Well, there goes the neighbourhood.

from c|net: Blog neighborhood gets Trump’ed

Man…getting frantic emails/IMs from a brother about your mother being in the hospital while you’re listening to a voicemail from a friend who’s clearly upset after the horrific 16 weeks she’s just spent on a murder trial…that shit’ll take years off your life.

From the CBC: Sleeman blames NHL lockout, cool weather for job cuts

“We had a challenging quarter due to the wet and cool spring across the country, the National Hockey League lockout and continued price discounting in our key markets…”

“Cool weather”? Has this idiot been outside in the last few months?

Go watch this short film on Zed. It’s hilarious.

Pria

Darwinian.

From The Globe and Mail: skin cancers on the rise among young.

From Reuters: S.Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games.

I’ve never been the biggest Kevin Bacon fan. I fucking hate Footloose. Some of his supporting roles have been ok (JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, etc.) but for the most part he’s not one of my favourites. But he deserves all the praise he’s gotten for his role in The Woodsman (imdb | rotten tomatoes). He swung from victimized & sympathetic to creepy & disturbed, and took us with him. Obviously part of the praise for that has to go to director Nicole Kassell, and much of the tone of the film came from the supporting characters, especially Kyra Sedgwick and Mos Def.

One of the best movies I’ve seen all year. It’s very uncomfortable at times, but definitely worth watching.

Nothing like a little Atari Teenage Riot to wake one up in the morning.

“Fuck All” indeed.

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that some electronics companies are refunding the $25 ‘anti-piracy levy’ they charged their customers for MP3 players. I’m not even on the list of companies that’s doling out refunds; I just love the fact that the CRIA is getting their noses rubbed in it.

Hoo hah. My “Music + Science = Sexy” t-shirt arrived today.

Listen here, Globe and Mail, if you won’t let us read your columnists’ content without signing up and paying you $8 a month, then DON’T PUT MASSIVE SPOILERS IN THE FUCKING HEADLINES!!! You just ruined two years worth of Six Feet Under for me.

Assholes.