diptych: two boring photos

random things

It's 11:11:11! And I set this to post at 11:11 just for fun. So there's that. 

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I have been getting emails for giveaway offers lately...but they have all been USA-winners only-type-giveaways. Um, hello asshole companies, I live in Canada and refuse to give something away that my local readers/internet friends can't have. And what about my international buddies? Any Canadian or international companies wanna shoot me an email any time soon? That would be great.

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My friend Roberto and Ryan talking about the latest tattoos Roberto did on Facebook.

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Some funny things people have google searched for, only to end up here, include:

-"neck dickie"
-black nails from running
-stubble armpits
-what is the most ingredients in potato chips?
-does a fuckin sneeze stink?
-what kinds of things are in space?
-mummified-rat-skeleton
-squirrel target
-bloody boobs pic
-moldy vagina

Wow. I am so proud! *single tear*

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Yeti the cat has come out of hiding, after a year of hissing at the dog from our bedroom door! It's a miracle! Yes, she is gigantic. And yes, I was wearing my toque in the house, it was cold!

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Three new blogs I am loving lately are this one, this one, and this one. 

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I don't know if you noticed, but it was daylight savings time again. Every single time it comes around I can NOT wrap my brain around the time change. I literally have to ask somebody "Okay if it is nine in the morning now, what time would it be after the time change?" To me "falling back" and "springing forward" do not compute, time-wise. I am terrible at spacio-temporal abstractions. I just made that term up, do you like it? Anyway, last week I tried to get up at six in the morning and accidentally got up at four. Please feel free to mock me at length about this.

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This whole random blog post thing is super fun for me, I think I'm going to do it more often.  Unless everybody hated it. Did you hate it?

Things I Love Thursday

This week I love that we don't have to hear a frightening clunking noise coming from our kitchen anymore, thanks to "the cave", our new black fridge. I also love...

How to get calm in a world full of crazy. 

Being mentioned on the Tales of a Tumbleweed blog! YES!

That Juggalos in the USA are considered a real gang threat according to the FBI! (pg.21) Hahaha!

The ridiculous Christian tracts that AmySchmamey found in her kids' Halloween bags. Seriously follow the link and read them, they are outrageous! I can't believe they're real! So harsh.

Phone booth ads replaced by Trustocorp.

Robin Melway's beautiful photos, found via Zoe. 

Layers. 

On being 'nice'.

I can't remember but I think I posted this before, they're worth repeating anyway...octopus kites! 

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The "NONONONO" cat. 

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All about porn for women.

Rainbow ants. 

This Thomas Hooper/Chris O'Donnell collaboration.

The 50 things every creative should know.

PUNJAMMIES. They're cool looking pajama pants AND the company helps ladies get out of a life of prostitution. Check out the 'about' section after you drool over the pants. I would like them all.

Like washi tape? Click here! 

Paper dynamite! 

My step mom is growing out her leg hair for movember?? hahaha 

Bringing mortality back into culture. Ask a mortician is a very interesting idea, I hope she continues making videos because I am super curious about this stuff but am kind of afraid to look it up on my own. I like that it's just a funny friendly girl answering real questions.  

Good lord I love linguists. People are always afraid of something "destroying their language". Well fear not, Tweeters, because Mark Lieberman has dispelled the myth that Twitter is making words shorter. I didn't even know that was a thing. But anyway, it's not.

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This 'learn something every day' illustration. 

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This glass beach. So pretty! 

Kosovo in polaroids. 

Post it war!

The dark art of pricing.

Kaylah's most recent photos of mushrooms. 

This illustration about why grammar is so important!

Shutterbugs, the web series.

Rare photos of Ernest Hemmingway and the Cuban village he was staying in when he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. Um, yes, this is exactly what I pictured when I read it. Awesome!

Springbok puzzles. Yes please!

About a week ago I posted a little something about wanting to build a pizzle puzzle. (I thought I'd leave that typo there because it's half pizza, half puzzle...which you'll see in a moment!) Anyway, a rad reader named Lindsay Bean commented and told me to look up Springbok puzzles, because they are the best. And boy was she right!

The company has been around since the mid-'60s from what I can tell, and you can find some radical vintage puzzles on Ebay. Check out some of my favorites...

How cool are these? I mean seriously. Oh yeah, here's the pizzle:

Die Antwoord - nsfw post!

Ay yai yai, this video creeps me out so very much. Mega NSFW, with very creepy men and a very strange Yo-Landi, a ridiculous mustache, much swearing, bugs on people's faces, home made tattoos and such words as 'faggot' and 'fuck you in the ass' all up in there. I thought the second video was more interesting than the music video, Ninja defends explains their use of the word faggot in the song.

In our kitchen...photos!

My dad and step mom bought me these cool red frames for my birthday last year, and I thought I'd share a few of the photos I filled them with.



Those first two are the best. One is Ryan ... in Mexico ... with a snake around his neck. He doesn't really remember what was happening but is disturbed that his parents let this happen.

The other one is me on my 25th birthday. Like my Atomic Turquoise dreadlocks? That may have been the prettiest color I ever had on my head. And that shirt, it's bright pink and says "PREP" across it in huge lime green lettering...what I wouldn't freaking do for another one of those shirts. If anyone knows where I can find one, you know, um, tell me.

These next two are photos I took with my Holga. The first one is Yeti the cat, and then I drew on her blurry cat face with a sharpie. The other one is a poster one of the kids had in his room. I triple exposed that bitch using different colored flashes. It turned out pretty cool!

 The bird graffiti photo was taken on a ferry from the top of Vancouver Island on the way to Bella Coola. (Click here to see what the heck I'm talking about...it was a crazy ferry ride but that's a story for another time.) The other one is of a couple puppets I bought in Puebla Mexico in 2007, taken with a lomography fisheye camera.

 And this last picture I took when I went to Cuba last year. It's neat how a boring old beach scenery photo can look so interesting when it's taken out of context.

So in conclusion...does anyone know where to find one of those PREP shirts? 

I'm serious.

leaf dog fridge

1. It's just a leaf one morning. But I liked how the sun was shining through it.
2. Tank after his bath, look how squeaky pink his nose wrinkles and ears are, aww.
3. Our old crappy fridge finally died, so we got "the cave", this black beauty.