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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Labor Day, Labour Day

August 31, 2008 – 9:06 am

Labour Day isn’t just an excuse for a long weekend. The idea behind a weekend is, some people actually do work hard enough through the week that they need two days of rest at the end of it, or the value of their labour will steadily decline over a relatively short period of time.
I’m no [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Culture, Holiday, Justice, Work, YouTube, capitalism, economics, music, philosophy | Comments (22)

The Grand Plan

August 30, 2008 – 8:18 am

It’s hard for me to type; in fact, I had to shut the doors and windows, because the constant drone of the sirens is becoming too much even for my hardened nerves.
But I’ve come up with a plan.
You see, every Welfare Wednesday (aka Mardi Gras) the sirens go; actually, they start the night before, as [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Canada, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Lush Life, Twitter, Vancouver, death, drugs | Comments (10)

a casual observation

August 30, 2008 – 4:12 am

I am meeting far too many people who won’t walk down certain streets, won’t go into certain restaurants, won’t attend certain parties, won’t set foot in certain parts of town, lest they encounter someone with whom they have become personally unpopular.
If I let that stop me, I’d never leave the apartment! So tell me, is [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Culture | Comments (15)

Operation Global Media Domination: The Steve Jobs and Longhorse Situation

August 29, 2008 – 9:50 am

First of all: Steve Jobs is not dead.
Second: Bloomberg posted, then pulled, his obituary today, Gawker picked up on it, posted about it, and into the comments thread on that post I dropped a link to my over Steve Jobs’s dead body post, which has subsequently rocketed to the top of the stats page off [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Celebrity, Operation Global Media Domination, Steve Jobs, death, meme | Comments (10)

LA ICE: shovelling the snowbacks back

August 29, 2008 – 9:01 am

This is remarkable video of one of LA’s most secretive police units, ICE: Illegal Canadian Enforcement. They sweep the streets clean of Canuckistani invaders, tipped off by nothing more than a glimpse of an NHL jersey, a whiff of maple syrup, or just a whistled bar of “Snowbird.”
Fear them.

Stolen from EvilBeet

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Canada, Crime, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Irony, Police, Politics, U.S., Weird, YouTube, conspiracy, government, humor, marketing, sad | Comments (12)

Back in a Bit

August 28, 2008 – 8:28 pm

We will return to our regularly-scheduled blogging once these weird errors stop happening.
In the meantime, try the raincoaster randomizer!

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My Favorite Bartender

August 26, 2008 – 9:58 am

I think people would be more Squid-positive if they could only visualize the huge productivity gains. THINK about it!

By raincoaster | Posted in Cthulhu, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Lush Life, Squid, Weird, Work, YouTube, animation, capitalism, cocktails, gross, humor, mashups | Comments (9)

Olympic Scandal: Faux BoJo, or No?

August 25, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Another Olympic scandal tops the headlines this morning as it is revealed that, in a substitution reminiscent of the opening ceremony’s switched songstresses and faux fireworks, London Mayor Boris Johnson did not, in fact, attend the closing ceremony at all, but instead was replaced by a sophisticated computer-generated animation.

This shocking swap was insisted upon by [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Boris Johnson, Censorship, Culture, George Orwell, Hoaxes, Humour, London, Olympics, Politics, Weird, conspiracy, government, humor, news, sad | Comments (13)

Boris Johnson’s Ping Pong Speech

August 25, 2008 – 8:41 am

Again I say: oh, Boris. Don’t ever change.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London gives quite possibly the greatest Olympic speech ever made; quite certainly the most entertaining. But why didn’t he bring up Poodle Clipping? That was an Olympic sport!

“Virtually every single one of our international sports were either invented or codified [...]

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Quiz: what kind of piercing are you?

August 24, 2008 – 11:44 pm

Yep, this one rings all the right bells, although we can all agree the LAST thing I need is more holes in my head.

You Are an Eyebrow Piercing

You are unique, quirky, and more than a little eccentric.
You cultivate the weirder sides of your personality, and you don’t mind sharing them.
Ever since you were a kid, [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Quizzes and tests, beauty, fashion, hipsters, meme | Comments (21)