I want to share with you a list of horrifyingly clichéd homilies I posted some time ago on another site. I’m prepared to hear your eyeballs scraping as they roll upward, but maybe one or two will resonate with you. The last ones are particularly dicey, embarrassingly approaching New Ageisms — which I abhor — [...]
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The title of this post is cheerfully ripped off from the Richard Brautigan poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” — a typically-whimsical, typically-Brautigan meditation on a future devoid of labour and filled with connectedness, via technology, to all of the natural world — but it’s really just the title I’m stealing. I want [...] Video: Pale Blue Films; Music: Mogwai The spacecraft was a long way from home. I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point [...] April 15th, 2010 | Categories: Awesome, Bliss, Celebrities, Duh, Heroes, Religion is Bad, What Time Is It? |
 5 commentsBrilliant work from Funny or Die:
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Courtesy Sheepy. September 22nd, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Canada v. USA, Celebrities, Duh, Sarcasm, Stupidity |
 Leave a commentC’mon, guess. Aptly-Named Beach, Vancouver, 21 September 2009 September 21st, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bliss, Duh, Stupidity, Vancouver, What Time Is It? |
2 commentsCalling your movie “better than Crash” is like saying your movie is the same as every other movie ever made, including The Room and Plan 9 from Outer Space: Fragments: “Better than Crash“ August 4th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Duh, IntoxiBlogging™, Stupidity, WTF? |
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The Future is Our Responsibility Yaletown, Vancouver (28 June 2009) Webcomic artist Patrick Farley nails the American same-sex marriage debate in graphical form: Patrick Farley on America’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate More evolved societies — the ones which considered the pink arguments somewhere between “wrong” and “ludicrous” before granting full marriage equality to gays and lesbians — must look at the U.S. flavour of this debate as [...] June 23rd, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Canada v. USA, Duh, Religion is Bad, Stupidity, War on Science, What Time Is It? |
 One commentWell, the lying idiots at Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage — the group which is, apparently, against more people marrying — has come out with another ad filled with lies, misrepresentations and, as an added bonus, a thinly-veiled appeal to race-based bigotry. But the level of intelligence operating behind these vile ads is laid [...] May 28th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Duh, Religion is Bad, Stupidity, WTF?, War on Science |
Leave a commentOkay, so maybe I don’t promise. But for reasons to be revealed in a post or two, I won’t be bothering you with the decrepit craptitude of Toronto’s streets for much longer. For now, though… enjoy! Remember how I was telling you about the incompetent pothole repair crews: On the two most recent occasions I’ve witnessed pothole repairs, [...] So, hey, it’s International Day Against Homophobia 2009 today. IDAH’09! I want to tell you a story about a teenager in Calgary, Alberta. A normal kid, smarter than most, bookish but enthusiastically into politics and culture in all its forms. Like most teenaged young men, he had a healthy (read: voracious) sexual appetite. He had an [...] May 17th, 2009 | Categories: 3 Kinds of Gay, Actual Gay Conversations, Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Duh, News for Moms, Self-Pimping, What Time Is It? |
6 commentsThis is the entrance to the Bay at Yonge and Bloor Streets in downtown Toronto. It’s also the entrance to the most-visited subway stop covering the two most-traveled transit lines in the city. This is how we roll in Toronto:
It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking shabby and inept and [...] May 10th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Duh, News for Moms, Stupidity, Toronto, WTF?, What Time Is It? |
One commentThere are (at least) two sides to every story — one of which was yesterday’s Condom Fairy ad — even though other side(s) to The Pregnancy/STD-Avoidance Story are often knowingly false (or criminally delusional). And President Obama’s recent slashing of abstinence-only funding has sent shockwaves through the ranks of those who’d rather lie to children [...] May 9th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Duh, News for Moms, Stupidity, WTF?, War on Science |
7 commentsYou had to laugh. Springtime in Toronto is always… interesting when it comes to our roadways. No city is immune to potholes but every year, Toronto’s potholes are increasingly epidemic. Here’s why you had to laugh: City Councillor Karen Stintz has proposed corporate-sponsored road repair in the city: “People realize and they know that the potholes are [...] May 7th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Duh, Stupidity, Toronto, WTF?, War on Science |
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