PortmantOH!? – Realtionship
Welcome to our newest serial – PortmantOH!? An exercise in collecting portmanteaus that may or may not already be prevalent in our currently ridicuwesome vernacular. portmanteau: blend: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings REALTIONSHIP (pron: reel-shun-ship) real + relationship ¤ The ‘real’ in realtionship is meant to be sarcastic. Or ironic. Or just...
Viral Video Viaduct – Save Picnicface Special
We’re hard-pressed for original broadcast comedic content in Canada. Unless you count Corner Gas as revolution in television, we haven’t really done much in the ways of progressive comedy since The Kids in the Hall… Or Due South, depending where you come from. Regardless, it should go without saying that when we have it, we...
Dirty Words – Vegan, Democracy
Vegan (By Danny DeVito) Vegan is to Vegetarianism, as Evangelical Bush supporters are to Christianity. Vegans do not eat or use any animal products, including ‘eggs and dairy’, which is ironic since that sounds kind of like “legs are hairy”, which they usually are (they are hippies afterall – see previous dirty words). On its...
Viral Video Viaduct #7
Our random roundup of videos worth watching from around the interwebs… 1. Liquid-Plumr Double-Impact Commercial Quite possibly the best ad this year so far. 2. Titanic SUPER 3D What if James Cameron handed off Titanic to George Lucas? 3. The Coolest Story Ever Told On crack… 4. ‘Welcome to the Antroposcene’ Earth...
Dirty Words – Bachelor, Capitalism, Drunk
Bachelor (By Belle) Formerly an undesirable adjective. An unmarried man resigned to living in a small unkempt apartment surviving off pizza and canned meats. Couples would often take pity on their single friends and invite the unwed bachelors over for a home cooked meal; often plotting to set him up with some spinster and save them both...
Viral Video Viaduct #6
Our random roundup of videos worth watching from around the interwebs… 1. The Downfall of Rob Ford’s Subway Vision The Brothers Ford apparently have a secret ally… 2. Frog sits on a bench … A frog sitting on a bench. 3. The Flipside (Bar) It’s got people who kind of look like celebrities...
Starbucks’ Ethos is My Ethos
Dear Starbucks, I love your coffee. While puffing away on my morning cigarette, your Pike Place beans skip caffeinated pleasantries across my tongue like a still pond on a bright spring day. I often wonder what I’m more addicted to – your coffee or nicotine? I know I need both to consider myself a functional...
Honest profane comedy, James Joyce, and jerking off
As mainstream discussions in print, blogs and on TV panels increasingly feature a class of people unfit to talk and write, I felt not just pleasure but sincere relief after seeing live comedy for my first time. It was local amateurs performing in the basement of a seedy little bar last week, and though I...
The Human Race Depends On You – LYP@H pt. 3
If I were to ask you to name a machine that people connect to in order to live, is your first response an iPhone or an iron lung? Leave Your Phone at Home Day will determine whether these machines represent essentially the same thing, as if we do in fact need a machine to live,...
Hump Day Trivia XX
”A lot of people say they hate Justin Bieber who haven’t even listened to my music. They just hate the idea of me.” - Justin Bieber 1. The last white man to run in the Olympics’ 100 meter finals was in 1980. 2. The original VHS copies of Rambo III (1988) included in the credits...
Hump Day Trivia XIX
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” - Ernest Hemingway 1. The screenplay for the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice” was written by Roald Dahl. 2. Lauren Bush, Sr’s granddaughter and Jr’s niece, married Ralph Lauren’s son and is now Lauren Lauren. 3. According...
A Note From The Future About Facebook