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2001-08-09 || 1:56 p.m. More Crap from British Columbia, I see... ********** Two countries, two flavours, one great taste. While 'Popstars' was giving us Sugar Jones, the US edition was creating Eden's Crush -- skankier, glitzier, polished and buffed to a candy-arse shine. Two more additions to the saturated girlgroup market, one for 250 million or so Americans to take home and suffer through, one for 32 Million Canadians to listen to when they aren't wigging out on the Hip, Moist, Sarah Mclaghlan and other tired Canuckian icons. Oh, I mean, when they *ain't* wiggin out on Destiny's Child or other sparkly American Sexpots, British muscial geniuses, or Eurotrash technodance trance triphop boogiewoo. Eden's Crush. Sugar jones. Crazy, so now they're so open about bands as marketing vehicles that they're creating them dependent on what Candians will buy versus what Americans will, right down to their websites. Whtever happened to bands as bands? When did they become media engines? A long time ago, that's when. I just think that at one point there was an illusion of actual musical worth in there somewhere... ********** Christ, The New Liberal government in BC has already tabled legislation to sweep out a whole swack of the former NDP government's policies. Bye-bye pay equity bill, not to mention this li'l jewel: 'The Liberals are also repealing legislation that gave citizens new powers to fight lawsuits used to silence or harass people fighting corporations and developers. The Protection of Public Participation Act -- aimed at so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation -- allowed people being sued to seek early dismissal of such cases, which were seen by some as a weapon against environmentalists and critics of development.' Argh. Congrats, BC. By showing Ujjal Dosanjh and his party the door, you've saved the provincial coffers at the cost of your cool factor. And you knew you were doing it, too. ********** So, yesterday was a bad-arsed day, but it got better after work: Spent 2 1/2 hours blading from the market all the way out to the arboretum in Lachine and back, saw Final Fantasy (rated G in Canada, BTW), then had a pint and a few games of darts, before returning home in a RAIN STORM!!!!!!! I stood outside on the porch for a few minutes and let the rain run into my eyes. Then I went in and immediately crashed. ********** Back to work, you lazy goat. Oh, and the next person who sees Kaffeine, give her a hug, will you? I think she could use one right now. |
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shite One last little note... - 09.21.2006 de-stressing, biking and terrorism - 06.06.2006 Mildly stressed... - 05.29.2006 More crime stupidity - 05.28.2006 Scary stuff - 05.25.2006
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