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December 15, 2004 -- 9:34 AM
posted by alison

Ed, in addition to what I've already said, I'll be in Thursday afternoon and pretty much all of Friday too if you can't stop by today.


Eric, agreed... Adbusters was the way to find stuff out... and then the internet took over... and admittedly the Adbusters website is a lot more connected to the original intent of the sort-of dirty, grassroots expansion of thought and information... The magazine, however, is a lot more mainstream now, a lot more glossy, and easily digested by your average pseudo-"rebel" highschool student. I mean, entire magazines have been dedicated to such controversial topics as, um, how terrible America is... not that we couldn't have read similar stuff in MacLean's. You're absolutely right how they've softened the image of activism, sold off their idea of consumer culture (to be honest, if I was going for the ultimate in kicking against the pricks running shoes, I'd go with the Mother Jones ones, or perhaps shoes hanging out in a dumpster outside of the factory...), and tried to go for the lowest common denominator of conscientious objector.

Yes, they've had some great articles... all that info about Eli Lilly and his SSRIs was awesome, but they've gone into some rather bizarre spaces too... with their entire magazine dedicated to design (wtf?). I do still like the "jamming" they do, and you're right, they're the reason culture jamming has spread, and that's pretty awesome. But damn if it isn't just too much like giving you a taste of the great food to come, and then ditching out on you, to leave you hungry, wandering the streets and wanting more.

December 15, 2004 -- 9:21 AM
posted by Par

Hmm... Jere worked in an assay office in BC. Funny that those two tricks of the trade were submitted one after the other. Some might call it coincidence...

Oh, and Al, I'd like to call you out on that remotely knowledgeable shit. I don't think Percy is remotely knowledgeable about any part of the (real) world. (And I challenge him to prove me wrong! Tonight!) He seems to be hitting the Mythbusting nail square on the head, though. The last Mythbusters I saw involved testing whether a boom lift could catapult someone. In an extremely cooked example (they placed the boom on top of two shipping containers and pulled it back with another piece of heavy equipment), they only managed to launch Buster (the Mythbusting dummy) a few feet. (He did crash spectacularly into the ground though, meaning, while Percy's plans to catapult to school may be on the rocks, his plans to slam people at immense speed into concrete continue unhindered.)

It may be a transformer, Tay, but it's a Lemon (hahahahahahaha.) Seriously, though, were they just skipping the middle man on naming that one? That's almost as good as the Nova

December 15, 2004 -- 9:18 AM
posted by alison

Hey Ed! I have a calculator with... um... my name on it... uh, this is only lending right? I get attached to things I've had since grade 9... like Pam and Jess :) So yeah, use for whatever purposes you need (including any evil schemes you might have) so long as I get it back sooner or later.

I'll be in my office most of the day (except 10-11 and 2-3) so stop on by... lower level of SUB, big painting of the Earth with a tree growing out of it. you can't miss it.

December 15, 2004 -- 1:47 AM
posted by nobody knows my face

Hey Percy... what MUD have you been playing lately?



(for the uninformed, MUD = multi user dungeon)

December 15, 2004 -- 1:40 AM
posted by nobody knows my face

Now THIS is a transformer! Holy shit! haha

December 15, 2004 -- 12:23 AM
posted by nobody knows my face

Too bad the MIR is currently at the bottom of the ocean... or somewhere. It ain't in the sky anymore is all I know.

The next best thing is the International Space Station, which is the one running out of food. hahaha

December 15, 2004 -- 12:07 AM
posted by Tonestar Runner

This one's got a bit of a Napoleon Dynamite quality to it.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

December 15, 2004 -- 12:04 AM
posted by eric

holy shit Percy, get a grip.


dish stain... hahaha.. gold.

December 14, 2004 -- 11:54 PM
posted by P

You block the dish stain's attack!
Your blade barrier blocks the dish stain's attack!
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
You DECIMATE the dish stain with your unforgiving dish washer cloth!! (1 dmg)
The dish stain dodges your attack!
The dish stain dodges your attack!
The dish stain dodges your attack!
The dish stain is engulfed in a flood of soap and water ... it is dead!
The dish stain is dead! R.I.P.
You receive 38582 experience points.
Your blood freezes as you hear the dish stain's death cry.
You get some stuff in the corpse of the dish stain.
The corpse of the dish stain seems to be empty.

December 14, 2004 -- 11:51 PM
posted by eric

ideas for a comic:

"So how's the Mir doing?"
"Shit last i heard they were running out of food"
"Say what?"

On the Mir
"so...how much food did you bring?"
"we were supposed to bring food?"
"......."
"i just packed as many space undies as i possibly could"

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