lamenotlame

vice knows what I'm talking about:

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vice knows what I'm talking about:

2011-04-08T09:25:00.001-07:00

2011 holds promise

2010-11-14T13:00:00.002-08:00

gunna leave this job, leave this town.
gunna go to india with my man.
gunna make sure that panic attack last week was a one off.

wtf horse girls

2010-03-18T22:11:00.002-07:00

from my post on horse girls

# Anonymous said... September 17, 2009 1:06 PM
Horses are amazing creatures. This photo is a picture of an athlete which most likely just finished some sort of an event/competition and is being cooled down. He's extremely fit, amazing anatomy, most likely intelligent and loves whatever sport it's in. What I don't understand is why these creatures will tolerate ignorance and still try their very best to please you. Horses will die trying to do something you ask it. Even when it knows it's killing it's self. Far to many people have killed the spirit of a horse and that's what a majority of people will see. Nothing more than a brainless, depressed, walking corpse that people call "trail horses". That's NOT a horse anymore. At that point I can understand why so many people think the things they do.

# Anonymous said... December 8, 2009 11:10 AM
Thank you anonymous! I have loved horses my whole life... There is nothing creepy about it. When riding one, we borrow its freedom. The horse is what allowed us to discover America. In history, beside every footstep of a man is the hoof print of a horse. Learning to ride a horse in a way that does not destroy the thing so that the connection between horse and rider is as one, that is such a test of strength and grace that no other sport can even compare. It's fine if you don't like horses or have no interest in riding one, but by insulting the creature you have insulted America's history. There is nothing that I tolerate less than ignorance and you people really have no idea what you are talking about. "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man" -Winston Churchill

# Anonymous said... March 18, 2010 5:53 PM
I have always loved horses. They are simply amazing animals. My favorite quote is from an old Arab proverb.
It says" Heaven is the wind which blows between a horse's ears" I believe that to ride is the greatest thing in the world When i ride, my heart is no longer in my chest, but between my knees.

# Anonymous said... March 18, 2010 7:32 PM
I am a horse girl how do you find us creepy? horses are amazing. i own 19 i did i do not find a problum with that. horses can be tharaputic.

why is it

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that when i lived in TO I had pictures of BC on my electronic devices
and living in BC, I have pictures of TO.

yo

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Imagine how pleasant the world would be if everyone was exactly like the way they are described after their death

crank that soulja bitch

2009-09-25T20:25:00.001-07:00

courtesy b-tron

were they stoned

2009-09-18T10:01:00.003-07:00

or soberly sincere?
yesterday, someone commented on this pic i posted ages ago:

their comment:
Horses are amazing creatures. This photo is a picture of an athlete which most likely just finished some sort of an event/competition and is being cooled down. He's extremely fit, amazing anatomy, most likely intelligent and loves whatever sport it's in. What I don't understand is why these creatures will tolerate ignorance and still try their very best to please you. Horses will die trying to do something you ask it. Even when it knows it's killing it's self. Far to many people have killed the spirit of a horse and that's what a majority of people will see. Nothing more than a brainless, depressed, walking corpse that people call "trail horses". That's NOT a horse anymore. At that point I can understand why so many people think the things they do.

pt.ii

2009-07-30T21:41:00.002-07:00

today I was g-chatting with hed and she thought I was quoting MLIA. I was not.
MLIA.

pearl with a girl earring

2009-07-28T15:36:00.001-07:00

MLIA

2009-07-15T13:09:00.003-07:00

rough morning at work. Was going to spend my lunch hour looking for books on becoming successfully self-employed/running my own empire. Instead I paid my credit card bill and bought myself a frappuccino.
One time my dad sent me a ‘Happy Bar Mitzvah’ card with 5 dollars inside. He told me to use it to start my own business or for a frap. Looks like I keep choosing fraps.

avg.

2009-07-14T14:52:00.005-07:00

I forgot then re-remembered about this site:
my life is average
Besides allowing me to relish in the absurdity of life (one of my favorite pass times after feeding pistachios to children who may or may not have nut allergies).
a couple i like:
Today, as I was logging into my email account, I was to lazy to move the mouse and click the "login" box. I just hit "tab" until I got there. MLIA
Today, I stopped at a stoplight, I looked over at the guy next to me. He was staring back. We both looked away quickly so it didn't seem awkward. It still was. MLIA

The stuff of life.

I'm no outlier, but it reminds me of one of the women in my office. she is unapoligetically average. at first I hated her for it, now I sort of love it. She brings in cakes and bars (and rice chips from costco for the chicks on a cleanse), she is more than happy to help me fill in forms and I bet she is really nice to her dog Dale Earnhardt (seriously).
too many parentheses (I apologize, but do not repent)

another dimension

2009-07-13T19:39:00.001-07:00

another dimension/ another dimension/another dimension

reverb

2009-07-10T21:17:00.002-07:00

Parking garages have got to be one of the top ten places to rip a loud and proud fart

neato

2009-07-09T21:50:00.000-07:00

a rule

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Chloe's Rules of Order state:
witty graffiti is approved (see below):

Tagging is not. Specific offense goes to the taggers that use it as a pick up line. actually- is there any other type?

I knew it would happen eventually

2009-07-09T08:46:00.004-07:00

Goodbye To All That, originally uploaded by Still The Oldie.

but that doesn't make it any easier

so long, overseer of spadina- from your sturdy vinyl chair on the other side of your glass paned door. Who'll replace you? Jacob's bikes/other stolen goods? hardly

day 4

2009-07-08T14:07:00.002-07:00

is 4 days after the fact too late to still be calling my misery a hangover?

but for a two day hangover

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it was all awesome
went to a wedding in van with E. she sums it up:
I thought it was funny when the buttoned up dr.’s wife said, “close the curtain. if I see the sun come up, I’m going to want to stop drinking…”

Mlz

2009-07-03T14:46:00.001-07:00

Mlz, originally uploaded by crease+.

Aura healer on fridays

2009-07-02T14:53:00.006-07:00

monday evening I was walking along just being cool, when I came across this supremely drunk dude—classic wino type—holding a way expensive camera, trying to take pictures of this youngish guy (who seemed about equally as clueless as me). drunk dude told me to stop and stand 1 metre behind the young guy. He had no idea how to use the camera but he kept saying how fucking amazing the pictures were, and something about how this is fucking life. Then he’d miss the ‘take picture’ button and say he wasn’t that drunk. Then he directed us to get on our knees and we obliged– at that point I started point I started asking if we were in a modern day version of The Magic Christian – except instead of money, the fame is the golden egg.- have a camera? Take my picture! or maybe it was about being passive- how much can we get a stranger to do if we just tell them to do it.
It was a strange thing.
Went tubing down the river yesterday. God I love the summer
oh, in the coffee shop on the way to the river there was a sign in the womens washroom:
Tarot Card Reader on premises tuesday-friday.
The font was one of those faux eastern types from MSWord98
another one for the 'only in bc' files

Let's cancel our arrangement

2009-06-29T21:11:00.012-07:00

from here

I went to a lovely birthday picnic for my younger much cooler cousin. buncha folks on the cusp of 20. One asked where I worked. I told them (it's a city/government-esque job btw). Then they passed a joint around and I had a puff even though I had taken care of that earlier and the sun & champagne was getting to me. The token punk kid said 'woah I can see the headlines now, "city employee caught getting high in park". It got a laugh. I thought: "I will never be 19 again"

the day before H & B and I visited their friends who are farm sitting an herb farm. I feel this picture does a decent job of capturing my impossible cool

in time

2009-06-26T13:23:00.001-07:00

yesterday I said "I'm having a brain fart".
I still haven't forgiven myself

say goodbye to bed flaccidity

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on the clock

2009-06-25T08:58:00.005-07:00

so how is that garbage strike going for all y'all?
I missed the strike in 2002. I missed the blackout in 2003. I miss everything good.
sounds like everyone just needs to chill

I wasn't going to access my blog from work but I gave up on that.

speaking of toronto, here is a little gem I've been meaning to post- Toronto Parks and Rec Fun Guide. before and after. ahaha. jackasses

natioal post link

ahaha, my co-workers are stuck in the elevator! stairs are for winners

in the course of this blog

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i've come to realize

I'm into pictures of people wearing masks. (above from him)

and costumes

of various sorts (above from her)

I'm not sure what that's about.
just a cigar I guess

pretend places

2009-06-17T19:40:00.004-07:00

Hickoryglen Estates

amazing drawings by Ross Racine
better seen bigger.
I'd love to have one of his pieces in my life

hey look!

2009-06-16T19:59:00.003-07:00

Japanese people!

doing weird stuff!
most extreme!

typical urban planning porn

2009-06-11T18:29:00.006-07:00

pretty suburb design idea for paris:
from this nyt article
Sarkozy got some design teams together to come up with some eco-smartgrowth-buzzword-sustainable plans for Paris.

what I liked though (ie 'only in paris') is that one of the planning teams included a sociologist and philosopher. yes! there is a market for urban planning philosophers(only in paris?)!

YEAH, bird

2009-06-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

gettin 'er done

so this is how it is. office life.

2009-06-08T21:10:00.003-07:00

The bathroom has a passcode (she says). To keep out the homeless (she doesn’t say). (she says) Diane taught me to remember it by saying I’m 48 but I wish I was 30.

Now won't you run and tell your boyfriend

2009-06-06T19:43:00.001-07:00

more E time

2009-06-04T21:49:00.002-07:00

E sent me this (from):

we fawned. then:
E: N doesnt really care for them. I think we're decidedly terrier people, however if it was just me I would absolutely go to a wiener dog rescue and give them names like Posieden and Hercularium.
me: haha, in the bizarro universe where we are a lesbian couple, we have two rescue wiener dogs we dote over. I don't like to choose favorites, but Odysseus is my baby
E: really, odyssues sometimes is a little too possessive of his manhood for me. I like Doe better (short for Doethenium)

mmm dats nice

2009-06-02T13:02:00.003-07:00

Transparency: Burning Fuel, originally uploaded by GOOD Magazine.

GOOD Magazine is a good magazine and they have great infographics. and now they have them all in one place to ogle! there is a lot of variety in the material and the presentation, but they definitely maintain a unique style. nyt infographics, look out!
ps I think infographics are only going to get more and more ubiquitous as time goes on. maybe I said that before. I'll say it again too

stylistically

2009-06-01T18:08:00.002-07:00

Village Voice: But your music has a lot in common with Dick Dale, and you've cited the Beach Boys as an influence. How big of an influence is surf rock?

Wavves: Musically, ...the Beach Boys... I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. I'm really high right now.

link. via stereogum

visual jukebox

2009-05-28T21:52:00.003-07:00

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

I want to make one! have each clip be a clickable video beside the song selection. OR, or make a video for all my favorite songs, or for a given playlist so it plays as a visualizer. Ok that is a bit too much. I'll stick with the visual jukebox

atones

2009-05-27T20:59:00.005-07:00

my cell consistently suggest 'atones' when I am trying to type 'bummer'. I don't really talk about atoning much, particularly not in my texts, and in the 3rd person singular.
Said cell also just suggested 'fart' while I was trying to type 'earth'. That one is a little more understandable.
I have a list of these little gems, send me good ones!

endless

2009-05-25T20:02:00.002-07:00

title

2009-05-21T10:23:00.000-07:00

From McSweeney's:

Respectful Yo Mama Jokes

Yo mama is so healthy her BMI is probably exactly within the ideal range for a woman her age.

Yo mama is so well respected within her profession that I bet she'll get another raise and promotion this year despite the downward trajectory of the economy.

Yo mama is so good at cooking she should open her own restaurant. I'd be the first customer.

Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

Yo mama is so Internet-savvy she should start her own social-networking site designed specifically for moms. It would be really popular.

Yo mama is so well read she could teach a course on literature at an accredited university.

Yo mama is so good at listening she makes you feel like she's put everything aside to focus all her attention on you. That's a really great trait to have.

Yo mama is so skilled at coaching basketball she should apply for a job in the WNBA.

Yo mama is so generous she just paid for everyone's meal at Applebee's.

Yo mama is so supportive of you and your efforts that I wouldn't be surprised if you were incredibly successful as a result.

round the corner

2009-05-19T20:06:00.003-07:00

this weekend E and I saw a man working on his car. The car was a brown hatchback from the seventies, and if he was a car, he'd be that one. There was a bucket already full and catching more (transmission?) fluid. He smoked while he worked. This morning the car was surrounded by two firetrucks and a towtruck. A woman in her bathrobe stood at the curb. I didn't get a glimpse of the car.
wonder how that story fills in.
I thought this song couldn't have more good vibes than it already does. Then I spent the weekend dancing to it with E

too much

2009-05-17T18:01:00.001-07:00

my DIY to-go container that consisted of pouring champagne into an empty beer bottle was not as clever as I initially thought

wild on!

2009-05-16T19:39:00.001-07:00

E is here!

other people's words

2009-05-15T13:20:00.004-07:00

seen on a travel agency sign:
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" -Lao Tzu
that sounds like a pretty solid argument against having a travel agent. haha, they lose.
Old Lao (Taoist extraordinaire) was also the dude that that came up with that heavily abused quote:
"the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
I guess it's true, but inspirational posters, forwards and 7 Habits lovers everywhere have pretty much made it vile. In that way, Lao Tzu is sort of like a Chinese Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson has some decent ideas, but he is also the schmuck behind this cheeseball:
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"
puke.
buuut he also said this gem:
"Children are all foreigners"
I've been feeling that a lot lately.

head

2009-05-14T21:10:00.001-07:00

from this guy

more chats and more fart talk

2009-05-12T21:49:00.004-07:00

me: my farts are noxiousi had to leave from helping out early because my body was so stiff from holding them inI had to pretend i had a bad backHeather: ha. i love ityou should have just walked outside and fartedme: well I couldnt have done that every 10 minutes for two and a half hoursplus i would have had to stand there and let it disconnectprevent the trailHeather: im getting pretty good at that at workme: disconnecting the trail?Heather: i had tofu chilli for lunch and had to fart a lot todayme: yeah cabbage soup was my culpritHeather: yea i walk to an area with no people, act busy and then slowly walk back to my areame: i blamed their dogquietly as if i was trying to be subtle about being offendedps. i laughed out loud at your techniqueHeather: good. i laugh as im doing it

maury plays dirty

2009-05-11T11:51:00.001-07:00

sightings- edit

2009-05-09T18:27:00.002-07:00

Heather noted an important addition to the museum gas story- I didn't just hold them in- I actually let out an audible fart, laughed and only then notice two seated young fellows directly beside me, head level to my ass. I scooted H and B away from the area, leaving the chaps to enjoy the aftermath on their own.
these things are worth knowing

gchat with auntie. re: Craigslist free stuff

2009-05-07T20:15:00.006-07:00

Elizabeth: hawell, arent you pioushttp://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/zip/1159957474.html

{"I have a very comfortable double matress and box spring. It's only a year old. It's clean, no stains or rips. Since I'm moving soon it is a sin to just throw it away.
If you are stuck and in need of a good sleep, come pick it up. It is sitting on "pallet" style base which your welcome to as well.
Hoping to help out someone less fortunate. "}

me: Ive already got an extra bed, but my dog could really use a full sizer. when can i come by?

Elizabeth: hahaha
omgI am sending that emailI already have three extra bedsbut Im looking for something to burn
what time can I be there?

sightings

2009-05-05T22:31:00.004-07:00

went to vanc last weekend. mainland two weeks in a row- I'm on a roll. the usual:
missed the ferry. both ways. sigh. yam fries and amazing view made up for it. so finally got there. drinks, walks, drinks, scammed drinks from a charity event (woops), then Eliz! next morning she made Dave and I the most amazing breakfast, better than any brunch joint- plus she MADE the jam. I swear to god I should have married her when I had the chance.
Tuesday Head and Bytron and I went to a special opening reception of the new museum exhibit- Treasures from the Royal British Museum (thanks head!). stuffed ourselves with the free food first, which in retrospect was not the best idea as I was doing the stiff legged fart walk through the whole crowded thing. You've never seen a byzantine painting of jesus and mary until you've seen it while holding in a hummous fart. Intense concentration

like

2009-05-05T16:08:00.001-07:00

from here

giant trampoline, eternal happiness

2009-05-01T08:54:00.006-07:00

hahaha
last december, during my very last week on campus, I was approached to do this picture poll type thing. damn I wish I didn't lose the results. Terribly humiliating. I can't even remember the question now. something about the international laws on capital punishment. I mean I really came off like a clueless jack ass. partly my fault: "uh, I think so". is probably not a great first response when your words are being transcribed. mostly his fault: I said more! also the question as printed in the paper was no a yes or no question. was for me. The guy even knew me!
I think I already wrote about this, but dwelling is sort of my style. Anyway my picture was even printed and you can't hide with glasses like mine. thank god it was the last week.

on very thin ice, very thin ice, very thin ice

2009-04-28T10:11:00.002-07:00

auto-tune the news:

funnee. if you don't have the attention span to watch it all the way through- 1:20 is a highlight

and the card attached would say

2009-04-27T13:05:00.002-07:00

thank you for being a frie-end

So I've been at a training workshop all weekend. sans internet (horror!). Saturday I got a wonderful phone message that consisted of Eliz singing along to the Golden Girls theme song (Im a big fan). It is only this morning that I find out that Bea Arthur died on saturday. RIP. The picture is a sketch I did a few weeks ago when I was thinking of doing a series of paintings based on the GG opening credits. It never panned out. I didn't finish Estelle Getty either- the pressure was just too great.

esque

2009-04-23T13:23:00.002-07:00

via paper beats internet. very neat site

saying less these days

2009-04-21T13:26:00.002-07:00

I'll get back into the swing of it
From AIDS-3D

I wish I was a polar bear

2009-04-20T18:29:00.001-07:00

what was he doing?

2009-04-17T18:01:00.002-07:00

elizibeer

2009-04-14T15:25:00.003-07:00

Today is dear E's birthday. this picture is from the summer of 2005. it sums things up nicely.
in keeping with a theme, a recent g-chat excerpt re: her birthday weekend
Elizabeth:
the best I can do
is drink until I pass out
and hope I dont cry too much in public
well
thats sort of a metapor for life really.

this makes me think of

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vintage clothes shopping in kensington with A

recently:

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-I was hanging out with a 15 year old, in the course of relating to him through youtube video swapping I showed him the Daft Hands video (Harder, Better Faster Stronger song). He didn't know Daft Punk and then he said, oh is a remix of that kanye west song? ..!!.. first I was shocked, and then once again I felt old, like this must be what boomer dads feel like when their twinky niece corrects them- 'its Cherry Garcia, Uncle Gary, CHERRY Garcia"
-The other day I took one sip of my coffee and instantly puked. This is unusual. I am not a puker.
-I found a portal to another universe in which everything that I say becomes truth. I determine the parameters of reality and existence. I finally got rid of that unreachable scratch at the centre of my back.

b b b b beaver boys

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awesome folks

2009-03-31T13:35:00.003-07:00

so the past little while has been a complete heather-byron fest. friday and saturday hangouts. We played earth hour scrabble on saturday. Byron said we couldn't open the fridge because the light would turn on, but I wasn't willing to wait half an hour for a fresh beer so he held the little light lever down while I grabbed the brews. Sunday there was finally a break from a flat grey sky, so Byron and I sat in the inner harbour sketching. street benches: not just for retired folk and the homeless! Just as we sat down a biker went flying off of his bike right in front of us. It totally ruined the story Byron was in the middle of telling.
knowing my loving of office organization products they showed up on saturday with this awesome gift for me:

The picture doesn't quite do it justice but it is fake wood grain tin. love it! And it still had the original files in it! I just love classic 50s-60s fonts. The ink on my thumb is from yet another leaky pen.

and yesterday they stopped by with the most amazing bouquet of flowers (dad dead for 4 years as of yesterday)

I just love flowers

Then we ate perogies and watched the Dumb and Dumber dvd (6 minutes of deleted scenes, oh my!). just lovely

it: a cognitive breakdown

2009-03-25T20:52:00.003-07:00

personal lord and saviour

2009-03-24T17:53:00.007-07:00

One time the church around the corner from us (back in the Walmer Palace days) was doing a free screening of the Passion of Christ. I was apprehensive, because well, it was a church and I imagined they wouldn't be too different from a sleazy guy buying some fancy dinner to guilt a chick into sex. except, instead of sex, they'd want my soul. On the other hand, free is free. yeah I'd take candy from a stranger. So Becky and I went and sure enough at the end they gave a big loooong talk about finding god. they had clearly perfected the art of making it difficult/impossible to leave in the middle of one of their 'talks'. then they asked us to close our eyes and put up our hands if we were ready TODAY, RIGHT NOW to accept the lord jesus christ as our personal lord and saviour. I guess no one did, because he kept emphasizing that it was anonymous, no one was looking.accept him blah blah. It was like he was waiting us out until we relented to jesus just so he get on with it already. i guess a few people finally saw the light. we opened our eyes. then he asked those who put up their hand to please come to the front. a couple people walked to the stage. Then dude called out the 4 or 5 people who put up their hands but didnt come to the front! he singled these poor people out, and made them come up to the stage and publicly accept 'jesus christ as their personal lord and saviour'!
I can't remember for sure, but I probably gaffawed loudly at that point, and that guffaw probably taught that dude a valuable lesson about the wrongness of his actions, and he probably knew never to pull that shit again.

this is not okay

2009-03-23T11:25:00.002-07:00

public

2009-03-20T20:44:00.001-07:00

maybe it's the music (the tough alliance. 2007/08 staple) or maybe it's the double gin with a splash of tonic I just downed, but I feel like I lost a part of me when I left Toronto. nostalgia's a bitch
ps. sorry sorry hed for being late tonight

i heart gin, but

2009-03-20T19:17:00.002-07:00

Gin and Fresca tastes like toilet bowl cleaner
Gin and tomato juice is worse

bill nye didn't have shit on him

2009-03-18T22:28:00.005-07:00

I figure that every Beakman fan must automatically sort of hate Bill Nye, and yeah google image search told me that beakmanVSnye shtick's been done. the joke pretty much doesn't go beyond that, so nothing worth linking. I bet it's been a Family Guy joke. Klosterman should write an essay on this. I wonder if he google alerted his name. and all the misspelled versions, oh and how often he is searched. modern times.

approach with caution

2009-03-18T21:53:00.003-07:00

logic

2009-03-17T21:01:00.000-07:00

from this guy

What I'm searching for

2009-03-12T21:23:00.002-07:00

from this guy

letters, flowers, stones

2009-03-12T20:24:00.005-07:00

New font game to play! Deep Font Challenge
possibly even more fun than this font game
unrelated: there was a letter to the editor in the local paper from a woman who said that life is too dull and sad these days and during times of death, or birth or marriage etc... instead of donating money to charities we should go back to the classic tradition of giving flowers, so that we may have a brighter day in these tough times. That she felt strongly enough to write a letter to the editor is what really got me.
Well i do say! two references to the newspaper in a week. Its almost as if printed media is still relevant or something! kidding. but seriously, how much front page coverage on the national curling championships do we really need.
oh the curling championships. They went on for ages! it was held in Victoria. Again. You'd think thousands of retirees- gaggles of permed women, matching couples- would make a real impact on the town, but actually things pretty much looked the same.

a lesson learned; truths revealed; additional erata

2009-03-11T20:57:00.003-07:00

-best not to eat cabbage and broccoli soup before a stretching class.
-go to a fitness class. find the skinniest girl there. She will leave sometime during the cool down/stretch. true 9 times out of ten. also, you'll probably find her on a cardio machine on your way out.
-in a clean up of the worlds oceans, cigarette butts are the biggest contributor to debris! woah! For most of the world, number 2 (hehe) is plastic bags; for canada, it is food containers. I read this in a real life newspaper, so not going to link.
-someones facebook status today said something about not understanding the ridiculousness of twitter. He insulted twitter. using the fb status tool. the irony is burning a hole through my brain. after further thought, i am downgrading the irony level, but only a bit.
I'm currently trying to decide whether to have a pudding or a beer. The Beer is Winter Ale from Granville Island Brewery. Best beer find of the season. hints of vanilla. ok, totally going for a beer and a joint. b and j. bj. ha. is that funny? not it is not.

song for walking through snow globe weather:

2009-03-09T13:53:00.004-07:00

Also, I never did make that top 5 music list for 2008. much too much. but according to last.fm, my top played track for the last 12 months is l'hiver vous va si bien (zdar a bass day remix) by Tacteel. can't find t on the internet for your listening pleasure. ah well.

wingdings hubbub

2009-03-09T09:32:00.001-07:00

"Wingdings has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture (NYC). This could be interpreted as a message of approval of killing Jews, especially those from New York City. Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. (The character sequence "NYC" in the later-released Webdings font, in turn, is rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, which could be interpreted as "I Love New York City". Microsoft has stated that this is intentional.)"

-Wingdings wiki page

march 9th. wtf

2009-03-09T09:30:00.001-07:00

The only MARRIED news team

2009-03-08T21:43:00.001-07:00

janandwayne, originally uploaded by LeeChan.

its snowing. in march. in victoria

2009-03-07T16:26:00.004-08:00

i remember when snow used to make me feel all excited fluttery in my stomach.
Toronto changed that. and yes talking about how I hate toronto winters is one of my favorite topics.
this actually looks pretty great:

I wonder what these do:

living where I grew up.

2009-03-05T19:41:00.004-08:00

So Sarin is in town (she is living in New Zealand and working for a radio station these days). Our old high school drama teacher offered her tickets to the yearly school musical and she made me her plus one. They were doing Little Shop of Horrors- same one we were both in way back in grade 12. Sarin played Mushnick- the ornery, jewish-eque shop owner. Originally he was a guy, but sarin played the role as a yente. I played the piano. I'm sure its just a coincidence that I thought Little Shop of Horrors: The New Class was better in every way except for Sarin's part and the piano playing.
but woah man was it weird to walk the halls of that place. I certainly don't miss it in the least, but it sorta made me feel old in a bad way. Gone are the years of knowing anyone who still goes there- but we did sit beside my old social studies teacher. I thought about what loud mouth I was; of the time he made me walk around the outside of the school a few times to burn off some energy (not the only teacher to do that. where did it all come from?!?)... as we talked I kept feeling like I should apologize to him. But it seemed a little feeble and in the end I just couldn't do it.
oh the creepy dad with the stout cross eyed wife was there too. his kids finished high school years ago.

bugging out

2009-03-02T13:03:00.002-08:00

to be a novelist

2009-03-01T11:12:00.002-08:00

by Gary Shteyngart
on dressing like one:

"You want to dress down. Sometimes I see dudes in jackets. I think that's trying too hard. You want to look like you spent some money but look distressed, basically. Stuff that's a little not right. You want to match the unhappiness of our time. Everything I wear is somewhat ugly. Plaid is now in for writers. The male writer should probably shop at Odin in New York, on Lafayette, or Opening Ceremony. There's a wonderful jacket I just bought there that looks exactly like a garbage bag. You can't go wrong with that."

on prestige:

"The thing is literature doesn't have the same cache as it used to. I will say, 'Yeah, I wrote some literature, but I'm really trying to leverage that into a career in hip-hop, or blogging.'"

sleepyhead

2009-02-26T20:36:00.000-08:00

al

2009-02-23T21:39:00.003-08:00

Dude (who is hilarious by the way) was talking about Weird Al being underrated. Now I am.
Looking back, he was probably the number 1 inspiration for for my short lived music group ‘The Metamucil Mothers’. Just like Weird Al, I changed the song lyrics into humourous little ditties- only mine were all ‘toilet’ themed. Me and a friend would sing them to a captive audience of family and friends. Haha, nope no friends. Pets maybe. I remember doing a song by Jewel and a few by The Presidents of the United States of America. OH! I totally did Peaches!

This live version is a little lame, thanks to the record label removing the album version from youtube. as if that'll encourage me to go out and buy the album in its entirety. again.
oh apparently they only did that to the big hit. oh man I loved this band. I think I might've been talking about weird al, but I've moved on

OH! Weird Al DID a cover of Lump! full circle!

yeah

2009-02-22T20:36:00.000-08:00

Journalist: In a lot of your songs you are hard on people—in "Like a Rolling Stone" you're hard on the girl and in "Positively 4th Street" you're hard on a friend.
Do you do this because you want to change their lives, or do you want to point out to them the error of their ways?

Bob Dylan: I want to needle them.

I worry about overstimulating my aura

2009-02-20T19:44:00.001-08:00

back when...

2009-02-19T21:42:00.003-08:00

charlie, originally uploaded by normanhathaway.

from here

afternoons in the copy room

2009-02-18T10:44:00.002-08:00

via veer. but I lost the post

kill yr. idols anyone?

2009-02-17T19:09:00.003-08:00

I think when Oprah dies it’s going to be a big fucking deal. And not just in the obvious, media frenzy way. For those of us currently in or around their 20s, it’ll be the death of an icon that has hovered in the collective pop-culture conscious for almost our entire lives. It hardly matters if you’ve never actually sat through an episode of her show- you know about her favorite things; you know about her weight gain; you know her reading a book is pretty much a Golden Ticket in the publishing industry- unless you wrong her. then watch yourself.
It’s not just Oprah though. Michael Jackson is going to die. The Simpsons will be canceled (God willing. Hopefully they have some sort of Do Not Resuscitate or ‘pulling the plug' clause, because it’s just going to be too painful and humiliating to force it to limp along in the decrepit shell of it’s former self. Actually I averted my eyes several years ago.) Madonna is going to die. Bill Gates is going to die. Holy shit: Gene and Dean Ween are going to die.

outfits

2009-02-15T21:53:00.005-08:00

looking at this is like when your hair grows out and you dont even realize how different it is until you see a picture of yourself from 6 months ago, and you think "holy shit, time has passed"

while making risotto

2009-02-13T18:56:00.003-08:00

I jammed one of my knuckles.

while testing said risotto,
I dislocated my jaw.
I thought I was being clever by cooking a meal where chewing is optional.
meanwhile, look who is still being awesome:

In these tough economic times, it's good to see that he opted for a beaded bracelet instead of a second gold watch. As for his sidekick, I'm trying to figure out if that is coke bloat or baby fat.
footnote: I wish to extend my deepest gratitude to the nanny named Fran for that timeless segue*
*("meanwhile")

dull dull deadly dull

2009-02-11T20:03:00.003-08:00

yesterday went something like this:

yeah, I wear tye-dye. wanna fight about it?

too bad B picked the worst valentines cookie to show off. We weren't trying to empower ourselves or anything.

I often wonder what my alternate form would be. Turns out it's Lee & Perrins. well how about that.

sticky

2009-02-09T13:26:00.003-08:00

goddammit. freshly showered, freshly laundered and splatter goes the jug of maple syrup. it was a slow motion fall too. enough time to wrap my brain around the consequences before they even happen.

city of glass

2009-02-09T12:05:00.004-08:00

went to vanc for the weekend. it involved:
-shmooze meeting
-hanging with D
-fabulous music
-dance dance dancing
-a hot water bottle placed at the foot of my bed (!)
-high walks with Amy, E and litte mitzie (who is getting so grown up I can't even believe it)
-65th birthday dinner. gifts included a plaster wind in the willows badger and chocolate covered ginger. what else eh?
oh, and for everyone on the west coast: BC ferries now offers yam fries!! they get two thumbs up, way up.

pistachio!

2009-02-05T14:43:00.002-08:00

and you will know me by the trail of pistachio shells.

but WHAT about this:

can an entity contain itself? can water contain water? is it a category mistake? an illogical statement? or just redundant? I need to speak to a logician

a real cool dude, yeah

2009-02-03T17:10:00.000-08:00

This is Buddy Holly. I love him, and often wonder what the fate of modern music would be if he had lived longer.

jesus, was there a single non-lame person pre-1990 that didn't smoke?
OH YEAH!

more days

2009-02-02T13:35:00.004-08:00

The sign outside the rec centre I pump iron at:

my dreamy gym mate, head:

I see this everyday:

what is a video school of ministry? I do not know.

jajaja

2009-01-30T14:27:00.001-08:00

I've been trying to put it into words...

2009-01-29T20:16:00.002-08:00

and then I found this!

a location

2009-01-28T08:25:00.002-08:00

ok so here goes a little picture tour of things. mostly the last 12 hours.
The view from C3PBecky's new digs:

Did you know I like to look at manhole covers in whatever location I'm in? Now you know.
Also, I'm thinking I might be a huge asshole and call them 'personholes' for a while. maybe.

green grass- hey Toronto maybe if you had a bit of this in the winter I wouldn't have been so hasty to leave.

action shot:

ok, time for a morning walk:

dude was just chilling:

good vibes

bye!

bol weevil' it's a pleasel

2009-01-27T19:52:00.002-08:00

it's a pleasel my weasel

big jilm