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Question. Ever since I was a little girl, I've be...
2007-05-03 05:05:00
Question.Ever since I was a little girl, I've been able to see the man in the moon.I've found out over the years that not everyone sees him.The Mister can't.He's tried to see what I see, but doesn't.In my eyes, he's looking down on the Earth. His face a little to the left.He looks sad and distressed with a furrowed brow, his mouth forming a little "oh".When I was little, I used to feel sorry for him, and wonder why he was never happy.Now, as an adult...I understand why.Who could look down on what's going on upon this Earth and be happy?My question is:When you look up at the full moon, do you see him?
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"Five teenage pupils at a Thornhill public schoo...
2007-05-01 17:52:00
"Five teenage pupils at a Thor nhill public school have become the latest Toronto-area members to run afoul of school authorities on Facebook.com. And with the city currently holding the title as the most populous place in the social networking website's world, they aren't likely to be the last".I heard one of the Dad's interviewed on talk radio this morning.I thought that the school must have meted out some pretty serious discipline over this.Suspension or expulsion or something.They shouldn't be slagging anyone online using their real names, and places of work. Turns out the kids won't be able to go to Montreal with their class in June.Boo fucking hoo.What a middle class whine-a-thon.Those parents need to sit down and STFU.This is something we need to jump on the backs of school administrators for?Gimme a fucking break.How many kids in this city aren't going anywhere with their graduating class at the end of June, and they haven't done anything to be punished for.Besides, I...
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What About Me? Tonight I stopped by Uja's store f...
2007-05-01 02:34:00
What About Me?Tonight I stopped by Uja's store for a visit.While I was there, a couple who are old friends of Uja's and Mama's came to visit too.The wife has for many years had health problems and I've always admired how her husband looks out for her and takes care of her. He recently has had health issues as well, and now she seems to be looking out for him.Their eldest son and his wife recently had a child, and they were talking about it.I wish I could have recorded their conversation, and that all of you understood Serbian.Laugh?I thought I'd die.Here's how part of the conversation went:Husband: "Ken yu imagine? I vent to bed mid da vife, an I voke ap mid da Baba (Grandma)Wife: "Vad aboud me? I vent to bed mit da husband, an I voke ap mid da Deda! (Grandpa)Husband: "Aye! Yu chase me all da vey to Swizzerlan to ketch me, an follow me all da vey to da Canada....an nou turry years later yu complainink?Wife: "Ya iz true, I chase yu to Swizzerlan..bah yu no run avey!"Husband: "Y...
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Sunday Click Around The picture to your right is ...
2007-04-29 17:16:00
Sunday Clic k AroundThe picture to your right is from The Paul Kopeikin Gallery. The Photographer is Jill Greenberg. Her pictures of children crying are surreal.Here is a really strange little video on Karen Carpenter's life acted out by Barbie and Ken. It's really bizarre. Truthfully, I didn't watch the whole thing, but maybe you can sit through it.Don't buy stuff you can't afford. Found at Funkaoshi.Here's a brief history of ska. I love ska. I always have.Here is a French documentary about the legendary Inca Princess, Yma Sumac. I find these Divas fascinating. Women who until their last dying breath at 95 years of age, still get up and do the whole make up and hair thing..."Maaaaaaaaaaaxxxx, I'm ready for my close up".Schizophrenia in prison.Need I say more?Dancers is very beautiful to watch.I watched this mini documentary on racism in European soccer. It's fucking disgusting what these players have to tolerate. It's sickening to think that people actually behave in this w...
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Team Baldwin. Because what he discusses is more ...
2007-04-29 01:13:00
Team Baldwin.Because what he discusses is more common than people want to believe or acknowledge.
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Haven't we been told over and over again that bei...
2007-04-28 17:21:00
Haven't we been told over and over again that being in the sun will give us cancer?Now, vitamin D seems to be what protects us from cancer.Hmmm, I always used to wonder.If the sun was so bad for us, then why do people look so much better and feel so much better when they've been in the sun.Gee...once again a campaign to scare the crap out of us has had to backtrack, and now say that what studies deemed dangerous, is now actually good for us.Damn.These studies that disprove studies make me want to shout "BULLSHIT!!" whenever there's some sort of government initiative to help us improve our health, or anything else for that matter.Eating organic?Anyone who grows vegetables and fruits in their garden without pesticides and preservatives knows that once something is picked, it wilts rather quickly.Lettuce picked today and put in the fridge looks like a wet rag by morning.I cannot be convinced that because the fruit is labelled organic, is smaller, and has dirt on it that it's made t...
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It's this kind of thing that makes me agree with S...
2007-04-26 14:27:00
It's this kind of thing that makes me agree with Singapore's way of dealing with criminal youth.Because jailing them just isn't enough.Police are putting cameras up in neighbourhoods where crime happens and people don't tell.It's about time.This is a good way to take the threat of retaliation away from residents who fear reporting crime.I know that some people freak out at the thought of cameras in public places, but I don't. It may not deter crime, but it sure does help in identifying the criminals.Besides, I don't believe privacy in public exists.So, if there's a camera running that is rolled back and watched when a crime happens, I'm ok with that.Ok.Canada doesn't have a sex offender registry, although we should.I checked out the National Sex Offender Registry website in the U.S., and it can scare the shit out of you. Type in any city and see the little red and yellow dots cluster together. Then read about th e offender and what they've been charged  with.If the number o...
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Wowie wee Wah! Check out this Russian Cake Art....
2007-04-25 23:29:00
Wowie wee Wah!Check out this Russian Cake Art.It's amazing.High Five to English Russia for posting it.

How does this happen? I know it happens more oft...
2007-04-25 14:27:00
How does this happen?I know it happens more often than we know.It boggles my mind.What a terrible tragedy. Experts continue to suck the fun out of life.Seriously.How many times have we heard that some study says that something is bad for us?Then about a decade later we find out it actually isn't bad for us...it might even be good for us.Aaah, The Media; working hard to scare the shit out of us, every day.Speaking of scaring the shit out of you.Here is a documentary called "Stopping the Stalker" (in 9 parts).The rest of the documentary is easily found on YouTube.If you've ever had someone obsessed with you, this documentary will scare the crap out of you. I think that a lot of women can say that they've experienced low levels of stalking. The boyfriend you broke up with, or the guy you only went out with once or twice, calling and calling and calling...creepy, but nothing like this.The chicks in this are equally scary."Boiling bunny" scary.
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Kryptonite found in Serbia "Kryptonite is no long...
2007-04-25 00:08:00
Kryptonite found in Serbia "Kryptonite is no longer the stuff of comic books and Superman movies - it really exists.A newly-discovered mineral has been found to contain exactly the same elements as the large green crystals that rob the superhero of his powers.Unlike fictional kryptonite, the real thing at London's Natural History Museum is white and powdery, emits no radiation, and comes from Serbia rather than outer space.But scientists who analysed the find were astonished to discover that its chemical composition matched a description of kryptonite in the film Superman Returns.In the 2006 movie, Superman's arch enemy Lex Luthor steals a kryptonite rock fragment from the Metropolis Museum.On the case are written the words "sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine".Mineralogist Dr Chris Stanley, from the Natural History Museum, said: "Towards the end of my research, I searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide - an...
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-Sunday Click Around- The Documentary Edition Rec...
2007-04-22 17:06:00
-Sunday Click Around-The Document ary  EditionRecently, I've been on a documentary kick.It started with Anna of Field of Blackbirds sending me Following Sean, which kind of reminded me of the UP Series, but it chronicles the life of the filmmaker, and the subject (Sean) as well as America's shift in political thinking.How things come full circle sometimes, and how life is what it is, and we have no choice but to accept it. I wanted to include some clips, but it's been doing the rounds with the people at work, and I won't see it again until next weekend.I then watched a documentary called "Can't Stop Eating" about Prader-Willi Syndrome which is a disorder that makes the sufferer continuously eat. Because a neurological short they never feel satiated. They can eat themselves to death. The documentary is sad, and fascinating. I've found the full documentary, so you don't have to search YouTube for the parts.After watching that, I watched "Thin" which is in 11 parts that are easily...
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OMG...this is hilarious NSFW
2007-04-20 23:24:00
OMG...this is hilariousNSFW
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Daddy Dearest I've been reading about Alec Baldwi...
2007-04-20 22:28:00
Daddy DearestI've been reading about Alec Baldwin's divorced dad trouble here, here, and here.I just find it so very sad.I'm not supposing that I know what their situation is. I know that it was quite bitter when they divorced, and I know that they have a daughter.It's a terrible thing to have to be connected to someone you no longer love, or worse yet, someone you despise through a child.And worse for the child who has to know that they're the flesh and blood of two people who detest each other, and are willing to go to great lengths to hurt each other.I haven't heard the voicemail recording of what Baldwin said to his daughter, but I know that in anger my mother has said similar things to me, and my father much, much worse.I'm not saying that it's right.I'm not saying that Baldwin shouldn't be sorry for what he said to his child.What I do know is that it's hard to be a single parent, and it's hard to be a weekend parent.In one of the videos, Baldwin says that he tries ...
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What with The Secret, and Feng Shui...and Oprah...
2007-04-20 14:17:00
What with The Secret , and Feng Shui ...and Oprah ...I need to get paid.I need to talk to Oprah, and babble some flaky shit and convince her that she needs to help me to get her view ers to embrace my way of thinking so that I may separate them from their wallets.Or maybe I just need to convince some old mentally infirm guy of the power of Feng Slav.

Forgive me. I had to post this...She's the SS Pu...
2007-04-20 05:30:00
Forgive me.I had to post this...She's the SS Pussy Officer.This is NSFW.INsane.
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The Victims The NY Times has a profile on each ...
2007-04-20 03:28:00
The Victims The NY Times has a profile on each of the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy.What can be said, other than how heartbreaking it is.Via: Cynical-C
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Good Morning ?I asked them not to do that. They h...
2007-04-18 13:01:00
Good Morning ?I asked them not to do that. They had no emotions on their faces. It was just like, ?This is what we're doing,' and they walked out of the room,? the mother said. ?I can't understand how you can just watch two parents very upset, crying, ?Don't do this. This is our children.' And they just get up and walk away.?The babies were returned after a week, but by then they had all been transfused."Two of the six children already dead without transfusions, four alive because of them...I dunno. The above quote from the article is a little ass backwards if you ask me.Is it really helpful to drug a developing brain?Isn't it normal for teenagers and young adults to learn to deal with failure and depression?Do we need to be drugged as soon as we find things difficult to deal with?Or is this a gigantic, multi-million dollar business that is booming.Listen, I'm not talking about psychotics or manic depression. I just can't be convinced that so much of general public really nee...
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I find this fascinating. I've been to many blac...
2007-04-18 03:22:00
I find this fascinating.I've been to many black beauty supply stores here in Toronto, and all of the stores I have been in are black owned.It appears that this is an American issue.The documentary is interesting though. This is part one...you can see the rest through the YouTube panel.
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A Chink in the Armour The Asian Canadian Centre s...
2007-04-15 17:55:00
A Chink in the ArmourThe Asian Canadian Centre says:"A Chink in the Armour is a hilarious look into the notion of stereotypes while revealing what it means to be Chinese-Canadian in today's society. Gathering a large group of volunteers from Toronto, five of the major stereotypes will be tested to see if they are true. Do Chinese really know kung fu? Are they all good at math? The results are comical, always informative, and offer a unique glimpse into Chinese-Canadian culture."They're right.The documentary is great!You should watch the whole documentary here.Bravo, Baun Mah!
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Sunday Click Around I've posted Bobby Neel Adams ...
2007-04-15 16:59:00
Sunday Clic k AroundI've posted Bobby Neel Adams photos before, but I happened accross his site again, and found it worth mentioning again. His age photos are haunting...and his couples photos are interesting to look at.I've posted this before, but in the light of Kurt Vonnegut's death, I thought that I'd post it again. Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen Speech is an essay actually called "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich, published in the Chicago Tribune in 1997. It became an urban legend, that it was an MIT commencement speech given by Kurt Vonnegut. However, given the cadence of the speech, it's totally believeable that it was Kurt.Here is an August 2006 interview in Second Life with Kurt. His avatar is young looking, his voice is old and tired...but the reason I'm posting it is because Kurt was getting such a kick out of the circumstances. Being interviewed in a virtual world obviously tickled him. I loved him, and I'm particularly fo...
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I'm Sharing... I had to. I often get sales calls,...
2007-04-14 03:12:00
I'm Sharing ...I had to.I often get sales calls, and samples for stuff in the mail.Today, I got a package from a company that makes playground surfaces.The little sample to your left is an expensive safety surface with a pattern of...are you ready?GRASS!!!Yes, people.Because real grass is so gross, what with all the bugs and dirt in it...and it's dangerous to land on too.One step closer to increasing environmental allergies due to lack of exposure.Break out the bubble suits for your kids, people.
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can wi...
2007-04-12 14:40:00
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."Good-bye Kurt.:(I drove around this yesterday.Crossed myself and marvelled at how many vehicles end up in the ditches on the 410.I still don't think schoolbuses should have seatbelts.I think seatbelts on schoolbuses are more dangerous than not having them at all.If there are 30 or 40 children on a schoolbus that turns over, is on fire, or submerged in water...children in shock can't release themselves, and a few adults in shock cannot release them all.I know that we're about to have this discussion again because of this poor little boy.But, I still think it's a bad idea.What does need to happen though, is better driver training for school bus drivers.Believe me when I tell you that I've been on some field trips with bus drivers who scared the shit out of me. Perhaps driving a school bus should merit someone worth paying what you pay....
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This was done to me two years ago, and I believe...
2007-04-11 18:52:00
This was done to me two years ago, and I believe I was almost duped again on Sunday night at a gas station. It wasn't until after I had punched in my PIN that I realized that the machine had a green attachment I'd never seen before on another machine.I was uncomfortable enough to call my bank and cancel my access card, telling them of my concern. They reassured me that it was better to be safe than sorry.I agree
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Banned Blue Jays Commercial. Yes. If we're exp...
2007-04-11 14:34:00
Banned Blue Jays Comm ercial .Yes.If we're exposed to that commercial, people will start knocking their kids out with pillows.Obviously.
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Obscene Interiors. I got a real kick out of this ...
2007-04-10 18:51:00
Obscene Interior s.I got a real kick out of this guys take on personal ads.He's taken pictures from real personal ads and removed the guy in them, and then made comments about the subject's perceived personality by analyzing the room behind him in the picture.See the whole thing at Obscene InteriorsFound at: Yesbutnobutyes.com
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I don't really care about Don Imus and his whole "...
2007-04-10 14:59:00
I don't really care about Don Imus and his whole "Nappy, headed ho's" comment.He shouldn't have said it.As a white man he's not in a position to say it.I read this:"Sharpton is going to say he should lose his job because he (Imus) disrespected black women. Black leaders all across the country are saying that this is unacceptable. Meanwhile, millions of black kids will come home after school today and watch an hours worth of videos that send them the message that black women aren't worth s^%$. Where are those same black leaders? Yes, they might blah, blah, blah about it, but who among them has called for resignations in the rap industry? Is the message that white men must respect black women but black man don't?"Hmmmm, still doesn't give Imus the right.So what if Imus does work with Sickle Cell? It's not a license.Hypocrisy is not limited to the black community and it's leaders...and let's not pretend that it's the first time we've seen the "do as I say, and not as I do" ...
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Gawker's Editor Lives Up to the Site's Name. Jimm...
2007-04-09 23:10:00
Gawker's Editor Lives Up to the Site's Name.Jimmy Kimmel had a beef with Gawker Stalker, the website that posts crap that readers send in about celebrity sightings.Apparently, the best that Editor Emily Gould could do to defend herself and the website was shake her head, and raise her eyebrows in defense. It seems that Gawker can only defend themselves after the jump. On their website.Kind of like high school chicks in the cafeteria. You know the kind who can't say stuff to your face.At least Kimmelconfronted the Editor with his beef . Emily did a poor job, even though she m ade a couple of valid points at the end.A ll the dismissive head shaking and eye widening in disbelief wasn't nearly as convincing as a good witty comeback would have been.You know, like the website. See the video on Gawker.
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One thing I find frustrating is when I'm reading ...
2007-04-09 18:01:00
One thing I find frustrating is when I'm reading an article in the paper, and the whole point and argument of the article is some sort of argument about something visual...and then they don't provide the reader with the frickin' visual!Don't tell me all about the complaints about the design of something and then don't let me see what you're bitching about.This article on outdoor advertising:"In all cases, the problem begins with the designs themselves: They are inappropriate, disconcertingly trendy, overdone and overpowering. They would only increase the rampant commercialization of the public realm."Oh yeah?Let's see.Oh, what?No pictures?Looking up one of the companies that they're bitching about...this is what they're talking about.Here's another one.When I read about the Asian American Artist whose posted public art was vadalized with a "hateful message", I wanted to see."Mathew Tom, a 22-year-old art major, is the creator and the subject of the messages. He won second ...
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Sunday Click Around Hristos Vaskrst/Happy Easter ...
2007-04-08 05:05:00
Sunday Clic k AroundHristos Vaskrst/Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates.I can't remember what I was looking for when I found this wedding video, but I watched about half of it when it hit me that The Mister would have preferred to be branded with hot irons in a Turkish prison than be subjected to a video like this. Come to think of it, so would I. I have to hand it to her though, she's got him wrapped.Look and feel Canadian. Thanks to Krysss.com.Ever wonder what those 80's stars look like now? Here are a bunch of photos that let you see. Some fared better than others.While we're on the 80's, remember Prince's nemesis Morris Day and The Time? Here's Jungle Love. Here he is now....hasn't changed all that much. Geez, the least he could do is move with the times....I know, that was bad.Did we know that Betty Boop was Jewish? Is that Yiddish her father is speaking? I had no idea.How ya doin, Bernie?This commercial is so beautiful, so pretty...with a surprise for the bride at t...
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Immigration: The Human Cost Thanks Cynical-C
2007-03-30 20:43:00
Immigration: The Human Cost Thanks Cynical-C
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