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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
5:37 pm	my suggestion. you know what i think new scientist should do to atone for their ridiculous and misleading cover of last january? they should publish an issue with "DARWIN WAS RIGHT" on the cover. because 150 years later, we still think he was mostly right about evolution. who cares about his taxonomy system? that's not what your news story should be about when you print "darwin was wrong" on the front cover of an influential science mag. morons. i dunno what else is new. over half of the habs' salary mass is not playing because of injuries (and one suspension), but they still managed to get 7 points out of their last 4 games. now THAT is ridiculous. er... let's see. jon has a show on the 4th. a delegation from sorel is threatening to show up. seeing all the uncles and aunts (including my parents) in the crummy, hipster-central cagibi should be pretty interesting. ok, ok, actually it should be downright hilarious. specially since jon doesn't know about it. haha. i'm laughing right now. can't wait. i'm not working enough. this funk is mostly my own fault. mostly. i am supposed to be able to shrug that shit off. hockey is failing to raise morale for any useful amount of time. so is booze, obviously. next step: hookers and blow! actually i just realized i feel shitty because of lack of sleep. false alarm. i'ma go tell the hookers they can leave. (it's in the details)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
12:34 am	épistolaire. i'm writing an actual, bound paper journal these days. might reduce my output on here. but maybe not because i wouldn't write about the same things. i should not have had that brownie. it was too big and not that good! dude, you have to really fail epically to fuck up brownies. god. the journal is like, a bunch of unsent letters. or unsendable. addressed to a fake person. it's better than writing "dear diary," at least. gives it structure. maybe they'll publish it after i die, like sartre's. or all the other famous people whose letters have been published. ok, i doubt it. gotta get famous first. which i won't. i promise! (no i don't.) god. worst entry ever. sorry. i've been working still, sorta. still slacking off a bit too much. but i mean, at least now i'm self-supporting. financially independent. getting paid. bringing home the bacon. putting bread on the table. generating the metaphor. building the simile. blanking the blank. worst. entry. ever. i'm gonna go now. the habs have been playing like sacks of bricks. i feel ill. i bet bricks slide really well on ice. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
4:54 pm	leafs fail i sometimes wonder if i prefer watching the habs win, or the leafs lose. it's been really nice so far this season, anyway, because the maple leafs have lost their eight first games, hahah! that's a new record. well, ok, yes; i prefer watching the canadiens win. but the more games the leafs lose in this streak, the better i like watching them go! it's getting sort of pathetic, but i don't think it could ever get to the point where i'll start pitying them, could it? maybe i feel bad for their fans. maybe. (it's in the details)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
2:21 pm	yokes and kerfs, wtf? i actually have work now. should be a permanent kind of thing, too, if i deliver a proper result. so while i'm still dirt poor right now, at least i'm working and the paycheck will be nice when it gets here. also i'm learning all about carpentry! you know i always thought about making my own furniture instead of buying it. i just never really need new furniture. anyway, powertools are cool. but they are a bitch to translate. did you know where was such a thing as an arbor flange? or a cutterhead (and it's definitely not what you think it means)? also, see the title. with a clear and near-ish end to the money troubles in sight, i'm starting to thing about what to do with all the money. jon would clearly like me to buy myself an xbox, which would mean buying a TV to play it on, and with games and accessories we're looking at a good fifteen hundred bucks. i could take that same amount and have a quite nice trip through eastern europe or asia pacific or the aztec and maya region or something, specially since i'm friends with a travel agent. both are tempting. only one would be enriching, but the other would be more ... permanent. which is not necessarily a good thing, since i already waste enough time on useless bullshit without playing 12 hours of xbox every day. the third option is beer. also nice. my liver has been having a damn easy time of it lately, and i wouldn't want it to get too comfortable. (2 details noticed | it's in the details)
Friday, September 11th, 2009
7:11 pm	on addiction. man, i am so sick of hearing micheal jackson songs all over the place. i wish he would go away, or die, or something, already. i don't usually read fantasy books. i mean, apart from lord of the rings. now my father lent me these terry goodkind books. i started reading the first one (out of 7 or 8) out of boredom a while ago, and now i'm totally hooked. so that's what i did this week. read the sword of truth series. at least i'm not playing world of warcraft like those 3 weeks at my folks'. (3 details noticed | it's in the details)
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
1:41 am	bricks so. i'm back from my little trip. went to the folk's old house to help them pack. yeah. they finally sold it and moved to sorel. spent 3 weeks there, then we drove out, never to return. their cats are still fun and cute. they're having a house built in the same neighbourhood as my aunt and another uncle. the house is gonna look pretty good. they got an apartment in the meantime. kinda shitty, but it's only for two months. then i spent about a week at my uncle's (the selfsame one that's near the house my parents are building), helping dig up all the work we did 2 years ago so he can extend his garage into a double. there's this walkway we made, me and my cousin, two years ago, along the side of the garage. had to be moved. it's made out of bricks. and you have to dig under it so it's stable and etc. lotta shoveling, moving bricks and stone around... emptying tailing or sand from trailers... grunt work all around. i guess i can't complain. i needed the exercise. my arms feel like they're swollen. like i just finished working out. except it's not fading. oh yeah, note to self, don't jump in the salt-water pool when you have open blisters on your hands. that sucked. (4 details noticed | it's in the details)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
2:57 am	meaningless. man, we're having thunderstorms pretty much every day lately. pretty awesome. one bolt hit really near here. sounded like i lit a firework in my livingroom. one of those loud popping one. damn. god i'm poor. i am a poor motherfucker. and it's all my fault. i guess i'm gonna try to find a job or something. damn. this place is pretty great, but it smells weird. probably that chair i picked up by the side of the road. damn. for some reason the weather's been really mild and not disgusting so far, almost every day. today? not so. damn. i started playing dwarf fortress yesterday. damn. i'm sorry LJ. i got nothing to say. my life is empty and meaningless and i'm wasting it. but at least i told the church i wanted to be off their list! they're giving me the runaround but i'll corner them. i've got nothing better to do. other than playing dwarf fortress i mean. apparently it's called apostasy. hey, why are christians so afraid of the "anti-christ" anyway? if he came around, it would mean that everybody was gonna be in heaven real soon. they should be totally psyched at the anti-christ. (it's in the details)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
11:22 pm	ief i moved, finally. last sunday. only got hooked up to the internet today. my flat is on the fourth floor (top floor of the building), has a partially great view of sunsets, hardwood floors, and is tolerably big. i like it. and the location is great. maybe i'll post pictures some time. i'm getting old, man. moving and lack of sleep really wiped me out. took me a whole day to recover. ... i miss playing xbox. i'm mostly all unpacked and settled in by now. only one or two boxes of random junk left. found a bunch of chairs on the street the day after the 1st of july, when everybody in town moves. two of them even match! found this great easy chair too. rented a truck with discount rentals and it was pretty great. brand new truck with air conditioning, at the best price i've found too. yeah, i think i'm gonna like it here. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
2:13 am	uh oh, english nerds... looks like i know what i'm doing for the next 12 hours: this. man, and i had work to do. ah well. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
6:16 pm	snowy hill. so! i got that apartment. singing the lease in a half-hour or so. it's not as great as this place, but i guess hardly any place could be, but the location is great. it's actually right nearby. which is why i took it. also it's clean enough and has hardwood floors. i'll be moving there in july. maybe earlier, since the place is empty as of now. weather's been nice so far. rather cool and/or mild. but that just means it'll be muggy later instead of now... wonder how the new place will be, heat-wise. spent a week in sorel. my uncle got a boat. i drove it around the 103 islands system the other day. good times. (it's in the details)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
5:34 pm	minutiae made an omelet with mushrooms that had probably gone bad. got the shits, but no hallucinations. profoundly disappointed. having trouble working, but at least i've been making some progress since tuesday. seven more pages to do today. or tonight, rather. it's 18 o'clock. finally went to look at a flat yesterday. kinda crummy; i'd seen places exactly like it before. don't really like it but there aren't a lot left available. might have to take it. running low on cash due to extended lethargy. i should get a proper job, probably. need someone like a roommate and i'd be fine to pay for my new place. head sort of hurts. have had this cold for a few days. cleared up after the first day but my nose is runny. i'm making a pot of coffee even though it's getting too hot here. thinking of going to sorel over the weekend. go out on my uncle's boat. fish. hang out in the jacuzzi. take it easy. don't think anyone can beat the robots-like redwings. pittburg's team too young. repeat of last year's final. the wings are like terminators with glowy eyes. they'll get the next five cups. still waiting for val to contact me. are you still there? (2 details noticed | it's in the details)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
3:03 pm	festicourt the festival du text court de sherbrooke was this weekend. it was quite good. really awesome time. i gave a writing workshop in a classroom on friday. it was a school for adults who were dropouts and who come back to complete highschool. most of them really got into it. it was amazing. then there was the opening night show at le littoral. many cool people. my friend abdel read a poem, it was his first time ever reading in public. he was nervous as hell but he did well. there were all kinds of styles, including eastern-european traditional songs. my friend flavie was one of the singers (there were 3 of them; a soprano, alto and bass). she's a sweetheart. later that evening there was a thing at a sort of hippy tea room. i used to go there when i lived in sherbrooke, cool place. it was an open-mic kind of thing. very fun. i read a ridiculous story i wrote during the workshop while the students were writing theirs. something about a pirate ship manned by root vegetables (captain potato) attacking a merchant vessel crewed by fruit. it ends with the words : "what a salad! it was delicious." on saturday they'd scheduled a happening at an outdoor food market. there were supposed to be trees given out to people in exchange for their poems or stories, and an installation and poetry by a great poet and dear friend named Gilles Matte. unfortunately it rained for a couple hours at the start of the afternoon and we had to stay under a tent-like shelter thing. we had a good time anyway, and people got their trees. we wrote a bunch of silly things on coloured paper and folded them into flowers with a pipe cleaner for a stem, so we could give them out to people as advertising for the festival. around the end when everyone was gone, only flavie, myriam, marc-andré, and simon (and me) stayed behind on a picnic table in the sun, who had finally decided to come out, and wrote a ton of those flower-poems. actually that might have been the most pleasant afternoon i'd spent in a long time. in the evening the regional slam final was held. incredible show. sherbrooke slam people are the shit, man. the team who will represent them at the provincial finals was chosen. same team as least year but for one of them, actually. sophie, david and mathieu are returning, with véronique suzanne instead of j-f. too bad, because j-f is so damn good! well, all four of them are. then there was another open mic night at the tea room. i was "on the bill," as it were. they have a few special guests each night to warm the room up before the open mics. i did a few of my more dark-humour oriented slams. when the place closed down we went outside and slammed in the street until 2:30 in the morning. so awesome. on sunday we were supposed to close down the street in front of town hall and have a bunch of stuff there. circus people, poets, food, books, etc. but it rained again so we held the event in a brewpub down the street. it hailed, actually. thundered too. pretty cool. the event was good. frank had his four-month old baby in a sling while reading on stage. i don't even think the kid woke up. hahaha. he's so quiet and well behaved, frank can take him anywhere. but i guess all he really does it sleep at this point. later on there was the closing show at the tremplin. they put on quite a show where five people were all painted up in different colours. the second part was a bunch of guests from other towns did a slam or poem. good evening overall but i was more into the slam finals, obviously. kinda makes me wish i was still living in sherbrooke so i could be more involved in planning the festival like i used to. well, it's a lot less stressful to just attend, i guess... i was tired as fuck when i got back, and i think i caught a cold, but damn, i regret nothin. hey val, are you still reading this? i lost your email. and all our old forums are dead. drop me a line. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:20 pm	oprah sucks. so apparently oprah is giving jenny mccarthy her own tv show. and she's asking people to tell her what to put on the said show. sounds like a fun show. what a great idea. this is the suggestion i sent them: "What should Jenny do?" Jenny should stop spreading misinformation and threatening the lives of our children. The only way for her to make amends for the people she killed through her anti-vaccination campaign would be to use her TV show to promote good science (i.e. actual science) and proven medical treatments. Invite real scientists and doctors on the show. Have them explain to people how autism really works (not her pretend version), and how vaccines have saved billions of lives worldwide. And that's just the first couple of weeks. Then you can start tackling other myths and urban legends that plague our society, making people afraid for no reason, and allowing charlatans and crooks to rob them blind. I want her to have Phil Plait (the famous astronomer) over to talk about astrology. Have James Randi on to talk about psychics. Invite Dr. Steven Novella to talk about the wonders of the human brain. Invite Tim Minchin so he can sing a few songs--he's a great pianist and humanist. Invite Christofer Hitchens and talk politics (he gets great ratings--so controversial!). And why not go for the gold and ask Richard Dawkins to come talk about religion? And Noam Chomsky to talk about Israel? Do you think your viewers are idiots who don't care about the rest of the world? It sure seems like you do. Look, get real scientists and experts. Give Jenny the education she never had. This is a show I would watch. But more importantly, this is a show that might save lives. i wonder if they'll listen. i can't figure out why this moronic bimbo is famous. for cryin out loud, her biggest accomplishment was posing for playboy. i mean, hell, i like porn as much as the next guy, but it's not exactly a qualification for giving medical advice to people. oh wait, actually, her medical qualification is apparently being a mom. (it's in the details)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
7:51 am	start wolfing. google is dead, and wikipedia is obsolete, motherfuckers. welcome to the new world, powered by wolfram alpha. it's on right now. testing over this weekend, until the real launch on monday. fuck yes. oh yeah, and platinum grit finally updated. another "fuck yes" situation. the new episode is exactly as good as you would hope after waiting a year for it. perhaps more! (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
11:31 pm	scones dear motherfucker: start working. if you don't, you'll be a bum within three months. asshole. (1 detail noticed | it's in the details)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
1:14 pm	(this is about hockey) so i was watching the news at noon today, on both radio-can and TVA. they spoke of the first day of hostilities in the playoffs, where pittsburg beat philly, new jersey beat the canes, and the canucks beat the blues. the SRC focused on the "rivalry" aspect, featuring pilly vs pittsburg, since the habs will be facing the bruins in the first round and they have a storied and historic rivalry (which has, one could point out, mostly been in favour of montreal, who has won something like 23 out of 31 series). TVA focused on the only canadian team who played yesterday, the canucks. what i am saying is they both failed to talk about the most important game of the night! the rangers (7th place in the east) beat the caps (2nd place), who were at home! this is a huge upset, all right? they hardly even mentioned it. idiots! i can't tell whether this is just plain bad journalism or obliviousness or what. maybe they don't know enough about hockey? i just don't unnerstand what they were thinking! anyway, tonight will be the first game of the montreal-boston series. boston finished first so they have home-ice advantage. i hope the habs are up to it, and can repeat the rangers' upset of last night. there are hints in the press that laraque and gainey have some kind of secret plan to fuck with the bruins' minds. part of it was not playing him last week versus the selfsame bruins. i hope it pans out. they did the same kind of thing by not telling anyone that schneider was NOT, in fact, out for the season with an injury, and brought him back into the alignment for that last game against the bruins, as a ... special surprise. it worked, i guess, since we got the point we needed from that game. i am really anxious to see how that first game unfolds. (it's in the details)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:38 pm	went to the hockey game last night. not in a bar, i mean, at the actual place. got a ticket off a scalper outside the box office (where they informed me, ten seconds earlier, that the game was sold out). i was on the second balcony, but you have a nice view from up there. going alone isn't the most fun, but jon didn't have the money, i guess. i had a good time. the place was full (as advertised) and there was a good ambiance. except the game mostly sucked. both teams played uninspired hockey, and we lost 3-2 because heatly scored twice within a minute in the third period. in the habs' defense, their two best defenders are injured, along with their best scorer and goalie. so... it's not a great time to be fighting for a playoff spot. they have three games left, and they sort of have to win two of them. unfortunately, right now they're down 3-1 at the rangers in the second. after seeing them play last night, my expectations are kinda low. (it's in the details)
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
8:58 am	zombie slam. so we rented "dead space" this week. it was fine. i mean, it was good. (i'm talking about an xbox game.) it had an interesting twist. the things you had to kill, some sort of alien zombies, you couldn't kill like in regular shooters. you had to shoot them in the legs and arms and dismember them. that was their weak spot. that goes against all my prior training, you know? i'm used to going for the head shot all the time. avoid the limbs. now i had to shoot them off. it took some adjustment. but once i got the hang of it, it went fine. and the story is pretty good. well, it's all right. i mean for a cheap sci-fi video game. the weapons were also interesting. they had to make new types of guns to cut off limbs with. cutters, tools, etc. it was innovative, in general. good game. yea. went to sherbrooke last tuesday. for a launch of their anthology for last year's festival du text court (short text festival). they published some of my stuff in there. some of it was stuff that i didn't remember writing or giving to them. but that's cool. part of the fun. one (and a half) of my texts they published was in english. that's odd because they're a french organization... i don't know, i didn't think they would publish that stuff. i don't mind, but it's odd. the launch was held in a micro-brewery, so there was pretty good beer. not great, but all right. fun times. i tried to go to the english slam night in montreal. nobody showed up. wish they'd publish the new time/dates on their website, but it hasn't updated in a year or so. actually, same thing happened when i tried to go to the french slam open-mic last sunday. what the fuck is going on? (it's in the details)
Friday, March 20th, 2009
6:19 pm	4th box dude! we already received our new xbox in the mail. what the hell? a year ago it took 42 days, and this time it only took 4. madness. i think i'm gonna go rent left 4 dead again... (it's in the details)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
4:26 pm	quoting penn jillette "The fact that the president of the United States admits to drug use, and is happy he didn't go to prison for that, we assume, [makes it pretty clear that] it's about time to stop the drug war." there you go penn. totally got quoted from your youtubing. (just in case it never happened until now.) he was talking about obama, not bush. bush apparently never admitted to using drugs, although, well, who's he kidding, you know? (and you can quote me on that.) meh... i had written a whole thing about a part of j-p sartre's novel "la mort dans l'âme" (that title is really hard to translate and i'm too lazy to look it up), and i was going to post it, but it's just a philosophical literary criticism piece which i'm not sure anyone's interested in, and on top of that, i wrote in french. wait, what? I am interested. i'm totally interested. so who cares about the potentially absent "audience?" this is a journal! personal journal only sort-of open to an imaginary public. ( i'm totally posting it ) (it's in the details)