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A Lesson Is Learned, But The Damage Is Irreversible

My job may suck, but every day is a new challenge. Yesterday's challenge was to see if I could consume an entire box of Oreo cookies (double-stuf, of course) in a 12 hour shift. I can, although I wouldn't reccomend it.

Tonight's challenge is going to be finding out if I can concentrate on my job in any capacity at all now that Suicide Girls has released their own video podcast. I don't really think so.

posted by Tay @ 4:11 PM 5 comments

I know, I know, it's been a while. But to be honest, nothing much interesting has happened. Actually, wait... no that's a lie, tons of cool stuff has happened. Let's try to review them.

First and formost, my new iPod came yesterday. It's so hot. I only have two problems: It's too picky about what types of movies it will play, which makes formatting difficult, and for some reason since I plugged it in iTunes has become so needy. Honestly, iTunes will self-boot every five seconds, and refuses to stay closed, regardless of whether or not the iPod is plugged in, or what other applications are running.

What else has happened recently? Ooh, Chelsea took me to Ranchmans last weekend. It's pretty awesome to go to a shithole bar with a girl who also realizes it's a shithole. We enjoyed the irony of the situation fully, riding the mechanical bull and learning to two-step. Luckily we didn't stay too long, and went to Broken City to see Controller Controller, which was pretty rad.

Halloween is coming, does anybody have plans? I'm thinking that I'll go for a simple costume this year: Tyler Durden. Why not? All it'll take is a white shirt, some fake blood/black eye, a bar of soap, and a nametag that says "Hi! I'm Jack's Raging Bile Duct". Simple!

posted by Tay @ 3:24 PM 1 comments

Further Down The Spiral

I swear, shit has just been getting too weird lately. Yesterday was the 1st annual Zombie Walk, which was really awesome. There were so many awesome costumes, and everybody was really getting into the swing of things. I got interviewed for Mount Royal's journalism program, and ate some brains. Then Hot Adbusters Girl (see previous post) invited me to a party at her friends house. That was some freaky times.

The first thing that you'll notice about this house as soon as you walk in the door is that it's literally carpeted in porn. These magazines take up so much space that you have to walk over them. These guys also had a small grow-op in the bathroom. The really weird thing about these guys is that aside from their obvious porn/drug addictions, they were totally awesome. We watched Evil Dead 2, and Resident Evil Apocalypse and had a blast. I just had to make sure to never look down, for fear I would be stepping on some embarassing porn. Luckily Hot Adbusters Girl made an excuse to get us out of there before too long. I guees she had no idea what kind of guys these were.

Then I painted my computer room. I have dubbed the colour "marshmallow vomit", and it is incredible. Now I either need to paint something on a canvas to hang, or take the easy way out and go back to Kinko's.

***Super-Awesome Update***
I got a Flickr account now, so you can now check out my photos. Might I suggest that you do so?

posted by Tay @ 1:38 PM 4 comments

Who the hell still uses 8mm?

So that movie thing turned out to be a big waste of time. I think that it will be crappy and no good, but if it wins an award for being a film made on a $30 budget, then I might change my mind. If such an award exists, I think this movie might have a good chance of winning it. That whole thing is not even the weirdest thing that happened that day though.

In some grand gesture of irony, I may possibly end up being the voice for Adbuster's radio campaign this November. I would be advertising their laughable attempt at consumer activism, "Buy Nothing Day". If you were to go through this very same blog and look at posts made in previous Novembers, you would see that I openly mock Adbusters, with special regards to their magazine and their holiday. I agreed to do the commercials for two reasons:

1) One of the Adbusters (Chelsea) is hot, and wants me to do the commercials.
2) I made sure that they were aware that I would be buying whatever the hell I wanted on that particualr day, and would probably buy more than I needed in an attempt to offset any affect their stupid campaign might cause. Strangly enough, this didn't seem to bother them. Maybe they think that I'm really poor.

posted by Tay @ 3:31 AM 7 comments

What in the hell people

Tubby Dog is basically the best place in the world ever. Shangri La? Phe. The garden of edan? Yawn. Nossir, give me a place that will make me a turkey dog, and dress it with mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, apple sauce and stuffing. I believe that I am slowly growing an obsession for hotdogs.

If anybody had mentioned that Wolf Parade was opening for The ARcade Fire, I would have skipped work. Hell, I would have quit work for that. Not that I'm looking for an excuse or anything. I mean, it's been a couple days now, and would still be left in the dark about this, had I not met this hot girl who told me all about it. To make this story really weird, she and her friend invited me to star in a movie that they're making tomorrow. I've got the day off, so I figure, What The Hell? If fine-arts majors can pretend things, and kindergartners can pretend things, and I can beat up fine-arts students with kindergartners, then I should be able to pretend things just fine.

posted by Tay @ 2:12 AM 2 comments

Oh Captain, My Captain

Matthew bought lunch for me yesterday, and since we were at MegaTunes (I bought the new Grandaddy and Blackalicious albums), we went to Tubby Dog for eats. Let me just start by saying that this place is rad. All of the decor is red or yellow, ketchup or mustard. The only things on their menu is hotdogs. I don't even think that they serve fries there. They also have the most delicious hotdog known to man: The Captain. Adorning this gem of gestation is peanut butter, jelly, and Captain Crunch cereal. Now I know what you're all thinking.

"Gross!"

But you couldn't be more wrong. The taste of hotdogs and breakfast confections actually blend quite well together. I'm hoping that Matthew will comment here to back me up. I'd have it again next time, but I'm afraid that their Ultimate hotdog has caught my eye. You see, before they load this dog up with condiments and fixin's, they wrap it in bacon and deep-fry it. This is something that I have to try.

posted by Tay @ 2:16 PM 3 comments