better music please
Published January 07, 2009. better music please you know that commercial for q whatever radio station that boasts “we play anything”… maybe they shouldn’t. indie music girl
Peter Kelly wants to give artists $$
We’re a little weary from all this recession talk (being the arts, a portfolio has a slightly different meaning and weight), but we do like cash. Especially when it’s a well-deserved award. Like the new $25,000 Mayor’s Award in Contemporary Visual Art. Halifax Regional Municipality is “sponsoring a competition and purchase program for emerging and…
Gloria McCluskey, councillor and heckler
Yea, I’m easily amused, but here’s an audio clip from last night’s council meeting. You’ll hear Tim Outhit complaining that council shouldn’t be spending so much time on this issue, this is what council gets criticized for, etc. Listen close and you’ll hear Gloria McCluskey responding with “then sit down!” and so forth. Adding, I…
Dear Office Idjit:
Published January 07, 2009. Dear Office Idjit: If the person responsible for ordering items vital to your job specifically gives you a deadline to notify him/her that you require said items, you should probably order them BEFORE this deadline instead of, say, three days later. Did it ever occur to you that PERHAPS the supplier…
Peter Roberts’ memorial show, KISS all night!
Gus’ bartender and all-around great guy Peter Roberts passed away on December 29, leaving a hole in the Halifax music community that he loved and supported. Many of you will remember his sardonic smile and teasing nature that made everyone feel at home when he was behind the bar. Gus’ Pub booker BA Johnston has…
6″ blt on whole wheat, hold the fingernail
Published January 06, 2009. 6″ blt on whole wheat, hold the fingernail so, i go to a sub place, get my sub ,get home inhale it. as im sucking the remnents out of my teeth, i think to myself a pepper seed….so i get the floss out…….not a pepper seed…..a real human fingernail. its pretty…
Fuck university
Published January 05, 2009. Fuck university Why’d I even bother going to school and getting two degrees? All it got me was a HUGE student loan and no job. And I even did fucking co op! I’ve applied in ontario, alberta along with here for countless jobs and nothing. And if I hear one more…
5-Ton Truck, North Park St, Dec 22
Published January 06, 2009. 5-Ton Truck, North Park St, Dec 22 To the 5 ton truck who hit and ran my car on North Park street at 1:40 PM on Dec 22, you’re an asshole. After swerving into our lane and sideswiping us with your massive drill of a hubcap, you continued on your merry…
ball of confusion
Published January 06, 2009. ball of confusion If I had a dog, I could put my dog in daycare NO Problem. But I have a BABY. Well. Waiting list for you. And That’s IF you can find a place that takes kids younger than 18 months. Wait a second, just how long is maternity leave…
Since it’s grocery store bitch week…
Published January 06, 2009. Since it’s grocery store bitch week… I went to the grocery store on Saturday, and they were out of eggs and bread. Out of eggs and bread! How does a grocery store run out of eggs and bread? This is not the first time this store has been out of something,…
Streets of Cole Harbour
Published January 06, 2009. Streets of Cole Harbour This one goes out to the people of Cole Harbour who happen to have homes on bus routes. Even though your homes have driveways, I get that you may have a reason to park your car(s) on the street. What I do not get is why common…
Pierre Maguire Is A ” Monster ” Fucking Idiot!
Published January 06, 2009. Pierre Maguire Is A ” Monster ” Fucking Idiot! I never see sports bitches on here but I will now break the trend. Pierre Maguire of a certain sports network has got to be the most irrelevant, incompetant, ignorant and anything else that ends in “ant” that is on TV. Time…
North Preston Trail
This is an excellent proposal. I don’t often get to praise public officials* for forward thinking— we’re all too familiar with streets being dug up for sewers (or whatever) and then repaved, only to be dug up again two weeks later for natural gas lines (or whatever). But here we see a significant cost savings…
Welcome to the 21st century Holocaust
Published January 06, 2009. Welcome to the 21st century Holocaust The original: commited by Nazi’s against Jews. The repeat: Committed by the Jews against Palestinians, yet the whole world sits and watches. They say they were burnt to death in ovens. Israel is now using more sophisticated methods than oven, leading to the same results,…
Open letter to Senator David Angus
Jan 6 , 2009 Mr. Angus, I refer you to the Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce – Wednesday, May 3, 1939. – page 284 -Graham Towers answersGG McGeer Q:the great change is in this, prior to 1914 we condemned the issue and use of paper currency unless that paper currency was convertible into gold.…
There’s no business like added show business
Two recently added shows have just been announced: Wintersleep is adding a second show in addition to their January 29 date at the Marquee, now you also have January 30 to say goodbye to the fellas before they embark on their European and US tours (both shows 10pm, with Plants and Animals. Tickets $25/$30, available…
Sobeys Ripoff
Published January 03, 2009. Sobeys Ripoff Minor bitch but since when is 2/$4.44 for a 2L of pop a sale?? Coke Fiend
What’s Happened to soceity
Published January 05, 2009. What’s Happened to soceity To all you brainless bimbos. Put down your Dolce & Gabbana and pick up Mark twain. The only thing you have to offer is a fake laugh a fake face and fake one night stands. Have some respect for yourself and stop living like you are in…
An Open Letter to Grocery Store Slobs.
Published January 04, 2009. An Open Letter to Grocery Store Slobs. Why do you leave your empty Tim Hortons cup on some random shelf? How fucking lazy can you possibly be? Granted, this doesn’t affect my life all that much. Unless the item I want is behind that cup and I have to touch it.…
Do not Call (?)
Published January 05, 2009. Do not Call (?) So I’m not in the market for a cruise or any of the other inane products telemarketers call for, so a few months ago I submitted my phone number for the “do not call” register. Since then I no longer get calls every afternoon but I am…
FACKING FACK
Published January 05, 2009. FACKING FACK I have an EXTRA LARGE bitch today. I fundraised for four hours, walked around in the freezing cold asking for donations, and walked a total of FOUR HOURS. Had only a cup of coffee today. Then, when I finally got home to salvation, the door wouldn’t goddamn open. My…
NS Student Loan System
Published January 05, 2009. NS Student Loan System I thought this system was supposed to be faster and more efficient now that everything is online. The so called loan was “supposedly” to be deposited in my bank account by Dec 31st. My classes have started today and I need to buy books and pay tuition,…
coalition
Published January 04, 2009. coalition To those that say that a merged government is undemocratic, look at how the vote turned out. Harper has a minority, so despite what you think, it means he’s not wanted in power. Someone against C-61
Breakfast
Published January 02, 2009. Breakfast If you went out for breakfast in that snow storm….fuck you!! Frosty the snowman
Thanks Canada
Published January 05, 2009. Thanks Canada One of my relatives died in the bombing of Gaza by Israeli, American, and Canadian made weapons. O Canada!
Learn the law…PLEASE
Published January 05, 2009. Learn the law…PLEASE Ok, I know that this has been mentioned before. But nothing makes me crazier than waiting downtown on Hollis or Morris to turn left. PLEASE everyone, the law in Nova Scotia CLEARLY states that if you are on a one way street and waiting to turn left (and…
Linty Mcgee
Published January 05, 2009. Linty Mcgee Dearest neighbour, Thank you for cleaning out the lint trap in our building’s dryer. It’s great that you go that extra mile, really it is. What i don’t understand though, is why whenever you do empty out the lint trap, you leave your massive ball of lint-trap surprise on…
Bitch rules
Published January 04, 2009. Bitch rules What part of “no specific names” do you folks not understand? The “no”? The “specific”? Or the “names”? Are you idiots? Stupid? Illiterate? What? I just don’t get it Web site nazi
Its been a long time comming.
Published January 05, 2009. Its been a long time comming. You have one week. No more cleaning your dirty dishes that have been in the sink for days. No more cleaning your spit out of the sink in the bathroom or having to go into your room to get my make-up back that you stole…
BEST RECORDS EVER. (2008).
My 2008 list! A little late, but whatever. 1. Nobunny, Love Visions According to legend, Nobunny hit rock bottom and was passed out in the desert when he woke up and saw a bunny rabbit. He thought to himself, “There’s been all kinds of Elvis impersonators, but there’s never been an impersonation of a bunny…
Fuck money
Published January 03, 2009. Fuck money I’m sick of it, and no I’m not going to give you any. I fucking hate having money, I hate needing to have money, I hate that money even exists. God damn all the shit does is complicate everything. Fuck it, Karl Marx had it right. John Lennin
The looming Depression
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman puts it bluntly this morning: Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression The column nicely frames the debate as a contest between Keynesian and Friedmanic ideologies; in terms of the choices facing us now, it’s a battle between continued…
It is fucking cold out here where do the poor people go
Published January 02, 2009. It is fucking cold out here where do the poor people go Do you think you would exist and our country would exist without the fur trade and without our aboriginals and the unfair trade practices of our white forbereres. The honour of existase in our CANADIAN climate is do to…
FUCK YOU
Published January 02, 2009. FUCK YOU I’d just like to send out a big fat FUCK YOU to my couch for bleeding its red dye onto my new macbook. I had to scrub the damn thing all day with a goddamned magic eraser and now it’s not all that shiny anymore and still has tinges…
Brighten up, Palermo
Well hello, So at first I was gonna write: “Fuck you, Mark Palermo! If you’re so keen on what makes a good movie, why don’t you go make one yourself?!”, but then I thought… so negative! What’s up with that? So instead it’s more like this: I’ve been reading the Coast for 4 years now,…
Scrooge Award
Published January 04, 2009. Scrooge Award For the second year in a row, RCMP Headquarters on Oxford Street gets the Scrooge Award for their disgraceful display of 2 half-lit Christmas trees. When it comes to Xmas Spirit, these Mounties are either half-lit, half wit or just don’t give a shit! Tiny Tim
Peter Duffy Fucked in the Ass by a Ghost
Published January 03, 2009. Peter Duffy Fucked in the Ass by a Ghost I only just found out about this. Back when print media was restricted to where it was printed it wouldn’t be a big deal. But with facebook and online papers anybody can read about how lame we are. Fuck. http://gawker.com/news/great-moments-in-journalism/great-moments-in-journalism-raped-in-the-ass-by-ghosts-221105.php cranky
Nova Scotia power
Published January 02, 2009. Nova Scotia power I am so sick of people calling and bitching about loss of power. Like we have any fucking control over it. We are reps. Nothing else. You yell about missed holidays like we want to miss ours while we take your calls. Like we want to be at…
ATM Use Fee
Published January 01, 2009. ATM Use Fee withdrawing cash from an ATM machine that belongs to a bank other your own bank costs $1.5. Reviewing my monthly bank statement, I noticed that the Bank took an extra $1.5 (i.e., the total cost of using an ATM is $3). That is total rip off! GP
Cunard Centre NYE Party Disaster
Published January 02, 2009. Cunard Centre NYE Party Disaster Z103.5 will no longer be played on my radio (it wasn’t played much prior to this anyway). Understandable that things didn’t work out perfectly as planned, not everthing usually does. However, NOTHING worked out AT ALL! You cant hide behind the blizzard excuse as to why…
To the moronic twat
Published January 03, 2009. To the moronic twat who ploughed a PARKING LOTS two days after the storm was over at 3:30 am in the morning? What the hell do you think your doing? I have to be up at 5 am in the morning so it’s bad enough I have to wake up that…
Wow.
Wow. Or maybe not. I’ve been a resident of NS for 15 years and by God people here get dumber and less educated by the minute. The posts are complete proof. Specially that wifi post (Starbucks wifi sucks), that’s just funny. There’s so much intelligence that it’s just dripping!!!! What’s even more funny, the only…
My Job.
Published January 03, 2009. My Job. I am sorry. I bring this job home to you. It is too late; I deserve this. I did not mean to hurt you. You deserve more. Bartender
Yeah, Okay Little Boy.
Published January 03, 2009. Yeah, Okay Little Boy. Okay, so the holidays sucked. Although, I’m sure I’m not the only person who can say that. I can get over the fact that my Christmas was a really shitty time, but my New Years was much worse. Not only did you leave me to wait for…
LuLu Losers
Published December 30, 2008. LuLu Losers To all you people who think you are looking cool wearing head to toe lulu lemon, you look like idiots. If you aren’t going to do actual workouts or yoga, why aren’t you wearing normal clothes like you should be? Besides, the stuff is over priced anyway. Ripoff! Overpriced…
Superstore Doucher
Published December 30, 2008. Superstore Doucher To the huge doucher who works at the Superstore, You are the biggest douch in all of douch history you even beat Andy Dick at douching. P.S. It’s so big… douch wouldn’t you like to know
coat thief
Published January 02, 2009. coat thief to whomever stole the black suade-ish with fur on the hood hanging on the fence on vernon st & linden st about a month ago, fuck you..im homeless and had to busk all day for that coat, please return it too me… i love that coat… and im cold…
Expectant much?
Published January 02, 2009. Expectant much? To the entitled bartender on New Year’s Eve: I don’t know what world you live in, but it’s not considered good service to demand tips from the patrons. I was about to pull out a twoonie to tip you with, when you snottily told me that it was “customary…
A Hard Days Work
Published December 31, 2008. A Hard Days Work To all of the low life, welfare toting, child tax grabbing, dredges of society: why don’t you get a fucking job already? As I waited for my “happy meal” today I was struck by the diversity of the people behind the counter- old, young, black, white, pink,…
PARKING BAN MY ASS
Published January 01, 2009. PARKING BAN MY ASS I wonder what is the point of the city setting a no parking ban ALL winter long. It is stupid for people to pay for parking when it is not snowing but when a damn storm is coming or has arrived why are there not any tow…
Running government like a business
I don’t see what people are so upset about: Premier Rodney MacDonald gave substantial raises to senior staffers in his office last year, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle Herald.Bob Chisholm, who has been Mr. MacDonald’s chief of staff since he took over from Heather Foley-Melvin in 2006, got a 9.7 per cent raise…
NYE with Z103.5 RIP OFF
Published January 01, 2009. NYE with Z103.5 RIP OFF The New Years Eve party at the Canard Centre was terriable. For VIP tickets it cost $100 being guarenteed that we would be entered in to win prizes and have 5 drink tickets. Well upon arriving they gave us our bracelette without getting us to fill…
Hospitals
Published January 02, 2009. Hospitals Why is it doctors and hospital can lie, cover up, commit fraud in your records, knowingly deceive your family as to what is really wrong with you.Intentionally withhold all information and test results to help in the deception and get away with it.This type of thing is going on but…
Pedestrian Blues
Published December 30, 2008. Pedestrian Blues I recently learned that as of May 2008, it is actually an offence to enter a crosswalk unless the “walk” signal is displayed. Common sense, maybe, not to try to cross the street on a “don’t walk” signal. But what if the hand has just started to flash, and…
7 Pounds
Published December 31, 2008. 7 Pounds To the indviduals who kicked the back of my theatre seat during the movie 7 Pounds. I think I should apologize first for you witnessing the pointing and teasing I gave to my teary faced partner during those “like clockwork” sad scenes. This sort of teasing is quite normal…
Hansen: Dion was right
James Hansen is the NASA scientist who first testified to the US Senate on the climatic challenges facing the globe in 1988, and continues to be one of the leading climatologists researching the issue. Today, New Year’s Day, Hansen releases a a letter to Michelle and Barack Obama:, in which he underscores the importance of…
No print bitches this week
Published January 01, 2009. No print bitches this week So sorry, but logistical breakdowns are making it impossible to put bitches in the print edition this week (due to the holiday, the print version of the paper is coming out tomorrow instead of today). Regular print-wise bitching will resume next week. We regret the problem…
Movies 2008: I screen, you screen
Assigning some meaning to the 2008 movie year is difficult, because it didn’t have much meaning. In basic terms, 2008 was an exhausted climax. The year before was full of trilogy cappers (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s 13). Indiewood had a crossover blockbuster with Juno, which came…
People of the Year 2008
Alexa McDonough The MP for Halifax announced on June 2 that she wouldn’t run again, which might have been the signal Stephen Harper was looking for. Just three months later he called the federal election. But the prime minister was sadly mistaken if he expected Alexa’s nearly 30-year legacy of party building to retire along…
What’s a saddleback?
Q Here’s your chance to deal with the problems of a couple of senior citizens: I am a woman in my late 60s and my “boyfriend” is five years older. We were lovers long ago. He came looking for me a few years ago and we reunited. We live on opposite sides of the country,…
The Year of Doom
January 22 Heath Ledger dies in New York City Not since the mid-’90s deaths of Brandon Lee and River Phoenix has a hot young actor passed so unexpectedly. Shrouded by whispers that his method—playing the nihilistic Joker in the just-completed Batman movie The Dark Knight—had pushed him to the accidental prescription drug cocktail overdose, morbid…
Arts 2008: Life of the arty
THEATRE by Kate Watson You may wonder what methodology I use when selecting the productions for my YIR round-up. It begins in the bathtub, where I soak and try to recall the 60-plus plays I’ve seen in the past year. Those that are so memorable they jump immediately to mind likely make the list. Later…
Year of the shoe
Time to bid farewell to 2008, Year of the Flying Shoe. “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog!” Iraqi TV reporter, Muntader al-Zaidi shouted at George W. Bush during a recent Baghdad news conference. He then hurled a shoe that narrowly missed the US president’s noggin. Bush was…
HRM 2008: meh-mories
January After Ellen Page appears on the David Letterman Show, CBC’s Information Morning convinces a parade of Nova Scotian personalities, including fiddle-playing premier Rodney MacDonald, to invite Letterman to the province. Letterman turns down the offer.| A private company making deliveries for KFC refuses to deliver to Uniacke Square, saying the neighbourhood is “too dangerous.”…
Post-apocalyptic utopia
In 2008 we learned from studies that putting boiled water in plastic bottles speeds up the release of bisphenol A, that Canada is the world’s fourth largest source of spam and that Tasers might not be as safe as we think. My pitch for our most important study of the year? It’s the one that…
Halifaxploitation
There was something strange in the air last year and, for once, it wasn’t the smell of the harbour. Halifax—known as a “nice” city where drivers stop on a dime for pedestrians and everyone says hi—felt a bit sinister. It had nothing to do with crime rates or road widenings; 2008 was the year where…
Music 2008: Full house
Two-thousand-eight: The Year of Unexpected Touring Bands. There was the influx of old-school hip-hop (Nas, KRS-One, ?uestlove, Naughty By Nature, Method Man, Redman and Raekwon) and oldsters that sold out in minutes (Neil Young, Elton John, Bob Dylan). The kids weren’t forgotten, either, with Deerhoof, dd/mm/yyyy, Summersonic, Antigonish’s mega coup with !!! and Battles coming…
Obituary: Originality has tragically died.
Published December 18, 2008. Obituary: Originality has tragically died. What happened to originality in humour? For several years, many people have structured their “jokes” in exactly the same way. I’ve heard so many similar sounding jokes, that I can predict the punch line before they’re even half way there. They’re all about the same thing,…
Go Time
Published December 18, 2008. Go Time Why can’t those computer screen Go Time monitors just loop the bus times? For example, if I’m waiting to see how long the 2 will take, I get maybe 2 seconds before it’s off the screen and then it takes forever for me to see the times again. Why…
