There are scratches on the unit, as it was used daily for about two years on my commute to work. It was won as part of a Pepsi promotion in October, 2004 http://foo.ca/wp/2004/10/11/just-won-a-20gb-ipod/ and I replaced it this past fall with one of the shiny new 80GB units. Sure, you don’t really care about my [...]
Read more →I didn’t attend SXSW, so my sole opinions on many of these bands is based entirely off the MP3 that they saw fit to submit as the single that would best represent their art. Maybe one of these years I’ll make it down to Texas in the spring. The first run through the 2007 SXSW [...]
Read more →One of my last mornings in Vancouver this past fall, watching the crows swarm and get ready for a day of scaring people by diving for their heads. The sky was beautiful and the crows were in silhouette. The above item listed on etsy for $40 is 8×8 inches, mounted on black foamcore. I also [...]
Read more →I’ve been trying to force myself to go through my entire music collection and listen to everything. It’s not so much that there are things that I haven’t listened to as there might be things in there that are hiding in the sheer volume of data. I have much of the Beatles collection, and I [...]
Read more →Just east of Main Street on East Hastings in Vancouver, this has been routinely voted the poorest, the worst, most drug-addicted neighbourhood in North America. This is part of a worn neon sign above what used Ladies’ Entrance to a bar, and you can have a nice 8″ square print of this for your condo’s [...]
Read more →I may have posted this tune already, but this is the latest rendition, and they’ve managed to get Mr. Chi Pig (SNFU) to slow down enough that the effect is much more complete. Very Broke Back Mountain now… Chi and Plow and their love that dare not speak its name… Hellbent Cuntry w/ Mr. Chi [...]
Read more →There’s an 80s fashion sense that’s been making a valiant effort to come off life support again in the past couple years. Here in Halifax, they have been living in the 80s for some time; it’s the hair and the fashion, mostly. I did something highly unusual today, and entered the Tim Horton’s in the [...]
Read more →Bill Maher not being funny; some would say he rarely is, but I think he has his moments.
Read more →A List of things that do not make sense from New Scientist’s March 19, 2007 issue features a non-negative mention of homeopathy MADELEINE Ennis, a pharmacologist at Queen’s University, Belfast, was the scourge of homeopathy. She railed against its claims that a chemical remedy could be diluted to the point where a sample was unlikely [...]
Read more →I’ve often wondered if she was just playing a character, a big self-satire on the US Republican Party… but I’m thinking that no, she’s just an idiot. For the benefit of google; whore
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