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July 29th, 2010

Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer

I just found this hilarious scene from 2001′s Wet Hot American Summer. Paul Rudd plays Andy, the unbelievably obnoxious sleazeball bully. Probably the funniest scene in that movie takes place in the cafeteria.

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May 27th, 2010

Working in Saskatchewan

My summer job at the University of Saskatchewan library deals with cataloging and archiving some important documents from a B.C. Supreme Court case. It’s not the most exciting thing in the world, but some of the material can be rather interesting. Archiving in general is an area I had never thought about much but there are archivists around the world doing the legwork so we can have an accurate idea of history.

The Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists recently completed an online gallery of work images from Saskatchewan. There are lots of great images going back decades. Here are some interesting ones:


“This com-poo-terr machine is a marvel. Feed it a dozen loaves of bread and it will actually write your name for you on a piece of paper! Boy, what are they gonna think of next?”


“Go on, Bobby, just keep chippin’ away at that rock. The three of us will supervise so you don’t hurt yourself. Remember that if you need a break, it’ll come out of your pay.”


“Remember the drill, boys. We throw the horses into the fire and if that doesn’t stop it, we call the police.”


“All right boys, it’s lunchtime. Come on, those horses aren’t gonna eat themselves.


“This is just awful. My grandmother could mix a better batch of cocaine than you. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is cottage cheese.”


“What’s going on? Are you two up to any shenanigans out here? A bank’s reputation is built on how quiet and motionless its staff is, so if I see you two — I saw that Theodore! That’s it, you get another six hours in the cage!”


“Used to be I had to go to the park and expose myself to one or two children at a time. Now with this fancy printing press, I can just leaflet the entire neighbourhood with naked pictures of myself.”


“That’s odd, I can’t find the name anywhere. I’m starting to suspect that “Gofuk Yorself” isn’t even a real name, or maybe it’s been misfiled. Sounds Dutch, whatever it is.

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May 27th, 2010

Some interesting spam comments

The trouble with running any site is the huge volume of spam one gets. Luckily WordPress has a great spam catcher to fight the sea of porn and penis pills. I was looking through my spam comments today and found a few gems. Each one seems to have a particular strategy to win you over.

The Flatterer

Woah, this guy really likes my blogging.

Definitely agree with that which you stated. Your explanation was certainly the perfect to understand. I say to you, I usually get irked when folks discuss problems that they plainly do not know about. You managed to kick the nail at the top and explained out everything without complication. Maybe, people can take a signal. Will more than likely return to obtain additional. Thanks.

The Confuser

What does that last line even mean?

Took me time to scan all the comments, but I undeniably enjoyed the article. It proved to be Vastly helpful to me and I am undeviating to all the commenters here! It’s many times subtle when you can not just be alert to, but also entertained! I’m unflinching you had rag theme this article.

Even More Confusing

This guy is even harder to understand… and he seems to be arguing with inanimate objects.

Me and my old china were arguing apropos an question major alike resemble to this! Conditions I skilled in that I was right. lol! Thanks after the knowledge you post.

The Double-Crosser

This spam comment is disguised as a question about how to fight spam comments. Hmm…

Howdy, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.

The Concerned Fan

I would have loved to be at the meeting where this spam comment was devised.

Do you think Brad and Jen will ever get back together? I have never been totally convinced that they really wanted to separate.

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May 24th, 2010

My latest obsession: MSTRKRFT and the Fresh Prince

This is hardly a new clip, but I’ve been watching it repeatedly for the last week. It’s an old clip from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with DJ Jazzy Jeff playing drums while Will Smith does some funky ’90s dancing. The song, “Bounce” by MSTRKRFT, is also pretty infectious.

I wonder if I can get that shuffle down before the next night out.

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May 20th, 2010

Flickr finds

This is clever. Imagine a fireball.

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May 18th, 2010

New LCD Soundsystem album out today

LCD Soundsystem’s third and probably last album This Is Happening is out today. The first single “Drunk Girls” has a chaotic video directed by Spike Jonze (embedded below) that subjects James Murphy and the band to some pretty rough treatment.

A much better song, though, is the slow-burning nine-minute “You Wanted A Hit,” which has already spawned a bunch of remixes.

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LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted A Hit

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May 16th, 2010

This is Birdemic!


Oh. My. God.

Birdemic: Shock and Terror is likely going to go down as being a better awful movie than even Troll 2. Birdemic was written and directed by James Nguyen, a 42-year-old “mid-level software salesman in Silicon Valley” who doesn’t deny that his movie was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, but Nguyen has added so much more to the killer bird genre. For one thing, the birds in Birdemic can explode.

Trailer

The old cliche is to “write what you know” and Nguyen has made his male lead Rod into a software salesman just like himself. Then there’s Natalie, a beautiful young fashion model driven by… passion. The two of them spend the first half of the movie falling in love. The second half is all about the swarms of birds who inexplicably attack humans, poop acid and explode on impact. Other than that, there seem to be a lot of long panning shots of nothing in particular, just for the sake of panning.

Birdemic will have its Canadian premiere in Toronto on May 20, but the film’s website allows for people to contact the Birdemic crew to get the movie screened in your town. I’m going to start a campaign to get Birdemic to Saskatoon or I will die trying — possibly from bird-related causes.

Here’s a truly awful scene from the movie, complete with terrible special effects. Be warned: the bird noises may deafen you or drive you to madness.

The eagles are coming!

If you are not convinced that this movie is amazing, read this hilarious Toronto Star piece that talks about how the hapless Nguyen made his movie (over four years) and managed to get a distribution deal with Severin Films.

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May 15th, 2010

Flickr finds

Look at these two best buds, having a laugh and touching one another’s backs with their hands and unbuttoning the bottom buttons of their suit jackets and wearing colourful ties. Total BFFs.

“Thank goodness that dour Gordon Brown isn’t around,” one of them might chortle.

“Yes, good riddance to bad rubbish,” the other will undoubtedly agree. Jolly good fun.

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May 3rd, 2010

Flickr finds

The Cumberland River, swollen by two days of drenching thunderstorms, has flooded the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. About a dozen people so far have died as a result.

Flooding in Nashville

Flooding in Nashville

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images: Tabitha Kaylee Hawk

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May 2nd, 2010

The Huffington Post wants you to be prepared

The Huffington Post had some rotating images on their front page about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This screenshot does not make me think of oil so much as a bathroom accident.

No toilet paper? Always be prepared.

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