Today Lynda flagged down the Hydro crew as they were cutting down trees, and arranged to have them drop off the wood chips in our driveway for use as mulch on our pathways and garden beds. As I stood watching them feed whole trees as big as 8 or 10 inches in diameter effortlessly into the chipper, I was of course reminded of this scene from the movie Fargo. Now we have a pile of woodchips in our driveway the size of a Buick, and I’m hoping I don’t find the remains of anything (or anybody) else in there as we spread it around the place. I do enjoy free stuff though.
(YouTube movie)
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Festival Express Poster
It’s 1970, the year after Woodstock. And now, right here in Canada, another sure-to-be-epic rock festival is selling tickets via this very poster. The Trans Continental Pop Festival was a 1970 tour across Canada by some of the world’s biggest rock bands, including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and The Band.
It later became known as Festival Express, which is also the name of the documentary film that would eventually emerge.
The bands travelled across Canada on a private train between the gigs, which became a party / jam session of epic proportions. Some of this mayhem — along with actual concert footage — was captured on film, but not seen until Festival Express’s 2003 premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, 33 years after the original event.
I just found this poster in some old papers, and I’m very excited. Also very old, since I was at this show, in both Toronto and Calgary!!
I have several of these, and also a couple of copies of the original newsprint program for the events. I think I may just look into this whole E-Bay thing…
Where’s our John, John?
Our favourite contractor, John Marriage, is a funny guy. Maybe a little funny-peculiar (aren’t we all) but mostly funny-haha. He used to be one of those TV-show contractors, but decided he would get a real job instead. As a former rival, he has strong opinions about our favourite TV-show contractor, Mike Holmes . I feel that Mike Holmes has important lessons for homeowners to learn about the renovation process, whereas John feels that he’s a big poopy-head, or something. I dunno, who listens.
Anyway, our bathroom renovation is well underway, i.e. we no longer HAVE a bathroom. Just bare walls and some Ditra. (….mmmmm, Ditra……) After a few days of no progress in moving things forward, it was with a heavy heart that I called John to let him know that I was getting very stinky and wanted my shower…
His return message (we never speak directly, I’m a very busy man, what with the naps and the going out for milk) was informative and his reasons credible, and I am no longer concerned that he has abandoned us for a return to the limelight.
At the end of his message, John said “Gee, I hope you’re not going to put all this in your Blog”.
No John, I would never do that.
I am the Most Interesting Hippie on Flickr
If you go to Flickr (arguably the world’s best photo-sharing web site, according to themselves) and Search “Everyone’s Uploads”, “tags only”, using the word “hippie” and sort by “most interesting”, guess who shows up as Number One??
Ya, baby, put that in your pipe and smoke it…
Here’s the search link if you don’t believe me:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hippie&m=tags&s=int
My new glasses are by Gucci
These are my old glasses.
The Sello tape is not just decorative.
I can hardly wait to get my new glasses…
Subtitled Joe Cocker
Laugh-out-loud funniest thing I’ve seen in a while…
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Stitch Guide
So my wife asks me to scan an article from a needlework magazine. No problem. So I’m looking over the file before I give it to her, and I see what you see here.
At first I’m thinking “Hmm, looks like the OCR screwed up”. Then I realized I wasn’t doing OCR, I was scanning in Photoshop as JPG’s.
So it’s actually supposed to be like this.
Pat Condell – A secular world is a sane world
From Wikipedia:
Pat Condell (born November 1, 1951) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality. An outspoken atheist, Condell hosts a series of widely-viewed short video monologues denouncing religion.
(YouTube Video)
Cornelia with new chicks Cameron and Creemore
New Lady Amherst Pheasant chicks, hatched June 27th, 2008. Our friend Emma suggested the names, carrying the "C" theme from proud parents Corny and Cornelia, and also referencing two local craft beers, which I can get behind totally…
After brooding in her brooding box for a couple of weeks, two of the dozen-or-so eggs Cornelia was sitting on finally produced these little puffballs. This is their third day.
9/11’s a Lie, 9/11’s a Lie
The power of disco shall free us from tyranny.
(YouTube video)