Category Archives: General

Mostly pop culture rants. Usually without reason or spell chekin.

Yours?

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Things I wanna say:

• Current CD in player: Eye Spy (theme music to Aeon Flux)
• Current book beside toilet: Understanding Movies
• Current Game in PS2: Vice City
• Current favorite cat: I cant decide. I love them both
• Current Gameboy Game: Advance Wars 2. I hate that fucking game. Im addicted
• Current Fave food: burgers on the BBQ (not much time left!!)
• Current time I find myself cursing myself for not going to bed sooner: 3am
• Current gauge: 8
• Current voltage: 220

What are yours?

I totally forgot what I was going to write about today. Thought Id just share.

Sexy Homeless Guy Update: On the streetcar with my roommate the other day. He caught me looking at the homeless guy and said “Yeah I’d go get him a coffee and a McDonalds Apple Pie too”. Which weirds me out because I was suppose to be the only guy who could like him.

Small Business Idea

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Toronto queers will remember the little hole-in-the-wall store on Church Street, between the butchers and crap Rainbow Restaraunt that sold overpriced used clothing. Remember that?

Okay here’s what I want to put in there: a Quiky-Stop Nails Spa for Queers on the move. Put down $20 and the choice is yours:

Choose your nail technician:

  • tranny
  • drag queen
  • lipstick lesbian
  • dyke
  • twink
  • bear

Choose your conversation:

  • Gossip
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Family Problems
  • Politics
  • Pop Culture
  • Crazy Assed Drunk Rant (may or may not make sense)
  • Silence

Ten minutes max and you have fabulous nails and you’re that much more informed.

Waiting for Bigfoot

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When I was a kid I was obsessed with that grainy film of Bigfoot looking back at the camera as he (she?) trundled off into the woods.

Now you too can keep a sharp eye out for him! (via BoingBoing) The camera cycles through three spots somewhere in Northern California. I want to go hiking up there to stand in front of one of the cameras wearing a X-file Grey alien costume, reading Martha Stewart Living.

Loading Up the Workstation

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They may be memory hogs and they might be useless but they’re frikkin’ cute! Konfabulator is now offering free Widgets now that Yahoo has swallowed them up. Here’s a cartoon to help you understand where they came from and what they do. Currently I have the temperature for Toronto, the Simpson’s Random Quote, Werewolf monitor (no, not when Warren Zevon will be popular again… just phases of the moon and the goldfish swimming across my desktop. Of course, if you’re on Mac OSX.4 then you already have them. Point and laugh at the slow Windows drones.

Speaking of Simpsons, Sharkboy tells me that every episode of The Simpsons has a flame somewhere in it. I have the first season and can’t recall if it’s true for those shows. I have my doubts but so far all the shows we’ve watched, there has been a flame of sorts either by explosion or someone lighting up a smoooooth Laramie cigarette. Snopes can’t confirm it. Anyone know where I can prove this?

I would also like to direct your attention to that little button that appeared within the last 24 hours on your Google Customized Start Up Page. Right up there in the left: “Add Content”. That’s right! Click on it and the toolbar DHTMLs out. You can then add all your RSS feeds from your favorite sites and when you’re done, drag them around the page to create your own layout. What? You don’t have a Personalized Start Up Page? Ask nicely and I will send you a Gmail account.

I tell you people, the web is becoming fun again.

TIFF Musings

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I love movies, don’t get me wrong, but the Toronto Int’l Film Festival is beginning to grate on my nerves. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see The AGCO go after these big “schmoozefest” parties for liquor infractions like they did for the Church Street bars during Pride?

“Your honour, on the night of Friday September 9th, I did willfully see David Cronenberg walk between licensed and unlicensed zones at Sassafraz with an open container of alcohol in his hands. As well I observed a Mr Downey Jr. obtain an unspecified amount of cocaine from the stomach of a woman in the ladies’ washroom via his nose. Also, Nicole Kidman was wearing a gown that was in fashion last season and should be given a citation for that… just because.”

“Guilty! 30 day suspension! For all of them!”

The Death of The Written Word

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The Guardian is reporting that Siemens has developed a paper thin TV screen for cheap (about $50/metre). The screen is powered by paper thin batteries and can receive a charge remotely but currently the screens aren’t expected to last much longer than a few days.

Scan ahead a few decades with me and indulge my imagination: You’re lost in the city. You extend your arm and your sleeve accesses the nearby access station wirelessly. You touch your appointments icon and an arrow appears across your forearm directing you to where you want to go. With an abundance of cheap video I suspect that written language will die or at least be pared down to a base level and we will rely on sound and symbol more, cutting out the need to s-p-e-l-l everything out. Visual communication will be reverted to a curious mix of Nintendo icons resembling Celtic runes/Egyptian hieroglyphics, created for fast download and maximum impact. I can imagine English being morphed into a video-Esperanto.

Think of it… Graphic Design will superceed English language lessons in school. Crazy! It’s a future I could live with.

Words Across a Bum

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Why do teen girls wear those track pants with words printed across their butts? It makes them look whorish. Especially when they choose words like “Baby” or “Wiiiiide Load”.

I’m just sayin.