MEH
I’m not even going to bother how shitty my past two weeks have been. But I’m going to bitch about how much I hate them. Fuck bad days and fuck bad weeks. GAHHH. —anonymous
stupid fucks
all around hali ive noticed more than 2 kids at the same time on trampolines, just because the 2 kids dont weigh the max weight doesnt mean its ok to let more on. how stupid do you have to be to let 4-6 kids jump on those things which are already dangerous in the first…
To my boss
You are aweful. You are condenscending, rude, bullying and hurtful. You belittle your staff to tears on a weekly basis and you have each of us looking for new jobs. You can not take an ounce of advice from your so called “managers”, and you insist on micromanaging everything right down to the letter for…
Halifax Scooter Council DJ night this Saturday
The Halifax Scooter Council (which sounds completely awesome and I can’t believe I didn’t even know there was such a thing) is holding a DJ night fundraiser for their 10th annual Rally in the Valley at Club 1668 (Lower Water) on May 16 at 9pm, $6. Expect a whole ton of soul/mod/Stax/motown/Tamla/ska/reggae and Brit-pop. DJs…
The Famines bring back the art of cassette tapes and liner notes
There is artful music and musical art. The Famines, a minimalist noise duo from Edmonton, playing in Halifax this week, will make liner-note junkies very happy, with the release of their cassette tape (yes tape), which comes accompanied by a pocket-sized 268-page black-and-white book, tucked into a paper sleeve. The cassette-shaped publication exhaustively documents the…
Shut up about the fucking plastic bags costing a nickle
It’s a fucking nickle. Get over it. If you buy $300 of groceries, you might spend a dollar on bags. That’s basically nothing in comparison to what you’re already paying for the food. I also don’t care if you “don’t agree with the policy” or what crazy scenario you’ve constructed in your head to justify…
advance green
Nova Scotia drivers make me crazy. Apart from the fact they never use their signals and drive UNDER the speed limit they always take forever to go when there is an advanced green light. Hello people, there are other cars behind you that would like to get through as well. The flashing green arrow isn’t…
Noam Ben-Jacov speaks at NSCAD today at noon
Noam Ben-Jacov is speaking today, Thursday at noon, NSCAD University, 5163 Duke, Boardroom (D500). His work includes “reliefs, sketches, installations, sound, light, body-related sculptures and performance; at times crossing over into choreography/registration and theater, when much emphasis is placed on the relationship between body and object.” There are some gorgeous images and video here.
HRM creates a multi-disciplined Artist Registry
HRM is about to make artists’ lives a lot easier. Instead of having to fill out those annoying Requests For Proposals each time you want to apply for a publicly funded project, sign up for the new Artist Registry. Over the next couple of months, HRM Cultural Affairs is going to be looking for “artists,…
Just open the door!
Where I work, people regularly use the handicap door opener button to open the door. These are able-body, healthy people who aren’t even carrying anything. Seriously, it takes longer to wait for the door opener than to just open it and walk through. Don’t be so lazy! —manual door opener
Macdonald Bridge to get suicide barriers
The Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission has decided to install suicide barriers along the entire length of the Macdonald Bridge. The barriers, expected to cost “at least $500,000, per side” will be constructed along the pedestrian walkway on the south side of the bridge this year, and along the bicycle path on the north side of the…
Come after 10…
Another dog bitch… There are so few places where you can have your dog off leash in the city (legally). BUT there are some great places, one being the waterfront at Point Pleasant Park before 10 am. Lots of people bring their dogs there to play in the morning and have a great time. I’m…
Excelling at Nothing
To the parents of kids in elementry school, I feel as though I should tell you something. Excel programs suck. Maybe not all, but most. I have seen children in shorts during the winter. I have seen no hats, no mittens, no scarfs. I have seen no jackets. I have seen screaming in the hallways.…
Thinking? THINKING?!
To all you dumb assholes who update your facebook status incessantly to tell me that you’re “thinking”. What the hell? I mean really, do you not realize that you are constantly thinking? The normal human brain is in constant thought, even if you aren’t bright enough to realize it. Telling me that you’re thinking is…
Depressions Over, Mushy Love Begins.
Sometimes the winter months depress me and make me want to move far far away from this place. But now as the summer comes close my heart fills with love for the east coast. We’ve got music coming outdoors. Yay! Tragically Hip, Metric and others. Lets get drunk and try to enjoy KISS anyways. Lets…
To the guy who tortured me in grade school.
It was so nice to see you again! I think the last time I talked to you was while telling you off for rating girls in our grade nine class by their breast size (how do you like my zero’s now, bitch?) You were such a fucking prick to me from primary right up to…
Endangered Ape bring Albertan accents and good music to Gus’ tonight
Get in the van. Photo by Arif Ansari Lethbridge, Alberta’s Endangered Ape have suffered through broken iPhones, jabs about Pitchfork, and various flus and colds to get to Halifax, so show your sympathy and appreciation by coming to Gus’ Pub to see them, their tour buddies Amelia Earhart, Room Doom and the Stolen Minks. “We…
Theatre review: Trudeau Stories
Brooke Johnson is a magician of sorts, for she manages to conjure Pierre Elliott Trudeau out of thin air. She tells her real-life experience of being befriended by the former prime minister while still a student at the National Theatre School. She wrote the piece as a way to come to terms with his death…
Theatre review: He’d Be Your father’s Mother’s Cousin
Cape Breton lite. That’s how Mary-Colin Chisholm describes the culture and characters from Antigonish in her introduction to her one-woman show He’d Be You Father’s Mother’s Cousin. (Well, it’s actually a one-woman, one fiddler, and one “adequate” foley artist show.) In the show, Chisholm channels a tart-tongued gramma, a slightly catty and very chatty mother,…
Theatre review: A Rum for the Money at SuperNova
In the 1960’s, enterprising adventurers from Newfoundland were able to make a great deal of money by smuggling rum from the nearby island of St-Pierre-Miquelon. It was dangerous work, as shown in Berni Stapleton’s A Rum for the Money, where three smugglers, of various degrees of experience, are shot at, chased and eventually rammed in…
Coalition forms in opposition to HRM By Design
Attached is a press release announcing the formation of a coalition opposed to HRM By Design. While some of the groups are predictable, it’s noteworthy that both the Ecology Action Centre and GPI Atlantic have joined in. Both groups were initially supportive of HRM By Design—or at least supportive of the idea of HRM By…
Stop Charging So Much!
Stop charging $80-$300 for your used dresser! It’s USED. It’s OLD. Even if it’s not old, it’s still USED. You desperatly want it gone but yet you expect people to pay an arm and a leg for it. Frig off somewhere. —Broke and In Need
phone messages
When you leave me a message to get back to you, please say your name straight without slurring all over the phone. Yelling your head off at the IT guy because your computer doesn’t work makes you sound like an asshole. Realizing it’s your problem, priceless every time. —the coast helps take my frustrations away!
marathon hater
Well it’s that time of year again, the stupid bluenose marathon, blocking off all the downtown streets so when this damn thing is finally over and everyone wants to enjoy the dowtown area nobody’s at work because we couldn’t cross the stupid marathon route. Please run elsewhere and let the downtown core get on with…
To the guy on the bike on Oxford St. at 11:30 pm on May.11/09
This isn’t a bitch, but an apology. I was swerving to avoid potholes and not swerving at you! When I looked in my rear view mirror you were looking back at me, and since I had no way to communicate that I wasn’t aiming at you, I thought I’d post it here. Sorry about that…
Health care?
Disclaimer: I’m just typing this and have not verified all the facts. The convoy went by again tonight and we knew that someone up the road got shot again. So after reading about the Lady whose family went bankrupt caring for her cancer a little while back, we were wondering who pays for the health…
Coast Ads
Hey Coast, can you please keep your online advertising within the designated adspace? It is bad enough when the top and right of my screen are flashing like a VLT, but it is especially annoying when that stupid golfer gets in my way. Not only do I not want to buy the product being advertised…
per’PLEXed
how on earth does [a certain university sports facility whose membership is included in tuition just apparently not in the summer] justify charging me 60bucks for use of facilites just because it’s summer. I’ve been a full time student for the last 3 years and if this isn’t the biggest money grab ever, I don’t…
Learn how to list
You people. You know who you are. You list your ‘1 bedroom available in 5 bedroom house’ under the ‘1 bedroom’ section of the website instead of under the ‘room rental, roomates’ section so I have to wade through 22 pages of incorrectly organized listings to find an actual 1 bedroom apartment…..and don’t even get…
It is happening again
I have this opportunity and as usual am screwing it up with my laziness, stupidity and of course my “usual” excuse. since when a depression patient can use his condition as a reason for his endless failures? I just hate myself, the situation and cannot see a way out. I cannot stop thinking of why…
Shut up with your “creepy old man” bitches!
I’m very tired of the “Dirty, old, perverted, creepy men” bitches that are continously posted. Not all men are staring at you, not all men are disgusting perverts who want to sit next to you and try to get in your pants. I think you girls need to get over yourself. Yes you will run…
The Fat vs. The Brainless
I’m sick of overweight cops and inactive people telling me to throw on a helmet when I ride my skateboard. They say the helmet law is in place to protect me from becoming a vegetable and to protect them from throwing all there tax dollars my way if I do hit my head. Funny that…
HotKid raise hell in Halifax
HotKid show you their tuff side HotKid’s new album, Someday Somehow, (you know, the one with the impressive Canadian indie rock pedigree: produced by Ian Blurton of C’mon/Change of Heart/Blurtonia and mixed and mastered by Rick White of Eric’s Trip/Elevator) is free to download on zunior.com, and you should do so in preparation for their…
Virgin Festival 09 tickets on sale Saturday
Let’s get married The Virgin Festival line up has finally been announced, and Dinosaur Jr. is on the bill (may be worth entire ticket price alone). The Tragically Hip headline, but don’t expect any of the Hips to compete with J Mascis’ flowing locks. The Offspring, Hey Rosetta! and Arkells and more are scheduled to…
Saint Mary’s University is trying to tell me something
My email inbox:
Misleading ads
It drives me nuts when people post ads (in and on the usual venues) for motorcycles, who’s main selling point is that it is a “great beginner bike.” Since when is a 600-750cc a great beginners bike? Since never. Yes,I know there will flames about someone who started cold on one, had never ridden anything…
Burn in Hell
To the douchebags on the bus who thought it’d be cute to dump cake mix on my husbands’ head. Yeah. Fuck you. —Betty Crocker
not so public gardens
to the “superintendent” of the public gardens–i know the gardens just opened, and you dont have much to do–but kicking me out because i was on the grass?? as a amature nature photographer, all i was trying to do was take a closeup picture of the flowers, seeing how this is the only “public” place…
Stanfest includes broken men/Halifax piers
Stan the man The international songwriters’ heaven on earth, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, have announced their 2009 line-up. The festival runs July 3-5 in Canso, NS. More details, ticket and camping information available online.
tired of Mother’s Day hype
I am tired of constantly hearing about Mother’s Day. The hypesurrounding this holiday is tiresome. This has become an obligatory holiday. I hated my mother when she was alive. Not everyone has a mother. Not everyone loves their mother. —roxette
HANDS OFF!!
to the old stinky fuck in the grocery store last night… yes my 6 week old is cute, yes he has chubby cheeks…what the hell is wrong with you? You go to touch his face? You stink like smoke and booze and hes “just so cute i couldn’t resist” You’re lucky i grabbed your arm…
fire alarm follies
to whoever keeps pulling the fire alarm @ 3260 barrington, what the eff is your problem? I assume from the countless beer cans that litter our lobby over the weekend it is some sort of alcohol fueled prank but its getting very old and extremely annoying. Some of us have jobs that involve being up…
POLITITIONS
Isn’t it wonderful,we have another provincial election coming on,and Robme McDonald is spewing this shit about his balanced(crooked)budgets.do any of us really believe anything that he can say,to get re-elected again,and could we ever trust the Liberals for that matter.Seems to me,that’s all we’ve had in this province since forever,and neither one keeps a single…
Get a Gym Membership!
To all the people jogging on South Park Street at like 5:00am in the morning…get a damn gym membership and do your running there! I am so sick of people running up behind me in the dark. This is really not cool. Walking to work in the morning should not be stressful but you people…
Spilled on the bus
To the man who helped me pick up all the loose change that I dropped while getting on the number 7 this afternoon (and the bus driver, who patiently waited for us to gather it all up) – thank you so much! It’s good people like you who make me remember why I love living…
Get a leash!
This Friday evening at around 6pm my boyfriend and i were on the hunt for some supper time delights. As we were walking up Quinpool Rd, we noticed two dogs running towards us. One was a larger black lab mix, and the other was a smaller brown/white mutt. We could see that the black dog…
You’re disgusting
“How many boyfriends ya got, eh?” says my BOSS. Today, my creaky, old, saggy, hunchback, fat, manager asks me. “None at the moment…” I reply wearily. He scurries around rearranging things. Out of the corner of his mouth he mutters: “Ya oughta have 10 boyfriends right now…” THANKS. Like I really needed that. Coming from…
Piss Fumes
I can think of few smells worse than day old dirty piss, unflushed, left to ripen in all of its pissy glory. Urinal users: flush after you piss. —Farts Mahoney
On June 27 Bon Jovi sleeps on a bed of nails (in Moncton)
I want a piece of that, right ladies??? At the Magnetic Hill Music Festival! Tickets on sale today online at tickets.moncton.ca, 1-888-720-5600 (the Moncton Coliseum Box Office) or any Needs Convenience Store in Atlantic Canada (really?). Tickets are $99.50 & $199.50 (plus tax and service charge). The concert will also feature very special guest stars…
Uncooperative Death debut CD release
Shreddin’ Uncooperative Death release their debut album at Gus’ Pub on May 9 (with Legions of Chaos, Big Game Hunt and The Fallen) You may remember the band’s name from their innovative movie night fundraiser to raise money for this very album. “We recorded most of the album in Liam’s (McLaughlin, drums) basement, but using…
Thrillema film series and Empire 6 theatre say farewell
Last night, the Empire 6 theatre in Dartmouth went out with a bang and a crank. Destined to become the new Woodlawn branch of the library, Thursday night was the last screening for the theatre. Although we’re never going to argue with libraries, it’s sad to see smaller theatres close their doors. Hosted by local…
Home
I love you Halifax! I lived here for over a decade, and started taking you for granted: the buses were always off-schedule; the small size was starting to cramp my style; there was nothing left for me to explore. I left for BC thinking, this is it Halifax–we’re breaking up. Boy was I wrong! BC…
Good Riddance, Halifax
My friends keep sending me messages saying in a effect “when the fuck are you moving back to Halifax?” and I ussually say I have no freaking clue, I might visit, but it’s probably going to be many many many many years until I’ll ever move back to that cesspool. When ever I see commercials…
How do we get them to listen?
Up until now the local publicly owned Convention Centre was owned and operated by the province as it is in Toronto Ont. Suddenly things have changed in HRM. I recently read that HRM will be directly involved in the new one. My first question was why. With all the work we need done on the…
These Are The Real Dogs
I just want to know WHY? Why do people let their dogs bark non-stop? Can’t the owners hear their own animals? Bark bark bark bark bark!!!!! <—–Can you not hear that over your own stupidity?? Why do people let their dogs run loose? I don’t want your asshole dog in my yard. I don’t want…
We’re so folksy
I can’t watch the local news anymore. I’ve lived here my entire life, and I should be used to the horrible puns by now – but every day?! Did you all earn journalism degrees in order to lead into every story with a nerve-grating pun or play on words? I just lose patience. PS: I…
Hey Coast Edit Bitch!
The fucking ‘Edit Function’ is bust, fix it! —Unedited and Bitching Mad
Latte douche
To the guy who orders his latte with half the caffeine and other ridiculously specific and annoying things…and the has the balls to be a dickwad and complain all the time to everyone working in the store and other customers, screw you. You always get sugar-free and decaf now. Find a new coffee shop or…
First ever Atlantic Ink Festival this week
This week marks the inaugural Atlantic Ink: The Writers Festival. Hosted by the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, the festival is offering readings and workshops across the city. Of course it wouldn’t be a fest without some hardware—-Friday night, 7pm at Scotiabank Theatre, winners of the Atlantic Poetry Prize, Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Prize, Ann Connor…
Last night on South Park
okay to the lady who was going postal last night for 3 hours. screaming at anyone who walked past her house. what the hell were you on?? the sound of your awful voice screaming about everything, the whole street could here you and from 12:00 – 3:00 am. no sleep for me.. and to the…
Dartmouth Crossing vs. Downtown Halifax
I just received a press release from the Greater Burnside Business Association. They are in opposition to a plan by nearby Dartmouth Crossing to rezone 31.5 hectares of land to the north of the shopping complex, from commercial to residential. Dartmouth Crossing wants to build apartment complexes, containing 1,500 units, on the land.
To the woman I haven’t met yet
Editor’s not to poster: this is more of a PSST (under classifieds). Please post it over there.
Life on the left coast
As a transplant from the “wet” coast, a huge shout out for NS and all within her borders. I like many, have travelled extensively throughout this huge country. I have live In Ottawa, Calgary, NB, and was born and raised in Victoria. My final move was to here, with an option to move anywhere else…
HRM By Design hearing
Over 60 people have signed up to speak at the public hearings this week for HRM By Design—the planning strategies that will control the development process downtown for the next 25 years. With such public engagement and concern, I had to wonder where my increasing cynicism about HRM By Design comes from. Maybe the oft-repeated…
Charlie Ross is solo Star Wars play’s only hope
Charlie Ross was in the middle of an ordinary childhood, growing up in British Columbia, when Star Wars encased his life like Han Solo was encased in carbonite. “You remember when they first came out, there was no geeky stigma attached to the movies, everybody just loved them,” he says, on the phone from his…
Greater racial diversity needed in humanities
Picture this. Three white graduate students are earnestly discussing the future of post-colonial studies. It’s happening at a symposium to honour a white English professor—a pioneer in studying the work of non-white writers from former colonies such as Jamaica, Kenya and India. During the question period, a black PhD student points out he’s the only…
Sons and daughters
Q: My 14-year-old son just came out to me. He has a slightly older boyfriend, and they’re going to the school dance on Saturday night. I am adjusting to a truth I had long suspected. I am worried, though, that my son will get hurt. We live in the South—North Carolina—but our town has a…
Sure Thing: The Divorcees CD launch show
In music, there are two great teachers, according to singer-guitarist Alex Madsen of Moncton-based outlaw country outfit, The Divorcees. “Time and the road really matures,” he says. The band just released its second album, Last of the Free Men, and, Madsen says, “You’re gonna hear mileage.” Most of the songs grew from a good year…
Top 5 sure things playing at the Supernova! festival
A Rum for the Money Three Newfoundlanders are on a rum running mission in the middle of the night. They successfully dodge French bullets and evade RCMP cutters, but are hit and broken apart by a mystery ship, leading to an eerie night of survival. Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle, Thu May 7, 7pm, Sat…
Heaven on Earth
Though the plot pivots on an abusive arranged marriage, this film shows how families can arrange themselves around problems in a way that facilitates catastrophe. Because he’s the cherished son working many jobs to support a multi-generational household, no one challenges or sanctions Rocky Dhillon (Vansh Bhardwaj) when he unleashes violence on his new bride,…
Thom Pain is absolutely brilliant
Thom Pain needs a hug, and most of the audience would like to give it to him. He also needs a kick in the ass, and it seems like there’d be a lot of volunteers for that, too. For Thom Pain, as written by Will Eno and performed by Stewart Legere, is both a wounded…
Jill Hennessy shines in dude-focused Lymelife
Jill Hennessy is a few minutes late for her phone interview. She’s busy tuning her guitar in preparation for afternoon performances on MTV Canada and E-Talk. The earthy-voiced actor—best known for her television roles as straight-shooting A.D.A. Claire Kincaid on the original Law & Order, and as the emotionally messed-up medical examiner Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh…
Maggie’s Getting Married’s perfect mix of snappy and sexy
It’s been a banner season for comedies at our community theatres. First there was Dartmouth Players’s fun, frothy Don’t Dress for Dinner. Then, TAG’s outstanding production of Norm Foster’s Drinking Alone. Finally, there’s another Foster play, Maggie’s Getting Married, staged by the Bedford Players, and I must say, this is the best thing I’ve seen…
Great Scots! reunite, play first ever Canadian show
It seems oddly Canadian that a band dubbed by the Canadian press as our country’s Beatles have never played a single concert in their homeland, but that’s the story of The Great Scots—often strange and seeming like the stuff of legend. Unravel The Great Scots’ story and it’s easy to understand why their recordings are…
Saints Alive! production of Into the Woods nearly there
If the evening had ended after the first act of the Saints Alive! production of Stephen Sondheim’s dark and twisty Into the Woods, I would declare it a triumph. The innovative youth theatre company manages to pull together talented performers, an interesting and creatively wrought set and lovely costumes. Act 1 weaves together the stories…
Jim Bryson
Recorded live in a church in Ottawa, Jim Bryson and his band don’t stray far from the path set down for these songs drawn from all three of his studio albums. There are the odd flourishes, such as the dual guitars playing extended melodies to close out “Fallen Leaves” and “The Wishes Pile Up.” Another,…
Bishop Allen
A handful of New York indie bands manage to escape overblogged hype and are always better for it—think Ra Ra Riot, Regina Spektor—and so you don’t feel like a trend-fucker when listening to the likes of Bishop Allen, AKA Justin Rice and Christian Rudder. The follow-up to 2007’s fantastic The Broken String, Grrr… displays more…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine lacks emotional drive
The “origins” chapter for X-Men: Wolverine barely even serves as filler. At the end of the movie, Wolverine loses his memory. This implies that viewers shouldn’t be bothered to keep track of Wolverine’s backstory, when he can’t even remember it. The only justice is that the movie’s forgettable, anyway. It lacks a concise emotional drive.…
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past casts its dumb glow
The less one likes Matthew McConaughey’s romantic comedy persona, the more one’s likely to enjoy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. The imperfect take on A Christmas Carol still falls for the genre’s status quo message that love and marriage are the only way. But in mocking tacky role-playing cliches the movie goes somewhere better: Dissecting McConaughey’s…
PJ Harvey and John Parish
In 1996 PJ Harvey collaborated with friend John Parish to release Dance Hall At Louse Point—songs with Parish providing the music and Harvey the lyrics and vocals. It was a discordant, occasionally vicious record—a side-project that fit nicely into Harvey’s body of work. This new album has the same division of labour, but is a…
The Decemberists
Supposedly The Decemberists’ rock opera, there’s minimal rocking on this slow-paced, folk-pop concept album—more a prolonged saga of tongue-twister lyrics, dead babies and 19th-century newlyweds. With their last few releases, The Decemberists seem to be moving further from the catchy, verbose pop they made their name on, to a more cerebral, inaccessible language of literary…
Benn Ross
Gooseberry Records owns this spring season with local must-get releases from The Lodge, Doug Mason, killer tribute albums for Eric’s Trip and The Super Friendz, and now Benn Ross’ haunting Le Nose. A talented percussionist who has quietly put out several EPs of his own over the years, Ross’ new album should draw more attention—initially…
Stephen King agrees: climate change contributed to fires
Last year, a forest fire consumed nearly 2,000 hectares near Porters Lake. Last week, a fire burned 800 hectares near Spryfield, destroying eight homes. Stephen King looks at those fires and sees climate change. Before retiring last year, King was manager of HRM’s climate change department, and won wide acclaim. One of King’s many accomplishments…
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
During the days between Halifax’s monthly spoken-word event Speak!, lyrical minds can feast on Word Warriors, an anthology of fierce women writers. Edited by Alix Olson, this collection features a forward by legendary vagina warrior Eve Ensler. A large portion of Word Warriors explores narratives of struggle. Each writer fights for the language of expression.…
Skate free and/or die
Citing safety concerns, the law says skateboarders must wear helmets. But some skaters and their supporters see the police crackdown at the Commons Skatepark as mean-spirited and counterproductive.
Mine booster misled
To the editor, Michael Hannon’s letter last week, “Mining piece fearmongering,” asserts that “Gold crush” (Apr. 23, news) was “fearmongering,” but his critique that the article made unfounded and vague claims is itself entirely unfounded and vague. Hannon writes “It’s absurd to think that a new mine’s impact on the environment will be the same…
A vegetarian, not a vegetable-arian
To all those restaurants downtown that consider themselves vegetarian friendly because the offer salads as their veggie option on the menu, give me a break. Just because I don’t eat meat doesn’t mean that I ONLY eat vegetables. I go to restaurants for a nice meal; I can chop veggies up at home. A vegetarian…
Tobacco sellout
To the editor, Suppose the Roman Catholic church asked you to run anti-family planning, anti-abortion, anti-gender-equality advertisements: Would you do it for a price? Suppose Charlton Heston rose from the dead with an AK-47 clenched between his teeth and demanded, on behalf of the American gun lobby, that Canadians stop being such pussies and get…
Dear Olympic Athlete:
I am one of your biggest fans! I love that you spend ten hours a day at the gym so that no mater when I go, you are always there. I totally support your goal of setting a new record for “lifting the least amount of weights in one session” but I think your chances…
Stop sitting next to me
Why is it that every time I get on a bus these days, some creepy man is compulsed to sit down next to me? My bag is on the seat next to me because I don’t want some weirdo perv like you sitting there and muttering to himself. Get the hint! —Sitting with another woman…
Peace Pavilion is locked.
What’s wrong? Peace Pavilion is locked. Who’s responsible? Peter Verge, HRM manager of operations, 490-4673. Remarks: The Peace Pavilion is a nice, er, peaceful refuge on the Dartmouth Waterfront, but like the Public Gardens across the harbour, it has yet to be opened for the season. We’re not sure why the pavilion has to be…
Live Gig: Thunderheist
photo by Scott Blackburn Sunday, May 3, 1:15am, at The Paragon.
Shop local: business profiles along Barrington Street
The historic area of Barrington Street is buttressed by the towers at Scotia Square at one end and the Maritime Centre on the other. It’s a busy thoroughfare for transit, local workers and shoppers. Sure, there are pockets of fallow storefront, but all it takes are a couple of key retailers to create a little…
Fucking Punk on Green Belt
To the fucking disrespectful punk on the green belt behind my house. If you attempt to break a window or slash my tires I’ll have you in the back of a police car so god damned fast your head will spin . You and your slutty girlfriend are all of fourteen, I shouldn’t have to…
Asswipe, fool, whatever you want to call it
So today after a really long day, and a really long week mind you, (see fuck insects) I head on down to my drivers ed class (late driver).
