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Several Little Things part 5

It seems weird to me when Christians are cranky. I mean I’m not religious, but if I was, I’d take it seriously. And I guess that there are many interpretations of Christianity (i.e. God created me in his image and he gave me all the world and everything in it to exploit and plunder, and I can do whatever crappy BS I want as long as I repent on my deathbed). AND I know that Christians are just people to…but I would think that from a Christian’s point of view it would be all “Jesus was a nice guy and he said be nice to your fellow man” and whatnot. So when somebody gets pissy with me because I can’t help them with their Happy God Ministry business account, I just want to say “sorry, I’m taking away your saviour fan club card. You broke the rules.”

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Several Little Things part 4

I forgot to mention that I saw a deer on the way to Chilliwack last week. Merrick sounded surprised last night to learn that when I take the day off work to come to band practice, I am effectively out $120 (including expenses to get there and money I would otherwise be making). I figure if Warren can pay for airfare from the UK I can at least make an effort to be out there every week. Besides, who needs an excuse to not go to work? 

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Several Little Things part 3

I’m very much into entering online contests these days. I buy a lot of Coca Cola Zero and I make sure to enter my codes to enter the “Win A Trip to any North American Concert” contest. Even if I don’t care about the concert, I’d pick somewhere I’ve never been before and explore the city. The best ones are the no purchase necessary. So if anyone knows of such contest that a Canadian can enter online, please let me know! 

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Several Little Things part 2

Here’s a tip for everyone – mix the 7-up into your orange shake AFTER you’ve vigorously shaken up the contents in your plastic container. Otherwise you’ll have a big post explosion mess all over your stove and floor that you’ll have to spend five rags and 15 minutes on. Especially if being down there on your hands and knees makes you realize how filthy the cupboards are down there. I mean really, I’d rather not know.

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Several Little Things part 1

I’m not a fan of makeup. I don’t think makeup brings anything to the table. I think it’s outdated. I think people (women) rely on it, and it falls into the whole beauty myth – hey wasn’t there a book by that name? Most importantly on a personal level: if I can notice it, it does not look good. You will always look better without it. So when I read about Running Press making a deal with Cover Girl to place the latter’s product in a young adult novel, it made me feel sad and outraged. 

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Pillow Kill

Went to Sherane’s last night and played Pictionary. The closest the other team got to “suffocate” was “pillow kill.” Good times.
I spent some time today figuring out what I’m going to be doing for my drawing course/workshop/slackademics deal. 12 people voted for it on the slackademics poll but only one has come forward by name as a student. Is this the terrible weakness in the plan? I guess we’ll find out. Lani also is considering a mahjong class which I think would be fantastic.

Uh…what else. I spoke with someone today who was born in 1916. He asked me when his new card expired and I said 2009. He said “that’s only three months from now!” I said “that’s three YEARS from now.” “Oh, I think I need to see a psychiatrist” was his reply to that. Cute.

I was talking about one of my heroes, David Attenborough, a while back. Well, he turned 80 recently, and as a result I was able to find a clip from his documentary The Life of Birds which you are going to love: it is the lyre bird of Australia. Click here for the wmv file.

And here are some youtube Sesame Street vids.

This is a good one – nice payoff: Letters Versus Numbers

Mahna Mahna gets up to his old tricks

Who all lives in a capital I? We do.

20 hits from the hookah

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Super!

Just some superhero movie news for you:

Spidey 2: Hobgoblin, Sandman,

Fantastic Four 2: Silver Surfer (starts production in August)

Hulk 2: The Abomination (2008)

Captain America and Nick Fury and Thor screenplays in works

Ant Man by Edgar “Shaun of the Dead” Wright 

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Weekend Update

According to the radio, Madonna is crazy crazy for me. That’s nice. My past couple days have been busy with slackademics, my recording setup, and gaming. Last night during Mutants & Masterminds Joe and I switched places – now he is the GM and I am a player. My character, Zero, is a power mimic so that should keep me interested. We’re fighting super-nazis on an alternate Earth.

Lance, one of the other extras in X3, emailed me and mentioned that he saw both of us in a scene which I had missed on my viewing – one with Magneto and Callisto.

Jordan and Tara dropped by on Sunday with my new acoustic guitar. I also dropped in on Yvonne unexpectedly on Saturday while I was in her neighborhood garage sailing and we caught up on things. I grabbed my old Yamaha keyboard off of her and so now I have lots of studio instruments, for what it’s worth.

Joe agreed to do up a proper slackademics website, so that should help things along. I definitely have quorum for a drawing course, so I just have to figure out when that will be. If you’re interested in joining let me know what days of the week are generally good for you. Rowan pointed out http://www.freeschool.vcn.bc.ca to me, which looks like a kind of hippiesque “radical” version of slackademics (topics are/were voluntary simplicity, beyond sensory perception, readings and history on sexuality, and graffiti and guerilla public art). Useful to see that they are/were holding their learning groups at Spartacus Books. They also seem to be stagnant or defunct as of March.