Dollar Eighty-Two
Do not worry. You are being controlled.
I gave into my internalized consumerist tendancies and went shopping today.
I spent way too much money.
One Starbucks Coffee of the Day Tall. Dollar Eighty-Two.
Oddly enough the handful of dimes, nickels and pennies in my pocket came out to exactly one dollar and eighty-two cents. My pockets were completely empty of change. I assumed this was some kind of sign so I stepped outside to have a smoke with my coffee and contemplate this otherwordly coincidence. Downtown Winnipeg is a strange place. Before I even lit my own, I had sold two cigarettes, an expired bus transfer and a bus ticket. Once again, my pockets were jingling.
Got some new music today.
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Tool - Lateralus
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (this album is hot, check it out)
In The News
From today's Globe and Mail.
1. One of the last living Nazi death camp survivors gives a speech to the UN to a half empty room of yawning world representatives and asks the questions "Will the world ever learn?"
2. The East Asian tsunami killed all the pirates in Indonesia. I guess that's a good thing.
3. The wicked-strength painkiller Vioxx which got pulled off the shelf a few months back is probably responsible for over 40 000 deaths in the United States. Profit over health equals profit.
4. Right-wing Satan-incarnate Stephen Harper is causing a lot of ruckus over the same-sex marriage in Canada.
5. The Martimes got a lot of snow (or at least they think they did).
6. Cattle feed that may have contained BSE was probably used after 1997 ban of feed using animal parts. It's not like mad cow is lethal or anything.
7. Yuschenko and Putin meet for talks. They give each other dirty looks.
A couple of court cases . . .
8. In 2002 in Nanaimo a man shot his wife with a sawed-off shotgun at gas station in front of their daughter, who was thirteen at the time. He was quoted saying to his friends, "A twenty-five cent bullet is cheaper than a divorce." And I was quoted thinking, "How stupid can you be?"
9. In 2003 a girl taped a phone conversation with her boyfriend, who was a self-proclaimed vampire and walked around talking like South Park characters, about how he was going to kill people. Apparantly it was a little too late and he had already been killing people with his friends and drinking their blood. They were both fourteen.
Back to real news . . .
10. Some guy got arrested in Iraq. Apparantly he's some master bomb maker and poker buddy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
11. Bill Gates donated $750 million to vaccines for children around the world. His goal is to vaccinate 90 percent of the world's children by 2015. It's nice to see Gates doing something with his money. Althought $750 mil doesn't hurt him so much, it still is a lot of cash.
12. A couple guys in South Africa threw their friend into a den with lions in it. Yeah, a lion's den. The lions ate him.
13. They're building a tunnel between Spain and Morocco. Cool.
14. A bunch of British scientists warn that global warming is almost at the point of no turning back. Any day now the Gulf Stream will stop churning in the Atlantic and The Day After Tomorrow will be The Day Is Today Because It's Happening You Dumb Shit. Nobody else seems to care that we're all really fucked.
15. Bird flu is on the rise in East Asia. A Thai girl and her mom who died are the first known human cases. Scientists fear that someone with regular flu with catch bird flu and the flus will mix and mutate into a super flu which has the potential of killing large percentages of the world population. Again, nobody seems to really care.
Anybody else watch Leno last night? It was touching. I've only seen Jay put on a serious show twice . . . last night, and after September 11th. I'm too young to have enjoyed Johnny Carson but it's nice to see the camaraderie the comedian crowd has. You could really see how much Carson meant to Leno.
Patient: It's so stupid I'm scared of needles. I have so many tattoos and piercings.
Nurse: Did they hurt.
Patient: No, not really. Except for the one on my back. I was screaming the whole time.
Nurse: Then why'd you do it?
Patient: Because I wanted wings.
Nurse: Wings?
Patient: Yeah, but it hurt so bad I only got one done. I was going to go back on Monday but it hurt so bad, I couldn't do it. I've been flying in circles.
I gave into my internalized consumerist tendancies and went shopping today.
I spent way too much money.
One Starbucks Coffee of the Day Tall. Dollar Eighty-Two.
Oddly enough the handful of dimes, nickels and pennies in my pocket came out to exactly one dollar and eighty-two cents. My pockets were completely empty of change. I assumed this was some kind of sign so I stepped outside to have a smoke with my coffee and contemplate this otherwordly coincidence. Downtown Winnipeg is a strange place. Before I even lit my own, I had sold two cigarettes, an expired bus transfer and a bus ticket. Once again, my pockets were jingling.
Got some new music today.
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Tool - Lateralus
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (this album is hot, check it out)
In The News
From today's Globe and Mail.
1. One of the last living Nazi death camp survivors gives a speech to the UN to a half empty room of yawning world representatives and asks the questions "Will the world ever learn?"
2. The East Asian tsunami killed all the pirates in Indonesia. I guess that's a good thing.
3. The wicked-strength painkiller Vioxx which got pulled off the shelf a few months back is probably responsible for over 40 000 deaths in the United States. Profit over health equals profit.
4. Right-wing Satan-incarnate Stephen Harper is causing a lot of ruckus over the same-sex marriage in Canada.
5. The Martimes got a lot of snow (or at least they think they did).
6. Cattle feed that may have contained BSE was probably used after 1997 ban of feed using animal parts. It's not like mad cow is lethal or anything.
7. Yuschenko and Putin meet for talks. They give each other dirty looks.
A couple of court cases . . .
8. In 2002 in Nanaimo a man shot his wife with a sawed-off shotgun at gas station in front of their daughter, who was thirteen at the time. He was quoted saying to his friends, "A twenty-five cent bullet is cheaper than a divorce." And I was quoted thinking, "How stupid can you be?"
9. In 2003 a girl taped a phone conversation with her boyfriend, who was a self-proclaimed vampire and walked around talking like South Park characters, about how he was going to kill people. Apparantly it was a little too late and he had already been killing people with his friends and drinking their blood. They were both fourteen.
Back to real news . . .
10. Some guy got arrested in Iraq. Apparantly he's some master bomb maker and poker buddy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
11. Bill Gates donated $750 million to vaccines for children around the world. His goal is to vaccinate 90 percent of the world's children by 2015. It's nice to see Gates doing something with his money. Althought $750 mil doesn't hurt him so much, it still is a lot of cash.
12. A couple guys in South Africa threw their friend into a den with lions in it. Yeah, a lion's den. The lions ate him.
13. They're building a tunnel between Spain and Morocco. Cool.
14. A bunch of British scientists warn that global warming is almost at the point of no turning back. Any day now the Gulf Stream will stop churning in the Atlantic and The Day After Tomorrow will be The Day Is Today Because It's Happening You Dumb Shit. Nobody else seems to care that we're all really fucked.
15. Bird flu is on the rise in East Asia. A Thai girl and her mom who died are the first known human cases. Scientists fear that someone with regular flu with catch bird flu and the flus will mix and mutate into a super flu which has the potential of killing large percentages of the world population. Again, nobody seems to really care.
Anybody else watch Leno last night? It was touching. I've only seen Jay put on a serious show twice . . . last night, and after September 11th. I'm too young to have enjoyed Johnny Carson but it's nice to see the camaraderie the comedian crowd has. You could really see how much Carson meant to Leno.
Patient: It's so stupid I'm scared of needles. I have so many tattoos and piercings.
Nurse: Did they hurt.
Patient: No, not really. Except for the one on my back. I was screaming the whole time.
Nurse: Then why'd you do it?
Patient: Because I wanted wings.
Nurse: Wings?
Patient: Yeah, but it hurt so bad I only got one done. I was going to go back on Monday but it hurt so bad, I couldn't do it. I've been flying in circles.
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