He’s hot. She’s past it. What gives? It’s like a Bizzaro World version of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, only he’s hot and she’s not.

Check out those pants!

And while you’re at it, Colin Farrel looks like a Church Street hustler looking for his next john.

(From Hollywood Rag, trashier than E Talk Daily with 100% less fluff)

Today at my office’s pot luck lunch, someone was giving out luggage tags from one of our suppliers. The weird part was that they had the logo for the movie “FLIGHTPLAN” on them, the movie about losing your daughter right out from under your sleeping arm.

A tag for your luggage for a movie about losing your daughter.

Am I reaching here? I thought it was pretty funny.

At 5:45am this morning I had a revelation:

I have never, ever, seen Veronica Lodge’s mother in print.

And there she was, while I sat on the toilet doing my morning purge, in all her white haired glory, looking like a matronly Sharon Stone, smiling like Veronica could do no damage to the world. I thought how weird that I have never seen her before in all my 40 years on the planet. It was a big deal.

And then 20 pages later, there she was again. But this time, typical to the style of Archie comics, Veronica’s mom looked like a fat European opera singer.

I started to wonder about the rest of the missing parents in Archie’s world: Betty’s dad – vapor; Dilton’s parents – glasss; Reggie’s mom ‘n pop – ghosts. But the most worrysome missing parental guidance of all that I never recalled seeing was Jughead’s. Here’s a kid who hates girls, eats waaay too much and seemingly has difficulty dressing himself, wandering in and out of the pages of Archie comics without a hint of Children’s Aid on his tail. I always identified with him because he was such an oddball yet accepted. When I started to wear freaky stuff in high school just like Juggie, I was immediately classified as Art Fag or Theatre fag.

I’m putting too much into this, I am sure.

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I have to say that Monday was the best Halloween I have ever had in a long time. The street was festive, the good costumes were abundant and there was a definite drop in the WTF category of outfits. You know the ones I mean. Guys and gals in kabuki wigs… and that’s it. Their entire prep time from conceputalizing their idea to out the door: 2 minutes, which makes people ask them “What the fuck are you suppose to be?” Sharkboy and I usually just point and laugh at these people and I admit that they do provide a certain degree of street-fodder, making the people who spent time, money or both, look good in comparison, but a boa over your regular street clothes does not make you all mysterious and halloweenie. It makes you look lazy.

Which brings me to Sharkboy’s and my costume. Like them? Sharkboy went as the Littlest Hobo Dog. I was your basic Cat. We found these cute adorable masks in Vermont that when you press on the nose, they either barked or meowed loudly in a tinny, corrupt digital sound file way. Now, I realize my tail wasn’t big and bushy like a cat’s but I did have the ears. All day and all night, I was called other animals other than a cat: A rat! A dog! A mouse! A Playboy Bunny! (I swear to god) I bet if I had a large billboard sign that said CAT on it, I would have been called an aardvark or something. I was going to go out and grab that board game “Mousetrap” and carry that around with me all day and hope that drunk people caught on, but that would have confused things, I am sure. However, Sharkboy and I managed to get ourselves photographed a lot. It was the first time I have ever been asked for a picture so I was having a ham-it-up-n-cheese blast!

My fave costume? Halo’s Master Chief. The guy could barely move with all the Japanese and Geek cameras going off. Second runner up was the 5th Element Opera Star in the bubble. Great costume, but bizzare execution for a busy street.

Enjoy the pics!

Bored at work? Go vote! I did. Godspeed to all contestants!

Good. Freaking. Lord.

When does this guy/gal have time for …like… hygene?

• My sister’s house is massive. I really hope that she can offload it without any loss.
• I also hope she can build the house she wants beside the house she needs to offload. She’s busier than a paper wasp at a pulp fiction convention.
• I wore Government of Canada, Parks Canada rented shorts. I looked like I had canvas diapers on. Mike oddly enough looked kind of like a 1950s dad at a cottage…
• The mountains smell…like pine… We speculated as to whether or not there was a car freshener factory near by when in Kananaskis.
• There are some wicked used book stores in Calgary: I got Caves of Steel and Foundation, Issac Asimov; Salmon of a Doubt, Douglas Adams (I recommend. I was a bit aprehensive when I heard they were raiding his hard drives…Im glad they did); Crytonomicon, Neal Stephenson (I was reading it on the streetcar the other day and this guy punched his girlfriend and pointed at me “HE’S READING IT!!”)

Have you played with the Google Start Up page? All the blocks of text can be dragged and dropped wherever you want. Easier to use than My Yahoo! Friendly! Clean!

I fear my job as web page designer will be obsolete in a year’s time if this takes off. It won’t matter how long I suffer over page balance (like we use to do over fonts and font sizes) because some inbalanced dink will do what they want with the pages they view.

But damn if it ain’t cool! I can see all my Gmail incomings!

Google needs to let RSS feeds to be added to it but soon…soon…

People. Please. Why do you want to see what she looks like? So you can recognize her if she moves into your neighbourhood?

If we’re lucky, she’ll be “Lady Di’ed” when she leaves the court house.

I think I’m more upset with Canadian media falling over themselves to mention her, mirroring US journalism sales tactics.

This will end in tears. Mark my words.

I want Cory Doctorow. Not because he’s like, smart and stuff. No. Other than being geek-sexy, I love his glasses. Soon I will have a vintage pair as well.

If you have an iPod you can read his latest Sci Fi “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town“. Its available off his site and can be read through the “notes” feature. He’s so cutting edge I want to save his stem cells.