If you cast your eyes above, you’ll see the new-ish, “Prada-ized” Freyburg.com logo, courtesy of Soul Brotha #1, Winson Lai. Winson also did the sexy anime chick downwards and to the left. I wasn’t aware my glasses made me look like an evil bastard (in cartoon form, at any rate), but the evidence is right in front of you.
Here’s an interesting article about a Afghani-Canadian who spent the last 14 months in Kabul, and some of the problems she encountered while she was over there.
You only have two days to get 2004’s scariest Halloween costumes.
Looks like our favorite bearded crazy man is back.
I wonder if this latest missive from Bin Laden is a signal to his minions to unleash some pre-election chicanery. I also wondered, while I was reading his screed, why anyone follows this guy. Quite frankly, his rants are confusing, long winded and don’t make a hell of a lot of sense. Of course, I’m a decadent Westerner who grew up in a Judeo-Christian culture, so what do I know? Maybe this stuff is gangbusters in the Middle East, at least among a certain segment of the population. It got 19 people to sacrifice their lives, so Bin Laden obviously knows what’s what in the “convincing the true believer” department.
The other thing that bothers me is that, yes, it’s absolutely terrible that 3000 people died on 9/11. But a report came out just recently that the Americans have killed 100,000 Iraqis (and counting) and somehow that’s not seen as a far worse crime, despite the fact the invasion of Iraq was at root just as pre-emptive as the 9/11 attacks were.
Edmonton isn’t known as the most attractive city in the whole wide world, but these desktops from an Edmonton photographer sure make the E look purty.
Sorry I didn’t put anything up yesterday, but I was stuck (voluntarily) up in a cabin on Apex Mountain watching the Red Sox-Cardinals games with a fellow ink stained wretch. Despite the satellite dish, the internet connectivity wasn’t exactly “fiber to the woodpile out back”, so no updates from the backwoods.
In order to get back to Osoyoos in time for work this morning, I had to leave around 5:30 a.m., drive down a steep, windy and snowy mountain, and zip through another windy (but thankfully flat) road through the Penticton Indian Band’s reserve before zipping out of Penticton back to Osoyoos. That was a little stressful, and it strained my “Green N” powers to their limit.
But now I’m back, so all’s well.
I have no idea why I didn’t post on this before, but some enterprising fellow invented a TV turner-offer. “So what?” you say, “my remote does that already!” Ah, but does your remote turn off any TV in a given area, regardless of make or model?
I know what I want under my Xmas tree!
Here’s an interview with the guy behind Get Your War On. Sorry I can’t post more, got still more stuff to write for the paper.
I’ve got a few things to burble about, but I have to haul my ass into work and crank out a bunch of articles. Hopefully I’ll be able to spew forth bile and info tonight.