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HALIFAX - DEATH POOLS ARE SICK, TWISTED PASTIMES
Continue reading "HALIFAX - DEATH POOLS ARE SICK, TWISTED PASTIMES " » 07/03/2009 in Canada | Permalink | Comments (3) AUSTRALIA - TASMANIA BEATS WORLD AT OPIUM, WALLABIES GET THE SPOILS
There’s been a fair bit in the news about vast poppy fields in Afghanistan, but if you think most of the world’s opiates come from the Middle East you’re around 10,000kms off the mark. An interesting fact tailor-made for dinner party conversation is that over half of all pharmaceutical grade alkaloids are derived from crops grown in Tasmania. How do we know this? Because stoned wallabies have started making crop circles.
Continue reading "AUSTRALIA - TASMANIA BEATS WORLD AT OPIUM, WALLABIES GET THE SPOILS" » 07/03/2009 in A Fist in the Face of God , Animals , Australia , Canada , Drugs , NZ | Permalink | Comments (2)CHICAGO - ADVENTURES IN INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING Everyone always hears about how much winter sucks in Chicago. But Obama recently gave the NPO tens of millions in the stimulus package, and suddenly they had to figure out how to inspect and repair four times as many houses next year as in the past. Now, if you own your own home here but fall below some household poverty line and are struggling to pay your heating bills, you can apply to this program to have your house slightly fixed so it's more energy-efficient and your bills drop and you can keep making those mortgage payments. In their frantic dash to hire people, I just got a job as an inspector. Continue reading "CHICAGO - ADVENTURES IN INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING" » 07/02/2009 in Current Affairs , USA | Permalink | Comments (14)ATLANTA - PLEASE HELP BURY BOBBY UBANGI Last night Atlanta's good-vibes comptroller BJ Womack died of cancer at the age of 34. He was a member of a bunch of amazing bands like the Lids, the Gaye Blades, and the Carbonas, released a scattered assortment of records under his stage name Bobby Ubangi, and was pretty much the lynchpin/inspiration/impresario for anything fun and exciting that's happened in the city over the past decade. Check out a scant fraction of his work and help his friends pay for his funeral over at VBS. 07/02/2009 in Canada , Music | Permalink | Comments (2) TORONTO - WE'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU
As noted yesterday, Toronto celebrated Canada Day by having tons and tons of fetid, steaming garbage heaped all over the city. Do you know what it smells like over here? It smells like the puke of a dog that went on a buffet run through the back alleys of Tijuana. It gets in your mouth it's so bad. This trash strike is going on 11 days now, and people still smiled when we snapped photos of them standing in front of heaps of consumer waste. Continue reading "TORONTO - WE'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU " » 07/02/2009 in Canada | Permalink | Comments (25)
Here’s a foolish idea for a fashion shoot: a metaphorical battle between good and evil as represented by a fight between flying cats! The red cat is bad. The gray cat is good. The gray cat wins, but don’t let that spoiler enjoy your viewing experience. Continue reading "MILAN - FLYING CATS!" » 07/02/2009 in Animals , Fashion , Scandinavia , USA | Permalink | Comments (18)SCANDINAVIA - GOOD BENEFITS AND LOTS OF TRAVELING
Continue reading "SCANDINAVIA - GOOD BENEFITS AND LOTS OF TRAVELING" » 07/02/2009 in Current Affairs , Interviews , Scandinavia , USA | Permalink | Comments (11)LONDON - GROWING UP IN FAIRYLAND
On my walk to work every morning I glance around and resent the purely functional titles of the streets that I live on: Fashion Street, the place where all the clothes shops were, or Brick Lane, the road that used to house brick manufacturers. These are the products of an unimaginative society. Where's the romance? It's not like this everywhere though. Our intern Liz comes from a wonderful place–a place called Fairyland.
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