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Dooo dooo gooooo!

October 10, 2009 – 5:48 pm| Posted in Montreal, Public transit
Spotted at Cremazie metro on Oct. 3

Spotted at Cremazie metro on Oct. 3

I have seen a lot of strange things happen in the metro system before, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone decorate a cake.

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One of these things is not like the other

April 23, 2009 – 2:59 pm| Posted in Business, Montreal

Appareils

Can you guess which one?

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Natinals

April 22, 2009 – 3:00 am| Posted in Sports

Just when you thought the ex-Expos couldn't embarrass themselves further, quickly grabbing the worst record in baseball by losing their first seven games of the season (and 10 of 11), they made themselves into even more of a laughing stock by misspelling their own name.

I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.

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Here it is, your bus ride of zen

April 16, 2009 – 2:33 am| Posted in Montreal, Public transit
Paper with quotation on a traffic light post on St. Denis St.

Paper with quotation on a traffic light post on St. Denis St.

Sunday night on my way home, I noticed a piece of paper with a quotation on it taped to a bus stop post. I didn't think anything of it until I passed by another stop and noticed another quote on another piece of paper. In the end, there were similar pieces of paper taped on or near bus stops along the 361's route from Old Montreal to Ahuntsic.

No idea why. Naturally, their flimsy construction and unauthorized nature meant they didn't last long.

Quote and bus stop sign

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Y’a pas d’choix, y manque un bras!

November 26, 2008 – 10:01 pm| Posted in Humour, Media, Video

You know, part of me imagines that everyone reads the Journal de Montréal like this.

Or 24 Heures like this.

There are, amazingly, hundreds more where these came from.

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Oh. Canada. Our. Home. And. Native. Land.

October 28, 2008 – 4:42 am| Posted in Blogosphere, Canadiens, Montreal

Unionized journalists aren't the only people spreading around online petitions. Kristian Gravenor is peddling one to convince the Canadiens to have William Shatner sing the national anthem at a game.

Yeah.

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Proulx unplugged

October 11, 2008 – 2:13 am| Posted in Blogosphere, Video

Steve Proulx's slow descent into madness continues, as he locks himself in a small room with only a recorder and a webcam to keep him company.

He's taking requests (Freebird?). He's already done the Passe-Partout theme.

Now I'm gonna spend all night doing air recorder.

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CHOM ferme ses portes

September 24, 2008 – 3:31 am| Posted in Montreal, Radio
Ad in Metro (Sept. 22)

Ad in Metro (Sept. 22)

Cute. Though it did confuse a lot of people. And I still don't quite get it.

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Back in the closet

July 30, 2008 – 3:44 am| Posted in Montreal, Video

You can relax now, folks. Otakuthon is over.

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I have a hot tip, officer

June 18, 2008 – 8:36 pm| Posted in Slow News Day

You'll be pleased to know that bleeding penises are valid excuses for speeding. Even if they're not yours.

(There Jeff, I posted one of your stories. Happy now?)

UPDATE: Farked.

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Please publsh and send a reporter

June 17, 2008 – 2:49 pm| Posted in Media, Opinion, Web design

I got this email this morning:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thurai Moorthy <xxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Subject: United Earth Day, June 21, 2008, Saturday 5:00-11:00 PM, at 4775 Anthime,Pierrefonds, Quebec H9H 4L3, Please Publsh and Send a Reporter
To: letters@thegazette.canwest.com

www.ueog.org

United Earth Organization (UEOG)

United Earth Day, June 21, 2008, Saturday 5:00-11:00 PM local time, everywhere on Earth, (local location at 4775 Anthime,Pierrefonds, Quebec H9H 4L3) in your own space.  Neighbours, friends, relatives. Inform everyone from Tokyo to Vancouver. Visit www.ueog.org starting at 5:00 PM Tokyo time and continuing east ward at 5:00 PM local time around the globe. United Earth Organization (UEOG), Presentation, Music, Dance. Vegetarian potluck, No disposables.

Folowing ing messsage is meant for the editor and not for publication:

Please send a reporter to cover the above event.

Regards,

[Contact info here deleted]

Some suggestions:

  1. This is a blog. I don't have a reporting staff.
  2. Your luck with media outlets is usually much better if you're not obviously forwarding an email you sent to another media outlet.
  3. Media outlets have dedicated public addresses for assignment editors. They don't start with "letters."
  4. Don't ask the media to convert Tokyo time to local unless it's necessary.
  5. Your event listing appears to be missing what the whole point of the event is.
  6. Is SeaQuest DSV coming back?
  7. I'd list the things wrong with the website, but let's just say it's everything, from the constant text colour changes to the lack of any specifics about what exactly this organization does.
  8. All that said, good luck with creating that united Earth government that controls the world.
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Santobama

February 29, 2008 – 12:56 am| Posted in TV, Video

I see I'm not the only one to notice an eerie similarity between the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and the final two seasons of The West Wing (which coincidentally is airing now on CLT).

In the West Wing presidential election, the Republican primary is quickly wrapped up by a western, moderate, security-conscious old senator who has to struggle with the fact that he's losing the support of the religious conservative right. The Democratic primary, meanwhile, drags on for months, with an inside-the-beltway establishment front-runner being unexpectedly eclipsed by an inexperienced lawmaker with modest roots, trying to break the colour barrier and avoid being characterized solely by his race.

(via TV Feeds My Family)

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Worst. Kerning. Ever.

February 16, 2008 – 4:48 am| Posted in Uncategorized

Seen at the Berri-UQAM metro:

Horrible kerning

Horrible kerning (2)

Looking at the website of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, I admit it's possible this comically awful kerning job was done on purpose. But if so, it looks silly.

And the fact they misspelled "québécois" inconsistently (note a missing accent on the second version), I'm thinking maybe Astral Media was just incompetent designing these ads.

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Another eBay story too good to be true

December 30, 2007 – 9:51 pm| Posted in Media, On the Net, Opinion, Slow News Day

Hey, remember that guy who sold a snowbank on eBay, getting $3,550 to donate to charity?

Yeah, it was a junk bid.

I appreciate that journalists did their due diligence and contacted the guy who was selling the snowbank, to determine that 1. He's really selling a snowbank and 2. He's really donating the proceeds to charity.

But once again, they seem to take an unconfirmed winning bid as if it's a completed transaction. And when the bid is ridiculously high after lots of media coverage, there frankly should be an assumption that the bidder isn't going to pay.

Same deal with the Guitar Hero auction, which sold at 100 times its suggested retail price just because it came with some story of a guy whose son smoked pot. Though the winning bidder in that auction is a long-time account with good feedback, the deal hasn't been concluded yet so we shouldn't assume it's good.

Is a little bit of healthy skepticism (and patience) too much to ask?

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Cherry Chocolate Rain

December 2, 2007 – 2:33 am| Posted in Humour, Video

Good God.

Tay Zonday has gone mainstream:


Cherry Chocolate Rain (via Transmission Marketing)It's cute, but the fact that the original song "Chocolate Rain" was about how racism still permeates society, having its remix/sequel video done throwing money around, surrounded by gangsta rappers and video skanks and shelling a soft drink... I'm not sure if it's supposed to be ironic.

Good for Tay Zonday for capitalizing on his immense success. As for Dr. Pepper's marketing department...

UPDATE: I got an email from a company whose job it is to search the Internet for Tay Zonday blog posts, pointing out another version of the song promoting Comedy Central's Last Laugh '07 tonight, singing about celebrity gossip (is that worse than a soft drink?). No word on when The Comedy Network will air the program in Canada.

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Taking a dump on the driveway

August 22, 2007 – 11:57 pm| Posted in West Island

This story is beyond strange: Someone, for some reason, dumped a load of construction waste onto a West Island driveway. It cost $400 to hire people to remove it, and police have no leads.

Someone must really not like this woman.

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Sell your replica watches for no money down to get viagra enhancement in free adobe software!

August 22, 2007 – 2:07 pm| Posted in Humour

So looking through my emails, I notice that Hollis's boyfriend keeps slipping out of her, while Mindy's boyfriend's horse-like shlong is too big for her.

Maybe Mindy and Hollis should swap boyfriends.

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I’ll never understand underwear marketing

August 7, 2007 – 8:26 pm| Posted in Business, Montreal

Why are we selling G-strings in men's bathrooms?

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Cours Mont Royal is watching you pee

August 3, 2007 – 9:41 pm| Posted in Business, In the news, Montreal

Someone complained to the Gazette about video cameras in the men's room at Cours Mont Royal. Apparently, according to the proprietor, the cameras aren't running, due to that minor matter of it being illegal to film someone in a bathroom.

But they say it's working, deterring illegal acts like drug dealing, vandalism, gay sex, peeing on the floor, and, of course, forgetting to wash one's hands.

I just hope Jeff Goldblum doesn't get his hands on it.

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Pedophilia: the new gay? I hope not

August 1, 2007 – 2:54 am| Posted in In the news, Media, Montreal

Montreal is in the news again for being a pedophilia haven. First we had a website hosted here, now another site based on it is promoting an upcoming children's festival at Maisonneuve Park.

The website, which nobody wants to link to (what are they afraid of exactly? Their readers suddenly turning into pedophiles? Or those who are already pedophiles getting access to like-minded websites?), and I won't either just to avoid sending traffic their way (if you want to find it, you can do like I did and Google-search the direct quote from it used in the article), defends its stance saying that pedophilia is a "sexual orientation" and not a crime. It's OK if you're just looking at girls and fantasizing, as long as you don't touch them, I guess.

The website has guides that sound a bit like what gay support websites might have looked like 50 years ago if the Internet existed back then. There's talk about the law, about living with a pedophile, about how pedophilia doesn't necessarily lead to child molestation, and how to "come out" as a pedophile to your family. Some parts suggest the website is trying to ride the line between legal and illegal, while others make it seem like pedophilia is entirely platonic - and can be satisfied by donating money to UNICEF.

According to the SQ (or "Sret du Qubec" according to the accent-phobic Gazette), the websites aren't illegal but are pretty close to the line.

Let's hope that line is bulletproof.

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