (11)

Don’t Tase Me, Bro

March 22, 2008 – 10:27 am

Siriusly!

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Historical, Operation Orwell, government, hipsters | Comments (55)

Cthulhu finds his dream job

March 20, 2008 – 12:31 pm

We all have one, and sometimes we find it in the strangest place:

via SeismicTwitch
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By raincoaster | Posted in Cthulhu, Humour, Movies, Porn, Sex, Squid, Weird, Work, animation, capitalism, comics, fetish, geek, gross, humor, sad | Comments (9)

blog post o’ the day: strangeness

March 20, 2008 – 4:09 am

What a surprising topic for our inaugural Blog Post O’ The Day! Indeed, strangeness is no stranger to the ol’ raincoaster blog which I will not link up because Technorati no longer adds status per link but rather per linking blog, so perhaps I should retain my blogging rate but do each single post in [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Art, Blogging, Culture, Irony, Literary, New York, Weird, anarchy, philosophy | Comments (20)

LolShark, LolTrilobites, and Cthulhu, the closet Oprah fan

March 20, 2008 – 1:29 am

via SeismicTwitch

Moar posts soon, as soon as I come down off the painkillers, that is.

By raincoaster | Posted in Cthulhu, Culture, Humour, Squid, Weird, Wildlife, animals, comics, fish, humor, lol, meme | Comments (5)

Steve Jobs = Cthulhu

March 18, 2008 – 2:16 pm

No, it’s true.
Really.
It makes total sense.
It explains so much.
Think about it.
Once, ages ago, a race of bizarre, loathesome creatures ruled the Earth. Writhing and gibbering in the Stygian darkness of their lair, ravening for the blood of those who worshipped them, this strangely Protean race nearly destroyed the youthful planet in its ceaseless quest to [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Apple, Celebrity, Cthulhu, Hoaxes, Humour, Steve Jobs, Weird, computers, geek, humor, mashups | Comments (3)

YouTube and Vancouver Film School Scholarship Contest

March 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

VFS and YouTube have just announced an international scholarship competition that should knock Chris Crocker off the front page and into the obscurity which has hungered for him ever since the Leave Britney Alone fifteen minutes started.
The prize is a full tuition scholarship to internationally-respected Vancouver Film School, the school out of which Kevin Smith [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Art, Canada, Education, Entertainment, Generation X, Movies, Vancouver, Videos, YouTube, animation, contests, podcasts, television, writing | Comments (3)

St Patrick’s Day cartoon: savage chicken vs leprechaun

March 18, 2008 – 2:09 am

You don’t want to mess with a Savage Chicken!

By raincoaster | Posted in Holiday, Humour, Lush Life, St. Patrick's Day, comics, food, humor | Comments (8)

St. Patrick’s Day Irish Jokes

March 17, 2008 – 8:23 am

These are the best Irish jokes you’ll hear all day, unless you go over to Smoke&Mirrors where I stole them from and read the whole whack all at once.
It should be noted (or is that “noted it should be”?) that:
I’m Irish Catholic on one side and Irish Protestant on the other, my favorite pub is [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Christianity, Entertainment, Etiquette, Holiday, Humour, Jokes, Lush Life, Politics, St. Patrick's Day, humor, philosophy | Comments (13)

Quiz: what will the movie of your life be called

March 17, 2008 – 5:44 am

Here we present a soothing balm to the surprisingly incendiary in a Cute Overload sort of way quiz: which movie do you belong to? featured earlier.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Stolen from Mia’sMadness
There, isn’t that just so much better?
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By raincoaster | Posted in Celebrity, Entertainment, Humour, Movies, Quizzes and tests, Religion, Weird, humor, meme, raincoaster | Comments (19)

Sex and Death for St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2008 – 3:34 am

How Irish. It was either post about sex and deathor go read some James Joyce, and who can handle that sober, eh? I ask yez.
In news sure to warm the rapidly-cooling cockles of convenience-minded necrophiliacs and suicidal sex addicts alike, the Swiss self-offing rights group Dignitas has opened a sort of members-only Hotel California(you can [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Etiquette, Humour, Sex, Weird, capitalism, death, fetish, goth, horror, humor, murder, sad, tasteless | Comments (0)