I was greeted on my way into the office today by a bike riding crackhead belting out “we are the champions” at the top of her lungs.  She even gave me an enthusiastic fist pump in the air as she passed.  I thought being a crack addict was all confused wandering, scratching sores and begging for change for more rock, I didn’t know it had it’s triumphant rock anthem moments.  The more you know…..

There is a furious outcry coming from the right in Canada about the appointment of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada.  I was listening to CBC this morning and heard a rep from REAL Women Canada (press release) who was arguing that this was the death blow to the credibility of the Order because it “has become a political tool to promote the left-wing agenda”.  This is the same Order that has admitted prominent conservatives like local boy Preston Manning and Brian Mulroney.

I think the appointment of Morgentaler says a lot of good things about Canada and that a man who actually put his life on the line and fought hard for the rights of Canadians should be honoured.  The REAL Women of Canada argue that the Order only promotes the values of the “left” but I would argue that Morgentaler’s appointment reflects the majority of Canadians and their values.  They should check out this poll from Leger Marketing and maybe get out and talk to real Canadians.  Seems to me that a belief in Human rights is a Canadian value.

Update: Looks like there is some more evidence that a majority of Canadians support Morgentaler’s Order of Canada appointment.

From the article:

“The survey, conducted exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National, showed 65 per cent of Canadians favour awarding the high honour to the Toronto abortion doctor, while 35 per cent are against it.”

Two-thirds support is very solid,” John Wright, senior vice president of the polling firm Ipsos Reid, which surveyed 1,023 adults from July 4-7. “You’re not going to do much better than that.”

…

“Despite Prime Minister Harper’s personal dissatisfaction with this decision . . . it appears that he is in the minority,” a news release on the poll said.”

One of my pictures is going to be included in a Schmap guide to Cardiff.  This is the second time someone has used one of my pictures that they found on Flickr, the other one was a picture from Tofino that was used in an online travel article.  You don’t get paid for this sort of thing, but you do get credit and I guess some validation that not all the pictures you take are crappy.

I saw this commercial tonight for Dixie Paper Plates the synopsis of which is “we’re a bunch of perfect white ladies who are able to spend more quality time with our families because we use paper plates and can just throw them away when we’re done eating our shitty over processed food”.

I thought for a second that this might be some sort of parody, but sadly I was wrong, it is for real. In this day and age you think people might have started to realize that we can’t afford to be so monumentally wasteful and polluting, not to mention fucking lazy. wow.

I googled it so see if I could find it… Check it out here (thanks to martistanley.wordpress.com)

The best part of the commercial, one of the woman looks humourlessly at the camera and declares “My children come first, bottom line”.  I guess that’s why she is raping the planet as quickly and unaplegetically as she can.

Nice, Cadence Weapon featured on to Boing Boing TV.…

Ah, this video brings back memories… and the O’Reilly freakout video continues to entertain.

Saw this on Digg…. What’s your score?

Why single out pot smokers? Does that mean crack addicts and meth freaks are free and clear? What if someone is into the “sport” of figure skating? Are they going to hell too? Also, including lesbians is redundant when you already have homosexuals up there. It seems like religious zealots just don’t put as much thought into these signs as they used to.

A movie title jumped out at me in the other day while I was checking out the of the movie channels… “SS DOOMTROOPER“. I pvr’d it and I don’t know what I expected with a title like that, but it turns out it is pretty terrible. I was wondering if was trying to be that bad or if it was really that bad. If it was going for a “so bad it’s good thing” they did a good job, if not, well…

So I checked around and it looks like other people have asked that same question. If you get a chance you should check it out though, it was kind of entertaining. If the title is too ambiguous, it is about the Nazis creating mutant stormtroopers using radiation and the small unit of rough around the edges US soldiers going to stop them.

My favourite exchange in it was this one:

Sarge, looking off into the distance: “That’s your opinion Lewis. But, I’ll tell you this… you ain’t deserting, quitting or doing anything else but finishing this mission.”

Lewis sneers: “ya, how ya gonna stop me?”

Sarge, turns coolly: “I’ll shoot you in your face”

This is very nice…

Cadence Weapon – House Music (A1 Bassline Remix) – From http://palmsout.blogspot.com/ (good site!)
The whole set is here: http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2008/03/remix-sunday-106.html

BONUS:

To all the motherfuckers doing the running man on the patio at Moon this Saturday… definitely the freshest moves I have ever seen.

I don’t know what this says about the media or the world exactly, but it that’s quite some contrast on the first few news items on the cnn website…

I read this review of Cadence Weapon’s Afterparty Babies around the time the album came out and thought at the time it was possibly the most random, bitter little review I had ever read.

What exactly are “Edmontonian standards” anyway.  Last time I checked there is some pretty sweet sounds floating around town.

Anyway… I happened across it again and noticed in the comments that a number of people seemed to share my sense of outrage.

Choice comments:

“your bullshit review isn’t up to Edmonton standards. go home”

and

“Not a single valid point has been presented here and this is clear jealous attack by a bitter loser. Did he dance with the 18 year old you have crush on? Even for Edmonton standards, you are hack looking for attention. “

Couldn’t have put it better myself…