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Faceless!

September 15, 2008 – 7:53 am

Faceless on Facebook, faceless on Twitter, faceless on WordPress, on Gravatar, on OpenID (which, it must be said, I’ve never gotten to work anyway) in fact, faceless anywhere is a powerful statement, especially in an increasingly-overpopulated world where everyone wears their MySpace pruneface at all times, lest they be caught on CCTV looking humdrum.
Just ask [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Art, Blogging, Canada, Culture, Facebook, Politics, Twitter, government, meme, news, social media | Comments (5)

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

Brian Atene: the backstory

August 9, 2008 – 2:50 am

This is his best yet, although it is entirely lacking in that trademark zany WTF-ness we’ve come to know and love (?). If you’ve ever wondered what was the point of Brian Atene, grab a bottle of Coppola Rosso and watch this. And not just because he namechecked me!

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Brian Atene, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Fans, Generation X, Irony, Lush Life, Operation Global Media Domination, YouTube, cocktails, meme, philosophy, podcasts, raincoaster, sad | Comments (14)

Princely Prostate Perfect!

August 9, 2008 – 12:46 am

Breaking…
so to speak.
Contrary to rumours and a front-page article in the London Evening Standard (what kind if standard is that? I ask yez) Queen Elizabeth II’s superannuated boytoy Prince Consort Prince Philip’s prostate is in fact and in actuality fully-functional.
From Reuters:
We now accept that the story was untrue and that he is not suffering from [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Celebrity, Culture, Humour, London, Lush Life, Weird, humor, media, news | Comments (2)

a history of violence

June 8, 2008 – 8:01 am

For those of you who’ve wondered if I ever sleep, of course I do, in the daytime. For those of you who’ve wondered how I’ve managed to survive everything that’s been thrown at me, perhaps this is a clue: I’m immortal.
Today was a lazy day for me, since I pre-posted all my paid blogging stuff [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Blogging, Blogroll, Culture, Etiquette, Literary, Movies, Operation Global Media Domination, YouTube, death, flamewar, geek, hipsters, media, raincoaster, zombies | Comments (6)

Gore Vidal on The Long War and Brainwashing

June 1, 2008 – 8:37 am

Where is Metro when you need him? Probably sulking because Blogger won’t let me leave any golden droppings in his comment section.
Stolen from the comments on Gawker:

rosaluxembourgeoise at 03:52 PM on 05/31/08

Oh, look what’s lying right here on the coffee table, one of my favorite passages by Gore Vidal:
“Although [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Historical, Literary, Operation Orwell, Politics, U.S., War, conspiracy, government, terrorism | Comments (5)

China After the Earthquake: Fascism, Spin, Gullibility and Blame

May 22, 2008 – 11:21 am

Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
In the wake of the newest reports setting the death toll from the Chinese earthquake north of 50,000, the government response of 50,000 troops, which was initially hailed as a superb example of the actions of a government in complete control of its situation, is looking a little less [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Emergency, Operation Orwell, Politics, government, sad | Comments (18)

raincoaster’s celebrity lookalike

April 29, 2008 – 8:15 am

Kaonashi (No-Face)
A masked, cloaked spirit who feeds on the emotions of others.
I DID try. I tried it twice. And each time I uploaded a photo of my beaming mug, the thrice-accurst meme-jockeys in the nth circle of hell where automated “funny kontent” is generated snickered amongst themselves and sent back, “Sorry, no faces were detected [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Blogging, Celebrity, Humour, conspiracy, humor, meme, sad | Comments (10)

a writer’s life: it’s not all skittles and beer

April 28, 2008 – 4:25 am

Sometimes it’s vengeful dames and whiskey sours. Welcome to my world:

Stolen from Gawker, which is quite the Kids in the Hall fanclub this weekend.
PS: Kids in the Hall were formed in 1984. Oh, GOD I’m old.

By raincoaster | Also posted in 80's, Books, Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Etiquette, Generation X, Humour, Literary, Lush Life, humor, sad, writing | Comments (6)

Daniel Radcliffe’s Peter Joins Penis Protection Program

April 24, 2008 – 12:24 pm

For several months now, all the world, or at least, all the world that can afford New York theatre tickets, has been eagerly looking forward to the Broadway debut of Harry Potter’s wand. We at the ol’ raincoaster blog have not failed to cover the blow-by-blow as Daniel Radcliffe and his Nethers of Strange Hirsutity [...]

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