st. partrick’s day cats

what’s up dude? so not feelin’ it.

i think all pet owner’s suffer from a certain degree of mental illness, the more pets = the higher the degree of mental illness, just a thought. anyway this is where we get cid’s special catfood, there are 6-10 cats that live in the store, i am guessing they were strays, adopted maybe and eventually all had sex with each other cos they all seem to have similarly coloured coats. they are my friends.

um YESSS!

Hello, there raymi,

Would you be interested in seeing “Edward Scissorhands” at The Hummingbird Centre and perhaps shooting the top of the show for your blog?

We are inviting four or five photobloggers. Let me know if you’d like to
be one …

“Edward Scissorhands” is based on the original Tim Burton motion picture and is directed by Matthew Bourne who is the creative genius behind the all-male version of “Swan Lake”, “Car Man” and more recently “Mary Poppins” (on Broadway).

The show has been on tour in the US with sell-out dates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York. It has its Canadian premiere April 4 at The Hummingbird Centre and runs until April 7.

For more information on the show, go to edwardscissorhandstour.com

Yours,
Julie

Phil: hi

me: hi

Phil: we should be ready to leave in 2.5 hours
just a reminder

me: hahahahaha
nice hi segue
why even bother

Phil: because i am nice

me: right

Phil: 2.5 hours so we can meet pitt and gang

me: yes dad

Phil: they will be there 6:10

me: OK

Phil: ok

me: omg
do you have one of those track and field stop watches around your neck

Phil: i am coach

me: i loved that show

we saw pan’s labyrinth last nite and you know i have to say after all the hoopla made about it and how “AMAZING” and “SUPER SCARY” it is suppose to be i found it to be pretty “meh” i was kind of disappointed. that’s what happens when everyone can’t shut up about something and then more people can’t shut up about it and then EVERYONE has to go see it and then come and LIE to me or on their blogs. i mean, it is pretty decent but it is also kind of zzzzzzz. i was expecting more labyrinth and magical scary not all this geurillas in the woods business, i did NOT sign up for that.

also, they made the little girl a little too fearless, not believably so. i did like the faun dude cos he was always yell-talking at her and she tolerated it like it was completely normal HI YOU ARE SCARY AND YELLING AT ME I WILL DO WHAT YOU SAY.

don’t be angry if you don’t like my opinions about pan’s labyrinth i am typically apathetic about everything, that’s what being a depressive is all about, i’m not saying i am proud of it. if i went into outerspace and came back and was interviewed as world’s first blogger to orbit the moon my soundbyte would be “meh” – kidding. fil said he would dump me if i didn’t get excited about outerspace. moving on.

pan’s labyrinth is worth seeing but it certainly is not as good as everyone has made/been making it out to be, there’s maybe twenty minutes of scary if you add up all the mini parts, that is NOT ENOUGH.

oh we saw it in the vip theatre so unfortunately there are no little anecdotes of me being annoyed by other people to report. i did smuggle in a bag of baked rosemary chips.

Dear Raymi,

My name is ******** and last year, I praised one of the photos of you on Buzznet by e-mail and you replied to me on March 6th., 2006. Thank you very much for replying to my e-mail. My Buzznet username is ******** Both my oldest daughter and I like the music of Nirvana, which the late Kurt Cobain was a member of. I also have an account on Flickr and my Flickr username is *******

On Buzznet, you used to state that you are a Scientologist. Even though I am not a Scientologist and never have been, I nevertheless share the Scientologists’ condemnation of all the human rights violations that are perpetrated by psychiatry. Many Wiccans also criticize psychiatry.

My e-mail addresses are *********, *************, and ***************
You may add me as a friend on MySpace.
Sincerely yours,
**********

me: i have a hankering for avacado, homemade guac, im gonna go get some

Phil: i am reading about guinness and now i have a hankering for that

me: hopefully they will be ripe
omg
LET IT GO

Phil: look

me: im sorry you dont have a gf who is into cauldron beer and yes in theory it looks delicious, but it does not taste delicious – the same with baked beans, look great, taste, not so much

Phil: oh yes it does, but to each their own

me: only crotchety old farts are into guinness and people who are stupid and want to be crotchety farts, it is basically the drink of nerds

Phil: you are being amazingly close-minded

me: im taking the piss

Phil: oh ok i find it super refreshing and tasty

me: i do not like beer to taste like it was filtered through soil i do not like to taste the forest, beer should taste like beer not rocks and dirt and leaves and twigs

Phil: i dont get that but you think any beer with flavour tastes like that

me: no i have had raspberry beer and it tasted like raspberries and *SHOCK* beer
NOT coffee

Phil: any more flavour than keith’s and you can’t take it (unless it is a girl flavour like raspberry)

me: not true i can deal with blond and it usually tastes like piss

Phil: another tame beer

me: and armpits stella has a skunky aftertaste i can deal

Phil: you might as well move to the states and drink pbr

me: i can even deal with that beer that is kind of like guinness, john smith

Phil: or milwaukee’s best

me: on a hot summer’s day i think patio and i think nice yellowy frosty beer NOT black death middle earth wearing a wool knit sweater by a brick fireplace stout brew

Phil: oh hey ya sure by all means you should stick to your coors light on the patio just be sure you dont spill on your reeboks before you drive back to mississauga

me: why are you getting so defensive i do not drink coors light you are making this a geo-political issue

Phil: im taking the piss
coors light = the lightest tasting beer i can think of and clearly you are into beers that are light in flavour (which is fine – to each their own)

me: im sorry i just cant get into the taste of guinness if it didnt taste like garbage i would like it you dont have to insult all the other beers i enjoy cos i do not like guinness

Phil: ok but i and a lot of other people do like it

me: are you all holding each other crying right now

i watched that heaven’s gate thing on tlc last nite TWICE. the first time actually only caught the end of it and me and fil were bummed i had flipped past it several times thinking BORING people sitting in lawnchairs TALKING in bad outfits. then i figured it out. anyway it came on again a few hours later and i watched it all. i remember when that mass-suicide happened in 1997 i found it to be very disturbing and when things are disturbing you can’t not pay attention it is EXCITING. fil was all why was that disturbing only 6 people died i said no dude WAY more than that then he convinced me he was right then the television said it was 39.

i found it disturbing cos it is such a sad story, the family members’ side of it, i would lose my fucking mind if someone in my family joined a cult and were brainwashed and thought they would fly on a comet and “leave their vehicle” and evolve in outerspace i would probably react violently with force, which in turn would make my relative even more gung-ho to their cause. ok i tried and clearly punching you in the face doesn’t work, i don’t know what to do.

i think the bunk bed pictures and nikes is what disturbed me most, it is a mindfuck to see on tv pictures of dead bodies like that, who willingly did that to themselves and they think that it would carry them to outerspace OK. oh don’t forget the castration, yeah if i was castrated i would probably kill myself too.

that applegate guy effectively convinced 39 people that he was jesus, that jesus’ brain was in his head and his wife who died was god the father. that is some super scary shit.

We’re going to be murdered,” Marshall H Applewhite told a reporter in 1972.
“And when we are, after three and a half days, we’re going to walk out into life in the next level above human.”

right.

when i was a kid this family that lived kitty-corner to our townhouse disappeared in the middle of the nite, they left behind all of their possessions, cars, food, furniture, money, everything. we use to play with their sons, road hockey and other shit. i wonder what they’re up to now?

cults dude, serious.

Raymi,

So some things don’t change. This is Keith from the mini-battle of a few months ago. The mini-battle being a round of emails in which I tried to get you to engage in a conversation about the nature of blogging… which turned into a tiff somehow. After that experience I decide to ignore my blog and other people’s blogs forever, which has ended up being a few months. I have just recently returned to the world of the internet and I decided to visit your blog, I was there none but 15 minutes ago. I couldn’t help but chuckle at your account and commentary, of and on, the insult explosion. It made me think about the conclusions I came to after the pounding i took in your comments and later in my comments. After you posted all the emails and people commented and all that, i got angry, felt betrayed in a sense… for fuck knows what reason because i had no reason to think that trust was established… but ultimately i realized that i was the one in the wrong. Not because i was making bad points… but simply because this isn’t the medium to discuss things like that… this isn’t a medium that lends itself to getting into serious impartial debates… everything is too personally stylized… all content comes from individuals directly, so any hint at a critique will come across as a critique of someone’s style. When I decided to get on your balls about the vapidity of blogging I was wrapped up in the thought of trying to get you to admit that the enterprise was not a genuinely artistic or praiseworthy… but that was simply because i didn’t understand why a person with a seemingly good wit and some literary talent would channel their ability into the creation of a detail, observation, and diary-type blog. My lack of understanding that is what made me the douche in that situation. And it seems that the people that go on trying to insult you and your style are in the same douche boat.

I simply failed to realize that your style of blogging is done to entertain and develop a fan-base. I am sure you put some genuine feeling into it from time to time. But it seems like the goal is to keep people coming to the page. Maybe there is an element of trying to garner respect, respect in the sense that people come to be impressed by your ability to produce engaging material, quality material, etc.

So i apologize for bringing the wrong type of battle to your doorstep. There is simply no reason to try and get you to engage in a serious analysis of your work medium. That would be like me yelling in Lindsey Lohan’s face about Fox news doing special reports about her father getting out of jail. I guess people tend to forget that the products produced in the realm of entertainment are only products of the creative capacities of the people that produce them… meaning that there is no reason to attack that person… because the insults and other garbage that are getting hurled at the individual are based on observations of the material that they have produced, and the material is a creative facet of the individual’s life… so to try and break them down personally is a mistaken leap… to jump from the realm of observing the creative endeavor, into the realm of insulting the baseline existence and character quality of the creator is a fools errand… Another problem with trying to insult an established personality is that the person making the insults is automatically inferior to the person that they are insulting. Just look at the nature of the situation… the insulter took the time to invest personal effort into crafting some form of scathing comment, the comment obviously being based on the creations and presentations of their target… but their target has created those things as part of a project in their life… and projects do not encompass the entirety of a life… so the insulter is putting personal time and effort into crafting an insult that will be aimed at a person that knows nothing about the personal life, or even the existence of the insulter, so the insult that the insulter throws is incapable of penetrating the life of the creator unless the creator chooses to completely let their guard down and unify their notion of self with critiques of their material by strangers.

The people that choose to do public insults will always come out as douchebags in the end… even if their criticisms are on point… because even if they are discerning people, capable of crafting a cogent whatever, they will not have done shit other than use your status to spring board themselves into the realm of discussion.

Back when i sent those emails that you posted I tried to use your status to refine my concepts of what blogging was about… i got a little over zealous with it… slightly confrontational maybe… at the time i thought i was making an interesting point… but the whole thing was gay.