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He had it coming!

September 18, 2008 – 10:25 am

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Books, Culture, Humour, comics, death, geek, humor, sad, tasteless, writing | Comments (18)

Shebeen Club Meeting Monday: Intro to the Federation of BC Writers

September 15, 2008 – 4:38 am

This month we’ve moved our meeting to Monday, September 15th instead of Tuesday and across the street so that we can have the brand-new Shebeen all to ourselves! We’ll play host to Sylvia Taylor, President of the Federation of BC Writers, who will give us an overview of the Fed and what it can do [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Books, Culture, Lush Life, The Shebeen Club, Vancouver, Work, media, raincoaster media group, writing | Comments (0)

Mobile SWARM: Live Art Project Tonight

September 6, 2008 – 1:34 am

Mobile SWARM is tonight. Since the backstage section of the project started thirty seconds ago, I don’t really have time to explain. The project itself starts at 7pm Pacific Time and goes till 10. You can see it live here:
Mobile Swarm
And if any of you technical genii know how to hook that up to a [...]

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Augustine (Brr) Blows!

August 23, 2008 – 5:28 am

Oh god. I’m so, so sorry for that one. But I had to: it was there. I’ve been hanging around FFE and Archie too much, obviously.
Here is a pretty and unaltered photo of Alaskan volcano Mount Augustine erupting on March 27, 2006.
By Cyrus Read on behalf of the AVO/USGS the via Paul LeBlanc on Twitter.
Didn’t [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Weird, environment, photography | Comments (21)

quiz: Which Font Are You? and bonus Which Tea Are You?

August 16, 2008 – 8:55 am

Yep, these ones are pretty good I must say. Why, that’s the font with which I learned to type! And the tea I’d be drinking right now if I didn’t have to go to sleep in fifteen minutes!

You Are Courier New

You have a deep appreciation for tradition and history.
You don’t eschew modernity, but you do [...]

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Every Day I Write the Blog Post

August 12, 2008 – 12:04 am

and every night someone complains about it.
Nonetheless, every time someone clicks Play on this YouTube, a new blogger gets her keyboard.
It’s true. It’s a fact.
If you haven’t looked out at a crowd of your friends and family and thought, Ah, material! you’re not really a writer.

Every Day I Write the Book, by Elvis Costello
Lyrics over [...]

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Welcome to the Blogroll, George Orwell

August 10, 2008 – 7:48 am

Do I need to explain why?
Seriously, though, I’d have thought he’d have been a little snappier. If he’d had to compete with all the famewhores out there stuffing their blogs with memes, he’d have stepped up his game a bit.
Check out the August 10th entry:
Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.
Yeah, ACTUAL diaries are never [...]

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Operation Global Media Domination: the Lolebrity Situation

August 6, 2008 – 10:41 am

Yay! My baby took her first unassisted steps today.
Well, okay, I may have had an assist in there, but she got the goal all by her own self. I didn’t even notice till the second Gawker thread had 84 comments on it.
Previously, she’d been held up by my daily links from Ayyyy and the [...]

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Blogging by Faith

July 25, 2008 – 12:08 am

Jeebus it would be nice if I had a keyboard with the letters printed right on it and a computer that didn’t crash when I tried to blog. Or a wireless router. Gee, would be swell.

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Cephalokini: buy it now!

July 24, 2008 – 8:15 pm

The Cephalokini® new for Summer ‘08!

Wireless, translucent suction-cantilevered top
shown with side-fastened bottom
Thrilled with tentacles? Crave calamari? Our unique, organic halter provides cleavage enhancement without the wire in a wide variety of mutable colors and patterns depending on backdrop. Pick your top and bottom sizes separately from our fresh tank.
• Removable push-up padding/sashimi
• Dozens of suction [...]

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The Deadbeat Club

July 21, 2008 – 3:57 pm

Well, I’ve never been one to dip a toe in when I could plunge over the cliff taking an entire bus with me instead.
So…Facebook.
MistressCowfish suggested I start a group, because after Friending people, Grouping is teh hawtness on Facebook, which sounds to my elderly ears like a rave gotten completely out of control, but whatever.
I [...]

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How I Roll

July 16, 2008 – 7:14 am

He’s my homey.

stolen from The Rut

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Olive Riley, World’s Oldest Blogger, Goes Home

July 15, 2008 – 5:00 am

RIP Olive Riley. You found your way home.

Olive Riley, unofficially, but probably, the world’s oldest blogger, died on Saturday at the age of 108.
Olive videoblogged and blogged from her hostel home and recently updated everyone on her move both from her self-hosted site to Blogspot and her move from more independent living to the nursing [...]

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Shebeen Club Tuesday: The Moon Project

July 14, 2008 – 11:03 am

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 15th rescheduled to July 29th, 2008
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall
How: reserve @ lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
How Much: $15 includes dinner and a drink
What: The Moon Project with Virginia Gillespie
Who: For more info contact: lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
The Shebeen Club is pleased to present The Moon Project with White [...]

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Cthulhu Porn!

July 4, 2008 – 3:21 pm

For some things, my friends, there are no words. The soulless perversions, both polymorphous and (shockingly) amorphous, of the cosmic aberration which is Cthulhu know bondage neither in space nor in time, nor in any other dimension either dreamed or measured.
Here, my friends, is proof. Cover your eyes and turn away, rather than click on [...]

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Step Away From The Keyboard

July 2, 2008 – 10:09 pm

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Good Ideas vs Bad Ideas

July 1, 2008 – 2:35 am

Good Idea: rollerblading down to the office to pay your dues to the Federation of BC Writers for which you are the new Lower Mainland rep. Gets your dues paid and your workout done at the same time, plus bonus tanning time you don’t have to feel guilty about because you were, hello? productive.
Bad Idea: [...]

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Quiz: What Slanguage Do You Speak?

June 21, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Well, it’s good to know that I speak moderately good Canadian. Not sure how useful all that Victorian slang knowledge is going to be, though; I don’t know any old people!

Your Slanguage Profile

Canadian Slang: 75%
Victorian Slang: 75%
Aussie Slang: 50%
British Slang: 50%
Prison Slang: 25%
Southern Slang: 25%

What Slanguage Do You Speak?

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Historical, Quizzes and tests | Comments (21)

Free Tibet!!!

June 20, 2008 – 5:29 pm

marriedtothesea.com

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Humour, humor, sad | Comments (1)

Brian Atene in Black and White

June 10, 2008 – 8:06 pm

A little monologue for your Tuesday. I meant to post this yesterday for alliteration’s sake, but those pesky technical issues got in the way.

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