Will Facebook just die already?
Published December 30, 2008. Will Facebook just die already? Why are SO many people taking facebook as the be all and end all of social relationships these days? Is it REALLY that big of a deal if someone de-friends you or doesn’t write back on your wall? For fuck sake it’s the internet, NOT real…
Starbucks wifi sucks
Published December 29, 2008. Starbucks wifi sucks Since we’re ragging on chains, let me just add that here I am, stuck somewhere, looking for a wireless connection, and all I can find is a Starbucks. Their wireless system completely sucks. You have to buy a card, then register that card, then add a wifi capability…
Food Court Douchebag Busybody
Published December 30, 2008. Food Court Douchebag Busybody To the four-eyed ponytailed slag who’s going around shooting her big mouth off about everyone else’s business but her own, you really should look at all the nasty ghosts and skeletons you have in your own fucking closet!!!! No wonder you get kicked out of every fucking…
medium is the message
Published December 31, 2008. medium is the message I know Im not supposed to comment on another bitch here, but I forgot my login password when I made an account So I am screwed. thats why this is a double bitch. I would also like to comment on the person who is bitching about facebook…
Cosmetics
Published December 27, 2008. Cosmetics Every time I venture into the cosmetics store I can’t buy anything because the staff are all too busy giving makeovers to teenagers (who leave without buying anything). All I want is some eyeshadow, people, you think you could sell me some? I wait for as long as I can,…
Junnktank wants to give you downloads for free
PEI’s Matt Dixon has been a beacon for touring bands for some time now. Setting up all ages shows with style and grace, often throwing in a nice little interview for his stellar webzine, Junnktank. He helps you, now it’s time for you to help him (you’re mostly helping yourselves, but still). Dixon is putting…
Wow…
Published December 30, 2008. Wow… Is it just me or has this bitch section all but died? Why not set this up like a legit forum instead of this retarded current format?
names?
Published December 26, 2008. names? theres a bitch a few back that has been posted naming pizza hut. I thought no specific bussiness names would be printed? Is pizza hut an exception? is this subjective? I have noticed walmart being printed befour as well and starbucks. franchise owner.
Weakerthans and Constantines win hard body/sexy legs contest
The Weakerthans and Constantines are together again and coming back to town as part of their Rolling Tundra national tour. (March 20 at the Palace. 8pm. Tickets $25/$30 available at all Ticketpro outlets, by phone at 1-888-311-9090 and online at www.sonicconcerts.com. 19 and over.) Ten-year vets The Weakerthans launch this tour on the heels of…
Nova Scotia Power
Published December 27, 2008. Nova Scotia Power You have to stop and wonder where this money from the 9% or so increase in the power bills is going. I have never seen 90k winds and a couple cm of snow knock out power for over 30 hours, and more in other areas. I can understand…
Senate reform for all
Published December 27, 2008. Senate reform for all If we want to ensure that appointments to the Senate are without political influence, then perhaps whenever a seat is vacated, the federal government randomly selects the name of a Canadian from within its massive databanks. I am certain that they have a file on every Canadian…
Just Moved Here
Published December 27, 2008.Just Moved HereOk here it is. I just moved here from Ottawa and i noticed right away the disregard pepole have for moving cars. I know some have a button and lights wich helps, but that just gives them the right to jump into the road. And for the crosswalks with no…
No slumber for Wintersleep
Touring maniacs Wintersleep are getting ready for a triumphant return to Halifax January 29 at the Marquee Club (Tickets $25/$30 available at all Ticketpro outlets, by phone at 1-888-311-9090 and online at www.sonicconcerts.com. Doors at 9pm. 19 and over). Currently touring Europe (Welcome to the Night Sky has it’s European release in February), after completing…
I Hope you get what’s coming
Published December 21, 2008. I Hope you get what’s coming I was mugged, I gave them my purse and my Ipod as soon as they asked, I did not put up a fight. There was NO FUCKING NEED TO PUSH ME ON THE GROUND AND PUNCH AND KICK ME. NO NEED. I WAS PREGNANT BTW,…
Winter parking ban woes
To the editor, HRM By Design is supposed to encourage families to move to the peninsula. It is also supposed to encourage liveable neighbourhoods. Things on the peninsula will not move forward if HRM keeps making it easier to live where every house has a driveway. Each time a hindrance such as the parking ban…
The coast
Published December 24, 2008. The coast I’ve been cooking in this city for a while and I took a look at your best of food section, and I gotta say it seems very cliquy and biased. all the same restaurants seem to have all of the prizes,and all of those retaurants have the same owners,…
Its pizza, not gold – assholes!
Published December 24, 2008. Its pizza, not gold – assholes! I just ordered a medium thin crust pizza with just pepperoni from pizza hut. The cost was $19. Add tip for delivery and you’re looking at $23 for a little tiny pizza with no fuckin cheese on it! What a crock of shit! I’ve had…
Still no power???? WTF????
Published December 25, 2008. Still no power???? WTF???? What the heck is going on???? It is a balmy, rainless, fairly windless evening and I drove past Fairview and most of it is without power, but they had power at 4:00 pm today. What the heck is going on????? SERIOUSLY. Something must be done about the…
NSCAD strike averted
It’s a Christmas miracle! Congrats guys.
christmas weaner
Published December 25, 2008. christmas weaner whine at mother nature, too much snow, too little snow;scream at salesperson when you shopped last minute and everything is sold out; cuss at traffic , stick your finger at bus or pedestrain holding up traffic. nag at air-steward for not coming to serve you fast enough. expect service…
Spending christmas alone
Published December 24, 2008. Spending christmas alone This year I decided to brave out christmas here in Halifax. That’s well and dandy, I got to work a few extra shifts at the depot and spend some well needed time relaxing. But Christmas is also a time for family- something that’s in short supply this year…
Take down all the fences already
Published December 22, 2008. Take down all the fences already I just moved back here after sometime away and its crap trying to get around all the stupid fences in the area (Windsor and Connaught). Why is there a huge fence behind the lameness that use to be Bayers Road Shopping Center? And what happened…
Plowing?… Where?
Published December 24, 2008. Plowing?… Where? Sure, it appears a plow has made a quick once over. So if I was either cheap or lazy I suppose I would do the same to my side walk, if I had one. However I think it is not only a courtesy to those walking on it to…
Lazy Plowers
Published December 22, 2008. Lazy Plowers All I can say is that I was very disappointed in the roads this morning. I expected the roads to be plowed, salted and ready for the morning traffic. Well my road which I am not allowed to park on had a plow drive down the road once. That’s…
Ukrainian Christmas in October
Gaby’s suicide threats had subsided since her blissful relationship with her dead husband’s former boss, John Orange. John insisted on being called Johnny to spite his thin grey hair, low hanging spectacles and Norm Drabble belly, all of which collaborated to spite his status as a principal at a prestigious law firm. But life’s cycles…
Black Friday
Stack the stores from the fronts to the backs of stores Packed on racks, wrapped, tacked up, and stacked on floors Open glass doors, attract the masses, jack the middle class n poor It’s Black Friday Eyes are fried ’til they black, burn cash like crack n glow Getting high off desire, n injecting flow…
knock knock on the door
Knock knock on the door and I got up from the sofa and walked from the living room through the kitchen and opened the door and who was there but my dead cousin Morgan. His head was shaved just as it was on the day of his wake. It was like that because when he…
Mary and Joe
I argue with my mother over church. I can’t ruin a family tradition of going to church once a year, Christmas Eve, see, but I worry that my atheism might spoil the mood more. And later we go smoke cigarettes under the bridge, Mary and I, and she’s got her hair done up all loose…
The last picture show
Earlier this month, it was announced that MuchMusic would be cancelling two long-running programs: Going Coastal and The NewMusic. Halifax’s Going Coastal host Paul Brothers cites the economy as the reason for the cancellations, but for years now, the focus has moved farther and farther from fulfilling what one would expect from a niche show…
Money Shot
Overcoming some ignorance of the kinds of cultural events that are staged locally and despite disagreement over the type of events that are worthy of city support, Halifax council last week OKed expenditures of $160,000 in support of four events: Halifax Pop Explosion will receive $10,000; an upcoming basketball tournament hosted by the Halifax Rainmen…
Telling tales
At last, The Coast’s annual fiction issue, a chance to analyze news, that breezy blend of fact and fiction that is a literary form all on its own. OK, maybe the word “literary” is a bit fancy. After all, news prose is studded with cliches, stock phrases and stale figures of speech. “Northern Saskatchewan villages…
Savage Love
QI’m a 34-year-old straight woman living with a 32-year-old straight man. His daughter is two, and I am the only mother she has ever known. (Her real mother is a crack whore somewhere.) My boyfriend tells me he loves me, but it doesn’t feel like he wants to spend any time with me. I pay…
North stars
In the post-Sloan Halifax of the late ’90s and early part of the present decade, it was a little tricky for some to pinpoint a band that defined the music scene. Old vanguards were moving to Toronto, while other acts like The Super Friendz, Plumtree and Thrush Hermit were disbanding. The days when music media…
Love and Text
The Greek classic elements—earth, air, fire, water and aether—deeply influenced European thought and culture. Julia Kennedy believes the foundation of all art is based upon these five pillars. She compiled Sacred Texts, a patchwork of hand-scrawled and typewritten narratives from 10 local artisans, to commemorate five years spent creatively among friends. “The people included in…
