Look, I love television. And I love awards honouring television. But the Emmys can officially suck it. New voting rules were put in place this year as a way to allow new names. The Emmys are notorious for handing successive noms and nods to the same handful of people in each category every year, until […]
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Saving Pluto, one product at a time
It didn’t take long – the Pluto-is-too-a-planet movement has begun. Get your Pluto-promoting <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/product/235703365657092027" target="_blank" tshirt , <a href=http://www.cafepress.com/buy/pluto/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.71612518/pNo_71612518/id_14161318/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_" bumper sticker, and the “Pluto, we hardly knew ye” <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/buy/pluto/-/pv_design_prod/p_1901469.71636887/pNo_71636887/id_14164630/fpt_/opt_/c_360/pg_" target="_blank" mousepad. Poor, poor Pluto. The little planet that couldn’t.
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Survivor: Out race? Out of their minds?
Honestly. CBS annouces that next season’s Survivor is going to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/23/earlyshow/series/survivor/main1926528.shtml" target="_blank" divide the tribes by race. My god, what a fantastic idea. Finally, an answer to the age-old question: which race really is superior? I can’t wait to find out. Fortunately, host Jeff Probst offers some Sociological context: “I think it’s very natural […]
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Skids
Enough with the Alicia Silverstone sightings already, let me know if you see this man lurking around town…apparently Sebastian Bach is here for TPB, and perhaps a little Metalfest, hmmm?
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Hypnotic caterpillar
Hey this is really crazy and weird. Erm, I actually do other things besides look on youtube for bug and animal clips. Seriously. But I’d like to know who the genius was that came up the back crying back spots!Who, WHO? This advertising person clearly needs an award! I’d way rather watch foreign ads on […]
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Go to hell, Canada
Steffi D got eliminated, gracefully and with class. Yet Nickelback and Newfoundland fauxhawk are safe week after week? I call fix on Canadian Idol. And I HATE IT for making me care. And myself for not having cable. Team Avila!
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Mining Silverstone
Actor Alicia Silverstone has been in town most of the summer filming MOW Candles on Bay Street, and she’s been spotted in practically every corner of the city. We’ve gotten sightings from Citadel Hill, the Waterfront, the Wooden Monkey, Barrington Street and the Lord Nelson. Last weekend Silverstone dropped by a house party, Mary Hamblin’s […]
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Power to the people
Today, the Herald is reporting on Stora Enso’s efforts to blackmail the province: Give us a break of $200 million off our power bill, or we close the Point Tupper mill and 610 people lose their jobs. Hopefully the province will tell the paper company to fuck itself. Why? As reported in yesterday’s Globe and […]
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We are the New York Times
It won’t be long before they’re syndicating Dope Show, at the rate Coasties are getting published in the New York Times. Mike Tompkins is the latest contributor doing us proud.
