Why's the Pope gotta hate on Bob Dylan?

In other news, I scored a free coffee with my first Roll Up The Rim To Win of the season. But it gets better! The free coffee I won with my RUTRTW yielded yet another free coffee! I haven't cashed it in yet, but I don't expect the streak to last. Nice start, though ( Read more... )

Unexpected live music update! Went to see Geoff (The Whiskey Rabbi) Berner at the Jane Bond tonight, with Bob Wiseman, who was kicked out of Blue Rodeo for being too crazy! (Apparently there was a time in his life when he refused to wear a watch or look at clocks, so he was always late for shows ( Read more... )

I try not to be cryptic, so I'll explain that last one for you if you don't get it. The 'Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.' part is adapted from the lyrics to 'Black Coffee' by Black Flag, basically a five-minute paranoid rant. Great song. I'm not the paranoid kind, but it turns out I maybe should have been just a little more paranoid ( Read more... )

Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.
Drink black coffee. Stare at the walls.

Well, Fowler, you were absolutely right!

Here we have the concept of 'Beer Goggles' expressed mathematically.

"A formula rating of less than one means no effect. Between one and 50 the person you would normally find unattractive appears less "visually offensive". Non-appealing people become suddenly attractive between 51 and 100. At more than 100, someone not considered attractive looks ( Read more... )

Belated happy 125th birthday to James Joyce, everyone's favourite Irish writer (or mine at least ( Read more... )

Happy 21st, smedgie. Can't remember if it's today or yesterday because of all the two-phase parties in years past.

Actual headline:

Hermaphroditic deer with 7 legs 'tasty'
Wisconsin hunter bags odd beast with pickup in driveway, eats it

Read the article. It's no joke. Really.

EDIT: Here's another with pictures of hunter and extra legs.

...and it's now December 7th.

But seventeen years ago yesterday (December 6, 1989), fourteen women were murdered at a tech school in Montreal. There's little doubt that this was motivated by the killer's sociopathic hatred of women, in particular women in technical areas of study. Being a technical student myself, I am well aware of this day and ( Read more... )

Well, maybe I've done it before once or twice. But here's the bottom line ( Read more... )