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Dicks in the Workplace
Editors note: this blog was inspired by Stranger’s post Propositioned. I’ve come across some interesting people over the years. Some of the most interesting people were those I met while working at an independant record store while I was
- October 6th, 2008
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I Can’t Believe I Saw The Whole Thing
We’ve all seen movies we didn’t like. The following is a list of crappy movies that I sat through and why I watched the whole stanky thing. I’m sure for some people, a list like this can be pretty long, but I don’t see many mo
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Weekend Recap
Friday With the knowledge that I had to work on Saturday, I kept Friday pretty simple. I didn’t do much of anything. Watched some television, screwed around a bit on the computer. That’s pretty much it. Saturday Worked in the morning. The
- October 3rd, 2008
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Music Review: Black Mountain’s In The Future
Artist: Black Mountain Album: In The Future Label: Scratch Records As I wrote a day or two ago, I caught some unknown-to-me band opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Kool Haus. This band was Black Mountain and I was very pleased with their
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Eeww, a Bug!
Every morning as I walk out to my car, a pass between these two trees and on almost every morning, I pass through spider webbing. Not so much like some scene from Indiana Jones, but more like one long thread of web from the tree on my right, to the t
- October 2nd, 2008
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds @ Kool Haus
opening act Normally, I don’t like opening acts. I always try to get to the show in time for the act though. You never know what you’ll find. Last night, the opening act at the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds concert was a band called Black
- October 1st, 2008
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Tonight I’m seeing Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at the Kool Haus in Toronto. A few years ago, Nick Cave became one of my favourite bands. I particularly like the stories of madness and human deprevity. The songs aren’t exactly heavy. It&
- September 30th, 2008
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Self-Imposed Blogging Blockage
There’s been somethings lately I’ve wanted to blog about. And I’ve chosen not to blog about them at all. Take for example, last week when I met some fellow bloggers. None of us actually mentioned the meeting our blogs before. With t
- September 29th, 2008
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Weekend Recap: Relations…
Friday Well, home sick for the day. Didn’t really do that much. Took various naps on the couch and my bed. Watched daytime television. Yeah, I know, that’s the worst thing I could have done. But to my credit, I didn’t watch any Jerr
- September 28th, 2008
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Found an Interesting Meme
This is a meme of ten firsts I found on The Junk Drawer. 1. When was your first kiss? 1999, in a bowling alley. Sauve, ain’t I? 2. When did you first start buying holiday or birthday gifts for other people and stop thinking about what peopl
- September 26th, 2008
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You Make Me Sick
I’m home sick today because I’m sick. And my sickness is all because of you! You know who you are. For shame. Okay, in all seriousness, it was probably something I ate last night. The following is a true story, as best I can remember abou
- September 25th, 2008
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The Preface
The woman entered the dimly lit pub. She had never been to this bar before. It wasn’t her usual meeting place. She saw the sign that read “Please Seat Yourself” and did so. She found a booth across the room from the bar. The waitres
- September 24th, 2008
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There’s a bit more room in the closet today.
There’s a bit more room in the closet today. Clay Aiken has finally come out. I read some headline that Lindsay Lohan has confirmed her dating of that DJ that looks way too much like Pete Doherty, although she claims to be a chick. So, who̵
- September 23rd, 2008
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I Watch Televison, You Got A Problem With That?
Last night, CBS aired new episodes of their Monday night primetime sitcoms. I was out for part of the evening, so I recorded the two hour block. Upon returning home, I watched the first hour. The Big Bang Theory This show is funny. Last night’
- September 22nd, 2008
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Weekend Recap
Let me say thank you for all the interesting responses from my last post. It’s really amazing how much and different the interpretation of that scene each of you had. Many of you created details or saw things that I never imagined that made the
- September 19th, 2008
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Strangers in the Night
The man walked into the bar. The bartender nodded, then turned around to grab a bottle of bourbon. The man walked upto the bartender and was handed a double with ice. The man surveyed the room, drink in hand. Sitting in a booth across the room was th
- September 17th, 2008
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When Love Comes To Town, I’m Gonna Be In The John
Let’s face facts folks. This blog is place where I can write down all of my grievances. I can pile up all of the things that suck into one neat little package. Kind of like a how I’ve been screwed over time capsule. A couple of months ago
- September 16th, 2008
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Tomfoolery
When I was a kid, I loved Hallowe’en candy. Yeah, I know, who didn’t? Well, actually, I had this friend back in the day who didn’t eat most of his Hallowe’en candy. Why he went door-to-door trick or treating was beyond me. I n
- September 15th, 2008
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What Did I Miss?
Okay, I’ve been out of the loop this past weekend and I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things. As I make my way through the heap of news and fake news and opinions and fake opinions that is the blogosphere, I start to pick up all
- September 14th, 2008
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It’s 3am
It’s 3:00am on Sunday. I just got in from my brother’s wedding and I don’t think I can sleep. I felt a wave of emotion unlike any I have ever felt before. The ceremony was more beautiful than I could have imagined. It was supposed t
- September 11th, 2008
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More Wedding Schtuff
Before you ask, I haven’t done much more with the best man speech and toast. So done even bring it up. Last night was the rehearsal for the wedding. All the people taking part in the wedding met up at the bride’s house for some yummy home
- September 10th, 2008
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Moving On
I just found out that my longtime celebrity crush is in a relationship. That I could deal with. But I also found out that relationship is with another woman. She’s gay! Why didn’t anybody tell this before? But not just lesbian, she’
- September 9th, 2008
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Personal Pizza in under 20 Minutes
The most time consuming and often most difficult aspect in making a pizza is the dough. Pizza dough takes time to make and even more time to make it right. I’ve sidestepped this difficulty with the use of a pita bread. Grocery store pita bread,
- September 8th, 2008
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Weekend Recap: the Animal Kingdom
Tortoise On Friday night, I joined Juice and some of his friends at the Tortoise concert. They were playing at the Mod Club Theatre. They played a great set. Not as much marimba as they had used in their set from the one previous time I watched them
- September 6th, 2008
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- September 5th, 2008
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Tom Cruise’s Prom Night
I stole this photo from 2 Dollar Productions. I don’t know where that blog got the picture from. Honestly, I don’t really care. Doesn’t Tom Cruise look like a socially awkward teenager going to his prom in this photo? He looks like
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Black Whores and Revelations
Tonight, I’m going to see the band Tortoise at the Mod Club Theatre. I saw them last year and they put on an interesting show. Lots of marimba and xylophone in their set. This weekend, the brood starts arriving from Italy for the wedding. IR
- September 4th, 2008
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Food for Thought???
This morning, I had a pair of Pop-Tarts for breakfast. But not just any Pop-Tarts, these were Quizberry* Trivial Pursuit Pop-Tarts. On the frosting of each tart was a question. On my first tart, the question was illegible. The answer was “Old m
- September 3rd, 2008
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Back to School
For about a month now, I’ve been trying to write my speech for my brother’s wedding. I’ve haven’t really come up with anything good. My goal is to write something that is complimentary towards my sister-in-law, humourous for m
- September 2nd, 2008
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A Bachelor Party
My brother asked me to throw him a bachelor party. I could have thrown him a hotel suite, cigar smoke, expensive booze and a stripper bachelor party, but that’s not what he wanted. He said to me “Find a karaoke bar close to home. I want a
- August 29th, 2008
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A Friday Cheer-up
I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but around here the weather is grey, soggy, nippy and foggy. But it’s also the Friday before a long weekend. I want you, right now, don’t care where you are as you read this, to jump
- August 28th, 2008
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Politiciarrhea
Up here in Canada, it looks like there will be a federal election in the Autumn. It will probably occur right before the big election south of the 49th. The big diff being in the States, regardless of who comes out on top, there will be some change,
- August 27th, 2008
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Suppliers and Girlfriends
Business relationships can be a lot like romantic relationships. My company used to buy plywood from a certain company and always this one company. Until recently. My company and this one plywood supplier had a falling out and we, sort of, broke up.
- August 26th, 2008
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Another Rant About Bicyclists
GET THE FUCK OFF MY ROAD, BITCH! Feels good to get that out. I feel better now. Today, on my way into work, I was stopped five or six cars back from a red light. I had my right turn signal on and I was trying to get into the expanding right turn lane
- August 25th, 2008
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Weekend Recap: My Idea of Dieting Involves a Party Size Pizza
Friday Had a few friends over. Ordered pizza, played Scrabble, no biggie. But Dante’s now offers whole wheat pizza crust. Dum-dum-DUM! Forty six dollars later and forty five minutes later, I had enough food to last me half the weekend and only
- August 22nd, 2008
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You Want How Much?
Question: How much did an upscale jeweller want for a Four Watch Winder? Answer: $2075.00. I know, you’ve got a question for me. What is a Four Watch Winder? A Four Watch Winder is a box that not only stores four watches, it keeps them wound up
- August 21st, 2008
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Ask WIGSF 3: the Answers
Bob asked: 1) When is that concert that you wanted us all to go to? 2) Can you point me in the right direction to get that Olympics game we talked about? #1 - Lemme double check the ticket, but I’m pretty sure it’s October 1st. #2 - I don
- August 20th, 2008
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Ask WIGSF 3
For some reason, democracy reigns supreme in WhatIGotSoFar version 2.0 and the denizens want to ask questions! So, any thing gnawing at your mind and you can’t figure it out? Ask me. I’ll tell you what’s going down. Is there somethi
- August 19th, 2008
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I Can’t Think of Anything to Blog About
I’ve got very few ideas for blog postings. Today, I’m going to ask you, the readers, for blog ideas. Who wants to read why I think Starship Troopers is the best movie ever? Show of hands please. Who wants to read about the upcoming concer
- August 18th, 2008
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WIGSF Explains the Appeal of Bruce Springsteen
Hex at Sleep Dirt wrote a blog post about having to deal with Bruce Springsteen fans and him not liking Bruce Springsteen. I left a comment saying “I love Bruce Springsteen. That is all.” Hex responded with “Well can you help me out
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Weekend Recap: I want you to stag me!
This past Friday night was my brother’s stag party. My father (un)organized the party. It was an absolute mess. Almost everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. My father has no organizational skills what-so-ever. Half of the people at
- August 14th, 2008
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er
An advertising campaign has swept into the GTA. White billboards with the letters “er” started popping up everywhere. The sides of buses and in their shelters too. After a few days, the billboards were expanded to say the word “bett
- August 12th, 2008
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Scary Meme
I got tagged by Modobs to do this meme of five things that scared me when I was a child. Cyborgs - Yeah, The Terminator got to me. Still a great movie though. Seeing the Terminator help Sarah and John in the sequel did a lot to ease my fears. Wrinkl
- August 11th, 2008
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Century Club
These three guys I know decided to partake in an activity called Century Club. The activity is as such: 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes. Let that little bit of insanity sink in for a moment. You ready? Okay. At 9:01, they all took a shot. At 10:40,
- August 8th, 2008
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Not Feeling It Right Now
A couple weeks ago I changed my cable package. Gone is The Movie Network and the 1 good movie it plays every week amongst the dozens of movies so bad I’m happy I forgot them (or as I like to call them The Luke Wilson Video Library). Instead of
- August 7th, 2008
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Me Needs Meme
I gots me some tag for a meme by Random Chick. I had to take the tag. Random Chick threatened to “throw up” on my blog if I didn’t. Frankly, I’m a little bit curious about that. How does one throw up on a blog? Really, what
- August 6th, 2008
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How I’m Condensing My DVD Collection
I’m a man of habits. I am currently in the habit of watching TV shows on DVD through my laptop as I lay down to sleep. (I’m also in the habit of wearing a nun’s habit, but that’s a post for another day.) A problem that has ari
- August 5th, 2008
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Weekend Recap: Looooong Weekend
This past weekend was another of those weekends made long by the invention of a provincial holiday. Not a real holiday. Jesus and the Saints had nothing to do with my having a day off; no nations formed either; not even the rememberance of some valia
- August 1st, 2008
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A Bad Joke
After Miss Ash posted some bad jokes on her blog, I thought I should do the same. Okay, not like her jokes were awful, one of them was pretty funny. But generally, most jokes suck. Especially the one I’m going to tell. This is my standard joke
- July 31st, 2008
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Another Myth Debunked!
Myth: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Fact: Say that ad slogan all you want; that bad case of herpes you caught from the cocktail waitress you banged in the mens room at the Venetian, it’s not staying in Vegas, it’s following you h