tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56494312011-12-20T12:35:20.077-08:00LittleFurynoreply@blogger.comBlogger5061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-16048583660485072552011-11-03T09:23:00.000-07:002011-11-03T09:23:58.958-07:00

Vans Sentry Parka Roots Slouch Sweatshirt Levi's 511cargos Clarks saddle leather desert boot by David Z NYC

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You know what's worse than these days where you wake up and it's dark and cold out and you're still tired and there's nothing in the fridge you want to have for breakfast and you sure as shit don't want to go to work and sit and let another eight hours of your life just drift away when you'd rather be going for a walk or reading a good book, or pretty much anything else? What's worse than this is

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-81153769148159888722011-11-01T14:20:00.000-07:002011-11-01T14:21:58.147-07:00

This gif accurately capture show I feel after many many months of only sporadic physical activity.

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Every week I tell myself I'm going to grab a burger for dinner before my night class and every week I pussy out. I've changed.

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Favourite English names: Tim Pigott-Smith Jessica Brown Findley Fictional Band Name du Jour: The Burning Sensations Current listening: Wild Flag- s/t (2011) Wye Oak-Civilians (2011) Reading: Are you kidding me? Feeling: Broke/indebtted.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-57858281123906591292011-10-07T10:57:00.000-07:002011-10-07T10:57:53.142-07:00

Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford Nice to see Toronto Life continuing it's fine work printing shallow, insincere bullshit for page views. And I fall for it like a sucker every damn time.

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Work is dead slow at the moment, so I've been spending a lot of time scanning job boards, trolling hockey forums watching early '90s can-rock videos on the You Tubes (see below) and reading food and home design blogs. Now, it's no surprise to anyone who reads blogs (including this one, which absolutely no one reads) that a certain amount of self-absorption is a prerequisite for the gig. But some

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-18958311340755452932011-09-22T11:03:00.000-07:002011-09-22T11:03:00.583-07:00

The good thing about being bald is that I never have to worry about getting a stupid haircut like a Mullethawk or, let's be honest, every haircut I ever had when I had hair.

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Fictional band name du jour:  Cold Concrete Canyons Listening to: Wire "Red Bark Tree" (2011) (particularly "Bad Worn Thing") Jonathan Fire*Eater "Wolf Songs for Lambs" (1995) Reading: Lucky Peach Issue #1 Feeling: Guilt over not going to the gym/being fat. Also: gassy.

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The National to headline ACC show Not sure how a band with such an intimate sound (one better suited for late nights around the dinner table) will pull off a show in a hockey rink, but I'd like to find out. Love those guys. Wish this shirt was still in stock.

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Top to bottom: NY Cosmos New Era fitted (I'm partial to the all black everything version), Long sleeve stripe crew neck sweat shirt from Norse Projects, Levi's 511 Commuter Jeans, Vans LPE Chambray

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Favourite English names: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (celebrity chef)Benedict Cumberbatch (actor) Fictional band name du jour:Land Battles Current listening:The War on Drugs – “Slave Ambient” (2011)Band of Horses – “Infinite Arms’ (2010)The Walkmen – “Lisbon” (2010)Crystal Stilts – “In Love with Oblivion” (2011) Reading:As per my last update to my 2011 reading list, I've been on a good run this

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"Weniger, aber besser." - Dieter Rams

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Last week, I was on the subway for the commute home. There were two kids, probably 12 or 13 year sold, standing by the door. As we neared a stop, the older of the two casually leaned forward and spat on the door. No reason, just wanton disregard for public propriety, property and hygiene. I caught the kids I and glared (okay, I may have mouthed "you little fucking shit" at him), which much amused

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-16723616666534265192011-01-06T06:20:00.000-08:002011-01-06T06:20:01.950-08:00

The Globe writer takes aim at the Toronto Environmental Alliance's comparison of Transit City to Rob Ford's transit plan and fails, spectacularly. The nut graf: Would Transit City really serve that many more riders? Sure, if you base your map-doodling on a version of the plan that’s mostly unfunded and mostly dead, especially now that Mr. Miller has vamoosed. The trouble with TEA’s map and

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Another 2011 target to hit: read these books. I'll add more as I go. The Extra Man — Jonathan Ames The Bicycle Diaries — David Byrne The Food of France — Wayverly Root Girl Crazy — Russell Smith The Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell Nikolski — Nicholas Dickner What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami Juliette, Naked — Nick Hornby Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro Super

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Ever since we moved in, the front entry way of our building was covered in terrible amateurish tags. Last week the landlords (I assume it was them) finally decided to clean it up by painting over them with black spray paint. So instead of a small handful of shitty tags, we have a huge black splotch of bad spray paint. I miss the tags. I hope some genuine graffiti artist sees this and takes the

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-36475322574367392552010-12-29T07:01:00.000-08:002010-12-29T10:32:11.207-08:00

Everyone knows new years resolutions are a mugs' game. Still, here I am with an obligatory resolution post for 201 in the vain hope committing them to elctronic paper might make me, well, commit to them. Let's go! Get back to the gym. Three days a week minimum. Or more, if I can manage it. Run a 5K Stop caging smokes. Quit altogether or buy your own, you cheap fuck. Pay down my debt. Or at

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-2257202691145629702010-12-16T11:17:00.000-08:002010-12-16T11:17:55.139-08:00

I've always thought that anyone who eats meat should, at least once in their life, kill an animal they eat so they can better understand the connection between the living thing and the end product. But that's not why I want to kill a pug. They're just fucking ugly.

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At this point in my life, coming up with a year end music list is akin to cramming for an exam in a class I didn't attend all semester. I certainly don't have the same drive to uncover new music that I used to (it happens) so I have to rely on others. The missus, thank goodness, still keeps her ear to the ground and of course there's always other folk's year end lists to scour to see what I

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-45012629982296591042010-12-10T07:21:00.000-08:002010-12-10T07:21:27.224-08:00

Why am I not surprised that the cop involved in not one, not two but three separate incidents of police brutality during the G20 protests was rocking a goatee? Not all guys with goatees are assholes, but all assholes have goatees.

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Toronto’s new, morbidly obese, car loving suburbanite mayor, Rob Ford (aka His Lardship*) took office this week after riding a wave of populist anger to the big chair on city council. Much has been said about Ford’s pledge to “stop the gravy train”: that is, the runaway government spending that has crippled Toronto to the point where it only managed to turn out a $275 million budget surplus while

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“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris

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An exchange on seeing the trailer for The Tourist. Me: That looks kind of stinky. D: I dunno. Angelina Jolie is pretty hot. Add Johnny Depp and put them on a speedboat in Europe and I'll be there.

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I miss bad pints, the smell of cigarettes indoors and girls you won't talk to. Watching them put the chairs up. Nodding at familiar faces you don't know on the way out of the bar. Three a.m. pizza and afterwards the offsales and the old records and heavy eyelids. Falling asleep as the light touches the skyline. ... I have, I know, a good life, a home, love, friends and family. I know very few

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-35186478922631363872009-03-06T13:48:00.000-08:002009-07-27T12:36:19.338-07:00

What up 2009? Just dropping by to say I'm still alive.

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I'll be hanging out here for a while.

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Glasvegas are a Scottish (duh) band that's getting some buzz across the pond. They've got a Velvet Underground/Echo and the Bunnymen/Phil Spector thing going on. Here's they are doing Geraldine live at the BBC. Epic shit.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-53501098327099748082008-10-24T09:19:00.000-07:002008-10-24T09:24:32.310-07:00

Westminster Council bans BanksyThe striking mural, painted under cover of darkness, was intended as a stinging criticism of Big Brother society. So it will come as little surprise to its creator, Banksy, that bureaucracy has ordered the removal of one of his largest works.The Times has learnt that Westminster Council has demanded that a mural by the pseudonymous graffiti artist, a 7m (23 ft)

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I've been trying to put together a weekly soccer game for a while now, but interest has been spotty at best.So this resonates with me right now:

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Obama pig quip creates faux outrageOn Tuesday, Obama argued that McCain's policies were similar to those of President George Bush even though Republicans were trying to repackage themselves as agents of change, an Obama theme. Obama said it was like putting lipstick on a pig, a reference that the McCain camp said was a sexist dig at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin....The latest

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-62537405627814659012008-08-19T10:58:00.001-07:002008-08-19T11:25:33.631-07:00

Clement scolds doctorsHealth professionals who support Vancouver's safe injection site are unethical and immoral, federal Health Minister Tony Clement suggested on Monday."The supervised injection site undercuts the ethic of medical practice and sets a debilitating example for all physicians and nurses, both present and future in Canada," he scolded in an address to the Canadian Medical

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Penguin receives Norwegian knighthoodThe knighthood ceremony began Friday morning with speeches and a fanfare before Nils arrived, under escort with the King's Guard Colour Detachment. Nils then reviewed the troops lined up outside the penguin enclosure at the zoo, waddling down the row of uniformed soldiers, occasionally stopping to crane his neck and peer inquisitively at their crisp uniforms

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I feel that, Larry.

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I am the most annoying person to watch the Olympics with. I'm a condescending former elite athlete who loathes the armchair fan. I love sports. I love athletes. I hate fans. I'm especially annoyed by those who believe their dalliances in amateur childhood athletics give them insight into the travails and accomplishments of Olympic athletes.This is the preamble to a Salon piece by Jennifer Sey,

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-78472530080576175682008-08-06T08:49:00.000-07:002008-08-06T09:38:34.882-07:00

Health Minister issues incoherent broadside against InSite“Allowing and/or encouraging people to inject heroin into their veins is not harm reduction, it is the opposite. … We believe it is a form of harm addition,” Tony Clement said Tuesday in Mexico City, where he is attending the XVII International AIDS Conference.Yeah, Tony, because all the people using InSite now would be clean and sober

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This article from anti-semitic anti-establishment mag Adbusters has been causing a stir among various fixie-apologists around town.Style-wise, it's weak sauce, though this one line is Hall of Fame shit:The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks.And for a piece calling out the fundamental shallowness of of hipster culture, this ain't exactly the

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-80271595927902667262008-07-31T11:31:00.001-07:002008-07-31T11:32:35.279-07:00

As you can see, I've messed about with the template here. It's a little squished at the moment, but I'm working on that.

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I've added some links on the sidebar for you to check out. Or not. I don't care.

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Caught "The Dark Knight" last week. Despite the critical praise and word of mouth hype, I found myself feeling let down. This rare dissenting review sums up why:The Dark Knight is noisy, jumbled, and sadistic....But the psychological twists in The Dark Knight—especially the transformation of Dent into “Two-Face”—are baffling as drama. They play as if they’d been penned by Oxford philosophy majors

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-86834159950655812982008-07-08T09:18:00.001-07:002008-07-08T09:48:50.030-07:00

B.C. transportation minister Kevin Falcon does."My opinion is, as the price of fuel goes up, it will change the technology of what we're driving, whether it's hydrogen or solar-powered or electrical-powered vehicles, which I think is most likely. That's the weakness of the Peak Oil projections."I think the bottom line is, we'll all be driving something. So you just can't ignore the infrastructure

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-58547898091474270752008-07-03T13:56:00.000-07:002008-07-03T15:08:39.865-07:00

Mark Steyn (right) and supporters celebrate today's decision by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to dismiss a Muslim group's complaint against Maclean's magazine. Steyn, a known musical theatre aficionado, penned the 2006 article that prompted the complaint.

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Matt Taibbi ain't buying what John McCain is selling.At least that's the impression I get. It's a little ambiguous:Rather than serving up the "straight talk" he promises, McCain is enthusiastically jumping aboard with every low-rent, fearmongering, cock-sucking presidential aspirant who's ever traveled the Lee Atwater/William Safire highway....With his chameleonlike,

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Massachusetts teens enter suicide pregnancy pact.As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year....School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-8864810123582568392008-06-19T16:47:00.000-07:002008-06-19T16:56:34.939-07:00

Picking up where we left off a while ago (with the panda bears, not the bearded showtunes fan and the basement dwellers who love him), Beijing-based graphic novelist Coco Wang has produced a series of comics about the recent earthquake in China and its aftermath, including one on the aforementioned pandas. Moving stuff.(via Boing Boing)

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This overview of a recent gig showcasing what passes for musical talent here in Vancouver made me want to put a bullet in the brain of the whole damn scene. I'm not shooting the messenger here; I actually want to know who creates and who enjoys stuff like this:their "set" was completely different at Pat's (it involved eight people amongst the crowd blowing on rape whistles while Josh Rose fired

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-86332612136633599272008-06-06T13:33:00.000-07:002008-06-06T13:36:46.278-07:00

For some reason, the reaction to my last post reminded me of this:

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Yeah, I know that by entertaining complaints over speech and opinion, Human Rights Tribunals as we know them are overstepping their original mandate to investigate and settle complaints of discrimination in employment and in the provision of services. But that’s not the worst part. By calling infamous high-school drop out, musical theatre aficionado and right-wing shitnugget Mark Steyn onto the

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The Globe and Mail's Rick Groen on the new Sex And the City movie:After all, bad summer films, full of furious hype and signifying nothing, are hardly exceptional these days, nor is the sound they typically make: the dull scrape of a culture hitting rock bottom. Yet this one seems uniquely bad; this one is a threshold-breaker with a different sound, the crack of rock-bottom giving way to a whole

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Dunkin' Donuts+Whining Wingnuts=Keffiyeh KontroversyI'm really of two minds here. Obviously Malkin's view is as rational and defensible as one could expect from a paranoid sociopath who should not be allowed any form of public expression not mediated by large doses of psychotropic drugs and/or electroshock therapy. I mean, the fucking thing is clearly not what Malkin says it is (unless she really

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-24049960613153596672008-05-22T16:09:00.000-07:002008-05-22T16:15:03.774-07:00

I guess I just haven't felt much like blogging lately. I'm working on it.

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Exhibit A"My Beautiful Mommy" is aimed at kids ages four to seven and features a plastic surgeon named Dr. Michael (a musclebound superhero type) and a girl whose mother gets a tummy tuck, a nose job and breast implants. Before her surgery the mom explains that she is getting a smaller tummy: "You see, as I got older, my body stretched and I couldn't fit into my clothes anymore. Dr. Michael is

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Picking up a dropped thread from a few nights back...It's not that I have a problem with people who make a lot of effort to look good. My big beef is with people who go the extra mile to look like they are mentally handicapped sex offenders.

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The first two-thirds of this are a lot like this. "I Am Legend" is actually not a bad film (it helps to have low expectations. To wit: me to video store employee; "Do you have any copies of that shitty new Will Smith movie?). Though I can't imagine the surprising degree of quality is by design. After all, when a a sci-fi/horror/action film's worst bits are the sci-fi/horror/action bits, you know

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I had a very white weekend. Friday night, I went to an art show opening at a gallery on the edge of sketchville. The show was entitled "Orientalism and Ephemera" and was all about the "attraction and presence of the ‘East’ within our everyday experience." Which basically meant a combination of scruffy hipsters, self-consciously quirky artist types and folks in colourful "ethnic" garb swilling

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I know. And I haven't forgotten.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-2587804379290747442008-01-31T10:17:00.000-08:002008-01-31T11:51:13.032-08:00

"The pathway to affordable housing is abundantly clear: Remove urban growth boundaries."Thus says a report by pro-urban sprawl "think tank" Demographia that's getting some press here. According to the report, Vancouver's high housing prices are the exclusive result of "artificial restrictions on the supply of residential land." In Vancouver's case, that would be the Agricultural Land Reserve,

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-63533157092879309862008-01-29T13:13:00.000-08:002008-01-29T13:18:07.859-08:00

A great thing about getting older is realizing how much of what you believed when you were young is bullshit. A crappy thing about getting older is that knowledge always comes too late to make a difference./emo post

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-76988213639204428662008-01-25T11:54:00.000-08:002008-01-25T12:01:11.595-08:00

Further to yesterday's post, I've decided to start a second blog. I'm going to maintain this one as an archive and repository for future expletive-laced rants. The other, cooler looking one will be for photos (mine and others'), blurbs, links, that sort of shit.If you care, go here.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-34063300573463152662008-01-24T10:26:00.000-08:002008-01-24T10:37:01.468-08:00

I'm pondering moving/relaunching this thing to a different blog host thingy. I'm eyeing tumblr because the interface is simpler, it looks a lot cleaner and short form stuff is more fun. Plus blogger can be a real bitch. So, solitary reader, what do you think?

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-3696059142284663542008-01-22T14:20:00.000-08:002008-01-22T14:31:17.372-08:00

This morning, I was in the kitchen making coffee when my thoughts idly turned to the Oscars. I was thinking about the last few years and if any good movies actually won anything. The only one I could think of was gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain. Which led to more idle thoughts about Anne Hathaway's rack and Heath Ledger's excellent performance in that film.Now, I'm not usually given to musing

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-82451102365787220282008-01-22T10:52:00.000-08:002008-01-22T11:09:02.530-08:00

On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned all state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion in the United States, a landmark decision for abortion rights. It took another 15 years for Canada to follow suit. In that time, the pendulum has swung wildly and it seems as though reproductive rights are under siege. Today's a good time to remember that the right to decide when to

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-11496622013061298272008-01-09T13:07:00.000-08:002008-01-09T13:08:45.002-08:00

Drinking is healthy, exercise is healthy, and doing a little of both is even healthier, Danish researchers reported on Wednesday.Several major studies have found that light to moderate drinking -- up to two drinks a day on a regular basis -- is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, and some have also found this leads to a lower risk of some cancers. But the Danish study, one of the

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-56844012694418132152008-01-08T13:18:00.000-08:002008-01-08T13:36:45.174-08:00

Hey guys! Gosh, has been almost a year already? I know, I know! But I've been real busy, as I'm sure you have been too. There's soooo much I want to talk to you guys about (did you see Top Model? OMG!), but I've got, like, no time. So here's a couple of things I think you guys would get a real bang out of 'cause they show how the decadent west deserves divine retribution or something! Check 'em

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-89013287642815860962008-01-02T10:40:00.000-08:002008-01-11T09:43:12.045-08:00

Happy 2008. Here's some bile to get things started right.This old-ish Sun article on privileged middle-class jackasses slumming it at Downtown Eastside bars pisses me off for a number of reasons. First, that there are kids who hope to achieve some cred by rubbing the hems of their $300 jeans against the grit of the underclass is not news. This type of class tourism has existed for as long as

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-50672573026176449932007-12-20T13:34:00.000-08:002007-12-20T13:41:19.903-08:00

Hey remember before when I said I was heading to Edmonton on Saturday? Yeah, well, turns out I'm leaving tomorrow. I fucked up my booking and wouldn't have caught it but for the fact I sent my itinerary to the buddy who is picking me up and he noticed the date discrepancy. So thanks, G. You're a god among bros.And I'll see you tomorrow.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-81664018791029453612007-12-20T09:32:00.001-08:002007-12-20T11:02:38.319-08:00

Last post before the holidays and, in all probability, 2008. Seems like a good time to do a year- ender.Music: Not a great year. As I'm sure I've said before, I'm old and jaded, so finding the latest new shit isn't a huge priority for me. Too much out there and too much of it is crap. Usually, the critics would be a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff, but much of this year's crop of

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-38885429749261384592007-12-17T15:43:00.000-08:002007-12-17T15:52:50.680-08:00

I am not a good schmoozer. My girlfriend would disagree, but there's a difference between working a room full of people whom you know and pressing the flesh with total strangers.I am shy.By the time I'm drunk enough to walk up to a total stranger in hopes of striking up a conversation and possibly a connection, I'm too drunk to be coherent. This weekend, I a sauntered up to a sorta famous CBC

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-1794631175891924022007-12-05T16:15:00.000-08:002007-12-05T16:37:43.219-08:00

The Virgins-Fernando Pando

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-32641197684821196232007-12-03T12:09:00.000-08:002008-01-11T13:43:29.420-08:00

It snowed this weekend. I did not see this coming, having moved out here in part to escape it, but there it was on Saturday morning: a thin white blanket of snow covering the green grass, still more tumbling down from the sky. Seemed like a good time to get into the Christmas spirit. A trip to Canadian Tire returned a cheap fake tree. With a box of decorations and mugs of eggnog-laced coffee in

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-58746932595821421522007-11-22T13:02:00.001-08:002007-11-22T13:25:41.526-08:00

This guy does, at least when they're worn by embittered, man-hatin', bull-dyke feminazis (you can always spot them 'cause they wear pants.)What's not sexy is feminism (not to be confused with femininity), which is directly responsible for the disappearance of our beloved dresses and the adoption of pants by the "new woman." Like all fashions, pants are symbolic of something - in this case

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-44274910397180987252007-11-16T13:29:00.000-08:002007-11-16T13:36:53.533-08:00

What's it say about me that I hear about the upcoming free Stars show (scroll down) and instantly think "Man, that'd be cool, but no way I'm lining up for hours to try and get in. Besides, Sunday's laundry day!"And I used to really like music.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-46151123859159941902007-11-16T09:56:00.000-08:002007-11-16T10:05:30.390-08:00

Went to this:Watched this:Going to this.That's about it.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-50106805377159931682007-11-01T09:03:00.000-07:002007-11-01T09:49:05.714-07:00

Update time!My first autumn (or "fall") on the west coast has been quite pleasant. Unlike home, where fall typically consists of two weeks in mid-October, we've had two months of clear, blue skies, crisp air and glorious gold and red colours. I understand this is a bit unusual, as this time of year is generally a lot greyer and damper. But I'm not complaining.Halloween was yesterday and I'm quite

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-79675286270272728232007-10-12T13:15:00.000-07:002007-10-12T13:21:04.615-07:00

Well if you gotta go, you might as well go out hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, a face mask, diving gloves, slippers, rubberized underwear, with a dildo up your ass.Though I must say from a pure comic standpoint, the Christian fundamentalist angle is a bit of a gilded lily.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-57139642011182013432007-09-18T16:32:00.000-07:002007-09-18T16:33:12.435-07:00

This site has it.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-67845278605777555992007-09-17T16:30:00.001-07:002007-09-18T09:47:50.779-07:00

Vancouverites sure do complain a lot. The housing prices, the rampant poverty, the winters (more on that in a bit), the transit system, the architecture, the (admittedly annoying) civic strike, the new Canucks jerseys, the Canada Line, the Olympics, the gun crime…it’s one gripe after another with these people. I even heard people bitching about The Economist naming Vancouver the world's best

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-14625566110442525572007-09-17T11:16:00.000-07:002007-09-17T11:25:26.474-07:00

Orange...And yellow...And green and red.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-32944501317950315082007-09-17T11:12:00.000-07:002007-09-17T11:16:07.156-07:00

Roses, Empress Hotel, Victoria B.C. July 2007.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-61781511167046331212007-09-17T10:54:00.000-07:002007-09-17T11:12:30.315-07:00

It's been another long dry spell here I see. Posting has been light since the Big Move, so I think a brief recap is in order.Some time ago, the missus and I started kicking around the idea of getting the hell out of Edmonton. She always hated it there and I had started to sour on the place as it became more apparent that the flood of oil money was not exactly doing wonders for the quality of life

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-8972655873749529812007-08-20T08:33:00.001-07:002007-08-21T08:30:54.105-07:00

The band is The Awkward Stage, a delightful Vancouver pop outfit we caught at the Media Club on the weekend. If you like jangly shit like Belle and Sebastian, the New Pornographers (for whom they'll be opening at the Commodore in late September) or the Smiths, you'll probably like them.I simply can't get over the number of gigs that are coming up in this town. So far, we've tickets for Fujiya and

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-72489455249751541902007-08-16T09:38:00.000-07:002007-08-16T10:11:45.371-07:00

bought a digital camera this week, so the self-indulgence level on this blog is about to go through the roof. Lucky for y'all, I haven't figured out how to use it yet.It would have been handy to have last night when we went to the Spanish Banks for a picnic on the beach. It's a spectacular setting with glorious vistas of the ocean, mountains, and the distant glass towers of downtown, as well as

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-83720013933351649592007-08-11T20:23:00.000-07:002007-08-11T20:28:15.985-07:00

We have a fruit fly problem in our new apartment. I came across the following suggestion for dealing with the infestation on the internet:Make an oven trap:1. Remove all available food from kitchen. Clean the dishes, place open items in ziplock bags or the fridge.2.Open the door of your oven and place a piece of fruit (banana or kiwi peels) in there overnight.3. Wake up early the next morning and

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-52929026924387034182007-08-10T09:44:00.000-07:002007-08-10T10:17:21.139-07:00

Why, hipster? Why are you growing that ratty little moustache? Oh I know: the same reason you do any damn thing. Irony. Or is it post-modernism? I’m not sure. I am sure of this: it’s time you took a good, hard look at yourself. Son, I’m sorry to break this to you, but you are just not Moustache Material.Before you opt to spare the patch of frizzy, pube-like growth on your upper lip from the

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-61693749603732181702007-08-09T12:46:00.001-07:002007-08-09T12:53:11.899-07:00

Yes, I know that I've been remiss in making with the updates and the ha ha. Which is odd, given all that's happened over the last little while (including, but not limited to moving to a new city and starting a brand new job) provides ample blog fodder. Normally, I could chalk that up to being lazy (though out here on the west coast I can at least pass that off as "laid back"), but the fact is,

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-54988094906369655802007-07-23T18:45:00.000-07:002007-07-23T18:54:15.806-07:00

In the course of the last three weeks, I've moved from here:To here:Trust me when I say: it's better.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-55535050911665613322007-06-25T14:36:00.000-07:002007-06-25T14:45:11.314-07:00

After four years in the same fucking job, today I am free. It's a good feeling. I can't say I'll miss it all that much. Aside from the paycheque, that is. It's time.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-40640972915895321592007-06-20T14:20:00.000-07:002007-06-20T14:32:43.302-07:00

I've been seeing a lot of hula hoops lately. I first spotted them on the ferry to Vancouver Island a couple of weeks ago and later saw some hiptards carrying them around Vancouver proper. Then, on Saturday night, I saw some dirty hippies hula-hooping their brains out in the parking lot next to the Black Dog. I'm wondering: is it all a coincidence, or are hula hoops, like, the new hipster "thing?"

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-87416286907855659962007-06-19T10:26:00.000-07:002007-06-19T10:28:51.095-07:00

I woke up this morning on my sofa with no recollection whatsoever of leaving my bed, going into the living room and lying down and without the faintest idea of how long I was lying there.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-8535157513354282732007-06-19T08:20:00.000-07:002007-06-19T09:37:27.610-07:00

Time for another Edmonton rant (gee, can you tell I don't like it here?)Edmonton has a pothole problem. A bad one. Don't believe me? Take a look at what commuters and pedestrians have to deal with on a daily basis:Whoops! That's not Edmonton, but a scene from the Battle of Paschendale. My mistake. But trust me when I say this: we gots us some big ol' potholes. In fact , bitching about potholes

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-68133380762697698382007-06-14T13:53:00.000-07:002007-06-14T14:09:18.589-07:00

So, tell me: how does it feel to be a human knockoff?

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-62915222673643883712007-06-11T13:34:00.000-07:002007-06-11T13:58:21.436-07:00

Boy, did I call it or what? Hope you Pelle Lindbergh it this off season, fuckface.That aside, long time, no blog, hey? I was off in Vancouver (or "the 'couve" as absolutely no-one calls it) looking for a place to live. I'm pleased to report that we found one. Now I've got three weeks to settle my affairs here in Shitsburgh before loading up the truck and heading back west for my new life of

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-16581061540149428632007-05-23T08:38:00.000-07:002007-05-23T08:44:38.083-07:00

Go Sens. (Defaced Pronger photo idea from CinO, LOLcats pidgin from I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Enduring pain by Lauren)

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-808436631347821032007-05-15T09:35:00.000-07:002007-05-15T09:37:23.510-07:00

I hope the demolition of the Buffalo Sabres makes Rick Jeanneret cry.

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-22947247894316627632007-05-11T09:20:00.000-07:002007-05-11T09:23:29.707-07:00

Hey everybody! It's a baby fighting a cobra!Have a great weekend!

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-61335261515679400562007-05-11T08:40:00.000-07:002007-05-11T09:17:51.419-07:00

Going to Mexico was never high on my list of things to do before I die (heat? poverty? fat, disgusting Canadians lugging their Tim Horton's travel mugs to the cabana bar for maragritas? Sign me up!), but the recent flurry of attacks on tourists has made sunny Meh-hee-co sound about as appealling as a weekender in Baghdad. Then again, given what I know about the kind of people who choose Mexico

LittleFurynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649431.post-45445866555513192942007-05-02T08:10:00.000-07:002007-05-02T08:12:26.762-07:00

Ew.

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