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    Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
    3:27 pm
    Haven't been here in a long while.

    Hello.
    Monday, October 12th, 2009
    12:50 pm
    Oooo   . . . Long time, no post. Sorry.

    Boys and girls: Don't do drugs!




    Thursday, September 24th, 2009
    11:14 pm
    When perambulating about Trent to the other, one always overhears interesting, but this might actually take the cake. This is entirely as overheard today on the bridge. It was all said quite audibly. And in the middle of a crowd.

    Guy: So . . . last night I pissed my sheets.
    Girl: No way! Really?
    Guy: Yup.
    Girl: Did you wash them afterward?
    Guy: Huh-Huh . . . nope.


    Some people!
    Thursday, August 13th, 2009
    7:28 pm
    Dear friends.

    Watch this. Be happy.


    Yours in [emotion],

    Earl

    Friday, July 24th, 2009
    9:09 pm
    Today, driving into the Y, I saw the most beautiful rainbow I've seen in years. It looked like you could touch it.

    Right next to it was a garish red LED billboard proclaiming "LIVE SNAKE SHOW".

    I'm glad to live in a world that allows such juxtapositions.
    Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
    9:33 pm
    A favourite composer of mine, who you probably haven't heard of, is Camille Saint-Saens. I have just learned that, at age 10, he gave a piano concert where, as an encore, he offered to play whichever one of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas that the audience might please - BY MEMORY. These are like 10-15 minute pieces on average here, people.

    And some of us think we have talent . . .
    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
    6:58 pm
    This is something everybody should see . . .


    Apparently Seth MacFarlane, for one, already has . . .






    Friday, July 10th, 2009
    8:26 pm
    Okay . . . so I'm officially the Chosen One. I just need to learn what I'm chosen for here. See, today I saw some kind of Buddhist Monk. Now, I'd expect one maybe downtown or something, but just now I was driving through the remoter reaches of a subdivision in the west end and I saw this guy who was full on monked-out. Like we're talking dark skin, shaved head, red robes and even some kind of string of wooden beads he was holding in your hand. He looked like the runner-up in a Gahndi look-alike contest.

    Now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a guy looking like this. I've got all kinds of respect for his religion and his devotion to it, but COME ON. If you know Peterborough, you know this isn't the kind of thing you're likely to see. Particularly not in a west-end subdivision PARTICULARLY not in the same week you see a tie-dyed wizard and a trio of unicycling-goons.

    See what I mean? Chosen one, I'm telling you.
    Sunday, June 14th, 2009
    7:07 pm
    On my drive home from work the other day, I saw both a man dressed in tie-dyed wizard robes (with a wizard hat too) and three unicyclists doing stalls on the edge of a fountain. I'm wondering if I might be some kind of Chosen One who is starting to receive glimpses into a parallel universe where that might actually make sense.
    Saturday, May 30th, 2009
    11:52 am
    This just in. Consumers everywhere, look out for possessed batteries!

    Proof:






    Saturday, May 9th, 2009
    10:15 pm
    It's possible I'm the only one who hasn't seen this, but just in case I'm not, I HAD to share it here.


    Wow. In so many ways, wow.

    Monday, April 27th, 2009
    1:45 pm
    Dear Single Ukranian Woman who, according to her polite but abrupt e-mail would like to be my beautiful wife,

    Thanks but no thanks.

    Yours Respectfully,
    Earl



    In sadder news, I've been spending the last few days mourning Bea Arthur. I mean, of all the Golden Girls, who thought she'd be the first to go. [After some research, it turns out she was actually the second to go; seems poor Estelle Getty slipped off unnoticed.]

    I mean really, where would we be without performances like this one? Definitely keeps the laughter rolling:


    (PS - Watch this video to the end, you won't be disappointed)

    Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
    6:01 pm
    So . . . I'm not one to complain about change. It's healthy. And so the new Facebook doesn't really bother me (in fact it has some quite nice points), but I did have one rather amusing confusion today.

    I was recently added by an elementary school peer who(m . . .but that always sounds hoity-toity) I hadn't seen since I graduated Grade Eight. Even then, we were never really close because I bit her once in Grade One when she wouldn't share the blocks, and, while it left a good impression of my teeth, it also left a rather bad one of my personality. I asked her, on her wall, if she remembered the time I bit her and she responded, on mine, with "how could I forget Earl" (note the lack of comma, this will add to the confusion).

    Not quite so up with the new Facebook, I was looking at my profile today, but thinking I was looking at my newsfeed . The result of this was that I took her wall posting to be a status update.

    And you can imagine how creepy it is to be added by someone you haven't seen in seven years and have them change their status to "how could I forget Earl". I was partway through filing the restraining order before I even realized my mistake.
    Monday, March 16th, 2009
    1:45 pm
    Hello All,

    Today I learned that two famous figures of the twentieth century theatre, Samuel Beckett and Antonin Artaud, were both, at some point in their lives, stabbed by a pimp.

    Isn't life just chalk full of delightful little surprises?

    - Earl
    Sunday, March 15th, 2009
    12:58 pm
    Dear Spring,

    THANK YOU FOR ARRIVING!

    Yours,
    Earl


    (PS - I found this awesome music video on YouTube. It definitely competes with the Squirrel Nut Zipper's video for The Ghost of Stephen Foster for my all-time favourite music video. I've been a little obsessed with this song lately, and my rampant YouTube searching of it has brought be to this little gem!)


    And, for an interesting comparison, here's a TOTALLY different interpretation of the song, also from Nina Simone. I think I hear Beethoven in there, don't you?



    Thursday, March 12th, 2009
    9:04 pm
    Have you seen this shit yet? It's bananas.

    We're gonna take Millbrook by storm!



    Thursday, March 5th, 2009
    10:32 pm
    Today I bumped into an amazing young guy I worked with this summer. He was one of the counsellors-in-training that I trained up all good and stuff. He told me, with due pride, that he had gotten into the arts program at PCVS for visual art. I was quite pleased for him, and put my hand out, palm up, hoping for a high five. Instead, he took my hand and shook it.

    Now, perhaps I presented at an awkward angle and sent out the wrong signal, but I thought to myself afterwards: "My word, here I am thinking I'm cool enough for high five, and I'm getting handshakes instead."

    God, I'm getting old.
    Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
    11:19 pm
    Hmmm . . . I'm still here and still alive. I even have lots to say, still . . . but no time to say it, right now.

    Just thought you'd like to know.

    - Earl
    Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
    4:14 pm
    On the Big Screen, Forthcoming
     So . . . why does nobody tell me these things?

    As though the upcoming Watchmen film wasn't enough, it seems Hollywood is becoming a virtual nerd-a-paloosa this March (and early April). What a godsend for us nerds, tired of the high-brow artistic shit that comes out around Oscar season.

    See, I just found out that there are two more upcoming films I want to see. First, a remake of the 1975 classic "Escape to Witch Mountain" called "Race to Witch Mountain" featuring the original kids in cameo roles and - who else - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Re-made seventies kitsch AND a professional-wrestler-turned-actor? I am SO there. (I wish I was actually as sarcastic as I sound . . . I actually plan to see this movie in theatres, I swear.)

    And as if that wasn't enough, we also have what is, for me, the most exciting theatrical event since I saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno in early September. Maybe I'm the only one who was totally unaware, but in case I wasn't, you'll be excited to learn that April 9th will herald the release of a live-action version of Dragonball, that's right - DRAGONBALL! This one features Chow Yun-Fat AND the guy who played Angel in Buffy. Plus, it's freakin' Dragonball - how could you NOT be excited. 

    I think I saw three movies in theatres in 2009 (if you don't count multiple visits to Sweeney Todd and Zack and Miri), and this will be three movies in just over a month, but Witch Mountain! Dragonball! It's like my childhood's come to visit me all over again! How pleasant.
    Friday, January 16th, 2009
    9:59 pm
    On a Similar Note as the Last One . . .
     Yes friends, when my TA is talking to one of the girls across the lab and I hear them say "Why don't you try sucking it off" or "Use just a little more suction - oh! not too much!", I do know that they're suggesting using a vacuum line to remove a solvent from a product  . . . but labs are so much more entertaining if you close your eyes and pretend they aren't.
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