It is now official; I’ve been watching too many cooking shows. I was chopping up some fake-crab sticks and was planning to make a crab-ish sandwich. Damn. No mayo. A sane person would put on shoes and go buy some jar of mayonnaise like product at the store, but me? I have eggs and oil [...]
Read more →So, assuming The Student in the family can pull off good marks, I was thinking that might call for a Vancouver blitz around the end of April for a week or so. 7-11, JJ Bean, Kolachis, Chinese steam buns, cheap sushi, decent Indian food, a couple nights at The Cobalt. Part of what brought this [...]
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Read more →They consider themselves as being skeptical, and insist that people like Michael Shermer are cynics and not “True Skeptics”. They’re not skeptics; they’re really woo-woo salesmen, or true-believers, or just paranormal investigators if you’re looking to be kind. This is the Skeptics vs. Believers panel, which had all sorts of drama around the scheduling of [...]
Read more →I had three items entrusted to me to ship today; CD in a jewel case and two rubber bracelets in a bubble wrap CD mailer. This is destined for someone in Canada. A disposable camera in a bubble wrap envelope. This is going to someone in the United States. An aluminum hacky sack in yet [...]
Read more →The following is cribbed from Warren Ellis’ (the writer version, not the Nick Cave one) who wants good music to put into his newest attempt at a podcast. He does tend toward the electronic, if memory serves, and he’s not looking for third-party recommendations; he wants the artists to speak up themselves; if you see [...]
Read more →If you just bought a laptop from someone in the bar for $50, or you stole it yourself, don’t click on “upload to flickr” when you take photos of your cool tattoos… From Bill MacEwan’s report of the crime that lead to this photo appearing in his flikr photostream; My business was broken into last [...]
Read more →“I’m learning about the oceans Please understand my devotion” The video is from The Evaporators performance downstairs at the Vancouver Public Library last year, and re-used to illustrate the brand new song. Plenty of stage diving and gleeful jumping about by Nardwuar as well as audience members.
Read more →From the film’s website and press: Well the wait is over! This September Wiener will have both its world and US premieres back to back. Our world premiere will be at the Atlantic Film Festival, a major Canadian festival where we will unspool Wiener for its first public viewing on Sunday September 16.A couple of [...]
Read more →Halifax, I’m looking at you. You know how some people consider “May you live an interesting life” to be a curse? Yeah… Fuck those people, want to have an adventure?
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