Everything cool becomes mainstream eventually. That is to say that even if something (a band, bar, style, sitcom, religion) is just as good or better than before, people get used to it and often take pleasure in the fact that they can now look upon it with disdain or superiority.... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
”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... More
“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... More
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” -Richard Moss 1. An orangutan tried to have sex with Julia Roberts on the set of the PBS production of In The Wild: Orangutan’s With Julia Roberts but was prevented by the film crew. 2. Seal had... More
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” — Francis Bacon 1. Kim-Jong Il loved to surf the web, and called himself an “internet expert”. This series has yet to receive a hit from North Korea, unfortunately. 2. The boy from Jurassic Park also played... More
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ― Dr. Seuss 1. The Nova Scotia MLA for Truro-Bible Hill voiced Rogue in... More
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde 1. Hendrix was first introduced to the wah wah pedal by Frank Zappa. 2. On the set of Psycho, Hitchcock would always refer to Anthony Perkins as... More
Everything cool becomes mainstream eventually. That is to say that even if something (a band, bar, style, sitcom, religion) is just as good or better than before, people get used to it and often take pleasure in the fact that they can now look upon it with disdain or superiority.... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
”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... More
“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... More
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” -Richard Moss 1. An orangutan tried to have sex with Julia Roberts on the set of the PBS production of In The Wild: Orangutan’s With Julia Roberts but was prevented by the film crew. 2. Seal had... More
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” — Francis Bacon 1. Kim-Jong Il loved to surf the web, and called himself an “internet expert”. This series has yet to receive a hit from North Korea, unfortunately. 2. The boy from Jurassic Park also played... More
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ― Dr. Seuss 1. The Nova Scotia MLA for Truro-Bible Hill voiced Rogue in... More
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde 1. Hendrix was first introduced to the wah wah pedal by Frank Zappa. 2. On the set of Psycho, Hitchcock would always refer to Anthony Perkins as... More
