I note the passing of the Montreal Spectrum (1982-2007), a venue I never myself went to (a fact that causes Montreal jaws to drop).
Read more here.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Rally held after Truro council rejects pride flag
More than 100 people showed up at a Truro, N.S. park to protest council's lack of support for the gay community.
Last week, city politicians voted not to fly the gay pride flag during the community's inaugural pride week celebrations. The local county government did vote to allow the flag to be flown...
...People who attended the rally were particularly miffed with the Truro's Mayor Bill Mills, who cited his Christian beliefs as his reason for voting against the move.
"The mayor of Truro has embarrassed a lot of Christians by interpreting the bible in a very unfavourable way," said Rev. David Fletcher, an Anglican priest. "If we want to shout bible passages back and forth, my bible bullet would come from Galatians in Chapter 3, where St. Paul says that in Christ, there is no more exclusion."
Last week, he [Mayor Mills] said, "There are writings in the Book of Romans chapter one, to name a few -- basically I have to go with that conviction, and I know it's not a popular one."
Not with me it's not. I'm personally tired of the religious motivations behind this kind of shit. If you want to hate, do so openly and not from hiding behind writings that may nor may not have anything to do with your particular "beliefs". Trust me, hiding behind the Bible doesn't make you look any better, not one bit.
Last week, city politicians voted not to fly the gay pride flag during the community's inaugural pride week celebrations. The local county government did vote to allow the flag to be flown...
...People who attended the rally were particularly miffed with the Truro's Mayor Bill Mills, who cited his Christian beliefs as his reason for voting against the move.
"The mayor of Truro has embarrassed a lot of Christians by interpreting the bible in a very unfavourable way," said Rev. David Fletcher, an Anglican priest. "If we want to shout bible passages back and forth, my bible bullet would come from Galatians in Chapter 3, where St. Paul says that in Christ, there is no more exclusion."
Last week, he [Mayor Mills] said, "There are writings in the Book of Romans chapter one, to name a few -- basically I have to go with that conviction, and I know it's not a popular one."
Not with me it's not. I'm personally tired of the religious motivations behind this kind of shit. If you want to hate, do so openly and not from hiding behind writings that may nor may not have anything to do with your particular "beliefs". Trust me, hiding behind the Bible doesn't make you look any better, not one bit.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Montreal police upset over Youtube videos
Montreal Police Service has asked the video sharing website Youtube to alter videos it considers slanderous.
There are more than 100 videos on the website showing Montreal police officers at work
Like this one...?
There are more than 100 videos on the website showing Montreal police officers at work
Like this one...?
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Russia plants flag on Arctic floor
What the fuck
Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible on Thursday and planted a national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic.
My fave quote:
"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say 'We're claiming this territory'," Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay told CTV television.
It's always the 15th century in Russia.
Read more here.
Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible on Thursday and planted a national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic.
My fave quote:
"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say 'We're claiming this territory'," Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay told CTV television.
It's always the 15th century in Russia.
Read more here.
Why we must close the net
Yes, Elton John wants to close down the net.
“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span."
No, I think we should shut down Elton John for 5 years, think of the explosion of art that would cause.
What a flaming idiot.
Read more here.
“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span."
No, I think we should shut down Elton John for 5 years, think of the explosion of art that would cause.
What a flaming idiot.
Read more here.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Antonioni, The Yardbirds and Blow Up
Michelangelo Antonioni has died. Here is a scene from his 1966 film Blow Up (shamelessly Ripped Off by dePalma), featuring the Yardbirds. A co worker in 2000 claimed his father was one of the crowd watching.
He didn't point out who...
Thursday, July 26, 2007
A Brief History of House Cats
It may be that "nobody owns a cat," but scientists now say the popular pet has lived with people for 12,000 years
That's 84,000 in cat years...
Read more here.
That's 84,000 in cat years...
Read more here.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Bush answers a question in Nashville
Q Mr. President, music is one of our largest exports the country has. Currently, every country in the world -- except China, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda and the United States -- pay a statutory royalty to the performing artists for radio and television air play. Would your administration consider changing our laws to align it with the rest of the world?
THE PRESIDENT: Help. (Laughter.) Maybe you've never had a President say this -- I have, like, no earthly idea what you're talking about. (Laughter and applause.) Sounds like we're keeping interesting company, you know? (Laughter.)
Look, I'll give you the old classic: contact my office, will you? (Laughter.) I really don't -- I'm totally out of my lane. I like listening to country music, if that helps. (Laughter.)
Read more here.
THE PRESIDENT: Help. (Laughter.) Maybe you've never had a President say this -- I have, like, no earthly idea what you're talking about. (Laughter and applause.) Sounds like we're keeping interesting company, you know? (Laughter.)
Look, I'll give you the old classic: contact my office, will you? (Laughter.) I really don't -- I'm totally out of my lane. I like listening to country music, if that helps. (Laughter.)
Read more here.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Let the Cincinnati bashing continue!
Let's have a gay old time!
Let's all take a delightful trip to the "Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum"!
Read more here.
Cincinnati bigots caught perpetrating petition fraud
Ugh, some people
Busted in Ohio. Some not-so-smart anti-gay peeps from an outfit called Equal Rights Not Special Rights have pleaded guilty to falsifying petition signatures in an attempt to repeal an anti-discrimination measure on the books that protects gays. A state rep is caught up in the mess as well.
Read more here.
Busted in Ohio. Some not-so-smart anti-gay peeps from an outfit called Equal Rights Not Special Rights have pleaded guilty to falsifying petition signatures in an attempt to repeal an anti-discrimination measure on the books that protects gays. A state rep is caught up in the mess as well.
Read more here.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Generation Chickenhawk
Max Blumenthal takes us on a hilarious and shocking tour of the College Republican National Convention, where the GOP's next generation cheer on the war in Iraq, then make sorry excuses for why they can't serve. Also featuring Tom DeLay, brainwashed evangelical youth, and moving interpretive dance by Blumenthal.
Homeland
The increasing use of the term "Homeland" in reference to the United States has always grated on my ears. As you can hear in this clip, it bugged the writers here too.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Star Trek outtakes
wfmu.org today posted a collection of Star Trek outtakes. What fun!
I have taken a small sampling and edited it together with the scenes from the original show.
Happy viewing!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
We are not amused
From the Daily Mail:
This is the extraordinary moment the Queen lost her temper and stormed out of a photoshoot, after a celebrity photographer dared ask her to remove her crown.
The astonishing footage is taken from a new BBC documentary entitled A Year With The Queen and captures the moment when Her Majesty lost her cool.
During the programme photographer US celebrity snapper Annie Leibovitz sizes up the Queen in her full regalia and ventures: "I think it will look better without the crown, because the garter robe is so..."
Before the photographer can finish saying "extraordinary", the Queen raises her eyebrows, fixes the snapper with an icy stare, and snaps: "Less dressy? What do you think this is?" pointing to what she is wearing.
TV cameras follow the Queen storming off with an official lifting the large train of her blue velvet cape off the floor as the Queen tells her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this thank you very much."
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Pope Bozo
Is he nuts?
Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
Read more in disbelief here.
Despite the harsh tone of the document, it stresses that Benedict remains committed to ecumenical dialogue.
''However, if such dialogue is to be truly constructive, it must involve not just the mutual openness of the participants but also fidelity to the identity of the Catholic faith,'' the commentary said.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA, whatever
Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
Read more in disbelief here.
Despite the harsh tone of the document, it stresses that Benedict remains committed to ecumenical dialogue.
''However, if such dialogue is to be truly constructive, it must involve not just the mutual openness of the participants but also fidelity to the identity of the Catholic faith,'' the commentary said.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA, whatever
Monday, July 02, 2007
The Tinyness of the Medieval Mind
Floods are judgment on society, say bishops.
The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops.
Read more here.
The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops.
Read more here.
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