Links May 16, 2007

(above) Life: A new drama series about a cop who was just released after serving a decade in prison. It stars the guys from Dreamcatchers. This looks good. The main character is kinda witty like House, but with more west-coast new-age charm, less east-coast bitterness and a little bit more west-coast [...]

With reference to the previous post… May 8, 2007

John Gabriel’s Theory -> Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = ?(via Penny-Arcade)

Gra·no·la (gr&-’nO-l&) Noun May 8, 2007

1) An individual who believes that their lifestyle is one of holistic and natural bliss, but in reality, it is wrought with naivety and reflects a consumerist/materialist vapidity.
2) A fake. A phony.
3) A complex self-contradicting simpleton who advocates a natural organic lifestyle but is unaware of the real environmental cost of their existence. Examples:

An individual [...]

Conversation with an Indigo* cashier May 8, 2007

Clerk: Did you have any trouble finding your books?
Me: No, but I had trouble reaching them. Why did you guys put all the Haruki Murakami and Vonnegut books on a shelf?
Clerk: Oh, people had been stealing the Vonnegut and Chuck Palahniuk books, so we put those up there.
Me: So people have to climb up to [...]

Voici Spiderman, il est ‘Emo’* May 6, 2007

I just caught Spiderman 3. Kudos to director / writer Sam Raimi for managing to sell a love story to the male dominated comic-books crowd. I had low expectations going in

From soccer moms to helicopter parents May 5, 2007

A U of W professor is coming out with a new book criticizing how students today ‘chase’ top marks without working hard to earn them.
I think that’s pretty true. In third year, I remember overhearing a Prada + trendy-yoga-wear-clad-tube-tan girl complaining about her first C (ever!). The funny thing was, when her friend asked whether [...]

I knew Emo(s) have it against Wal-Mart May 4, 2007

Like a true David and Goliath story: A supermarket in Emo, Ontario, is supplementing its stock by buying Sam’s Club’s goods and reselling them at a price lower than the Wal-Mart owned chain. (via Kottke)
Aside: when I first moved to Vancouver, I asked people where the nearest Wal-Mart was. Boy did I get strange looks.
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A Shark versus A House! May 3, 2007

I love the show House because Hugh Laurie is playing the anti-hero you want to hate. The character is acerbic enough to make you want to kick him in the junk, but complex enough to make you want to empathize with him. His drug dependencies is explained by his insufferable pain, his cynicisms [...]

Home again, naturally. May 1, 2007

During my trip from yvr to yyz on Air Canada today, a girl I was chatting with described the T.Dot as ‘brown’. I wanted to ask if that was a metaphor, but then I thought better of myself.
The flight was not too eventful. It did however make me understand how great Harmony Airways. Unlike HMY, [...]