A real neat discussion on the comment section of thit story as well. local vs. price… the battle that we all have. The best thing I read is; buying local (sadly) is a privilege. Ain’t that the truth.
It is snowing like crazy outside the Casa La Corj. It is so nice out this morning I almost forgot that I crashed my Jeep last night.
BWOAR!
I fired up the old Jeep last night to return a movie and grab a new one and headed to Rogers. The Jeep slays in the snow and the roads weren’t too bad. I got to the movie place alright, but coming out of the parking lot there was a line-up of cars waiting for the light. I hit the breaks and… whoosh, it was like they weren’t there. I couldn’t believe it. In slow motion I slid into the car in front of me. Bastard. It wasn’t a fast or traumatic accident, but my bumper hit the car in front above their bumper so I did some damage and will need to go through ICBC. Man, just typing about it is getting me fired up. The lady I slid into was very nice and we quickly exchanged the info and were on our way. I get back on the road and people are sliding every which way. NOT me. I drive fine. I stop fine. But on that tiny strip of road, driving a few kilometers an hour, I briefly loosing control, and it was the one place where there was a car to hit. grrrr. Ah well, what can you do… I must have had a karma deficit that needed to be paid.
I was thinking of changing my radio name to “Crash” Baker. But apparently there is already a Vic DJ named Crash. I should phone him up on the show sometime and challenge him to see how many car crashes he’s caused.
Might want to go out and enjoy the snow. Madelyn doesn’t have a snow suit or anything, but it might be fun to walk around a bit in the snow. Maybe walk to Tim Hortons for a coffee.
* my comment is #14, go me! I dunno, maybe its asshole-ish but I thought it was very diplomatic.
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The other night I was DJing at the Clubhouse when I got a message from Coral.
DUde! Someone just spent like ten minutes trying to get into our apartment, and not able to get the key in. I heard all this swearing and started freaking out. I opened the door and was like “Um excuse me?! and this super drunk chick tried to push past me and then looked inside and was like “What?!” and the guy with her was like “I think we got the wrong floor!!” And then they just turned around and walked away without saying a word!!! (Im assuming that it was one of the girls from upstairs)
Jesus, could you imagine? Coral is home alone with the baby late on a Tuesday night and this happens? The worst part is the chick didn’t even apologize. She turned around and walk away!
The next time you you go out and get wasted at the pub and bring some skank guy back to our apartment building, please make sure you get the right apartment unit. Some of us are mothers home alone with our children.
If some of you writers can think of something better, please post it. I seriously want to post something on the community board and send it in to Passive Aggressive Notes.
Passive Aggressive Notes is great. One common theme is work place dish pits. a bone of contention at The Zone. I think Tindy would geta real kick out this one.
That is a picture of Corj and I after Jamie and Allie’s Halloween party. I had a good time, all things considered. Everyone from The Zone went to what looked like a rager at Katie and Adrian’s, but Corj and I had been invited to her good friends some time earlier so we went there. To compound my poutyness (Mozilla says Poutyness is not a real word… silly Mozilla)… I drove and stayed stubbornly sober. It was a real, “Dear Diary, Why does God hate me…” sorta moment. But truth be told, I had a good time. Jamie’s friends are real rippers. I don’t party with them very ofter, but each time is a good time.
I watched this tiny girl they call “Pizzle” dominate the beer bongs.
She is the girl standing up. She slayed the bong so fast, that by the time I got my camera ready for a pic she was saying between foam burps, “I win.”
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I am having a Daddy Daycare night tonight. Just finished watching a pretty good game between the Flames and Kings. Entertaining. I was hoping the Kings would edge out the Flames as that would be good for the ‘nucks… but the Flames held on. Fun to watch, so I’m not complaining.
I am so tuckered out. Coral and I went wandering earlier today. We left our place at 2PM and walked down to Rona for a hammer tack. The wicked machine lets me “hammer” staples into telephone poles. Then I took her to the West Bay Walkway. She had never been and it is a glorious fall walk. We regretted not bringing the camera. next time.
Then on the journey home we began putting up posters. Then after we got home and put Maddy down for a nap, I went back out and put up even more posters. I have almost tacked up my first 200 posters and it seem that I have barely dented the neighbourhoods. A few in West Bay, a few around the High school, a few around Craigflower/Tillicum and a few on Rock Heights. By the time it was all down, it was 7PM… and dogs is tired…
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Coral went out with her girlfriend and I am home listening to music and surfing the net. Saw this video… made me LOL.
Reminds me why I am not a big city DJ. These guys out of Montreal made the ultimate prank on Sarah Palin. These radio stars form Montreal pretend to be the French President.
Now this is how you make some publicity for your radio show. I should take some notes.
The only thing more fun than listening to the prank call is ready the CBC comment board… where does this ignorant people come from? wow. If I worked at the CBC I would be so sad. it would seem my audience would be all mentally deficient… then I would think, “Am I mentally deficient to attract all these people to my website?”
yeesh… ti was just a joke… and in Sarah Palin’s defense… she handled herself alright considering she thought it was the French President and he was asking bizarre questions. She stayed polite at all times and tried to steer the conversation back to more positive territory. But then you read what people write and its’ like WTF?
She should have figured it out and you know some poor PR flak is getting her ass handed to her right now. But in the end, it was funny.
Some person on the CBC was saying that if they had pranked Obama it would have been a hate crime. Hardly… Obama would have likely picked up on it way sooner and maybe even had some fun with it. He’s a funny guy (actually, McCain is a funny guy too… they should pranked him). That, and generally, people smart enough to pull off such an epic prank, wouldn’t target Obama because they like him.
Here is the kicker from the WaPo story: Obama’s campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs, commenting on the prank, said: “I’m glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama.”
BAAAZING!
Now… you want to see who has the keys to the planet? this shit is spooky.
This one is from Al Jazeera, so yeah… but an interesting view non the less.
Yikes, and these people have the right to vote! and the right to bare arms! both of them! at the same time!
I WAS in love with iTunes Genius… and I do still sorta like Genius, but sometimes it makes me go WTF?
I wanted to base a playlist on Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody.” Brilliant song. I did get a wonderous song from Rogue Wave called “Eyes” which is special and a song that made me sad in Pinback’s “Fortress.”
But then a whole bunch of other crud… mind you, all this “crud” is on MY hard-drive… but still, Genius was down-right well… genius with yesterday’s “Pennyroyal Tea” playlist. I guess I just expected genius everytime.
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Coral and I just finished watching Grey’s Anatomy and I am not liking the lack of nurses on the show. Nurses are a big part of getting healed and they are never anywhere to be found… it is always some crying, over-sexed doctor saving the day. I haven’t had too many encounters with the health care system (ouch wood) but I pretty big one was the birth of Madelyn. And it was nurses that were the for the whole ordeal and it was nurses that make you feel better. Sure, doctors swoop in from time to time, but it was nurses who did all the work. There should be more nurses on Grey’s Anatomy.
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A couple stories in the news today that had me looking cock-eyed at the computer and wondering, “wow, this my community.”
A 33-year-old man, already out on probation for breaking into a house, was picked up two weeks ago and taken to Victoria police headquarters for allegedly stealing a camera from a car. He was processed and released back onto Caledonia Avenue, outside headquarters. Undercover officers watched in amusement as he walked half a block away and, barely out of the shadow of the police station, returned to old habits.
“Within five minutes he breaks into another two cars,” said Sgt. Grant Hamilton, police spokesman.
Neat. Imagine if that was your car and you had to pay the $300 deductible. grrrr.
The police are cool about it, god bless ’em. Both Hamilton and Bown were reluctant to criticize the justice system for its role in handing out sentences that appear to do little to deter career criminals. They said police simply focus on doing their jobs, which is only one part of the law-enforcement process.
“It is definitely a concern of ours that these people come and go from jail, but it’s a bigger social issue of what to do with these people,” said Bown.
“We can’t put everybody in jail. There’s just not enough room.”
I get that, can’t throw every criminal in jail… but you know what? I bet we could find a cot or something to roll out for this guy, I mean he really wants to be in jail.
The SAME cop that was involved in the taser death of the Polish man at YVR killed a 21 year-old because he was drunk driving… and wait for… is suspended WITH pay. Sadness.
But you really want to get fired up… read the comment section on the CBC. People got a serious case of eye-for-eye going on… these are our neighbours…. yikes.
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Its enough to drive a man to drink.
and this libation from from Vancityrockgirl is just the thing.
Also on the clip, some talk of Vampires and M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”
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I got a phone call yesterday (actually last week, but dealt with it yesterday) from a Zoner named Clayton. Clayton told me a bout a band that he is jiving on called Manchester Orchestra. Pretty pleasant indie rock. Also, not from Manchester, they live in Georgia… U-S-A!
Manchester Orchestra
The music is pretty, like Band of Horses.
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Coral and I went to see Bill Maher’s Religulous.
Bill says that God is not real! Whoa… I always knew that the only thing REAL in my life was money.
Baby is crying and wants up from her nap… so I better go get her. In these troubling economic times, we are off to Save-On Foods for some kraft singles and tomato soup.
The Morning After 