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As the post-9/11 secular world gets the message out that we fear Islamists, not Islam, the Christianist movement in the States is also gaining momentum. Today in Kansas the Creation Museum opens, offering a history of the world based on the biblical tall tale that God created the universe in six days. The Creation Museum […]

So this tattoo is a little intense. The faces on the left side of dude’s back are Star Wars villians; Luke, Yoda et al are on the right; a pair of crossed light sabers pulls the whole thing together. The original pic is here. It’s just one from this whole gallery of shots from a […]

City officials have a suburban-parent approach to graffiti artists, so you’d expect them to move quickly to clean the graffiti off a playground. You know, to protect the young, impressionable kids from having to see what the nasty teenage hooligans do with spraypaint. But I sent in a complaint about graffiti on the nice new […]

The city claims it wants to know about — and will quickly act to eradicate — any graffiti on public property. So on Monday, April 23 I sent this complaint through the snitching site: “The city’s black plastic garbage can, fastened to a pole near the convenience store at 6070 South, has many tags on […]

On the way to work this morning, I noticed the tags on the Robie at Jubilee bus shelter still haven’t been cleaned off. That makes it 36 days since I alerted the city to the graffiti-covered piece of public property. For its part, the city promised to do the clean-up within three days of my […]

Apple turned itself into a business powerhouse by making the MP3 player sexy, but apparently it doesn’t want the iPod to get too sexy. The company is threatening to sue British sex-toy store Ann Summers for using Apple-inspired graphics in ads for the iGasm, a vibrator that plugs into an iPod and throbs to the […]

I spent my teenage years in Doc Martens, mimicking idols like Joe Strummer. But now I would like to retrieve one of those wee boots and kick the ad exec responsible for this tasteless campaign. Dead rock stars—Kurt Cobain, Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious and yes, Strummer–in heaven a’la George Burns or Patrick Swayze–wearing gowns and […]

Good: Carrie Fisher. Anytime you’ve ever intentionally laughed at the Academy Awards, she probably wrote it. She’s the perfect judge for this thing – old-school Hollywood, the fanboy wankers love her (seriously, did we have to see the guy say “Princess Leia, 20 feet away from me”? So pandering!) and she knows what’s she talking […]

If you think no one is paying attention to your blog–think again (I learned my lesson after the Young Triffie fiasco). At least once a week I read the Zeke’s Gallery blog from Montreal which is a good, irreverent source of art news. Anyhow, in November, its writer Chris Hand wrote a post stating, “a […]

A reader recently asked for documentation for the various stats I threw around in my rant about Nova Scotia Power exec’s excessive pay. This is excuse enough for my entry into The Coast blog world, and if you read through, I’ll even make an additional point. First, the numbers. For provincial energy use and greenhouse […]

In the middle of something half-way important, I got distracted by this completely unimportant but engrossing memory test. You see 15 words in 15 seconds, then write down all you remember. And you can do it over and over and over again, with different words every time. The average 20-year-old gets seven. How about you? […]

Some good news coming out of the upfronts this week. Private Practice, the Kate Walsh/Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, has gotten a green light. All the Law and Orders, Friday Night Lights and sleeper comedy Notes from the Underbelly (Jennifer Westfeldt! Love!) are coming back. Someone has seen fit to give the fab Judy Greer her own […]