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Soup Vampire

Soup Vampire (26 September 2009)

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 [...]

Rise of the Machine

Yikes.

Y-Front Double-Take

I don’t know if it’s because I’m such a huge fan of y-fronts — always have been, always will be — but I spent a good 30 seconds WTFing over this ad for Prostate Cancer Foundation before it all came together. It’s a very, very good ad, though it still creeps me out every time [...]

Shocker: Toronto Gets it Wrong, Told to Fuck Off

Far be it from me to ever side with the moronic bullies of Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, but I had to giggle when Tory Transport Ministrix John Baird called out my soon-to-be-ex-city’s ineptitude in applying for part of a $4 billion federal infrastructure fund:

Toronto’s only application for money under the federal government’s $4 billion infrastructure [...]

Fingering Fox

Laying blame. Hard. Where it belongs.

Olbermann:

Video: Keith Olbermann Fingers Bill O’Reilly, Bernard Goldberg and Fox News as Terrorists

I can’t go near comments sections online today. The evil perpetrated by Dr. George Tiller’s murderer is eclipsed by the stupid, hateful, pig-ignorant, seething, antediluvian, subhuman christianists who climb over themselves to justify, rationalize and even applaud [...]

Say No to Same Same [sic] Sex Marraige [sic] (Sick)

Well, 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 [...]

The Last, I Promise, Toronto Pothole Post

Okay, 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 I Had That Dream Again Last Night

Video: Muscle Koushinkyoku WiiWare

Forget “Star Trek” and “Wolverine”, THIS is the Movie We’ve Been Waiting For!

Lorenzo Lamas and Debbie Deborah Gibson? Hell, yeah!

Video: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus Trailer

(via Towleroad)

“Thank You, Mom”

This 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 [...]

Anti-Condom Clowns

There 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 [...]

Toronto’s Potholes: Yeah, But… No

You 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 [...]