"One of the players used that and other reports to put the ball back in the ATP's court" (the most appropriate use of that analogy I've seen in a long time.)

Douglas Adams Interview: On answering questions on getting the idea for the Hitchhikers books


That particular story, I must have told literally thousands of times and one of the problems you have is when you tell a story that often, after a while, all you can remember is the story. You can't remember the original event. . . In the end, I assume the story is true, but I've only got my own word for it.

Sorry Jere, I was bored

can u blame him paras? with all the fuckin shit u guys have laid on him...

Speaking of existence, recently mine has felt somewhat... invalid...

alison's been challenged? what? where?
If you mean the "don't come to work on Friday" thing, well it's pretty obvious that I've failed that challenge. But what else can I do? I have staff that have to stop by and talk to me, we were supposedly going to have a talk from the VP Ops/Fi today about our budgets... never happened, and I've got another council meeting to prepare for.

Here are the three questions I have to prepare for:
Why should the SU fund an eco centre?
Justify your existence
What do students get out of your service?

my personal favourite is the middle one. Where does a person get off thinking they have absolute control over the world because 20 people voted them in? AND he knows NOTHING about ECOS anyway.

I'm still here. So for those of you who thought this would defeat me, you were so very wrong. I think I might have defeated my ears though. And maybe my colon... The highlight of the night had to be NoFX. They were awesome live. Those guys are funnier in real life than thier music would suggest. Plus, they played whatever we told them to, so it was all good. Right before them Bad religion played. They were pretty incredible too. Not funny, but the music was great. The only really good story though was the lead singer for Coheed and Cambria. He was absolutely tanked on stage. He walked out with about three quarters of a 2-6 of whiskey in his hand and finished of in about 10 minutes. Mostly at the crowds behest. He sounded like absolute shit, fucked up most of his slurred lyrics, and by the end was taunting the crowd to pelt him with bottles. The number of flying objects at the stage was quite the sight to behold. The rest of the band was angry as hell though. Saw the drummer get whacked in the face with a bottle. So, keep an eye on that band as they may not be around to much longer.

I could easily get into a social commentary about the rampant drugs and 14 year old girls pretending to be sluts, but then, I think I've already said enough about that. Or I could get into the destruction of the origional meaning of punk. Most of the people I saw there were merely mindless sheep who went along just so that they could belong to something. I won't rant about that though. The anti-bush was pretty rampant too. And while I agree with what they say, I just see most people there as jumping on the bandwagon. Kinda sad at the end of the day. number of people there, about 15,000. number of sheep, about 10,000. Still an awesome time though.

And I thought Andy was making this shit up, but there you have it, Matter Eater Lad:

oh yeah. And before I forget: London Disturbance Force unfortunately cannot play Garnstock since Chrissy will apparently be in Japan at the time. Damn. Oh well.

Eric, those Treewave guys kickass. Did you see they've got a show coming up with Sekiden! FUCK. I wish better shows came to this town. And HEY! WHAT'S THAT I HEAR??? Is that a KARIMBA starting after 40 seconds into the song??? I do believe it is. That sound is unmistakeable. Any band that has a karimba is A-OK in my books!

Yeah, I was planning on going to that show with The Floor, Fake Cops and Radio Berlin. I've missed Radio Berlin twice now and I fully intend to right that wrong. Also, the Fake Cops (they're from Calgary) are really kick ass. Last time I saw them was at the All Purpose Voltage Heros CD release/Wolfnote vs. Mach Tiver show. That was SUCH a good show!!! Hell, didn't APVH play with Radio Berlin down at Listen Records last time they were here? Fuck... I wish I saw that show.