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Category Archives: Work

Casual Fridays Gone Wild

January 3, 2009 – 8:02 am

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

By raincoaster | Also posted in Etiquette, Humour, comics, humor | Comments (4)

At Your Service

November 16, 2008 – 6:55 am

Ever wondered how those swanky hotels manage to be so irritatingly perfect all the time? It takes people like this, and if you think this is exaggerated, you’ve spent your work life in places with lower standards.

stolen from CelebritySmack

“At Your Service” is a fast ride of traditional 2D animation (composited in [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Humour, Lush Life, animation, capitalism, humor | Comments (3)

and it’s only Monday

October 28, 2008 – 5:07 am

It’s gonna be a long week.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Humour, humor, sad | Comments (8)

Pic o’ the Day: Montreal Dairy Cows

October 3, 2008 – 9:01 am

Okay, so this isn’t going to be the most SEO-pimped-out post I’ve ever made. Still, it’s an amazing pic and everyone should see it and hear the backstory from WalkingTurcotYards, backstory which is both poignant and amazing:

By raincoaster | Also posted in 30's, Allegory, Canada, Historical, Lush Life, Montreal, Street Art, Weird, marketing | Comments (7)

Sleepless in Strathcona

September 17, 2008 – 10:36 am

Ugh.
Work.
It’s 3:37am and I just finished my work, which wouldn’t be so bad except that I started at 9am yesterday.
At least with all the salt mining I may be able to buy a faster computer!

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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, Literary, Lush Life, The Shebeen Club, Vancouver, media, raincoaster media group, writing | Comments (0)

Self-Hatred FTW!

September 15, 2008 – 3:15 am

Fran Lebowitz is right: the products of repression and self-hatred are artistically superior to the products of freedom and self-actualization. I mean: Vincent Van Gogh vs LeRoy Neiman. Case closed.
So this is what architects do in their spare time, when they’re not being paid to create soul-killing, fast-buck developments of appalling vulgarity that stain the [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Art, Culture, Humour, Photoshop, architecture, beauty, capitalism, environment, humor, mashups, sad | Comments (0)

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 | Also posted in Blogging, Culture, Holiday, Justice, YouTube, capitalism, economics, music, philosophy | Comments (22)

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 | Also posted in Cthulhu, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Lush Life, Squid, Weird, YouTube, animation, capitalism, cocktails, gross, humor, mashups | Comments (9)

raincoaster: caught in the act

August 10, 2008 – 5:00 am

I don’t know why more people don’t appreciate my input!

marriedtothesea.com

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Humour, Weird, comics, philosophy, raincoaster, sad | Comments (4)