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Green on Thursday #94: Dropping the Soap

Oh, bygone eras of sublimated male eroticism! Before there was Xtube there was newsgroup photo-sharing and before those there were dirty videos (βeta!) and magazines. And before those there were International Male catalogs and “fitness” magazines and before those there were the swimsuit and underwear sections of Sears and Eaton’s catalogs.

And before those there were [...]

Green on Thursday #93: Ben, the Two of Us Need Look No More

Rugby star — and TTNO fan-fave — Ben Cohen strips for Attitude mag and says this about his physique:

I don’t think I’ve got a good body. And that’s not cause I want you to say I have. I don’t look in the mirror and go: ‘Fucking hell Benny, good body.’ I look at it and [...]

“And I’m Not Being Sarcastic (Not At All)”

Brilliant work from Funny or Die:

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Courtesy Sheepy.

Aptly-Named Beach

C’mon, guess.

Aptly-Named Beach, Vancouver, 21 September 2009

The Week in Review

Short week, lots of work done, busted my Craigslist cherry (sold a TV and a Betamax — oh, yeah!) and my Kijiji cherry (sold my old bike), hung out with the inimitable J.D.:

With J.D. (7 September 2009)

…bought an awesome new citybike, heard the seven trumpets:

The Seven Trumpets

…discovered that in Space, no one can [...]

I Can’t Unfriend You Because We’ve Never Actually Been Friends

Dear Evangelical Christians…

(Courtesy Glark – thanks, Dave!)

Big Bad

Match the adjective with the noun:

1) Big

2) Bad

A) Acting

B) Room

Image: Screencap from this week’s episode of True Blood

Don’t get me wrong, I love me some over-the-top Alan Ball zaniness, but the scene above, between Bill and The Queen, was one serious thespian trainwreck.

“More Tasteless”

Coors Billboard in British Columbia

Oh, cripes, when I was sick last week I totally missed the brouhaha over several Coors’ billboards in British Columbia, allegedly dissing Toronto with the slogan COLDER THAN MOST PEOPLE FROM TORONTO and, I hafta say, as one of those people from Toronto, I’m deeply offended at the inaccuracy of [...]

So, What’s New?

So, what’s new, huh?

Well, the cause of the recent radio silence is that for the past two weeks I’ve been suffering from, firstly, one of the worst summer colds I can ever remember having and, secondly, following that summer cold, one of the nastiest sinus infections imaginable. It’s only looking backwards that I can really [...]

What the Fuck, Tim Hortons?

Full disclosure: I can’t stand Tim Hortons and their long line-ups for mediocre coffee and, worse, the smug, anti-elite posturing of their loyal customers. That said…

It’s bad enough that bigoted hags like Maggie Gallagher, who heads up the odious National Organization for Marriage, can get any sponsors for their events, but when one of them [...]

So We Did Do The Pride Thing in Vancouver, After All

There really wasn’t much discussion about it.

Though Champ and I never really did The Pride Thing in Toronto — at least, not together, and not for the past few years — we didn’t need to really discuss whether (or not) we were going to take in Vancouver’s festivities . We just knew, y’know? I mean, [...]

Damning With Faint(est) Praise

Calling 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“

Too Late

“I don’t want to sound crazy…”:

Alarming Food

Meat Cards:

Let me say this upfront — I wholeheartedly endorse the laser-etching of anything on anything. That said, what a treat to check out meatcards.com, which boldly proclaims…

Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients:

MEAT AND LASERS.

Unlike other business cards, MEAT CARDS will [...]

Green on Thursday #92: Nothing to Hide

I hope you’ll welcome the return of an orphaned series here at This.That.No Other., prompted by a post earlier this week on Joe.My.God. showcasing the cheeky Air New Zealand video “The Bare Essentials of Safety”.

More interesting — to me, at least — was the 45-second TV spot for the airline, featuring the talents of Air [...]