Sinfully Cold

Check out this screen cap of my local weather forecast from the fine folks over at the Weather Network; please take special note of the Wednesday morning "Feels Like" temperature - and in case you're wondering those temperatures are in Celsius and no it doesn't matter.

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I don't know what we did to deserve this, but man someone must've done some serious sinning . . . if this keeps up I'll be glad to be heading to Cuba early Friday morning . . . I'll take Cuban winter over this right now that's for sure.

Act Now . . . they're going fast!

Yep things are changing, disappearing and becoming defunct at an alarm rate . . . some good (remember smoking in airplanes?) some bad and some just meh (rotary dial phone anyone?). But someone has taken the time to compile some of histories rarest of the rare. There's some pretty neat stuff there and if you've got any lying around, and a ping pong table, I'm totally coming over to hang out way more often.

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Like I said things are disappearing and here's a list of companies that are thought to disappear this calendar year. I'm sure there are earth shattering ramifications to each of these going under, but I don't know that I'll miss them, I mean it's not like I drive my Chrysler to Pier 1 while talking on a Nortel phone . . . much.

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As for Chrysler going tits up, it won't be the first car maker to do it, don't believe check out this list ask yourself where the AMC, Packard & DeSoto dealers are now.

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But maybe you like to see disappearance on a larger scale, if so check out this extinction timeline showing history from 1950 and predictions up to 2050 . . . go check it for yourself, I don't want to spoil the ending.

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Another thing to fall to the wayside seems to be the mustache which is too bad because all know how important facial hair is (hmmmm maybe I need one of these?), but have no fear Spike has collected what they think are history's most important mustaches. A good collection I think, but history most important? Probably not, I mean Lanny MacDonald wasn't even on the list. Now that was a quality 'stache, and really a Canadian, or at least Western Canadian Icon. Don't believe me? Check it for yourself.

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Speaking of Canadian Iconery how about that one burning thing that unites Canadians from coast to coast, hating Toronto, and now you can enjoy it movie style, with the tongue in cheek mockumentary "Let's All Hate Toronto" no doubt made by Torontonians . . . isn't it ironic, donchathink?

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And Katy Perry wore a green bikini, and I liked it.

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And that's her. Until next time.

Scandalous!

Well well well . . . don't you love it when your local small town gossip takes on a national angle? Of course we all do - but this is a good one, seems that one of the guys involved with saving the Flyers, our local SJIHL team, Richard Brozinski (who has recently resigned his position with the team), is in fact the guy in this article from CTV news.

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You've got to love it when the man soliciting funds from local businesses to save a local hockey team may or may not be operating under an alias, wanted by Quebec Police (one can only assume that if he's wanted in Quebec he has to be a biker because we all know how much they love the outlaw bikers and their street wars in la belle Provence) and have ties to Karla Homolka and in Canada being associated with Homolka is like being in bed with the Devil who may or may not be Paul Bernardo.

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I guess I'll have to look into the back issue of the Bulletin (see photo on page 8) where they talk about the plan to save the Flyers and compare the small grainy photo from the CTV article with the larger grainy photo from the paper to see if there's any resemblance between the two guys. What do you think?

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Speaking of the local paper I wonder if this will get any coverage in it?

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I can't vouch for the accuracy but the person who told me about it assures me that it came from their number one supplier of all the local hot goss. Accurate or not I'm sure people will be talking about this around coffee machines all over town and it is a good story - definitely something to jabber about hunched over your cup of Robin's coffee, while waiting in line at the post office or while trying to find an unbruised onion at the local grocery store.

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Yeah that's her for now - for some reason I can't think of how to work a segue from this to not quite news, celebri-boobs and comic books at the moment, so until next time remember to always check the paint can in your boss' office for hidden recording devices.

Remember Music Videos?

Remember Video Hits? Remember Sam Taylor?

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Why do I ask? I don't know, I've just been watching some videos on Youtube thinking of a time when I could actually waste time watching videos on TV, Pepsi Power Hour anyone? How about its younger cousin Loud?

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Anyway it all started with the Butthole Surfers video for Who Was in my Room Last Night- then I checked out Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod. The for some reason I thought to check out STP's Sex Type Thing, then I thought to check out Megadeth's Sweating Bullets (why because the first time I heard STP play was when they opened for Megadeth at the Winnipeg Convention Centre in the mid 90's on the Symphony of Destruction Tour - Scott Weilland was rocking the bullhorn on stage and invited everyone to go out partying with them afterward . . . but I can't remember what bar he said, and not because I got so fucked up, I was I dunno 16 at the time).

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Megadeth had me thinking Metallica (my first concert ever at the old Winnipeg Arena) so I cruised to check out their video for Whiskey in the Jar . . . I know it's not classic Metallica, but it's a great song and the video's awesome innit?

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Then it was onto Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast - it's a great song off a great record but the video is more than a little weak. Then it was onto another of British Metal greats, Judas Priest's Breaking the Law which will forever make me think of Beavis & Butthead and setting my own personal land speed record.

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From Priest to Sabbath and Iron Man and from there it was an easy step Ozzy's Crazy Train even if I couldn't find the video clip I wanted.

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Oh well so it goes . . . well gotta get going maybe I'll add more later, maybe I won't. Until next time.

Going back to work today . . .

Well after two weeks off I'm back to work today, I wonder what strange and exciting things I will find when I return? I bet the faxes that I tried to send for two days prior to the Christmas break still haven't gone through.

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No matter, gotta make that cheddar so I shouldn't complain too much . . . and after all in a week and a half I'm going to be off again for a bit better than a week. Life is rough. I should take some time off at the end of the month too.

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No matter I'm sure you're well aware now that Israel (I'm thinking this is the only country created after World War 2 that's still on the map, can anyone confirm this?) has invaded the Gaza Strip again and they aren't going to let up, or at least that's what they say or more precisely what the BBC told me they said here.

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But hey let's get down to why you're here - do you know what's more bad ass than the Batman? The Batman with nunchuk chainsaws that's what.

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Hold onto your hats geeks, check this out. It looks like the fine people over at the Pottery Barn have brought back Star Wars bed sheets complete the classic retro design from when we were kids . . . in sizes all the way up to Queen. Order yours here; now how awesome is that?

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Now I guess it's poll time - riddle me this, is this guy brave, chock full of mad texting on a motorbike skills or just flat out dumb? Either way I figure if he keeps this shit up he'll be material for the Darwin Awards.

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From something that is pretty much straight out of a Tom & Jerry (or maybe Itchy & Scratchy)cartoon check out this article where officials believe that mice were responsible for a fire in (M)Oshawa that killed nearly 100 cats. Or maybe it's retaliation to horrors shown in Maus?

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Here's a good interview with what is likely the cause for my serious case of specs appeal, Lisa Loeb. You may remember Lisa Loeb if you were listening to music in the mid 90's with songs like Stay (not to be confused with Shakespeare's Sister's Stay).

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Well that's her for today - I'll leave you with this and now I think that it'd be grand to have a picture of my Gran like this, I bet you want one now too don't you? Oh yeah but before you go, maybe you can check these pics out and let me know just what happened to Jennifer Connelly?

An Idea for a Snowy Day

Actually this might work out here as we've got a little bit of snow yesterday and last night and I believe there's more on the way, any way the crafters of this art made them by pressing their faces into fresh snow on cars to create a 3-D sculpture look. Pretty cool eh? Well cool as long as they don't use my car the no good punks.

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Christmas might be over and done with for another year (which means in a week and a half chocolate hearts and Cupid cards will be hitting the shelves followed by marshmallow peeps and Cadbury's Easter Creme Eggs on February 15) but that doesn't mean we can have a look back at the wonders that was the 1985 Wishbook, back when the Christmas catalog was chock full of wonderful toys, not like how it is today all video games. It's crap I tells yah.

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I know I've spent more than a few lines of this blog hammering on how much I'm looking forward to the March 6, 2009 release of The Watchmen film, but this article about the ongoing legal battle over distribution rights and a recent court ruling might put that release in jeopardy. The movie will get released, I have no doubt about that it just might take time as the two studios fight over payments and rights and royalties. And then it will be leaked to the interwebs before it's theatrical release and all will be appeased.

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Legal proceedings be damned, how about watching a new video with some new clips from the film along with some nice interview voice over action with the movie's Director Max Snyder. How hard did you geek out while watching that? I bet you had to hit your inhaler pretty hard, didn't you?

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I had no idea, but apparently there are real regular people kicking around out there in full costumed regalia fighting crime. You can read about these wanna be Batman here and here if you're inclined to. I guess now we know who watches the Watchmen. I wonder if they're taking applications for costumed evil super villain arch nemesisses (or is that nemesi?)?

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And a dash of history - did you know that today is the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler being honoured as Time magazine's Man of the Year? I suppose anyone could be fooled by a charismatic madman with a Charlie Chaplin 'stache in the beginning.

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Well today I'll sign off with one for the Willow that might convince her to give up vegetarian ways - seems that her beloved ancestral home of Iceland is not only rerouting motorways in efforts to not disturb the homes of their own special breed of fair folks but it's also crazy for hotdogs. I'd have to admit that after a night of binge drinking and 4 wheeling with Bjork a hotdog and a dip in a hot spring would be pretty nice.

Happy New Year

If you've ever wondered why you do the things the do for New Year's Eve and Day maybe this will help you understand better . . . even if Snopes appears to have become a pop up generating machine.

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Hope everyone has a safe and prosperous new year.