Monday, December 24, 2001
Have you been good this year? You better hope so, lest Santa gets pissed off and leaves something depressing in your stocking, like a lump of coal, or a stool sample. But then again, what are the chances that he'd notice if you'd been bad, really? Two billion children in the world… plus you, so unless you've killed someone, he probably ain't gonna know if you’ve been naughty.
Unless he's all-powerful and all-knowing, like God. Which then raises some wacky theological dilemmas.
Hoho, Merry Christmas!
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Thursday, December 20, 2001
I just did all my Christmas shopping earlier today. I went with a friend, and we decided the best way we could both get our shopping done is if we took turns in buying our gifts. This was a bad judgment call on her behalf since, while she took about 10 minutes to find each of her presents, I took a solid 40 minutes or so for each of mine. We started at midday and finished at around 9pm.
And the thing is, I even planned out what I was going to get everyone for their presents. Yet when it came down to it, I ended up getting them all completely different things.
My friend was very patient with me. I’d spend half an hour waffling over to buy my brother either the new N*Sync CD or a velvet Jesus (both of which I assume he probably wants), and then, as soon as we went shopping for something she needed, I would get all fidgety and bored after 3 minutes.
I also got around to using my credit card finally. Ever since I signed up for it, it’s been sitting in my wallet just along for the ride, waiting for it’s opportunity to help me build a healthy credit rating (or to put me into a spiraling, uncontrollable debt. Whatever.)
I felt pretty cool knowing I don’t have to pay for Christmas with actual, real money.
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Monday, December 17, 2001
Hooray for presents! Maybe you'll be lucky and get a toy like this kid's.
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Once, I was staying at a hotel the same time as a drag queen convention was being held there. I don't remember too much about it, except all the drag queens seemed very tall, and tended to be drunk a lot.
Which brings us to.. a famous Toronto drag queen is running to be the leader of the Canadian Aliance party political party. This is nothing to unusual, except for the fact that the Canadian Aliance is usually made up of extreemly conservative non-drag queens.
And before you yell "bah, she'll never win!" (why are you yelling?), it turns out she placed 3rd out of 25 when she ran for mayor of Toronto.
Random Quote: "there are a lot of sexy MPs (members of parliament) I'd like to unite right now.''
Posted by gavin @ 05:37 PM mst [Link]Comments
Hah, this is cute.
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We've switched our weblog software over from Blogger to Greymatter. This is a good thing because:
- Blogger's been really flaky for us recently, and it was becoming a pain to post anything. (Although we still hold a place in our hearts for blogger since they did make us as a blog of note and put us on the map.. well, a little map).
- Now there's a searchable archive. We also moved the old Blogger generated archives (March 2000 to November 2001) to the new system, except those archives aren't searchable (but all the new stuff is).
- Commenting on individual posts is possible by clicking on the 2 comments link bellow. The Dirty Rumors message board still works.
- We be looking pretty now. The old NY skyline layout was jarringly outdated all of a sudden, and the more recent rocketship-just-floating-on-the-page layout was a bit boring. Now, thanks to the moon, we look good.
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Sunday, December 16, 2001
A few days ago I did a performance project with 5 other people that involved each of us eating pickles at various points in the play.
There were two pickle jars. One of the jars was fresh, which was the one we were going to be eating our pickles from. And the other jar was pure set decoration, and had been sitting in a warm corner of the theatre for a several weeks.
I carefully measured out the pickles, so there was exactly 1 pickles for each performer, no more, no less.
However, for many of the pickle eating scenes, I was backstage, unable to see what was going on.
After the show I noticed there was still one pickle left in the jar. I know we'd all eaten a pickle, so why was there one left over?
Somebody ate one of the old, stale, mouldy pickles.
I don’t know who it was, but I just hope to God it wasn’t me.
Posted by gavin @ 05:44 PM mst [Link]3 comments
Now, I've been busy at school with exams and performances and whatnot, and I take school stuff very seriously. So, it takes something amazingly fantastic to distract me from my academic studies. And this is it. This is a page with detailed information about what happens when you put different things in the microwave. I've already tried the CD thing (who hasn't), but I never knew a smouldering toothpick would create fireballs, or that split grapes would create plasma-arcs, or that Christmas ornaments would turn into glowing balls of pure radioactive excitement!
So if you're engrossed in final exams, or find yourself extra busy at work this time of year, take another look at your microwave and all the objects your can put in there. Entertainment awaits!
Posted by gavin @ 04:53 PM mst [Link]
Remember last year when everyone was wondering what IT (aka, Ginger) was? But we never found out? Well, it turns out, it's actually a magic scooter that can read your mind and move you where ever you want to go. Fantastic! Read all about it here.
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