Growing the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Went to a greenhouse the other day and peeked into the back room and found thousands and thousands of baby poinsetta plants. So I took a picture to show just how insane our Christmas consumerism has become.

But, come a month and a half from now, I'd be pissed if I couldn't buy a poinsetta if it weren't for these mass productions, so who am I to point fingers?

Which reminds me, is it POIN-SET-AH or POIN-SETTY-AH? I like the first option. The other one sounds ridiculous. Which also reminds me that I've heard really strange pronunciations of two words lately on radio news programs. "Neandrathal" pronounced NEE-ANN-DRA-TALL (Tall instead of THAWL), and "fungi" pronounced FUN-GEE. As in, "GEE, that was FUN eating those mushrooms" instead of "I had FUN eating those mushrooms."

My beef about these stupid pronunciations is not that they're incorrect, because technically, they're not, but that they're a way for smart people to yet again make themselves feel important by confusing the commoners. It's smarty-pants way of sorta separating the wheat from the chaff-- if you say THAWL instead of TALL, you give yourself away as not being smart enough to know that there is an alternate pronunciation because if you did, surely you'd be using it! All the cool anthropologists and mushroomologists do!

Furthermore, what does this mean for all the "fungi/fun-guy" jokes out there? Fun-gee doesn't work. Unless...

What do you call a French mushroom?

A FUN-GEE!

..........
...
..it's a damn shame.

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Fancy Things

I know that when I buy figs, I only buy the large EXTRA fancy ones. How can something be extra fancy? Is it not enough just to be fancy anymore?

Speaking of fancy things, who do you think makes fake art and artifacts? I mean, how do you get into that line of work? You obviously have to be artisic and smart but at the same time, a total grifter. I've listed it as a possible career choice on my "job back-up plan" list. Also included on this list? Tea enthusiast, baby holder (hospital position where all I do is hold babies) and tree fort architect.

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Too Much of a Good Thing?

It's come to my attention lately that I'm a bit of a glutton. No, sorry, let me rephrase that. I have a tendancy for gluttony. And I'm not just talking food (although I do like to gluttonize my food)...

E.g. The quadruple stuff Oreo. That's right, two double stuff Oreo's pushed together to make one giant stuff.





Oh yeah.

Anyway, I don't just do it with food. I do it with exercise (I can't just 'take a yoga class') I have to like, become a YOGA FANATIC. Or I can't just watch tv. I have to download a series and watch episodes back to back without commercials. My current obsession is Mad Men, I'm halfway though season 3. But I don't just do this with TV, books too. I become obsessed with certain authors and must read all their books immediately.

So...is there such a thing as having too much of a good thing? Sure, with food or TV it's easy to see the downfall, but what about in other areas?

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It's Magic

Ciaran balanced a paint brush on the kitchen table tonight. For serious. There is no trickery here.

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The Unthinkable

Just saw this sign while walking to a job interview downtown.




It's just so full of attitude. I just love it! I TOTALLY want to spray paint "(Z-snap)" underneath it. So awesome.

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Welcome to the 21st Century!

This may (hopefully) look like a regular blog post to you but I'm actually posting through my iPhone. Which is insane. And which also means that I can update random things when I see them more often.

I know, i'm probably late getting on the bandwagon with this...but who cares! It's cool.

Almost as cool as this:





Yep. This posting thing is 'goats in a tree' wicked. That's how cool it is.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Conversations in 8

Some of you might already be following me on Twitter, but for those who aren't, I wanted to share the weird "conversation" I had with the Magic 8 Ball Twitter bot that automatically answers all yes/no questions. To be clear, the Magic 8 Ball Twitter bot found ME after I posted the first witty posting below.

Me: Q: how does one decided to buy a magic 8 ball if one doesn't already OWN a magic 8 ball to consult with about said purchase of a magic 8 ball?

8 Ball: Hello! I'm your friendly neighbourhood 8-ball. If you have a question, direct it at me and I'll respond in a minute. :)

Me: realz?

8 Ball: 67.43% chance of yes!

Me: okay...magic 8 ball, are you gay?

8 Ball: Signs point to yes!

Me: do you enjoy spaghetti?

(no answer for some time)

Me: please answer. I demand to know if you enjoy spaghetti?! It's important!

8 Ball: Obviously, yes!

Me: Magic 8 Ball, should I become a rock star?

8 Ball: Goodness, no. Don't ever ask me that again either!

Me: Ha! Joke's on you. I already AM a rock star! One more question Magic 8 Ball, should I talk to my doctor about my crippling pain?

8 Ball: Can't help you here. :(

Me: last time I went to the doctor he said, "outlook not so good", what do you think Magic 8 Ball?

(no reply).


I'll try and get some more answers on some pressing questions from the Magic 8 Ball and let you know. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. In the meantime, check me out on Twitter!

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Dogs and Lady Tools

We were in Chapters last night, in the magazine section, and I just had to take a photo of this one dog magazine. (FYI, there are SEVERAL dog-specific magazines). Anyway, just read the articles posted on the cover. 'Reduce Fido's eco footprint?', 'Take Better Photos of Your Dog'? Plus further down it says 'Blog about your Dog'. What the....? How is it possible that this magazine still exists? A magazine that describes itself as "the best dog magazine ever"?? How is this possible when Gourmet recently had to shut down? It boggles the mind.

Another thing that boggles my mind is this:


Yep. Pink lady tools. Now I know there are a lot of breast cancer pink things out there to raise amazing amounts of money, which is great, but in some cases the pepto-pink lady thing has gone far enough. I believe that you shouldn't be using the pink-lady colour unless you are planning on donating a seriously sizable amount to cancer research. None of this "10% will go to breast cancer research" bullshit. Where's the other 90% going? It's not covering the cost of making these crappy pink tools, they were made for $1.50 in China. It's going to the company that came up with the idea of "lady-tools" and using breast cancer as the giant trojan horse that covers up the fact that they're not really interested in donating, like, tonnes of money to cancer research, they just want to use the pink-cancer brand to help them sell something to women even though women are perfectly capable of fixing/building things with tools that are not pink (hard to beleive, but yes, it's true!).

Perhaps I'm wrong about this one...but it irks me.

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