Public Piss-off
For everybody who uses a public bathroom, for the love of god flush the damn thing when you’re done. People don’t want to either go to have a piss on ur shit, and people dont want to go in and clean a toilet with your fucking leftovers in it. Public bathrooms are dirty enough without…
argh
To the douche who has been stringing my along for over a month saying he was going to take my apt, and just before signing the lease copped out and said that Mommy and Daddy didnt want him to. Fuck you!! You honestly think I believe you? Way to dick me around. I had tons…
Not enough Taxis? Why not a Night Bus?
There is been so much talk lately about a shortage of Taxis in Halifax while it is easy to find a Taxi in the bigger cities….I think we are forgetting that all those big cities have one or more “Night Buses” that run 24 hours…I think we need at least one “Night Bus” on weekends…
Attention Magazine Hill Drivers
Especially Bedford Bitches… now I dont hate Bedford but I do hate the people driving the passing lane @ 80 km/h to take that EXIT. So heres a big FUCK YOU, get the hell out of the passing lane! This also goes out to all the fuckers who barely pass in the passing lane as…
Election neglect
To the editor, Please tell me you’re joking. Our city council cannot have just spent nearly half a million of our dollars on researching computerized voting. This has been done and proven faulty in the States already. In the last five years, there was a cover story in Harper’s on elections stolen through the Republican…
Election neglect
To the editor, I’m distressed to hear city hall will introduce electronic voting next municipal election (“Reality bites,” Jan. 17). There is no more secure way to count a vote than the way we do it now. I have worked on three elections—two as a deputy returning officer and one as a poll clerk. When…
Please school Bousquet
Tim Bousquet’s article about the current state of church-appointed governors on local Halifax university boards (“Sunday School,” Jan. 17) was informative, but lacking. Bousquet does not tell us why the church officials were appointed in the first place. His assumption—which we, too, can only assume—is that they exist simply as a reminder of the historic…
Let Gottingen heal
In the late thirties and early forties, I, as a high-school student, worked Friday afternoons and Saturday in one of the three first-rate men’s clothing stores on Gottingen Street. They, along with a number of other great stores, made the street a shopping mecca for Haligonians. Even into the fifties, Gottingen Street remained a good…
Give it a rest.
To the self appointed “Nova Scotian Indie Rap legend” Jessie Dangerously, give it up mate…you are a lonely pathetic man who is more at-home flipping through anime zines touching yourself, than either on the stage with the mic, or with your greasy sausage fingers on the buttons. I love it that you have your own…
New age Greenie!!!!
Are we dumber than a 3rd grader; according to the Gory Truth, Canada accounts for 2.9% of the world’s global warming. So roughly 1% for every 10 million Canadians. Now if Nova Scotia, with less than 1 million citizens, was able to reduce it’s contribution to global warming to zero, WHAT DIFFERENCE WOULD IT MAKE…
Beer class redux
This semester, Kings College is offering a course titled “Brewing Science: The History, Culture and Science of Beer,” taught by professor Gordon Mcouat, an instructor in King’s History of Science and Technology program. I managed to get myself enrolled in the class, and so will be posting regular updates on its progress. This week, Dr.…
Barrington Street Loses Out Again
We need a revitalized downtown more than ever. O.K., it’s understandable why the Book Room is closing but does Barrington Street really need another empty storefront? Saint John, Moncton and Charlottetown have all done something with their downtown – hell, we’re a lot bigger, so what’s up? When are the idiots at City Hall going…
Loser in Mosaic
To the fucking douch bag in the green adidas track suit who gave everyone the finger who passed by, who the fuck do you think you are? And who are those fat slags beside you? Those bitches were ugmo’s and you deserve a public stonning. Go fuck yourself ps: I was balls deep in your…
To All Subway Workers
Have you ever gone into subway to order a 6 inch sub and watch the ‘sandwich artist’ cut the bun in half?? 90% of the time these idiots cut you a sub thats about 3-4 inches long. When they cut the bun they look at each piece for a few seconds to determine which one…
Hospital Timmy’s workers make huge $
After discussing this with my lab tech friend, I have to get an answer to this: what in the hell entitles a coffee-slinger at the hospital to get the same union wages and benefits as someone who’s actually gone out to better themselves thorough education and training? There’s no fucking way what they do equals…
Plow it already!!
Who the heck is responsible for plowing the foot of George Street – the part that circles in front of the Ferry Terminal?!? I work down nearby and it’s never plowed!!! It is one the the busiest spots for people on foot downtown, i.e., everyone coming off the ferries! Angry Downtown Worker
welfare and single moms
next time someone wants to get knocked up, they should read about hard-up cases like single moms expecting society to pay for their child support. should have thought about it when you were about to get laid. shucks! enough bitch already
Ignorant people
This is for the ignorant cunt in the Esso station on Main St, Saturday morning. Maybe you were having a bad day, I don’t really care, but the woman behind the counter shouldn’t have to endure your fucking bullshit because there was no compressed air for your tires. It wasn’t a problem she could solve…
Politically Correct…..Get Over It!
Three Little Pigs deemed offensive, Christmas deemed offensive…. I think it’s about time for everyone to stop for a second and realize that EVERYthing on the face of the earth will be offensive to SOMEone and stop with the politically correct bullshit. This includes all the “new” labels for short/tall people, fat/thin people, white/black/chinese/muslim, disabled…
grocery cow
To the 50 something yellow tooth bitch at the Self Check out at Joe Howe Superstore on friday afternoon- Who do you think you are. we are waiting behind you to put your stupid toonies in the machine and you tell us to back up because we might see your pin# then you decided to…
I’ve seen it all now
This morning, driving into work I was beside a woman in a car. We were both traveling past the Preston turn off toward town. I seen her car get a little squirrelly. When I looked over, both hands were covering her fucking eyes! Do you honestly believe that the fucking car was going to straighten…
Meta-bitch
All of you are bitches. All of you. Face facts. But seriously, think about it, are you not all bitches? The biggest bitch of them all
Lazy Ass Shovellers
Shovel your sidewalks, you lazy lard-ass soyfuckers! I don’t care if it’s not your turn. I don’t care if your landlord is supposed to do it. I don’t care if the city sends a bobcat out to do your stretch. IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU, fuckwit! It’s about the people who have to walk by your…
FRUSTRATED
Why is it that people travelling on Herring Cove Road toward the Rotary (or, Round About-whatever) think that there is only one lane there in the morning, when CLEARLY both lanes inbound are open! I am sick and tired of people cutting me, my husband, and our 3 year old off when they change lanes…
so called friends
ok how obvious does it have to be that if you show up on a saturday morning unannounced you may catch someone doing ahem?! well my so called friend decided to show up unannounced. I sent her an email explaining that she should really call before coming i’m not the only one in my house…
Next time my dog shits on your shiny boots
To the bylaw enforcement officer who gave me the $222 ticket for have my harmless 12 year old, 30 pound mutt (that’s 65 in human years – a senior citizen) off leash in the Commons and “at large” (though he is always not more than 10 feet in front of me). Good to see you…
Pet peeve
Yesterday some bitch freaked out at a squeegee kid for yelling at his dog after it broke its leash and ran out into the road. The women threatened to call the SPCA and have his dog taken away (he didn’t lay a finger on his dog). At least these dogs aren’t locked in a stuffy…
the coast itself
so the last couple of issues of the coast has focused the main article on things that are a waste of time Squegee kids? and the movie for How she move? come on now coast stop wasting your time and write better articles arg
Changing the landscape of Halifax Peninsula.
Open letter to council on the proposal to amend the bylaw to allow a 19 story building on South Park and Brenton. We have several concerns about the bylaw amendment in Case 01046, in particular: 1. The HRMbyDesign Project has already recommended a maximum building height of 116 feet for this area. This proposal was…
Casino Venue
I was at the last Songwriter’s Circle. There was a couple close to the stage who talked all through the show, they were loud and obnoxious. They were obviously drunk. It is an acoustic show. Why are there no ushers or someone to tell these people to be quiet!!?!?!?? fan
Filthy dirty hospitals
The IWK is suppose o be a children’s and well women hospital. The dirt in this place is disgusting!! Everywhere dirt, not just normal everyday mes but fiflth!! Pleas someone clean the plae up. There are sick people trying to get better. They will be lucky to not pick up some other form of sickness…
This morning..
on my bus commute into work, I counted 56 Tim Horton’s coffee cups on the side of the road. Mind you, this was my count on only ONE side of the road, from the Dartmouth Sportsplex to Burnside. Fifty-fucking-six! Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? I was only counting Tim Horton’s…
The new definition of “late”
After three days of being late for work, I decided to call Metro Transit and find out if perhaps my bus route had been changed. I was then informed that if a bus is only 20 minutes behind it is not thought of as “late”. Now this makes me wonder.. When the bus is running…
Wow !
I can’t belive all you people have nothing better to do than to bitch about all these ridiculous events in your pathetic lives. If you would only put the same effort into something positive mabey things would change. Life is short, try living it ! awrron—
why why why
why are there no online menus. weird traffic junctions, unprofessional employers and SO many potholes here in halifax!!!!!!!!! niky
F*ck the Squeegee Adults
Sadly, I make the same a month as these Squeegee Adults – but I don’t annoy people for a living and I am not on Welfare. I pay taxes and I also choose to live in Dartmouth where you can get rent for half what Danielle Talbot is paying. Hell, I could live in Hali…
Tell The Truth.
I can’t find work my field, its very competitive. I always call and follow up with every potential employer to make sure I don’t miss out on a chance to work. To the jackass who said he’d hire me over and over then won’t call me back or return emails, that’s very unprofessional and rude.…
Stores
I can’t believe how many people stop at the entrance of grocery stores to shoot the shit with friends, acquaintances, etc, just move beyond the entrance so people can get by you. This is not a fucking bus stop; you are impeding everyone else’s ability to enter the fucking store. Move on and have your…
contracts at the Capital Health
venting since this is highly unlikely to make any of the local rags. nurses come out with 11 percent over their contract. capital health has already declared war on the local unions by bringing in private contractors..now get this. the union “accepts” (without a vote of membership) an offer that was first put on the…
Professional?
I was performing an art which I will not mention a few weeks ago which didn`t go too bad. Afterwards an interview person spoke to myself & a few others about how & why we do it which sounded good until the actual interview. Everytime I opened my mouth the other people were either mocking…
dash rehash
to the two cunts on the pedway level of a certain “prestigious” waterfront parkade that stood and smoked and dashed on the hood of my car despite my asking if they could please move…. FUCK YOU. Let me say that I don’t hate smokers, in fact I totally support your right to inhale, but FUCK…
Salt is driving me to dance
Dear Citizens of Halifax, I am learning a new dance. It is called: “Hop, Skip and Jump, so That My Shoes Do Not Get Ruined by Salt”. Is it not be possible for you to use amply available gravel that can be purchased at superstore instead of destructive salt? Perhaps you could consider the cost…
use your key on mr lexus
jeepers, why do you people have to bitch until you’re constipated. all you need to do is use your house key and scratch the bloody car. it’s so simple, no one can see it and he will be the one screaming, and won’t double park again. use your key, not your mouth! hate double parkers…
Pathological liars
You were the worst. I’m sure you can fly an air plane, are persian and won the butterfly stroke olympic trial crap when you were a kid. Your tattoos are crappy and your moustache is gross. Sasha
Fuck off, Linda Mosher.
Will somebody shut up that fucking smoke nazi Linda Mosher and her idiotic proposed smoking ban at outdoor public places? We all know she’s an ex-smoker and doing that ‘holier than thou’ shit. I’m an ex-smoker but I’ll be fucked if I’m going to condemn others because I know that tobacco is more goddamn addictive…
STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID!!!
This is to the woman behind me in traffic this morning. Eating a big motherfucking sandwich and drinking your coffee while driving with a kid in the car is DANGEROUS, you stupid, stupid cow. What the fuck were you driving with, your big fat, ugly gut? You veered into the wrong side of the line…
You have to pay a legal fee in Halifax. But whoa! The pedestrian bridge from the ferry terminal to the Law Courts building is blocked off. You can’t pay your fine, so you go to jail.
Remarks: The wooden handrails on the bridge have rotted away, says Rideout. When they were taken down, cracks in the concrete were found and so now a full engineering study of the bridge has commenced. No Laval here, no siree. Tenders go out next week, and it’ll be up and running, er, sometime. Who’s Responsible?:…
Front Page
In our January 3 cover story, fiddling-premier inspiration Ellen Page described to Tara Thorne what it felt like when Robert Ebert predicted she’d receive an Academy Award nomination: “It’s like your brain kind of explodes. Quietly. It’s like a Family Guy or a Simpsons moment where it closes-up on the brain, you know what I…
Springtime
If Robbie Burns’ haggis makes you queasy, but you love Daniel MacIvor’s work, don’t miss readings of his new play, Was Spring, on January 24 and 25, 8pm at The Space (2353 Agricola), with local actors Marguerite McNeil, Sherry Smith and Margaret Smith. MacIvor—who in 2007, sadly closed the doors to his own theatre company…
Feet first
According to some person (obviously sitting under a full-spectrum light for way too long), January 21 is the most depressing day of the year. By my calculations, it hits some time in February. Perhaps anticipating our need for heat, this year Flamenco Festival Atlantic is splitting the big dance extravaganza into two events: Look for…
Rhythm nation
When poet Mary Kathryn Arnold took a web design course at NSCAD, her instructor suggested students work on projects that were “useful to our lives.” Instead of designing a personal website filled with family memorabilia, Arnold created an online poetry journal. The first issue of the biannual RHYTHM Poetry Magazine is being launched on Thursday…
Joel Plaskett Emergency
Here’s where I play the stupid friend who ruins the birthday surprise by telling the guest of honour, like Uncle Junior did with Carmela’s dad: The Joel Plaskett Emergency have announced a “super secret show,” planned for March 29 at the Marquee (tickets are $30, ticketpro.ca). The show was announced online only, to the JPE’s…
Thom Swift
One mighty shout-out is due to Thom Swift, who won the Canadian Maple Blues Award for new artist of the year. Swift also took the Galaxie Rising Stars CBC Award at the same time, for his debut album Into the Dirt, also nominated for an ECMA this year. You might remember Swift from his band…
Wordburglar
On Saturday, January 26, the Seahorse will be transformed into a junior-high gym for a modern-day MuchMusic video dance party. Performing with Windom Earle, The Stolen Minks and BA Johnston, the Wordburglar (AKA Sean Jordan) is releasing his video for “Cream of Wheat” (off his album Burglaritis), and I can hear the rock signs being…
Shop-talklets
Both the Quinpool and Clayton Park Rogers Video outlets have stopped renting, and will close up for good on February 10. They’re currently selling off their inventory. Movie fans, direct your blame where you will—at competitors Blockbuster and Video Difference, perchance, or the waning popularity of DVD rental—then get your butts in gear, and start…
Morris East supper club
If you’ve been digging the wood-fired gourmet pizza that Morris East (5212 Morris) has been churning out, Morris East owner Jennie Dobbs has got a new club for you—the restaurant’s supper club. (It’s like other clubs, but with more supper.) The goal of the supper club is to allow interested diners to chow down on…
AlterEgos has new menu
After five years in the coffee and tasty panini biz, Alteregos Cafe (2193 Gottingen) is looking to shake things up: they’ve launched a new menu. “We have a lot of regular customers, so people want to see some change and movement,” points out owner Michelle Strum. The cafe’s offering a slew of new paninis (one…
City Pizza opens
New pizza place City Pizza is the latest business to open its doors in the seemingly cursed retail space at 5688 Spring Garden (the former home of Aladdin Palace Restaurant, the Italian Garden and more). City Pizza owner Yasser Khalaf understands his restaurant space’s troubled reputation…but he also knows its potential. Spring Garden’s a busy…
Beer class!
This semester, Kings College is offering a course titled “Brewing Science: The History, Culture and Science of Beer,” taught by professor Gordon Mcouat, an instructor in King’s History of Science and Technology program. I managed to get myself enrolled in the class, and so will be posting regular (or irregular, as this first late post…
to my slumlord
hey slumlord i’m moving. i saw niagra falls and folks your fucking leaky bathroom since november really sucks! my work order was in since 2006 october!! and you just call me jan 9 this year! for drywall only. if i wish to take in the great sites like niagra falls i’ll go to ontario i…
Transit girls
To the girls who were working in the Transit store in Halifax shopping centre on Saturday night: Worst customer service ever. Instead of helping customers get what they needed , you were all standing around talking to your friends who came, and screeching about how you haven’t seen them in ages. I understand that you…
Directionless
Why is it that the city thinks it can successfully navigate the complexities of internet voting when it can’t even post a directory of city employees on its website? That’s a rhetorical question, of course: no one at city hall wants the pesky public calling them in the first place, hence the lack of a…
Market farming
You can help the Halifax Farmers’ Market see its new harbourfront market become reality. You know the plan: windmills, green roof, killer views, etc. It all depends on cash, of course, and so the accounting alchemists have used their financing magic to meld provincial commitments to ACOA to HRM to CEDIFs to blah, blah, blah,…
Stolen elections?
City council has fully embraced internet voting, awarding a $487,151 contract to Intelivote, a Dartmouth firm, to oversee an internet component for early voting in the October council and mayoral elections (traditional voting remains an option for early voters, and the only choice on election day). I worked as a reporter in the US when…
Rules of posting
Please, people, NO NAMES in your bitches. And, if you want to comment on someone else’s bitch, please use the comments section, and reserve new bitches for, ya know, new bitches. Thanx! Website Nazi
Road Rage Man
Ok.. this is to the man who decided to ride up my ass as I turned out in to a lane where the other person let me into… SCREW U BUDDY! holy hell.. I gave u the finger cause you were up my ASS!! and then you get outta your car at a red light…
Bitching about the Bitch
I am really upset at the fact that this bitch section has gone down the drain since it has become a fourm (so to speak). I think the Coast should look into potentially getting some Mod’s to take care of Fourm Trolls * Does anyone else feel the same annoying nag everytime they post? Or…
Hold it in!
Why do people HAVE to fart while they’re ON the bus?? Ever heard of holding it in? How about waiting? As if it isn’t bad enough that I’m forced to breathe in the 10 cloves of garlic that you had for dinner the night before, now you’re topping off my morning by forcing me to…
Evangelicals
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.EvangelicalsThe Evening Descends(Dead Oceans/Sonic Unyon)This Oklahoma trio land like angels on acid or human dream-catchers, with vocals that stay higher longer than anybody since The Four Seasons. Echoes have a feathering effect, heightening the hallucinatory quality. Spooky keyboards take things over the top and may be too much for the overly grounded.…
There Will Be Blood, and PT Anderson’s other works.
A scene in Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 fame-and-fortune fable set in the late ’70s/early ’80s porno film industry, features washed-out porno studs attempting to con a coked-up LA fat-cat; their adventure is hampered from the start by a combination of drugs and firearms. Anderson conjures up an impending sense of fiasco by including…
Torngat
[image-4]Published January 24, 2008.TorngatYou Could Be(Alien8 Recordings)Fans of Belle Orchestre, Hylozoists and Final Fantasy take note. Montreal-based Torngat—Pietro Amato, Mathieu Charbonneau and Julien Poissant—makes orchestral, chamber-pop instrumental music. With three pairs of hands, they form imaginative, instrumental soundscapes. The title track has a beautifully melancholic mood—an emotional underpinning to the whole album. But that doesn’t…
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Published January 31, 2008. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Directed by: Seth Gordon (New Line Home Video) The strains of Leonard Cohens Everybody Knows are used, appropriately and more than once, in documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. As Cohen sings about fights being fixed, the film chronicles nice-guy…
Kick at the darkness
When Hillary Nette teaches a yoga class, she is the picture of grounded. She speaks gently as she wanders through the room, making subtle but supportive adjustments to an array of bodies. What’s less obvious is that for many years, Nette, 24, suffered from debilitating depression and anxiety. For almost eight years she was on…
Nelly Furtado
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.Nelly FurtadoLoose: The Concert (Geffen)While it was Nelly Furtado’s collaboration with Timbaland on 2006’s Loose that solidified her place on the pop map, it’s unlikely that the majority of listeners have wondered how these songs would translate into a live setting. There is no question Furtado is a talented vocalist, but this…
Diagnosis psychosis
“Health-care system near collapse,” shrieked a headline from the Halifax Herald. “Health-care apocalypse,” shouted a Daily News columnist, while a Herald scribbler howled that the NS health system is “quite a train wreck.” All this after the release last week of a turgid, 384-page consultant’s report crammed with industrial-strength jargon. The one-million-dollar communique from the…
Beanie Sigel
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.Beanie SigelThe Solution(Roc-A-Fella)Faint of heart beware: Lyrically, The Solution is a coarse album. Sigel’s latest release makes every attempt to reinforce his gangster image: No doubt getting out of jail and defending murder charges help his cred and influence his raw rapping styles. The constant boasting can, at times, make The Solution…
Tase craze
If you shoot someone with a Taser while you’ve got the soundtrack from Juno cranked to 11, does that mean you don’t hear the person scream? This and other questions I honestly couldn’t have imagined I would ever ask myself (also: is the verb Taser? Like, “Gah! Aagh! I’ve been Tasered!” Or Tase? Like, “Dude,…
Vampire Weekend
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.Vampire WeekendVampire Weekend(XL)This buzzed-about Brooklyn quartet considers themselves experts in “Upper West Side Soweto.” Their infectious Brit-Afro-pop style makes for head-bopping, uncomplicated songs, mixing West African soukous and rhythms, ska and new wave, with frequent comparisons to both The Strokes and Paul Simon. Vampire Weekend know that pastel-sweatered white kids from Columbia…
Twilight Hotel
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.Twilight HotelHighway Prayer(indie)Brandy Zdan and Dave Quanbury are Winnipeg-based Twilight Hotel, embodying the spirit of prairie folk festivals. Colin Linden produces and adds guitar, on keyboards is the late Richard Bell in the final session of his 45-year career. Linden and Bell contribute a meandering jam that sweetly wraps up the dozen…
Hayden
[image-4]Published January 31, 2008.HaydenIn Field & Town(Hardwood Records)Whether hes hibernating in a rural or urban setting, Hayden consistently delivers a flawless collection of bedroom-turned-campfire songs. Partially inspired by his geographical surroundings, the reclusive observer views life through the lenses of city dwelling, country living and unrequited love. Opening his seventh album with the self-titled track…
How She Move
Step dancing. Say those words in this town and they conjure up images of tartan, fiddles, Rankin sisters, milk-skinned Cape Breton kids jigging away, upper bodies impressively immobile, tapping out their traditions to the hand-clap beat. Say those words in Toronto, Baltimore or, say, south central Los Angeles: The images are as different as highlands…
In-Flight solo
Diana Ross. Michael Jackson. Gwen Stefani. They’re all artists who achieved success within a group and then leveraged that success to catapult themselves to superstardom. In-Flight Safety’s Daniel Ledwell is about to join the ranks of these performers. He drops his first solo record, Two Over Seven, on January 29, with a show the next…
One CUT above
Liz Feltham has no beef with Halifax’s new high-end steakhouse.
Cloverfield & Redacted
“I feel dizzy,” a character says, midway through Cloverfield. Join the club. The cliche of calling a bad movie unwatchable literally applies to director Matt Reeves’s digital proof that some movies are nothing but hype. Cloverfield is physically unwatchable. Its deliberately amateur, palsied photography can’t hold up to a theatrical-size presentation. Besides disinterest, the only…
Andru Branch’s New Album,The Only Constant
Kingston, Jamaica, can be a rough place, and the music industry there is no exception. It is, after all, where Peter Tosh once attempted to appropriate Keith Richard’s house in his absence, with the reggae legend phoning the rock legend to tell him, as the story goes: “Don’t come here, mon, I got my machine…
Soft sell
The typical image of an art collector tends to involve a suit, bags of money and a large flashy house to exhibit a collection. But many art enthusiasts, as well as artists, don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on a single piece. These days, more and more artists are working to sell art to…
Condo conundrum
Big changes are coming to the heart of the Gottingen Street business district, threatening, say poverty activists, to eliminate much-needed affordable housing options and change the character of the neighbourhood forever. Wayne Robert Mitchell, owner of Mitchell’s Environmental Treasures, the universally (and legally) condemned eyesore at 2183 Gottingen, has entered into contract for the sale…
