okay, two things:

Avi Lewis is coming to the U of A on March 2nd!!! Tickets are $10



I have a problem: that really awesome prof that I used to have a crush on is looking for grad students... in forest ecology! I really really don't know if I want to do a grad study right now but it's with Simon (not for any crush-related reason, honest!), and it's forest ecology! what am I to do? I think I'll e-mail him and see how things go from there...

coolest e-mail send-off ever (that i've received from the federal government)

"Thank you for helping the environment!"

And it wasn't even about strictly environmental issues... it was about U-Passes
though it still made my day.

Bad news: the luge plan is off. I phoned Canada Olympic Park today and found out that as of tomorrow, the luge runs will be closed to the public due to pro competitions and won't be available again until next October or so. Dammit!

Superman is a Dick. And here's proof:

pardon me.

it appears that I assumed white t-shirt and black guitar/bass meant Jeremy. So, in retrospect, what the hell is wrong with Eric's arm in said picture?

you have to admit that I wasn't going on much there...

Makes sense

None of those arms are Jeremy's...

The Bear thing does remind me of something else, though; the prudence of writing a tongue-in-cheek letter to the Parents Television Council. I don't think they'll understand/appreciate it, but it'll make me feel better. Their big story today is how the Super Bowl has been returned "to its rightful owners: American families." Of course, because that's who owns a giant television event centering on displays of power, force, and ego, and surrounded by a massive capitalist machine. Families. (The half-time show, however, was very family oriented. If by family oriented you mean 'sounded like four studio tracks' and 'without a hint of creative thought or surprise.' Don't get me wrong, I enjoy those songs. But the idiot mixing for Fox would have saved himself a lot of time by just buying downloading the McCartney/Beatles greatest hits albums.)

Speaking of music, the Junos. The Journal bitched about them a bit already this morning (for example, how Bryan Adams and the Canadian Idol schmoe-bag were nominated for anything), but I'd like to add my own. The biggest, by far, is how Simple Plan got its nominations (Group and Album of the Year?!). There are other curiousities of course (is alexisonfire a 'new' group?). But if you're starting point is as a Canadian music award show, why would you want to even hint that you're going down the road to Grammy irrelevance?

Ideas of the old are changed when the people believeing in them all die off. Sounds negative but many "radical" ideas are believed in today because the opponents of said ideas are all dead. Martial Arts would be a very good example. Many new and weird martial arts exist because the nay sayers or if you rather call them traditionalist die off. The younger generation can then create something weird with out critique. Believe me many martial arts now are only about 30-50 years old. Considering most "traditional" styles are several hundreds of years old. I'm one to talk though, my style is actually only 120-150 years old. A upstart to all these other older styles.

That Versus thing is pretty hiliarious. What did you use to film it?

though I'm not too sure I really want to know, what on Earth is wrong with Jeremy's arm in that picture you posted, Taylor? it looks like it's going through the guitar...

so, dinner at cafe mosaics on Wednesday? I think I'd be up for it. ... it'll keep me out of the house a while, and that might be good considering my dad's recent vocalization of all things conservative.

ugh. what an awful car ride. we were listening to the bear, and lucky for us they were discussing circumcision ... and genitalia in general... awesome... I'm so glad main stream rock radio goes for the common denominator... but anyway, I ended up defending it. ... because, by my dad's logic, the next step might very well be to talking about/inciting murder... like legalising homosexual marriage will then lead to the legalisation of humans marrying snakes... what the fuck?

so I defended it... by saying that it's only going on the air because it's been normalised and society has accepted it to be okay... low-brow and going for the lowest common denominator, but okay.... and he retorted by asking what then would stop us from having a genocide... because hating Jews was the norm at one point. fuck. I just don't think you can draw the parallels like that. they aren't parallels. but someone's going to agree with him, I know. I just hope it's no one from our generation. That seems to be the one saving grace thus far: most of the youth have already decided, we're just waiting for the older people to move out of power, and then things will change. (but that's like any other kid saying "I can't wait until my dad retires and then I can take over the family business" ... if you know what I mean)

it's just such bullshit.

and I still don't know how I turned out the way I did, with the parents I have. I mean: "Mom, you might want to look into the cruise ship you're taking... some of them just dump all that raw sewage created straight into the ocean" - "but fish do it, why can't we?" .... how the hell is this possible?

And now to present you with the first official VERSUS tournament of the year:

STEVEN HAWKING VS. CHRISTOPHER REEVE

Okay, so it's only 10 seconds of trash talk. But it's fuckin hilarious.