Category Archives: Canada

The Prancing Pony of Penticistan

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First Nations pony is also overjoyed

First Nations pony is also overjoyed

When I mentioned on Facebook that I was coming to the wild Penticistan steppes above Ruralopolis, I never thought that the locals would take it upon themselves to create a Welcome video for me. Apparently, they were so overcome with joy at the thought that soon the mighty raincoaster would roam the sagebrush slopes above the lake, gibbering softly and occasionally making nameless sacrifices on mysterious altars on the hilltops, that they created this gloriously Canadian multiculti work of art to welcome me.

It appears they think I do not know what is meant by the term “Indian pony” but we will let it slide. After all, OMG PONIES!

Happy Batshit Holidays

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A couple of years ago, it was the year of Merry Fucking Christmas; this year, it appears to be more along the lines of WTF Christmas. For examples of what Batshit Insane holidays look like, see the following trio of videos.

JP Auclair demonstrates “urban skiing” in Trail, BC.

Remi Gaillard demonstrates “batshit insane” in the south of France.

And finally, some wholesome, and completely batshit insane, heliskiers falling down mountains in the forest of the BC interior.

Bee Artistic

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Aganetha Dyck

Aganetha Dyck

Tired of those hideous Capidomonte figurines your wicked fairy godmother gave you as a vindictive wedding present? Well, we’ve got a solution for you: turn them into avant-garde art the Aganetha Dyck way!

Dyck is a Canadian artist who takes ordinary items like, say, loathesomely twee statuary, puts them in beehives, and lets the bees do their magic, turning the sows ears into veritable silk purses of post-postmodernism. Oh, like you were using them anyway: with this project, you can probably get some kind of farming grant for the bees, plus think of the millions you can make with one sweep through a flea market and a couple of months of waiting!

Don’t say I never did nuthin’ for ya!

Western Ware

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oh I say REALLY!

oh I say REALLY!

Another Facebook Status o’ the Day from that font of wisdom and wine Bradley Cooper:

Went to a party calling for a Western theme last night. So I concentrated on conversation around solving the problems of other countries by imposing a socio-political system on their society without regard for their history or traditions while dressed as a diplomat.

Seems logical.

Quote o’ the Day: Stripping

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Yellowknife Commute, Frame Lake Trail 7

“White people came here a long time ago; took all the furs; trapped all the beaver out; and the otter and the mink, things like that; and they gathered all these things up. They went away and they left us with the bush and the rocks. It wasn’t too much later they came back again. They call that logging. Cut down all the trees; white pine, red pine, cut it all down. And they left us on the bare rocks. Then they discovered uranium here. And the old man said, ‘Now the sons-a-bitches are back for the rocks.'”

—Gilbert Oskaboose, Serpent River First Nation

Gilbert Oskaboose

Gilbert Oskaboose