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From the Downtown EastSide of Vancouver and the dark side of the loon.

Added on: Mar 7th, 2006
Country: Canada
Language: English

Listed in: Culture
Tags: humour weird geek Lush Life sad Allegory

Recent Posts

A Modest Proposal: that you read this story

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 08:32 in family, Culture, humor, humour, food, weird, writing, horror, holiday, literary, Lush Life, Allegory

Yes, I’m making a modest proposal that you click away from my site (take a screenshot, this may never happen again) and go over to David B. Dale’s blog and read his heartwarming Thanksgiving story, destined to be an instant classic. Why?...
in which we discover why Jon Bon Jovi makes a liar out of Alice Cooper

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 22:39 in music, Marketing, celebrity, mashups, Allegory

So it’s true: the situation in South-East Asia really IS completely unpredictable! I guess they couldn’t find any real poo. Which is a joke I stole from M*A*S*H, yes M*A*S*H and if you don’t know what that is, get thee to a frickin...
The Global Octopus Metaphor Through History

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 21:10 in humor, humour, weird, economics, historical, meme, u.s., Squid, Allegory, cthulhu, octopus

First, there was Goldman Sachs: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. According to Matt Taibbi, it...
An Eight-Tentacle Salute to Octopi

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 18:48 in music, poetry, humor, humour, weird, Islam, meme, Squid, twitter, cthulhu, octopus

This dude can take eight requests at a time, and refill your inkwell! Perhaps we should set him up with this lovely Muslim octopus: and now, a haiku Twitter octopus joke from Chris Twitery: knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock who’...
The Corruption Map

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 01:04 in politics, Culture, Canada, Government, economics, crime, justice, bailout

This is nothing more nor less than a map of the most/least corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International. I, personally, think they’re giving Stephen Harper too much credit (or they just don’t know which strings...
Twitter Tips December 5th, y’all!

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:25 in education, technology, media, geek, vancouver, social media, twitter, public service announcement, raincoaster media

Calling all civilians!!!! This class is designed for beginning or early-intermediate Twitter users, to get them up to speed quickly and teach them how to get the most out of Twitter in the least amount of time. Not like me. and cross-posted from rain...