January 2010
December 2009
“A woman made an emergency 999 call to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to say her...”
– BBC News - Woman’s 999 call over playful cat (via ilikebridges)
Violence erupts in Montreal subways →
standardgrey:
“Minutes after the evacuated station was reopened, a group of about 15 police officers was seen at another station, two stops away. They surrounded two black youths and pushed them onto a train. As the doors were closing, one of the officers wound up and took several swings at the youths with his night stick.
Lemieux said this was likely a preventive measure to make sure the...
James Blackshaw + Gary Higgins January 31st and Fucked Up + Kurt Vile February 21st. 2010, these are some shows I can get into. Thank you.
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i think i may have found my winter drink
Old Fashioned Apple
2oz(60ml)Cruzan Single Barrel Estate rum
1/2oz(15ml)Calvados 3/4oz(23ml)
cane sugar syrup 2 dashes
Angostura Bitters
Fill a heavy rocks glass with ice.
Add cane sugar, bitters and a fifth of the alcohol each minute while stirring slowly.
Slowly stir the mixture in the glass for the traditional 5 minutes.
Garnish with an apple fan dusted with cinnamon.
Watchblownspeakers:
Mental Beast Episode 12
In case you missed it on Friday.
I’m sad this show is over. I was really getting into it. :( These guys should make more and more and more episodes, and since CBC is trying (and kind of failing) to appeal to the kids they should do something right and pick this show up. I CAN HAZ MOAR MENTAL BEAST?
Watch Adriano Celantano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
In this remarkable and fully rockin’ video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English…the video is meant to illustrate which English phonemes and syllables carry into the foreign ear…
“Posh people are quite associated with environmentalism, with food and...”
– Tory chic: the return of poshness | UK news | The Guardian
This is interesting, but dude here forgets this ‘trend’ is not limited to Britain; it’s pretty widespread. I’d like to read an account of it that isn’t quite so Britain-centric.
Current 93 - Good Morning, Great Moloch
Ah dreary...
stoned wallabys make crop circles. →
(via slowstroke)
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said.
OMG ANIMALS RULE SO HARD.
Octopus grabs coconut and runs →
towerofsleep:(via pterodactyls)
OMG ANIMALS ARE SO AMAZING. People throw away some shit in the ocean, and these dudes figure out a way to use it like the shell the evolutionary process never gave them. I <3 it so much. Plus, an octopus running is the best thing you’ve ever seen.
“All the apparently contingent events of history are in reality stages in the...”
– Hegelianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
srsly! quick, look at the wiki before some nerd “fixes” it!
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“Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via lukesimcoe)
CBC News - British Columbia - B.C. alcohol... →
warfordium:
raising prices? hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. maybe we can find a way to have a $8 USD 6-pack of DFH60 cost less than $20.
Didn’t they just raise prices a couple months ago? Well, let’s take heart- shitty research groups make inane (or even great) recommendations all the time and that doesn’t mean they actually get implemented. You can hardly run on a platform of hating...
“If you are one of those young women who says you aren’t a feminist, you haven’t...”
– Lessons of the Montreal Massacre - thestar.com
this day always hits me hard.
(via garconniere)(via escatology)
Living in Montreal now this feels even closer to home, even though it happened 20 years ago.
