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[Image-1] I see you all the time, and I wish I could say more to you. You’re always behind the counter with a smile on your face when I come in, and I want to just stay there and chat forever. But, I doubt you think of me the way I think of you. Stay…
[Image-1] Really? I still need to haul around a bunch of change to pay for parking in HRM, and what’s with no credit cards at the bridges and toll highway? For a city/province that sells itself as being technology and forward thinking, there is so much backwards thinking it isn’t funny. Get with the times…
[Image-1] Listen here, checkout girl at the big box store: I know what you did. And I know why you did it, too. I walked up to you on purpose. I could sense the cheeky grin on your face from across the store. You’re no amateur. You’re a well-practiced hero. You’ve been doing this all…
To the fucking jackass in the black leather jacket walking down Spring Garden Road threatening people: FUCK YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT for making me not feel safe in my own city. I hope somebody eventually takes you up on your challenge and beats you to within an inch of your life so you can live…
[Image-1] You gave me six years of love and affection. My heart is broken that you are gone forever. But my heart sings that you once loved me. How could I ask for a more perfect love? Your gift to me was gentleness, kindness and an open heart. I will miss my weasel. Te amo para sempre.…
Justin Trudeau aims to double the number of Syrian refugees, and he is on track to doubling the deficit, too. Here is my question: PM Trudeau, when are you going to double the pay out to veterans? We could use some help here, ya know. —All Shot Up
[Image-1] It’s a silly crush, but that’s the fun of it. Things won’t go anywhere, and that’s okay with me because it’s just nice to feel these feelings again. You give my little broken heart palpitations. —Glad You (Sort Of) Like Girls Too
[Image-1] Way to go, you aces of snow removal. It has been one snowfall and you have already managed to fuck it up. Where is the salt? Where is the actual snow removal? All I see are sidewalks with snow pushed down into the pavement so that it is slippery. You are again relying on…
[Image-1] During this Christmas as in the the past seventy years plus I have heard the carol “Oh Holy Night” uncountable times in Cathedrals, Church Halls, School Concerts etc. All of these occasions while enjoyable at the time few are remember individually. However on Dec. 28/15 when I heard you it was if I was…
[Image-1] I laugh at many of the bus bitches because most of the bitchers don’t get some very basic things: 1.) Buses never, repeat never come early. This is a no, no and a driver can get in trouble for it. Buses do come late due to many different factors. I have heard that drivers…
I think it’s pretty dumb that a certain newspaper published a “How to Hangover Brunch on New Year’s Guide” and didn’t include a list of restaurants that would be open on New Year’s Day! This hangover is really hitting me hard and finding out where to get those greasy eggs seems like a herculean effort…
They caught the affluenza teen and his enabling mother in Mexico after they had a going away not to go to jail because the said teen broke a ten year probation for driving drunk and killing four people party. The said teen’s parents are so rich and enabling to their SPOILED BRAT son that the…
[Image-1] 1. The Maritimes are truly pristine. 2. Train trips make me really horny. I longed the whole trip for my boy toy. 3. The guy with the world’s most nasally voice will take the train the same day you do. He will almost certainly sit within two seats of you, go to the food…
Bikram Yoga (1567 Grafton Street) is ringing in the new year with a new name, new additions and new focus. Building on the fitness foundation Bikram has been working on for the past four years, 42° Fitness and Wellness celebrates its rebirth starting next week. “I think we were just ready to explore different types…
Well, sometimes bands hold back tunes to be released at seemingly random moments; sometimes bands drop stuff fresh off the track; and other times I just don’t catch on for awhile, as in the case of the following old-new and new-new music below. Got the blog goin’ up on a Tuesday. New-new: Nap Eyes, “Roll…
This is for all the ones who have the nerve to assume right way that some are racist just because they don’t approve of all the support the refugees are getting. You have no room to say that to the people who care more about our own than helping new comer’s. Just because some are…
[Image-1] So much love and appreciation goes out to the gentleman who offered me his taxi the night of the 27th. It was 1:30 am and 3 of us had all been out in the cold for way too long. My phone was dead and I asked to use yours, but after some discussion we…
Big shout out of thanks to the kind hearted and responsible homeowners who took the time to shovel their portion of the sidewalks this evening. There weren’t many but those that did it we certainly appreciated. Also, an equally big fuck you to Mosher and her fucked up idea to make Haligonians not responsible for…
[Image-1] Its important to recognize that yes, gender shaming is bad, but, gender shaming doesn’t just happen to “cis white men”, its not often that someone is harmed (to any degree) strictly on the basis of being “cis male”, atleast not as often as other gender identities . I think its also important to consider…
[Image-1] On Saturday, December 12th, my boyfriend and I inadvertently crashed your private holiday party at Bearlys. Not only did you let us sit at your table, you accommodated our tipsiness and let us finish your pizza. If our thinking had been a bit more clear, we would have repaid you with a round. Your…
[Image-1] To the young (14 or 15 years old) slender African-American teenager who got out of his parents Black SUV on Barrington today (Tuesday Dec 22 at approx 11:45am) and walked up to a homeless man and handed him a gift and wished him a Merry Christmas. Not sure what it was….could be food, mitts,…
i hate cocaine, i hate what it does to people. I hate that I’m considered worse than some fucking rockstar that actually literally fucked other men while in a relationship. I hate the updown, the ‘sorry, i was hurt’….we talk, we conclude, then suddenly I’m disgusting to you again, and yet you still tell me…
Employers, it’s common courtesy to advise all candidates you’ve interviewed when you chose someone else for the job. Especially after they’ve followed up. It’s simple, and no one is left hanging. —Me
[Image-1] To a certain family member who makes Christmas stockings in her spare time. You asked around, wondering who wanted a home-made stocking. When I requested you make one for my boyfriend, you snarkily asked me if we would even still be together by the time the stocking was finished. Then you flat out refused…
[Image-1] The reinstated mandatory long-form census will still ask Canadians to identify as either male or female when it’s mailed out later this spring, ignoring the thousands of transgender individuals who don’t fit that sexual binary. Luckily, there’s a workaround. The census was restored by the newly-elected Liberal government in November after having been scrapped…
[Image-1] According to a survey conducted by the Coalition to Preserve Community Identity in HRM, 65 percent of respondents feel that HRM’s 2014 rebranding was, and is, too expensive. Another 23 percent said they didn’t know enough about the costs to answer. The online survey was conducted over two months last fall by the Coalition—a…
Why does Christmas fucking suck every year. The shitty music, the shitty movies. Nothing is fucking open for days. Everything is locked up tighter than a fart. You can’t even get a package of cigarettes. The liquor store is closed and the scum sucking drug dealer wont answer his phone. FUCK ALL YA’LL MERRY MUTHERFUCKERS!!!…
[Image-1] This is an apology/call for more flashing crosswalk lights. To the pedestrian crossing on North Street last night in the rain: I am very sorry that I drove through the crosswalk – I honestly did not see you starting to cross on the other side, and traffic was so backed up that I didn’t…
2015 was the year of the Vine, the social media/video sharing app on which users can upload seven to ten second clips of footage, most often of random blunders from their cellphones, and loop them into eternity. Vines are a particular Internet phenomenon; the content ranges from wipe-outs to sport clips to news bloopers, traffic…
Tonight, Halifax-bred, Montreal-livin’ Dead Horse Beats (Patrick Wade) will spin it silly at The Seahorse with Wet Paint and Kyle. Have you heard DHB before? Dude can mix. Check out his “Still Dre” remix, and also this Bobby Shmurda jam. He’ll also be headlining Cold Smoke next weekend, but since you can’t hold your horses, better pony up tonight and get…
When all of your routine hangover cure routines have failed you, the answer’s brunch. But like hunting down a glimmering mirage of a waterfall in a parched desert, attaining this necessary salty antidote isn’t easy when you’re still shaking off the last of 2015, and 2016’s first bout of overconsumption. Whether you’re chasing the hair…
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What are you doing New Year’s Eve? The same thing you do every Thursday night: binge-watch shit you’ve mostly seen before. Save some money, avoid the crowds and enjoy a celebratory day-long rampage through various screens and A/V delivery services. Schedule bathroom breaks at your own personal rate of consumption and relief. December 31, 12-1:12pm:…
It could happen to any one of us, nobody is safe—you decide you’re staying in for the holidays and then #FOMO rears its ugly head and the next thing you know you’re viciously thumbing through Instagram wishing all your so-called friends hadn’t deserted you Kevin McCallister style. I mean, a real friend would force you…
If 200 Cigarettes taught us anything—and it taught us everything—it’s that you better know where your date is on New Year’s Eve. It’s the most important night of the year, and not just for Kathy Griffin. There’s a predetermination of romance. That kiss at midnight will crystalize your love life for the next 365 days…
Baby New Year isn’t just a convenient editorial cartoon metaphor. According to the New York Times, December 31 is the third-most popular conception date of the year. In fact, the whole holiday season is peak baby-baking time. On the other end are the women who go into labour on December 31, promising the first birthday…
Going outSweet Pea, 1542 Queen Street Nothing says New Year’s Eve like a sequinned romper and black knee-high boots. This outfit might make people think you looted the set of a Taylor Swift music video (and red lipstick will further their suspicion)—but the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, so just shake it off. House…
Being single for the holidays can feel lonely, especially at a New Year’s Eve party when the clock strikes 12 and you’re watching all the couples kiss and celebrate another year of love. Sure, you can blow one of those noisemakers and pretend it doesn’t bother you, or you can turn your desperate loneliness into…
Of his time-period-hopping contemporaries—the Coens, Tarantino, Linklater—it’s Todd Haynes who uses era most effectively, not merely as a cool framing device or something to subvert with modern language. From Velvet Goldmine’s lurid, woozy ’70s palettes to I’m Not There’s grittiness to, until this, his masterwork Far From Heaven’s lush, painting-like world, he uses era for context and emotion. His characters are…
[Image-1] In the early hours of October 27, as Sharon and Wayne McBrien slept, someone crept around their Toronto property. In shadow and silence, the thief pulled open the door of their Lexus SUV, climbed in and drove off. That morning, the McBriens would wake to a missing car, a long public transit ride to…
[Image-1] It’s sat empty for years, but there are finally some signs of life from this Gottingen Street lot. The barren location, across the street from the Halifax North Memorial Public Library, is to be the home of a new apartment building planned by Ross Cantwell and other partners of 2300 Gottingen Street Ltd. Cantwell…
[Image-1] Winter is a terrible season and should go to hell. Anyone who remembers last February in Halifax can attest to the nightmare of poor plowing service. But now you can toss the shovel because these entrepreneurs are offering to Plow Me Out. [Image-2] The website and yet-to-launch app are looking to bring the convenience…
