Au revoir Deux fm, say hello to MAKENEW
Eco-fashion designer Anna Gilkerson may be winding down her label Deux fm (at least for now), but she’s not done dressing Halifax. MAKENEW is a curated bi-monthly vintage collection, loving pulled together by Gilkerson, who’s sorted through the bins to find true vintage and special, quality pieces that are in great condition and union-made, meaning…
Word Iz reaching out
Ardath Whynacht Ruler of the Halifax spoken word stage, Word Iz Bond is celebrating 10 years of reigning over language, with a cool collaboration that brings in artists from other disciplines. The series, which will run from November to April as part of Speak!, the group’s monthly open mic night, kicks off Thursday, 8:30pm at…
Chouinard returns tonight, at the Cohn
If you want to see a big gun perform, Marie Chouinard is like the Wayne Gretzky of the Canadian contemporary dance scene. The award-winning choreographer’s company returns tonight, in what’s almost become an annual visit, with two pieces: 24 Preludes by Chopin and The Rite of Spring. It’s worth a trip through the rain in…
Julie Doiron at the Seahorse, January 28
The thing I love about Julie Doiron’s press photos is that so many of them appear to have been taken in Sackville, which, as we all know, is one of the best places to be. Looking at the photo above makes me feel like I’m on vacation. Oh summer, where the hell did you go?…
Soon
I think I am in love with you. Someday soon I will introduce myself so we can find out for sure. —Admiring from a (short) distance
Book thief
To the asshole who smashed my window while I was on a walk with my gf: Thanks for taking my child’s library books. You’re a real hero to other kids. —Pissed off
Dear 33 Tantallon bus driver…
You drive the 33 Tantallon bus that leaves Scotia Square around 4:26p Mon-Fri and you have the absolute sweetest smile I’ve ever seen. Everytime I see you I want to give you a hug… can’t help wondering if you’re seeing someone. —Hearts in my blue eyes
Seriously, body?
Sorry to the men in advance. Why is it when I’m on my period, I get soooo über horny!? Thanks body, for the most useless trait in the world. All I can think about all day is SEX. I’m like writhing around in my shitty office chair, trying to calm down but I don’t even…
I miss you
I miss you so much. But I know this is the best thing for us both. As much as it hurt when things weren’t good, when they were I was really happy and I’ll never forget you for making me feel that way. Maybe someday we can be friends again. If not, then I’ll say…
A little too excited…
Remember that time you got a little toooo excited… and you thought I didn’t notice? I noticed. And I liked it 😉 —aaaaanonymous
Give me my money
I moved out October 31. Now it’s the 12th business day and still no return of damage deposit. I called your secretary a week ago requesting to come pick it up as I live right up the road from your office. No response. I called and left the landlord a message on his cell phone…
Pancakes anyone?!
You know how people say you should always wear clean underwear just in case you get hit by a bus? Well, I thought that was completely ridiculous. That is, until I almost got hit by a bus on a crosswalk! My friend and I were crossing, and the bus had already begun to turn the…
Surf’s up, so shut up
So I’m looking in The Coast and wow, The Urban Surf Kings are playing!!!!! Great! I arrive at the show, find a place to stand, the music starts and then… some woman with white hair (maybe grey) talks and talks through the whole fucking show. What the hell? These guys only play like once or…
Lights, camera, ZUBBA ZUBBA ZUBBA
To the woman who brought an infant to the movies on the weekend, your baby was fine. I thought I heard a little coo here and there, but nothing else. From the baby. You on the other hand were an annoying twat. Here’s what I heard through the movie until my partner leaned forward and…
Your kid is NOT a star
To the parents of children in any sport, pay attention: Your child is not always going to be the best. Don’t yell at me during skating lessons that I’m not doing my job right when your shitty 3-year-old is sitting down on the ice licking his gloves. I can’t force him to join the group.…
He must really good
BFF, I’ve told you many times to stop complaining that your boyfriend doesn’t give you any during that time of the month. Yours lasts about seven days, you tell me, and he won’t have sex with you, not even with a condom on. Can you blame him?! He finds it disgusting, and I do too.…
Your cup is half fucked
To the butt head who decided to throw coffee at my perfectly legally parked car in the parking lot of a coffee shop, WTF is your problem? Were you bored and thought hmmm I’m going to a coffee shop and buy a coffee and throw it at someone’s car? Well, unlucky for you I work…
Worst birthday of my life
I was turning the big 3-0 and was kind of depressed about it (wanted to stay in my 20s forever). You all promised you’d make it special to make me feel better. I didn’t want any huge event, I just wanted my friends there to hang out and drink with me. My birthday was on…
Quinpool car stomper
To the asshole who WALKED (and probably jumped) on my car Friday night: Was that really necessary? You dented the roof in so bad I wasn’t able to get all of the dents out. Fuck. You’re lucky I don’t know who you are or you’d be paying for the damages. —Very Upset Car Owner
Fuck you, fleas
So we just moved into our new place two weeks ago, and the previous tenants had a few cats. Didn’t seem to be an issue, and they cleaned the place, but lo and behold, it was not enough. We have a flea infestation, and our poor little kitty is absolutely CRAWLING with dozens (hundreds?) of…
Stupid is not a disability
Get on a bus on Robie. Two idiots are in the seat next to the door yammering at the driver. Two idiots are not “all there”. Disabled person gets on bus. Disabled person gets off on Spring Garden to go to work. Two idiots and bus driver make fun of disabled person saying disabled person’s…
Hey, asshole neighbours
Please learn where you are supposed to put your garbage in our apartment building. I’m getting sick and tired of you people throwing your garbage in the damn stairwell of all places! One douchebag even put a bag of kitty litter down there…GROSS! I know it’s possible that you are illiterate since we got very…
A call to Metro Transit action
Busses not on time, no bus shelters in areas they need it (like Dartmouth Crossing, or even just along main routes), redundant routes (like Spring Garden Road or Portland Street), cutting routes, no new bus shelter we were promised this year being built, routes being cut (do you know the 87 won’t be coming to…
Tips are for people who deserve them
I’m sick and tired of the new debit machines at some fast food restaurants, which send me directly to a tip screen where you actually have to press a button to skip giving a tip. It’s a little presumptuous to think they deserve a tip for passing food over a counter. Tipping should not be…
To dear sir, saver of batteries!
Thanks SO much Mr. Running Man for letting me know I left my lights on, while I strolled up Summer Street, headphones in and oblivious to the world. I wish you a lifetime of well-lubricated knees and I hope you win your next marathon good sir! —A Happy Maroon Saturn
Young money at the tipping point
I love this restaurant, but I am sick and tired of being completely ignored by servers who are only interested in serving those above the age of 30. I’m a 21-year-old, and when I go to this place with friends who are completely respectful, we get treated like shit. But when I go out with…
Et Tu, Pixies?
la la love you, don’t mean maybe I dunno if you’re a fan of the Pixies on Facebook, but recently their fan page listed some interesting developments, namely that the band are playing a Canadian tour. More recently, a status update was posted that read: “We can certainly add Halifax NS to the list for…
Thank you, Christmas angel
I am at home for hours, after a shopping excursion involving the mall and a relaxing stop for coffee. Suddenly I realize, “Hey, I had some throat lozenges for my son’s cough, some Hershey’s Kisses for all our stockings and the pretzel/choc.kiss/M&M’s that my daughter’s boyfriend is already asking for, and other stuff I can’t…
Eunuch boy
It’s been many months, but I haven’t forgotten the things you said. I hate how scared you made me. I hate that you said you wanted me to be fat so no one else would love me (behind your girlfriend’s back). I hate that you call yourself a feminist. I hate that you justify staring…
Life lesson for university students
Here’s a tip to make life a little better for our student friends. When you’re at Halifax Shopping Centre and you want to get back home to SMU, take the 14 DOWNTOWN. It always parks on Mumford Road at the end of the terminal when it comes. If the #14 is inside the terminal, displaying…
Disrespectful digging
Keeping with the theme that’s developing: Least we forget the construction crew who felt obligated to not remember the sacrifices of our veterans and Canadian Forces personell by working on Remerbrance Day. The noise started shortly after 7am and the only silence I heard was when I finally put my little guy down for a…
Anybody else seeing things? Green things?
At around 4am Friday morning I noticed a large green bloom of light. I live in downtown Dartmouth by the pond. Anyone know what could have caused this? I was looking northwest, so it would have been apprx between the bridges from my view. It was a bright hospital green sorta bloom, no bang, no…
Full moon is coming…
I need to see you… —Salty
Mod swings
This one goes out to the Bitch Community from The Coast, There were some changes made at Coast HQ on Friday that mean that 4.0 has moved on to other things. We are working to get Mod 5.0, or Cinco de Modo, in place to serve all your Bitching needs as soon as possible. A…
Local filmmakers go to prestigious Banff workshop
Local filmmakers Eva Madden-Hagen and Juanita Peters have been accepted into the Women in the Director’s Chair Workshop at Banff Centre in Alberta. The competitive program takes eight participants annually, female filmmakers in mid-career and instructs them in “traditional fictional storytelling for film and television by combining classroom theory with opportunities for practical hands-on experiences.”…
Mod swings
This one goes out to the Love Community from The Coast, There were some changes made at Coast HQ on Friday that mean that 4.0 has moved on to other things. We are working to get Mod 5.0, or Cinco de Modo, in place to serve all your Lovely needs as soon as possible. A…
Turn your high beams off, jerks
Look, I understand when you’re driving down a dark highway and there aren’t any street lights, you might wanna flick on your high beams to light up a road a bit more. But when there’s 10 other cars visible on the road, hell if there is even ONE other car on the road, just fucking…
No yolk
To the people (possibly neighbours) who egged me and my friend outside my apartment the other night (not Halloween): How old are you? Seriously. Because I’m assuming by the fact that you EGGED us that you’re only about nine years old and I’d really like to come to your classroom and punch you in the…
Inattentive parkers deserve to be towed
Further to an earlier bitch about towing, and impound fees and having our driveway blocked numerous times each year…the latest offender should consider themselves lucky. Sure our driveway is narrow and hemmed in by two large trees. There is, however, a curb cut and a vehicle protruding between two houses. Last night I only needed…
This girl just wants to have a job
I am so tired of not having a job. I went to a good university, I got excellent marks and just because I have limited job experience at the ripe old age of 22, I don’t get hired. I actively look for a job every single day and have been doing so for more than…
Just pissed
Well, it’s taken 3 months but it’s finally happened. I am now pissed off as shit. I’ve spent the in-between time making excuses for your dickness but I can’t do it anymore. I don’t understand why you bothered lying to me when I explicitly asked you if you were seeing someone else. It was clearly…
War is wrong, period
Here’s my two cents inspired by Remembrance Day: All wars are wrong. If you’re on the winning side, you wrap yourself in a country’s flag and blindly follow the hype—but if one has a mind and is critical of one’s country, you’re deemed unpatriotic. This twisted logic might have the majority of Canadian people fooled,…
Remembrance Day hogs
While we’re on the Remembrance Day tip, another pointer: If you’re gonna leave halfway through the service maybe you should park your Harley a few blocks away. I know you guys love the attention but we are there to pay our respects not to listen to your sweet engine roar. —Putting a poppy in your…
Remembrance Day greatest hits
Here are some things that you should avoid doing during the moment of silence at a Remembrance Day service: 1. Checking your BlackBerry. 2. Groping your significant other (get up early and you’ll have time to fuck before you leave the house). 3. Whispering lame witticisms to the person next to you and laughing (or…
Fleshrated
After dating for a mere five weeks I am delighted that you were able to so clearly show me your mean side. Getting drunk at 3pm….going out for dinner, acting like an idiot in the restaurant to be followed by flipping out telling me how much you hate me and then grabbing me by the…
Rude youths
This evening I walked to the store to get milk and on the way home I was never so damn infuriated on my life with the damn teens of today. I was damn near pushed into trafic by three teens when walking the crosswalk, a carload of teens threw a Timmies at me THEN as…
Living 12 minutes at a time
L, I miss our boat and my timing is awful. I miss the daily heartbreaks and seeing you smile behind your sleepy dark eyes. Thank you for showing me how easy these feelings can come, and no matter how painful they are I’ll always hold you close… I never thought I could fall in love…
Bright eyes
We gave each other dinosaurs for Christmas one year, we fell in love. We let each other go too soon. Years later we met again. I was afraid to tell you I was dating someone else, someone you knew. When I finally did, it was the last time we spoke. I’m sorry for not fighting…
Thinking of you
We met not too long ago at a party, spent most of the night talking and then we took off together. That night was the best night I have had in a very long time. I knew that nothing would come of that night because you are with her, but for some reason I just…
No wonder banks are so rich!
There is a bank in HRM I dealt with for more than 15 years. They will steal wherever and whenever they can out of my account. Yes, I am calling it stealing. To make a long story short, we remortgaged our home and when you finally get the paperwork to have a chance to go…
The big move
I recently helped my cousin (she’s more like a sister to me) move to Halifax from another province. I must admit I didn’t know how she would take to living away from home since our huge family is very close knit. It took only a couple days of being in Halifax to realize that she…
Lunch and coffee and your pit bull
My friend and I were downtown, each enjoying a 5 dollar latte and 7 dollar sandwiches. Between us, on the ground under the table, was my friend’s dog, a gentle rescue greyhound, enjoying the sun. I see you and your two pit bulls, one off leash, come around the pillar. Your dog surprised and growled…
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Italian playwright Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist is the happy marriage of political commentary and slapstick comedy with a Catch-Me-If-You-Can-like character thrown in for good measure. The King’s production is fast, fun, furious and beautifully anchored by Griffin McInnes as the suitably manic central character “Maniac”. Fo’s script takes shots at everyone from…
Holes in one at The Asshole Monologues
It was almost a year ago that writer and Coast contributor Jane Kansas first got the idea to write a play about anuses. “I’d been in a couple of productions of The Vagina Monologues, and I thought that the idea of The Asshole Monologues could be sort of the same, but funnier,” she explains in…
My Handsome Taxi Driver
I am glad you’d rather have a drink with me, save my seat. —That hot fire breather girl
Raindrops Keep Falling On my Head
One thing that has been emphasized during our recent monsoon season is the lack of weather preparation skills possessed by many HRM residents. So many people getting needlessly drenched when it is easy to pop up an umbrella, and poof! You have your own personal porta-roof to deflect the rain. What is wrong with people?…
Clean up your puke!
To the coworker who is either pregnant or bulimic, please clean up after yourself. We have one stall for the ladies, and one for the men, so it is unavoidable. If you’re bulimic you should have better aim than that, or at least the decency to clean up after yourself. Do you think nobody is…
Charmander
Keep coming in so I can mark your cup. It’s fun to see you so happy! It makes my day, especially in all this rain. —Pikachu
09 Nov 5:15 In bound Halifax
Just got off work, 4 car pile up at the Mic Mac Mall. That my friends’ is not my bitch. Turned off on Woodland towards Victoria Drive and it’s loaded packed to the hilt – that is still not my bitch – Woodland is two lanes and as I said, as far as the eye…
Hit and Run…don’t worry I got your plate number
Hey driver of a larger white car (didn’t know the make) who hit another car while parking, you drove away but don’t worry I was walking by saw it and got your plate number for the owner of the vehicle you hit. You didn’t even have the decency to get out of your car to…
Doctors are cowards
We who deal with chronic dependency problems are educated about our disorders. We have spent more time and energy figuring out possible solutions to what most professionals see as intractable aspects of the condition than anyone else has the time &/or inclination for. We have to have faith in ourselves. You, general practitioner, are in…
Who Steals a Guitar?
Well, it’s my fault really, for having faith in downtown Halifax, but I stupidly left my black Ibanez acoustic in my back seat and it was stolen, right be the Farmer’s Market Saturday afternoon. I wonder if there is anyone who knows where stolen guitars might end up in Halifax? It’s not exactly super valuable,…
Rising flood waters, cause for concern?
Okay is it just me or is anyone else a little bit concerned about the rising flood waters in several parts of Nova Scotia? The videos on the news media websites, if you care to view, are terrifying. Picture yourself waking up in the middle of the night, in pitch darkness. The power is out…
Fellow Transit Users
I have eight words for you: exit the bus through the back door, assholes. —Frustrated with idiots
I dunno who you are…
But your voice drives me WILD. You work at a pizza place on Robie Street. You’re so friendly, flirty and sound ever so hot and sexy. Your voice is simply orgasmic. You need to do voice recordings for GPS! I think you might also be a cook there because whenever I call and get you…
Let dogs meet each other!!
To most of the people I see walking their dog, Stop running across the street with your dog as soon as you see me and my dogs. No wonder your dog is barking, pulling and squealing – you never let it meet anyone! I’d be pretty pissed too! I own two of the nicest dogs…
Free Will Astrology
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) “I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert,” wrote author Charles Bowden, “and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control.” Yikes! That’s a pretty extreme approach. But I suggest that you consider trying it out in the coming week. If you hope…
Urban Surf Kings celebrate the big 1-5
We can thank Pulp Fiction for the Urban Surf Kings. Still reeling from the film’s killer soundtrack, the band’s founder Rev. Hank decided to experiment with a genre that was pretty untapped in Halifax. “We had no clue. We were like, does anybody like surf? Does anyone want to book us? And we really thought…
Certifiably green
Six years ago, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green rating system came to Canada. The program is an international standardized way to assess the lifetime environmental impact of buildings. While no standardized system is flawless (who gets to decide what counts as green; can the same standards really apply everywhere?), LEED forces greenwashers…
Cynical about cynicism
The only people I know who aren’t cynical are the most annoying head-in-the-sand Pollyannas, people who spam kitten videos and use “partner” as a verb. I mean, these are trying times—the economic, resource and climate challenges we’re facing would be enormous, even if we had the very best imaginable political and managerial classes, but, unfortunately,…
Zac Crouse’s salty songs
In 2006 Zac Crouse spent four months traversing the waters off Newfoundland with a friend, a kayak and a ukulele in tow. First, he taught himself how to play the instrument, next came the saltwater-soaked songs. “If you’re just sitting there waiting for the wind to die down, there’s nowhere to go. There were some…
The poverty machine
Fathom Billard, a single mother of two in her 30s, may be poor, but she’s also a fighter. “I just got tired of being pushed around,” she says, explaining her decision to defend herself in court against a high-interest loan company that claimed she owed it more than $2,000. “You can’t get blood from a…
Monsters’ post-apocalyptic excellence
The best science fiction employs a liberal use of allegory and Monsters ladles it on the screen. The 93-minute tale of two Americans travelling through a rural Mexican “Infected Zone” six years after enormous squiddy aliens have arrived speaks to globalization, US immigration policy, xenophobia and even Iraq, not unlike the way last year’s District…
Manning up
Three men stand tall in Grant Lawrence’s story: father, mentor and figurehead. They’re bound together by place, Desolation Sound, “a collection of deep inlets, islands and coastal mountains found at the northern end of the Strait of Georgia,” as Lawrence writes in his coming-of-age memoir, Adventures in Solitude. In the mid-70s, successive provincial BC governments…
Busybody brings big laughs
Bedford Players is a community theatre company that has become known for staging light comedy. And while there is a devoted fan base that enjoys this frothy and fun type of theatre, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. However, farce-fan or not, I predict that you’ll laugh hard and long at Busybody, a “comedy/whodunnit” written…
ViewPoint has a red carpet birthday
Wish ViewPoint Gallery a happy 10th birthday by walking its red carpet fundraiser this Friday, from 7-9pm. Local leaders such as Argyle Fine Art’s Adriana Afford, councillor Dawn Sloane and Fred Connors of FRED. beauty food art. and Whet Cafe have donated photos they’ve taken with both vintage and digital cameras, which you can bid…
Rocking the Island
“What’s the name of that sauce?” my friend shouts out of his office. “The spicy sauce they used in everything at Rock Island Cafe?” “Outerbridge’s,” is quietly shouted from the next room. That kicky sherry pepper sauce was the trusty ingredient that brought an authentic taste of Bermuda to the menu of Rock Island Cafe,…
Artfully Obscene bares it all
It’s not what you think. Well, maybe a little. Plutonium Playhouse artistic director Thom Fitzgerald went through dozens of film submissions for this opening event of The Sex Festival (see page 35 for more), while board member and playwright Lee-Anne Poole did the same—rating each one from zero to five. “If we both like it,…
Private for your eyes
In September of 2009, Robin Wright sat stoically at a table, next to writer-director Rebecca Miller and her co-star Keanu Reeves. There in Toronto to discuss Miller’s third film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, the actor was quiet, unsmiling and still, until she was asked a question. She thought, considered, then exploded into an…
Due Date disappoints
Father-to-be Peter (Robert Downey Jr.) winds up on a no-fly list at the hands of epic nincompoop Ethan (Zach Galifianakis), days before the birth of his child on the opposite coast. Director Todd Phillips has devoted his career to refreshing portrayals of American dickhole men and their trials and tribulations, without prejudice or sympathy: Downey…
Megamind is mega-smart
Vocal theatrics have always been a go-to weapon in Will Ferrell’s comic arsenal, and his stentorian phrasing and melodramatic shouting is perfect for the title role in Megamind. Ferrell gleefully overplays an evil genius who quickly gets bored after unexpectedly defeating his saintly nemesis Metro Man (Brad Pitt). He tries to spice things up through…
Gianna Lauren moves closer
The Halifax music scene tends to steadily bleed talent into central Canada, so it’s always refreshing to find someone who’s moved here for the scene. Relocating from Ottawa in early 2009, singer-songwriter Gianna Lauren has no trouble remembering why she moved here. Meeting over wine on a rainy evening at the flat Lauren shares with…
For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry’s adaptation of the 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is an emotional grindhouse that splatters agony and sorrow across the screen. The film features several women dialoguing and monologuing their way through massive tragedies and moments of hope, with scenes structured around the series…
Questioning on campus
I spoke at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, last Thursday night. PU students submitted a lot more questions than I could possibly answer in the 90 minutes we had together. So I’m going to use this week’s column to answer some of the PU questions I didn’t get to. Here we go: Q Do…
I’m Still Here is no joke
Casey Affleck admitted a couple months ago that Joaquin Phoenix’s retirement from acting, pursuit of a hip-hop career and descent into apparent insanity—and Affleck’s filming of this transition—was an elaborate gag. The real-or-fake question is no longer in play, but the duo’s ballsy gamble still yields big results, among them Phoenix’s genuine transformation from super-serious…
Kin words
Violent Kin is a family band. Not of the Partridge Family variety, but a family nonetheless. It’s fitting, then, that the brother-and-sister duo of S.J. and Maygen Kardash got their start with the birth of a child. Although they grew up playing in an orchestra together, the duo never wrote their own music exclusively together…
Update: Crystal Castles to be rescheduled
Tipped off by Coast contrib Ryan McNutt on Twitter, we just checked and saw that Crystal Castles Facebook event and it is no longer in existence. Update: McNutt sez he got a Facebook message from the event saying the event was “fully confirmed” and the band’s management backed out at the last minute. A new…
Nova Scotia native Skibsrud wins Giller, 50-Gs
Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize, and its fifty-grand purse, for her novel The Sentimentalists, which was published by Gaspereau Press. The 30-year-old—-the youngest ever to receive the literary award—-grew up in Pictou County, specifically Scotsburn in Pictou County, home to one of the province’s major dairies. Based in Montreal, Skibsrud until this point has…
Ocean vs. Economical: Judge says trial sets legal record
Update on Ocean vs. Economical. Days 14, 15 and 16 of lengthy trial.
Introducing The Acadian Embassy
In the midst of a pretty shitty week for Halifax’s music community, it’s nice to see new ventures rise from the ashes. Trevor Murphy and Josh “Pinky” Pothier are both staples of the scene, as well as longtime roommates/bandmates. In the wake of the demise of their band, The Establishment, the pair decided to launch…
Jenocide Goes Knee Deep
DEAR GIRLS AND COOL BOYS! This Saturday, your very busy electro-madam Jenocide will once again collect an eclectic and excellent array of lady musicians to Gus’ Pub to help her celebrate the release of her five-song EP collaboration with PEI-based musician Willow Bell. It’s called Knee Deep, Ya Boi DJ James Reid will be in…
Council votes to move forward with convention centre negotiations
I captured last night’s council meeting on video. Here’s the relevant 25 minutes, worth a watch: The Simpsons 412 I watched council deal with the issue for about 12 hours yesterday, until they kicked me out to go into secret deliberations. As council does after secret deliberations, they came back into public session and voted…
Inconsiderate Idiots
Get out of the damn way!! Side walks are for 2-way “traffic” so you and your friends UNFORTUNATELY are going to have to separate for a couple of seconds. I know, I know. It’s hard to think about. But for fucks sake have a little respect. Move out of the way so that people walking…
Rain ain’t all that bad
To the boy who ran past and shouted ‘Smile, it’s not that bad of a day!’ to me as I was walking home from work in the pouring rain – Cheers. I wasn’t in a bad mood at all, but I couldn’t help but smile all the way home as I was getting drenched and…
Laundry room love
Thank you to the people in my apartment building who don’t close the windows I open in the laundry room, and don’t take away the chair that I use to prop the door open. You’re awesome! —fresh air is good!
Petrol Love
To the Kindhearted Clerk at the Bayers Road station: Thanks for making the best of a potentially awkward situation for me. When my debit card came up NSF and I looked flustered you swept in and pretended it was the wrong PIN, giving me a chance to save face. Thanks for your kind actions! —Fill’er…
Nowhere To Go
Why is there no place to jam in Halifax!? Angry neighbors, noise complaints and the fact that there are NO businesses open to host a jam spot make it nearly impossible for local bands to practice. Not to mention hinder new bands from forming! THIS SUCKS! —Annoyed
YOU STUPID IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTAL UNIT
This bitch goes out to the irresponsible 40 someting bleach blond in the Windsor St. Sobeys parking lot on Tuesday November 9. You were wearing black boots, a black jacket and had a black umbrella ( which was completely blocking my vision of you and your daughter ) in the dark on a rainy night.…
Truck on the 102
WTF! It’s monsoon season, and the dealerships are all sold out of Arks….so common sense should tell you: 1. Slow down on the roads when it’s raining. 2. Don’t tailgate. 3. It gets darker earlier with the time change so adjust your driving habits. To the mindless fuck in the truck on the 102 highway…
