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My Kung Fu is Good

Earlier tonight at the movie theatre:

Joey deVilla posing in front of the “Kung Fu Panda” display

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New Blog: “How I Spent My Stimulus”

Montage of photos from the “How I spent my stimulus blog”

I’ll leave it to the How I Spent My Stimulus blog to explain what it’s all about:

In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website helps shed some light on where the stimulus money is going.

Living in Canada, I won’t get such a cheque, but I did get a nice tax refund this year, and all of it — save the cost of Grand Theft Auto IV — is going into an RRSP.

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Accordion on the Beach

Old black-and-white photo of a woman playing accordion on a beach.
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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Poster of the Day

Poster: “Racism: It’s Always Unacceptable”
Meanwhile, he’s thinking “She’s hawwwt!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

With the notable exception of Shaq, does anyone over the age of ten do that thing with the eyes anymore?

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The Stoned Rollers

There’s something about photos from the seventies that I love. Maybe it’s the way the colours came out in photos taken back then and the way they fade over time, or perhaps it’s the hair and the clothes, but those old photos have a certain special something that present-day photos don’t. Case in point, this photo of a bowling team called “The Stoned Rollers”:

“The Stoned Rollers” bowling team photo.
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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele and deepdisco.

These guys play by their own rules. The sign says the play in a mixed 5 league, but they’re clearly 6!

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Conan O’Brien on a Kinder, Gentler “Grand Theft Auto”

“In the past, Grand Theft Auto has been severely criticized for being too violent,” says Conan O’Brien. “Well, the new version — I got it yesterday and was playing with it — it’s been toned down a lot. I’m not sure it’s better…”

[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]

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Nine Years as “The Accordion Guy”

Here’s a blast from the past: me with purple hair, rockin’ out at Queen’s Park on Saturday May 1st, 1999:

Joey deVilla playing accordion and “throwing the horns” at Queen’s Park
I had no idea what was coming up next.

Yesterday marked the 9th anniversary of my playing the accordion on the street for the first time. I’ve got a longer entry about that fateful Saturday, when my friend Karl Mohr and I took our accordions out on the street that morning and ended the day as goth rock stars, and I’ll post it this weekend.