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Fashion Warning

July 30, 2009

 Found via Certified Bullshit Technician.

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The Eyes Have It

July 30, 2009

Photo courtesy of “rem”.

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Sign of the Day

July 27, 2009

 Photo courtesy of Fukung.net.

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The Job Opportunity You Can’t Refuse

July 26, 2009

Allen Stern blogs about a sign that’s outside Rice to Riches, a rice pudding place in New York City’s East Village:

The sign reads:
Help Wanted
Start a career in the fascinating, fast-paced lucrative pudding business

Long hard hours
Very low pay
Lots of heavy lifting
Work for a ball-busting asshole
Dead-end job
No benefits
No advancement
Must be college grad

Start immediately

It’s attention getting; Allen [...]

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The “No Accordions” Sign

July 24, 2009

I don’t normally vandalize signs, but I’d make an exception for this special case:

Stefan Arentz, a co-member of HacklabTO, sent me the photo. He says that it was put up by a Dutch cafe owner to ban accordion-playing gypsies.

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To Boldly Go Where No Macaroni and Cheese Has Gone Before

July 23, 2009

Saw this stuff for the first time last night at the grocery store — “Spicy Szechwan Kraft Dinner”:

(For readers in the United States, what gets sold as “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese” where you’re from is sold as “Kraft Dinner” in Canada.)
I can’t imagine it being any good, but I feel compelled to give it [...]

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Michael Would’ve Looked Like Lando

July 23, 2009

This scan from the August 1985 issue of Ebony features their prediction of what Michael Jackson would’ve looked like in the year 2000 (which, back then, seemed like a time in the far-off future):

“At 40,” the caption reads, “he will have aged gracefully and will have a handsome, more mature look.” Tacky 80s-era clothing [...]

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Snickers Ads are Getting Weird, Man

July 22, 2009

Here’s some amusing Photoshoppery featuring the current Snickers ad campaign. Click the photo to see it in its full-size glory:
Photo courtesy of Adam Conover.

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You’re Doing It Wrong

July 22, 2009

Photo courtesy of Will from Dork Shelf. Click the photo to see it at full size.

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Collector’s Plates

June 28, 2009

Seen in the window at a shop in Bloor West Village and coming soon to your grandmother’s (or a die-hard Star Trek or M*A*S*H fan’s) house:
Click the photo to see it at full size.

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Serious Meat at Hart House’s Pride Weekend Barbecue

June 27, 2009

This is what ten dollars got you at Thursday’s Pride Week barbecue at University of Toronto’s Hart House:

It was quite a meal: one beef kebab, one piece of chicken, 4 pork ribs, a slice of bread, roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and salad, all prepared quite well. The Ginger Ninja and I enjoyed it.

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Strike Me Down, and Another Shall Rise to Take My Place

June 26, 2009

I no longer live in Accordion City’s Queen/Spadina neighbourhood and therefore don’t play there very often anymore. Luckily that doesn’t mean that they’re lacking for the accordion: there was a guy playing a fine little red number there earlier this afternoon:

Squeeze on, good sir!

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All Che Guevara T-Shirts Should Have This Caption

June 19, 2009

Seen at “Diaper-eze”, a baby clothing store in Bloor West Village, in the west end of Accordion City.

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A Busy Day

June 2, 2009

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
It’s a busy, meeting-filled day for Yours Truly down at the local headquarters for The Empire. Here’s a (slightly edited) photo that I took at our big Evangelism team meeting around 3:30 this afternoon:

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“Explore. Dream. Discover.”

May 11, 2009

It’s one of the recurring themes of this blog, and it bears repeating:
Photo found via Reddit. Click the photo to see the source.

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