New words from Barrie, where payday loan outfits outnumber Tim Hortonses and people will tan themselves till they’re blind and leathery but will scream their little lungs out at a town meeting opposing the construction of a new cell tower for fear of “radiations.”
downposit: n. The $200-$1000 security deposit demanded by a cellular phone company [...]
Rogers is using “The Holy Ground” by the High Dials (mp3, 4.2MB) in their television commercials shilling their new mobile download service. I have a few things to say about that.
I was unaware that the High Dials really existed. Given the complete lack of attention they have received from anyone outside of little clubs in [...]
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Posted 22 February 2007
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You fucked up. Consider it a loss of judgment; a breakdown in judgment. Some kind of judgment failure — a failure to, you know, have judgment. Now Orson Scott Card is dead.
It’s hard to remember, it was dream-like, ethereal, and a lot like Card’s short story, “A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon.” You quit [...]