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an exciting time to be alive

Things are changing.  Drastically.  No one knows what’s going to happen, where we will end up, how to make sense of it all. Us humans, we love to judge, categorize and place things in historical context so we can feel like we know stuff about stuff.
-kewl mullato president
-financial crisis
-internet is killin it
-earth is dying
I’m not [...]

good stuff

1.) The greatest pipe on earth.  Who needs Rizlas?
2.) Sign me up!
2.) If only advertisers could use their brilliance for good rather than evil.

when bad marketing happens to good people

This was seen on East Hastings, just down the street from a store called Surprise Liquidation.

I Found Something Cool Online Again

“Stories told in just six words.
Brevity is a virtue.
This is a collection of short short stories consisting of just six words. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous challenge.
Six Word Stories will include stories by famous people, reader submissions, myself, and the Internet at large.”

make it stop

This is the second installment in the ‘make it stop’ series (first seen in my previous blog) which began with the tragedy known as ’shutter shades’.  This is somewhat related (ie both are utilized and subsequently bastardized, exploited, and done do death by sir Kanye West).
I would argue that use of the vocoder was ONLY [...]

the very best

So, like a lot of kids this Christmas, I received an iTunes gift card.  Yes, I pay for my music if I really like the artist, so I definitely appreciated the gift.  I had no idea what to download, so I posed the question to my facebook pals.
I got several suggestions:  Jason Mraz, Black Kids, [...]

hot for teacher

This is the coolest thing I’ve found on the internet today. Gotta give this chick props for reaching out to horny young ESL lads everywhere and offering her free expertise on the English language and the origins and meanings of an extensive variety of words. Kinda reminds me of when Van Wilder and [...]

a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog

From the BBC:
In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted “this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him.
Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab [...]

The Most Offensive Christmas Song Ever

I was going to rifle off a list of the worst Christmas songs ever, which would have been populated with some pretty obvious ones, like 8 Days of Christmas by Destiny’s Child (‘on the eighth day of Christmas by baby gave to me a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring‘).  Or on [...]

tweak of the week

This chick’s totally e-barfing. No srsly.
Photo courtesy of Facebook lurking.