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I’m going on vacation, from July 1 to July 12. I may pop in every now and then, if I can find an internet connection at the Undisclosed Location, but otherwise web editor Andy Murdoch will be posting and moderating bitches. He of course has an entirely different job to do in addition to this,…
Eggman causes complete mayhem
You worthless, garbage f-in peice of s(#t, if I ever find out who you are. you drove your black shit ass car by the paragon on wednesday morning about 310 am and threw an egg out the window. his eye was cut and his nose was sliced, and we almost took him to the ER…
Creepy exhibitionist bosses!
Stop changing in your office! The bathrooms are TEN FEET down the friggin hallway! You keep your office door shut all day except for just after three when you leave it open a bit as you change to bike home. I saw more than I needed through the crack on my way to the copier……
Silva’s sweet summer sails
In The Coast’s Hot Summer Guide, we reported that these days the Tall Ship Silva likes to think of itself as more of a floating bar/patio than a harbour tour operator. The one-time adult ticket is $19.95 plus tax, which may seem like a hefty cover charge for a bar, even one that offers the…
BREAKING NEWS: Sewer report update
I’ll repost below a press release issued by HRM. I’ll note that the title of the release, “Joint Session Receives Positive Update on the Halifax Wastewater Treatment Facility” is a seriously pathetic attempt to spin the sewage disaster into “positive” news. Also, I assume the gist of this is that they’re not releasing the report.…
Is there anyone in charge ?
Is there anyone halfway competent in charge in this city? Between the malfunctioning shit plant and the permanent crater on Fenwick street, I’m starting to wonder. For Christ’s sake, Germany and Japan were rebuilt faster after WW II than this city can repair a fucking sewer pipe ! — sick from the stench
Incompetent, cold specialist
Because of you, my husband’s life is ruined. You first saw him 3.5 years ago and you just keep send him for MRIs, 18 months between each appointment. You just shrugged about the results and said there was an anomoly but never explained further. My husband cannot walk and is in CONSTANT back and leg…
Since when did a purse pay bus fare?
This is for all of the people who keep their purse or other belongings on the seat next to them on the bus when a lone passenger is searching aimlessly for an empty seat. MOVE IT! It is ignorant and if they don’t speak up and tell you I will!
Kids and Birds
To many of the parents who let their kids terrorize the many birds at the public gardens, FUCK OFF. I am there almost every day on my lunch break and have to put up with your little kid (who probably doesn’t know any better) running around chasing birds all over the park. Not only does…
wimps
I hate when guys stare at me and look me up and down, and then when I return the flirt they get all nervous and look away. To the guy in Starbucks this morning…I was practically taking my panties off and handing them to you….you totally could have had me…oh well…your a wimp. —wimp hater
Outreach program cut at Bryony House
Sadly, effective August 25 there will no longer be an outreach program operating out of Bryony House, due to lack of funds. Bryony House is NS’s Largest shelter for abused women and children and now will no longer be able to help the women and children who are not currently staying at the shelter. —A…
PISS ON YOU MISERABLE FUKKIN DRIVERS
What’s up with the brake, brake, braking when you see my headlights in your rearview mirror. I don’t get it…you sendin me amessage that I shouldn’t be behind you??? I’m too close??? then stopping in the middle of the road ain’t gonna solve it!! Asshat…you think your Mini Cooper is so special that it should…
Garden Critters
What little garden creature is eating the leaves of my beans and grapes? Fuck. —Green onion
Council mired in secrecy argument
Halifax council today is meeting behind closed doors to discuss the forensic audit detailing the cause(s) of the Halifax sewage plant failure. Until now, the audit has been kept from council (see Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster), and it continues to be kept from the public. Today’s meeting began at 9;30am, and as of…
Off The Cuff with Argyle’s fashion police
Make it work, people. As Project Runway enthusiasts cry into their designer hankies over the fashion competition’s uncertain future (still no word whether the TV show will make it through its legal business—-for once in your life Mr. Weinstein, do the right thing!), there is a much better, homegrown solution that will get you off…
Amelia trailer flies high
The trailer for Amelia, Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic, starring Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor and Richard Gere, is now online. Set for release this October, scenes from the film were shot right here, but sadly without McGregor.
The Bloke
This is for the man who introduced me to his daughter, bitched about his ex for hours on end, and stood me up regularly. I know you are expecting a “fuck you” right now but I saw through it all. All your defenses. But I just wanted to say, I loved you anyway… —Gotta let…
pregnant pedestrian blues
To the lady in the blue car at the intersection of Windsor and Bayers Road Monday afternoon who shook her fist at me for crossing perfectly legally in a marked pedestrian crossing. Read the Nova Scotia Driver’s Handbook, page 43. Not even if I broke into a jog could I have crossed that intersection before…
Ch ch check it out
you left a big soggy puss mark on the step. how is that even possible?? —T
Hali gone again
In the city, there are beautiful girls everywhere. Old ladies arm in arm. A girl and her daughter. A man with his son. Grandfathers. Some of them in the hospital, across the road…in the window. Maybe one of them will put in The Coast,’ Hey you on the balcony, put out that smoke..’cause you don’t…
Battle of the sexes
Women these days try really hard to show how much they don’t need men to make their lives complete….they shove it down our throats and make us look like idiots….while we just kinda stand around looking at them making the occasional cat-call, emitting the occasional beer belch, fart, etc….Seems to me that this is really…
ER Wait
Nine-hour-wait-in-emerg.-for-five-stitches-in-my-face; needs some serious fucking improvement. Everyone was super fucking cordial however. —Sam Je
Walk the walk
Since when did walking become strenuous exercise?! Why are people so scared to walk six blocks or climb two flights of stairs? Good lord, do your heart some good and WALK to the store. —Leave the awesomobile at home
Your Vacation Is Not MY Vacation
I know I’m going to sound like a passive-aggressive ungrateful bitch but I have to vent. Why does every friend and relative who comes to the east coast ask me to take time off work and/or ask to stay at my place for several days/weeks in order to save themselves a little cash. 1) I…
DEAR FRIEND.
I WANTED TO KNOW WHY YOUR IGNORING ME.YOU BEEN DOING THIS FOR 6 WEEKS. WHAT’S UP WITH THAT. IF WE’RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE THEN LET ME KNOW. YOU ANSWER OTHER PEOPLE POSTS. BUT NEGLECT ME. WHAT’S THIS BULL SHIT ABOUT ; I ASKED YOU FOR ADVICE ON MY BOYFRIEND , YOU WROTE BACK GAVE ME…
Why wait until the last minute!?!
I am just wondering why people wait until the last 10 minutes before the store I work at closes to do their business or even worse bang on the door after I close and expect me to open up for them!!! We as sales representatives have lives too! I am asking that when you enter…
Hot guy at the tavern – Saturday night
Why does a guy make eyes with a woman for most the night, then proceed to chat up her friend. Said ‘friend’ then tells me he has a girlfriend. When hot guy finally makes his way over to me to chat/flirt he bolts as soon as I mention my daughter. Wow, I have a 14…
This is Terrible
I live in bedford, overlooking DeWolfe Park, and walk to work on a daily basis. This morning, I was shocked and appalled to notice a horrible stench in the air. I first noticed it when walking my gf to the parking garage and thought someone might have spilled some compost or garbage in the building,…
Note to rain: just fuck off already…
let’s see….forecast says it’s going to rain for the next few days….followed by intermittent rain……then followed by more rain…..oh well winter’s coming —blah
Hands of a mother…
Thank you so much to the woman who works at the convenience store on Windsor, on the right side just past needs. I came in heart broken, and you saw my pain,. Those words you said to me were so comforting…and the gentle face touch to comfort me… along with the cigarettes you sold me.…
Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett was a beautiful woman and a great actress in Jewel which was on tv a few weeks ago. —Bon.
Buyer/Sellers
Dear users of Kijiji who show up at the agreed-upon time, Thank you for being punctual, reliable and friendly. I got stood up for the first time last week, and it sucked. It’s made me realize how much I love those of you that DO show up. Thanks again! —Kijiji Lover
WTF WHY NOT FARRAH
Ok here we go. We all know that Micheal Jackson is dead and he is getting all of this light on his death and that he is sooo great. Now here is my beef Farrah Fawcett is not getting squat so why not show her some love you rude ass-holes in the media deparment fuck…
Your The Best
Thank you to the wonderful person at the Cell Phone store in Sacville. You bent over backwards for me so I can get my new cell phone so THANK YOU —Mr.Average
Smoke Shelters
This bitch is addressed to all smokers who decide to light up in bus shelters with total disregard to anyone else occupying the same space…FUCK OFF. You should know better but due to your ignorant ways, you’ll probably be a prick for life. Even when told politely that the shelters are not for smoking, I’m…
Children of Eve makes out with the big prize
Newfoundland outfit Children of Eve beat out four other bands last week at the Toothy Moose to nab an opening slot at the July 18 KISS extravaganza.
HERBICIDE SPRAYING
A certain Power Company is spraying toxic herbicides on the trees along the routes of their power poles and lines. This is happening in Lunenburg County, in Halifax County and other counties… They are using the herbicide Tordon 101. This is a combination of 2, 4-D and Picloram. Both of these herbicides have dire consequences…
Bye Bye Slumlord!!!
This bitch is for the sleazebag slumlord who recently evicted us: Your day is coming. I am not through with you yet, you miserable piece of shit! I am going to shut you down if it’s the last thing I do! You know who you are, and I’m putting the word out not to rent…
Viagra commercials
I am so fucking sick of goddamn ”ED” commercials. Men, all 18 percent of you that are affected by this problem — I think if you noticed something wrong with yourselves you would seek out medical help and then find the right prescription other than feeding into these stupid things. Pharmaceutical companies are most to…
Stop Complaining, You Had Days to Buy Them
To all the people crying about having to pay crazy prices for Modest Mouse tickets: If the tickets sold out in an hour I would see your point but you had almost a full work week to buy them the first time and then they went on sale again for an hour this week. If…
Follow up to Ever hear of Twins?
Hi – I`m “Susie” the other twin. So “Sarah” my twin called me at home that night to tell me of her run in with numb nuts – I was off work that day. I went into work the next day and was met at my desk by Mr. Numb nuts himself. This is what…
Where are the Morals?
It’s not enough to look at the obvious credentials of your spokespeople, whether they’re pro- or anti- an issue or hold a prestigious degree. Today, you also have to consider the hidden motivations behind their recommendations. Where is their loyalty? Who pays for their lifestyle? Where is their money coming from? —d_anne
learn how to tag
I’m so sick of ill mannered/ half assed/ pointless and annoying spray painting jobs Halifax. Particularly the recent “HATE COPS” on the side of the building under “CONCRETE WALLS MAKE ME FEEL HOLLOW” that has been there for years. If you don’t hate cops, you’re stupid. You have ruined a piece of art. —less
skeevey cabbys
Friday night, two guys in a car disguised like a cab pick up a drunk girl on pizza corner. She was just looking for a cab to her boyfriends, not even from the area. You tried to rape her you dirty fucks, and loosing a purse sucks too. If it were me, you’d be fucking…
Bicycle helmets
What a disappointment it is to move back to Halifax and see bicycle use being discouraged by Helmet law enforcement. —D Tweed
Just Wondering
why are the comments closed on the “Making a Buck” Bitch?? —needs to vent
WHY BLACK TIGHTS?
During the past few hot days all I have been seeing is ladies wearing black tights which are not even pants to begin with. Black draws the heat in so why not wear white and put on some underwear while you are at it because when you bend over your tights roll down and your…
Better off Walking?
A big thank you goes out to two cab companies in Greater Halifax. Thank you for making me wait 40mins outside my place of work at 2am. Sorry that I am not drunk and stumbling my way through the streets to hail you over. I am merely a female employee who works at a place…
To the Lady who found the kitten in the dumpster
You left me on the brink of tears today. “There are a lot of cruel people in the world and I think you’re one of them” were your words. I was being sincere with you and you were thoughtless and rude toward me. Yes, I do wish I could have helped you. Do you think…
Bud LiteLime
This has to be the most hyped pony piss ever, it typifies the good old USA – weak, spent, gassy and cannot hold a candle to Keiths. —Basil Fawlty
Dildo on the Commons
To the young lady that was supposed to be taking phone orders that left us on the line two times for a total of 40 minutes. Not only did you lose our business but you tied up the phone line for any other potential business during that time. Since the phone was clearly right next…
THE CROW 2: THE CAWING
I consider myself a decent, caring individual – A type of guy who treats everyone how I would hope to be treated in turn. I donate to charity, open doors for the elderly and buy and consume more Girl Guide cookies than I should. (Guiness has been called twice.) I also respect all of God’s…
center of attention
all the tv and radio stations are covering MJ’s death. I can only imagine how pissed off these halifax so-called toughguys are that they are not the front page story this week. sorry that it took a celebrity death for papers to put halifax family fueds on the back burner. —KKJJ
OH NO..!!! SAY IT ISN’T SO…!!!
I wish I had have known this before I spent $952 on three VIP tickets… WTF…!!! Joel Plastic is without a doubt the most over-rated act to ever hit the mainstream of the Maritime Music Scene. Maybe some of you have got your heads up your arses, and maybe you are impressed by songs lyrics…
Keeping ethical people out of places where they can do more good
Since I am not allowed to mention names…a certain someone who is NDP and sits city council who is a most admirable man who has my utmost respect, who is a thinker and not a stinker who is a genuinely caring compassionate person in and for his community however he defines it….was dissed today…… As…
NS food producers may win big
Nova Scotia has been chosen to host the inaugural World Culinary Tourism Thought Leadership World Summit and Consumer Marketplace (isn’t that a mouthful) in September 2010. The summit will bring together hundreds of experts in the field of culinary tourism—that is, travelling with your tastebuds and stomach in mind—to discuss the state of the industry…
Halifax Explosion Memorial bells don’t work
What’s wrong? The bells on the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower at Fort Needham Park aren’t working right. Who’s responsible? Jamie MacLellan, HRM’s public arts facilitator, 490-1585. Remarks: A reader complains that only half the bells on the Memorial Bell Tower are ringing. “It sounds horrible,” he says, “every 15 minutes.” MacLellan confirms there’s a…
Crosswalk safety ads are a dud
Global TV is airing a pair of public service ads that purport to educate people on how to increase crosswalk safety. The ads, which are lame even by community PSA standards, tell us that there are two “teams” in the game of crossing the street—motorists and pedestrians. But both ads are aimed at only the…
Howard Epstein’s cabinet disappointment
Halifax MLA Howard Epstein’s absence from Darrell Dexter’s newly formed cabinet is raising eyebrows. A former director of the Ecology Action Centre, Epstein is hugely popular—five times he’s been re-elected to the house, most recently winning 56 percent of the vote in a four-way race. Epstein is the strongest legislative voice for the environment and…
Makin a buck.
Modest Mouse is coming to Halifax, so I go to buy tickets, only to find them sold out. How discouraging… then I look some more and there are loads of people selling them for 4x to 12x the original ticket price all over the place and they’ve got several tickets to sell !!! Suggestion: If…
BACK OFF
K, remember my creepy boss that liked to fancy himself with how many boyfriends I had? Funny thing about that. The S.O.B has taken it to a WHOLE NEW goddamn level. Every night after I get out of work, he offers to drive me home. Um, let me rephrase that, TELLS ME he will take…
STFU!!!
CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH!! i close my windows and i can still hear CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH!!I cover my head and i can still hear CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH CAH!! Pissed off are you crow? mad that i bought garbage bins and actually sort…
RIP!
Forever in our hearts, the “King of Pop”. You’ll be truly missed but your legacy will live on forever! —One of your millions of fans!
Crocodile Tears and Drama
Why do people get so worked up when someone they knew OF but never really knew dies? I’m talking about Wacko Jacko and the outpouring of grief over his death. Is there something wrong with me because I’m not emotionally affected by someone’s passing just because they’re famous? I used to love MJ when Thriller…
Michael Jackson – Where are people hangin’ to pay tribute?
I can’t find any information! That’s my bitch! I’d love to spin some Jackson 5 tunes somewhere and chat with some people… —Rango
Will Always be the only true King of Pop
May you rest in peace Michael Jackson, you were a legend and you will always be. — a fan
AA Ads Are A-ok
Thanks for bringing back the American Apparel ads. Much Love —cranky
Is anyone looking out for the people?
Bus passes have gone up substantially… Cigarettes have gone up substantially… Are any of you government fucks looking out for the people? —The people
Don Deez rocks Halifax
Michael Polak is a 22-year-old entrepreneur originally from Hamilton. A little over a year ago, following multiple trips to Halifax to visit friends and scope out the scene, he opened Don Deez Clothing (1442 Dresden Row, 425-1663), to bring a new complexion to men’s fashion. “I want the city to know a little more about…
Stupid Americans
Tired of these lazy tired americans, ya’ll just stay away —Oh Canada
Dear Halifax Regional Police
Police lights and sirens are to be used for emergencies, not to facilitate left turns or run red lights for convenience. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen police officers abuse this privelage. I wonder if this sort of behaviour is why the term ‘pig’ has become synonamous with police officer. How…
Small-Time-Landlord
To go with “The 5c plastic bag rip-off”… A certain-large-home-improvement-box-store-in-BLIP is now charging 50c for the thinnest bags imaginable. They’re so thin that is some areas there are holes because there’s not enough plastic used to actually make the things… Given the few cents these surely cost them from their supplier, can’t they at least…
Dog Day added to Virgin line-up
And thus the inaugural VFest roster is complete. Tix still available here.
Unsanitary conveyor belts are gross!
While I am germ conscious I am not a germ-a-phobe. However, I cringe when faced with a filthy conveyor at the check-outs of grocery stores. It would be better to wait briefly while the clerk cleans the conveyence than contaminate my food by resting it on the belt. Most of the dried wet stains are…
Green Day
After the success of American Idiot, who can blame Green Day, once the little punk band that could, for envisioning grander schemes and wanting to create another punk opera? But 21st Century Breakdown is no American Idiot; suffering most notably is the relative dearth of solid musical ideas. Sure, there are great songs here (“Know…
Gallows
From the first moments of Grey Britain, it’s clear that the increased attention to production has only strengthened the band’s sound. Instead of relying on hardcore cliches like chugging guitars and gang vocals alone, Gallows has tapped into a diverse range of sound design to help paint a vivid portrait of a country that lies…
Romi Mayes
The guitar moan and studio science of Gurf Morlix inject plenty of Texas into the sound of this well-travelled Manitoban. It also makes Lucinda Williams comparisons unavoidable. Beneath the fight in her voice, there is more sadness in Mayes’ songs than on 2006’s Sweet Somethin’ Steady, the most engaging mess of Canadian country east of…
Pink Mountaintops
Compared to the heavy hash-oil sludge of Stephen McBean’s other band (Black Mountain), Pink Mountaintops make trippy music that contains more flower power and LSD. Outside Love is more diverse than its predecessor—stretching beyond guitar and drum riffs to include strings and things brimming with a Jesus and Mary Chain wall of sound. This duality…
Sonic Youth’s
Over the band’s 28-year career, Sonic Youth has recorded several landmark albums, a few of which (Sister, Dirty and Daydream Nation, perhaps the band’s most groundbreaking and influential masterpiece) continue to be regarded as yardsticks for anything they subsequently offer. You can now add The Eternal, their 16th, as another one of those recordings. From…
March protests criminalization of black youth
About 50 protesters against the criminalization of black youth marched from the Halifax Common to George Dixon Centre last Saturday. They were led by two of the youth involved in altercations with police at Auburn Drive High School in May. The two held a large banner reading “Education Not Incarceration.” According to one of the…
Etiquette for threesomes
Q: I am a fairly successful man. I don’t make bank like Wall Streeters back in the day, but I haven’t been hungry since college. My girlfriend is younger. We met when she was in grad school. Like many recent grads, she’s not steadily employed, in debt and driving an unsafe car. So I support…
Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] “It’s a frustration,” allows Peter Kelly. Throughout a half-hour interview in his City Hall office, Kelly seems genuinely pained by the course of events related to Halifax’s failed sewage treatment…
Update: Pier 21 to become a national immigration museum
UPDATE: After this story came out on June 25, Prime Minister Harper visited Pier 21 with his ministerial cohorts and Premier Dexter to make an announcement: he has conferred national museum status to Pier 21. Pier 21 becomes the second national museum outside Ottawa. It will be officially called “Canada’s National Immigration Museum.”How momentous is…
Immigration lessons from spirit of the St Louis
It’s been called the “Voyage of the Damned”—907 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution set sail in 1939 from Hamburg, Germany for Havana, Cuba on the ocean liner St. Louis. One of them was four-year-old Lisa Avedon, who told her story in Halifax last week at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the voyage. “The…
Include us in climate change adaptation plans, say natives
Psst, hey, climate change deniers: Halifax Harbour is rising, and you don’t need a PhD in carbon core analytics to prove it. A simple observatory pillar in the harbour does the trick—and that’s how city staff measures water levels. And if you don’t trust a low-tech solution, 90 years of tidal records agree with the…
Even cavemen deserve better
Year One’s director Harold Ramis has explained that what separates his Old Testament comedy from Mel Brooks’ The History of the World, Part I is its narrative continuity. Because Year One has no unifying point or point-of-view, that difference is negligible. This is still an episodic sketch film, and a mostly flat one at that.…
The Proposal gets turned-down
Playing the stereotype of a cold, power-tripping female boss seems beneath Sandra Bullock’s interests. Her appeal has always been that she’s unpretentious and unassuming. Of course The Proposal has to be about her regaining that warm charisma. To avoid losing her job as a Manhattan publishing executive and being deported to her home country of…
Tears for beers as the Midtown’s end nears
[Editor’s note: This story is one of a package of three of Andy Murdoch’s articles selected for Honourable Mention in the Food Writing category of the Association of Alternative Newsweekies’ 2010 awards. See all three here.] The original Midtown tavern is another icon of an important period in our drinking history that is about to…
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Just as the film’s title suggests, there’s three main characters in Canada-filmed indie flick Nurse.Fighter.Boy: beautiful Jude (Karen LeBlanc), a dying nurse who believes “the people you love never go away”; her son, Ciel (Daniel J. Gordon), who makes magic and music, worries about mom and dreams of Jamaica; and a stoic, lonely fighter (The…
Forsyth flies the AFCOOP
Two-year-old Sage Forsyth has the same dark grey eyes and curly red hair as her dad. In Walter Forsyth’s office in the CBC building on Sackville, she sits on his lap, watching Sesame Street on his laptop. The executive director of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative says he doesn’t often let her watch movies or TV;…
Mix Master Mike’s DJ revolution
Watch for UFOs suddenly appearing in the north end of Halifax. The Beastie Boys’ DJ Mix Master Mike is coming to rock the Paragon Friday night with a no-holds-barred, “don’t bring your pillows, bring your hockey stick, in-your-face, psychedelic funk instrumental hip-hop show,” and he might just be bringing the aliens with him. “Humans cannot…
Go local in Bedford
For people confined to peninsular Halifax, the myth of Bedford is one of a strange suburban village in the sky—a commuterville with lovely Basin views. But Bedford is fairly easily accessed—by buses numbered 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89 and 185—and, of course, by car, the most direct way to reach the businesses strung along…
Halifax fashion weathers Montreal
So I arrived in Montreal on Thursday and tore down to the Festival Mode & Design, an outdoor fashion festival off of Ste. Catherines, to see local designers deux fm, Turbine and Orphanage wow the crowds. Obviously my Halifax attitude of shrugging off the rain wasn’t shared because once I got there I found an…
