how ginormous, you ask? here he is again to scale...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
WONDERFUL THINGS!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
1-18-08
here's a site that covers everything i've dug up so far
anybody have anything to add?
HEADLINES
Friends, I urge you not to watch this video clip.
When I saw a story about the popularity of jousting, I asked for some video of it, picturing in my mind Men of iron charging one another with lances on snorting steeds, the losers crumpled in shiny piles of metal on the ground.
Fat chance. No, what we get here is a form of jousting where competitors charge this contraption and stick their itty-bitty lances through a small ring. And you can just forget about bloodied helmets and chainmail; these folks play in white outfits with neckties!
All in all, if you want to see bold knights in combat, you’ll catch lots more drama and action at a chess match. You’ve been warned.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
HARRY POTTER MANIA
I'll be celebrating at the Ministry of Magic at Vandusen Garden!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
HEADLINES
For seven days, Mark Kelley works as a teacher in the lowest ranked school in British Columbia.
watch Part 1 here
watch Part 2 here
HEADLINES
PAGANS have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away cartoon character Homer Simpson who was painted next to their famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant.
The 17th century chalk outline of the naked, sexually aroused, club-wielding giant is believed by many to be a symbol of ancient spirituality.
Many couples also believe the 180ft giant, which is carved in the hillside above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, is an aid to fertility.
A giant 180ft Homer Simpson brandishing a doughnut was painted next to the well-endowed figure today in a publicity stunt to promote The Simpsons Movie released later this month.
It has been painted with water-based biodegradable paint which will wash away as soon as it rains.
Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for The Pagan Federation, said: “It’s very disrespectful and not at all aesthetically pleasing.
“We were hoping for some dry weather but I think I have changed my mind. We’ll be doing some rain magic to bring the rain and wash it away.”
She added: “I’m amazed they got permission to do something so ridiculous. It’s an area of scientific interest.”
She also expressed fears that the painting of Homer, from the animated television series The Simpsons, would cause a mess as it washed away.
During the Second World War, he was disguised to prevent the Germans from using him as an aerial landmark.
Since then he has always been visible, receiving regular grass trimming and a full re-chalking every 25 years.
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"...not at all aesthetically pleasing." Pul-leeease! I'd take Homer with a giant pastry over dude with a giant hard-on any day!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
later...
me (email): pc power source aquired
jy (email): Excellent work, Operative. Ve haff deposited ze unmarked funds in your Swizz account.Beware the spotted fox. Ze diamond crows at dawn.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Transformers Movie
(i fell out of my chair i was laughing so hard! what's worse? i was the only one in the theatre laughing. check the credits people!)
AND THE SAGA CONTINUES
"well he wasn't ashamed to tell me he had syphilis"
-the Joker
Friday, July 13, 2007
HEADLINES
Set in 1985, premise takes place in an 'alternative' US where costumed 'adventurers' are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY
me: u lost a big tomatoe?
dan: no, i've lost it the big tomatoe
me: u've lost a big tomatoe?
dan: it - the big tomatoe
me: what big tomatoe?
dan: i've lost it
me: u lost ur big tomatoe?
dan: i've lost it the big tomatoe
me: u've lost IT (the big tomatoe)?
dan: no, the tomatoe isn't important. focus!
me: but the tomatoe is important to me!
dan: the tomatoe is not important. it has nothing to do with anything
me: but there is a big tomatoe?
dan: no
me: cuz u lost it?
dan: i've lost it the big tomotoe - i've just lost it the big tomatoe, there's no punctuation or anything
me: u've lost it the big potatoe?
dan: no!
me: oh dear! it's like ESL all over again. i'm saying what i'm hearing and just not quite right.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
VANCOUVER: A PARANORMAL MAP
a List of locations and spooky incidents
c/o Che Mcnabb
TRAILER - SANCTUARY
here's a blurb from the Santuary website:
Stem cells, gene therapy, transplants, cloning… The very meaning of the word “humanity” changes daily in the modern world. But there is a darker side to the evolution of mankind, a truth only a few brave souls are willing to face : There are monsters loose in the world. And they are the key to the future of our race.
Each webisode of Sanctuary follows the exploits of Dr. Helen Magnus (AMANDA TAPPING, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis) as she seeks out all manner of terrifying and monstrous creatures. She is aided in her quest by her reluctant protégé Will Zimmerman (ROBIN DUNNE, Dawson’s Creek, The Big Hit, Species 3) and her intrepid, if somewhat reckless daughter Ashley (EMILIE ULLERUP, Battlestar Galactica). Together they will be drawn into a frightening and mysterious world populated by beings that defy explanation.
Fusing stunning visual effects, Sanctuary takes the viewer into a thrilling world where science meets the supernatural. This fictional online universe fills the void left by traditional network television by providing multiple High Definition resolutions, immersive interaction, and direct communication between the viewer and the Sanctuary creative team.
What is Sanctuary?
Sanctuary is the first broadcast quality, High Definition dramatic series designed specifically for the internet.
What is unique about Sanctuary?
Many things:Sanctuary is the first tapeless HD digital production - using only digital media on hard drives from shooting through to post. As well, the majority of Sanctuary's first eight webisodes (approx. two hours) were shot entirely on green screen sets -- meaning the backgrounds are completely computer generated.
Additionally, we use an innovative 3D computer-model tracking system live on set, allowing actors and crew to "see" renderings of the CG worlds they are "filming" in real time.
Sanctuary recently was awarded a Guinness World Record for "Highest Budget Television Production Direct to the Web".
Who created Sanctuary?
Sanctuary was created by Sci-fi writer/producer Damian Kindler (Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis).
AND THE SAGA CONTINUES
watch EPISODE 1
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS STRIKES AGAIN
"Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday."
fascintating! who woulda thunk it? (where's the sarcastic button on this thing?)
Friday, July 06, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY
-Juggler (From The Game:Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists)
Thursday, July 05, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY
me: so, what's happening now
groom: her brother is supposed to carry her out from the house and pass her into my arms
me (looking around the corner): when?
groom (also looking around the corner): any minute now
(the bride's brother comes around the corner a few seconds after with a garbage bag heading to the dumpster)
groom: hey, that's not your sister!
me: or is it?
QUOTE OF THE DAY
n: P., aren't you hot?
P (looks in the mirrior): why, yes i am. thank you for noticing.
HEADLINES
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong woman who blinded her boyfriend in one eye in a fight six years ago has been jailed for jabbing a chopstick into his other eye, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Last November, Po Shiu-fong, 58, accused long-time boyfriend Kwok Wai-ming, 49, of having an affair, the South China Morning Post reported.
During the row, Po stabbed a plastic chopstick into his left eye, which she had already blinded six years ago when she poked it with her finger.
"Po became hysterical when she saw the wound and mopped it with a towel. The pair then went to bed," the paper said.
"The next morning they had another argument in which she grabbed a chopstick and stabbed Kwok's right eye," it said.
Two days later, he sought medical treatment and filed a police report against Po, whom he had dated since 1993.
The paper said he didn't report the attack six years ago, telling the court his silence was "a love sacrifice."
Kwok lost 10 to 20 percent vision in his right eye, the paper said.
Po was jailed for six months on Tuesday.
"If I forgive her, God would not forgive me," the paper quoted Kwok as saying. "No matter what, nothing could compensate for the loss of my eye."
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
AND THE SAGA CONTINUES
"hey Lex, Venom just puked over the balcony"
-the Green Goblin
AND THE SAGA CONTINUES
"...that's 20 hours of realistic superhero action..."
-Henry
HEADLINES
i can't figure out how to embed the video and i couldn't find it on youtube so y'all just have to use the link.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
i READ
He calls the project the "Fiction Liberation Front."
I'm told that the following is possibly Shiner's greatest work. It'll haunt you every time you hear a Beatles, Beach Boys, Doors, or Jimi Hendrix song. The book is now out of print but I just ordered mine from Amazon. I can't wait!
From Library Journal:
Shiner ( Slam , LJ 8/1/90, among others) has written what may be the first rock n roll time-travel novel. Ray Chackleford is a self-employed electronics repairman whose marriage is foundering and whose father has recently died. These unresolved relationships are complicated when Ray travels to the Mexican site of his father's death and promptly falls in love with a woman even more unstable than he. In the midst of this emotional turmoil, Ray--a rock drummer during his youth in the late Sixties--begins to hear in his head and manages to transfer to tape legendary unfinished recordings by Jim Morrison, Brian Wilson, and Jimi Hendrix. This music is accompanied by "journeys" into the troubled lives of these rock musicians. Shiner's appealing main character and his gripping style overcome the less believable aspects of his story. With the current comeback of the Sixties, this novel should be widely popular.
Friday, June 29, 2007
TOP 10
Here they are, The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History, from whence they came and why they are so wonderfully ridiculous.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
GIZMO GAL
you're at the beach, your ipod dies. no problem, just plug it into the high-tech flexible solar panel. all your gizmos and gadgets will be at full charge all the time! love love love it!
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
MOVIE ANNOUNCEMENTS
oh yes my friends, it is happening. let us all put our hands together and pray that they don't screw this one up. oh Diablo - happy memories.
full story at Sneek Peek
MOVIE ANNOUNCEMENTS
yes, the image is posted correctly. i don't get how it might work either but both Scarlette Johannson and Kirsten Dunst are being considered for roles. any guesses who they might play? is the old rich guy with the moustache like Hugh Hefner or something?
full story at Sneek Peek
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
TRACKS ON REPEAT
i'm currently obsessing over the story of Alexander Scriabin and his work Mysterium (also known as Preparation for the Final Mystery). Sciabin believed that this piece of music when played would bring about the end of the world. he would die of ecstasy when he finished playing it and the human race would be replaced by "nobler beings." he began planning the piece in 1903 and worked on it until his death in 1915. the work was never completed, for better or for worse, the world will never know.
Russian composer Alexander Nemtin spent almost three decades on completing Scriabin's work. Nemtin completed the masterpiece in 1996 and obviously, we are no nobler but this is merely Nemtin's realisation of the pieces left behind. Here are clips of the cd that was released in 1996. personally, i think it's quite pretty.
Scriabin's notoriety had little to do with his music. his music is actually little known outside of Russia as it was simply too bizarre for the time. he is best known for his eccentricity which seems a shame. According to Harold Schoenberg, it is possible that Scriabin had a rare genetic disorder called synesthesia, in which sound is translated into color.
Monday, June 18, 2007
TRAILER - TRANSFORMERS
and this is obviously recorded at the world premier last week
FLASHMOB VANCOUVER
* Date: Saturday, July 14, 2007
* Time: 1:00pm
* Location: Stanley Park
* City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Code of Conduct:
1. This is a water fight - don't bring any other weapons apart from water pistols, WATER BOMBS ARE MESSY SO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF - littering is a crime and we love out planet.
2. We are not going to be your parents, nor are we going to be the police, if you see some one doing something stupid tell them to stop - if your doing something stupid - don't, your going to ruin it and this has the potential to be a massive laugh
3. Dress to impress but not like a terrorist (your going to get wet just remember - hence why its happening close to summer - its going to be the hottest ever recorded)
4. Don't terrorise the public - if they want to get involved let them . THIS IS AN OPEN INVITATION
5. Don't bring camera's. They're going to get wet and DON'T come complaining when they don't work. There will be plenty of othere people involved devoted to taking pictures.
6. This is a LAUGH, don't take it too seriously, and don't beat each other up over it (close up shooting and all that).
7. Don't leave any mess behind!!! We come and then go (the place looks the same as it does when we came, that inlcudes plastic bottles e.t.c)
8. DON'T GET THE ARMED POLICE DEPLOYED BY BRINGING WATER PISTOLS THAT LOOK LIKE REAL GUNS!!!!!!!!!
9. Please try not to use more water than you have to - preserve your supplies...... REMEMBER there could be a water ban this summer.
10. If anyone asks whos organised it - we all happened to be in the same place at the same time. amazing isn't it ?
11. No one get naked in the fountain - you could be arrested
12. No dyed water - it stains cloths AND it could stain the pavements..... Not good its vandalism SPREAD THE WORD !!!!
13. OK, get naked, but I can't promise there will be a fountian promise there will be a fountian......
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
SQUIRREL GOES ON RAMPAGE, INJURES 3
An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.
With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.
The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.
"After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh," the spokesman said. "Then he killed it with his crutch."
The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.
story c/o Reuters
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
TRAILER - PARADISE REDRAWN
Friday, June 08, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
IT'S UGLY AND IT CAUSES SEIZURES!
story here
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
BOOZ2GO
Monday, June 04, 2007
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
RINGTUNES
general:
messages:
text:
here's the rest of 'em - can you guess which one i attached to your name on my phone?
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY
me: eh?
david: Shrute Bucks. don't you watch the office?
me: nope.
david: this guy, Shrute, gives out Schrute Bucks if you do good
me: so do we get Dulley Dollars?
Monday, May 28, 2007
TRAILER - TRANSFORMERS
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
IPOD...IWANT!
foldable piggy speakers that i couldn't get the image for.
or these guys!
i was never much of a dog person until i laid eyes on these ipuppy!
and the ICY penguin
and it wouldn't be me without the icat!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY
betty: betty
guy: benny
betty: no, betty
guy: yea, benny
betty: no, BET-TY
guy: BEN-NY
betty: no, listen to what i'm saying guy, it's betty!
guy: yea, i get it! you're betty, i'm benny!
GOOGLE YOURSELF LATELY?
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
QUOTE OF THE DAY / SALSA
n: no, i think it's the hips
r: it looks like the knees
n: nope, definitely the hips
r: well u know what they say about hips?
n: huh?
r: they don't lie
MR. MCGEE...DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY...
c/o Sneak Peek:
the very yummy Edward Norton is the new Hulk and Tim Roth is set to play the Abomination.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL
see clips here- especially the Canada AM featuring, "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed."
i hope this comes to Vancouver.
loves! loves! loves it!
Friday, May 04, 2007
DIRTY HOCKEY
here's a couple quotes that laura uttered over and over again with great vigor during the game last night:
"get some stick on it!"
"play harder! harder!"
"go deep into their end zone!"

