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.
Ad in Metro (Sept. 22)
Cute. Though it did confuse a lot of people. And I still don't quite get it.
You can relax now, folks. Otakuthon is over.
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.
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.comUnited 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Folowing ing messsage is meant for the editor and not for publication: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:
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)
Seen at the Berri-UQAM metro:
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.
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?
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.
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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