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Room for rent in huge apartment in Villeray

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 08:55 pm
posted by: [info]stitchystitchy in [info]montreal

375 per month, nothing included )

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novadrome

Again.

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 05:12 pm
posted by: [info]novadrome

Still have the sickness.  Three days in now and very little sign of relief.  That's not true.  I do feel better than before.  Everything's moved to my head.  If I'm not better by Friday, Unextraordinary Gentlemen is going to find ourselves fronted by a man sounding like a cross between Dylan and Bowie stuck under water and forced to sing, and occasionally violently cough.  Wonderful.

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porphyre

sleeping inside it, right where I want to put my clothes

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 05:07 pm
music: circus contraption - raining pianos
posted by: [info]porphyre

When I started packing, it never occured to me the most difficult part would be dealing with a cat's fascination with my suitcase.
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mckenzee

My silk/wool vest smells like a wet spider-goat.

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 06:59 pm
posted by: [info]mckenzee

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

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montreal

McGill Choral Society concert

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 05:39 pm
posted by: [info]vanessa_elle in [info]montreal

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The Dole Banana Man

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 07:06 pm
posted by: [info]coilhouse

Is it even necessary to discuss the utter insanity of Japanese media? I mean by this point I think it has been firmly established that, to the Western sensibility, their commercials are bat-shit crazy; 30 second recordings of spectacularly horrible acid trips. The Japanese version of Mad Men would require the talents of David Lynch and Takashi Miike working in concert. To stare into the mind of the ad man of the Far East is to stare into the face of God. We blink, for our feeble brains cannot process its wonder.

This ad for Dole bananas is no different. The Dole Banana Man struts down the street as people accost him; demanding satisfaction, which he obliges. A woman sitting on a bench despondent, it seems, from a lack of bananas. Not for long, however, as the Dole Banana Man comes upon her and, smiling at the camera, his bananastache atwitter, he bestows on her a bounty of fruit sprayed forth from one nostril; a potassium rich snot-rocket. In doing so he joins the ranks of other, food-bestowing characters like the Cheese Man who shills for Nissan, assaulting people in their homes in order to add cheese to their cups o’ curry. He even has a love interest now. No doubt Dole will do the same and give the Dole Banana Man a female counterpart; someone who he can grope with his sweet, fleshy digits.

I fear what the future holds.


Post tags: Advertising, Crackpot Visionary, Drugs, Horror, Japan, Madness

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Have a Merry Melancholic Martian Spider Apocalypse

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 01:28 pm
posted by: [info]dieselsweet

The end is nigh! This is the last new stuff I'm unleashing on you, dear Internet, until after Christmas.

Zaggy Starbucks is a shirt that I've been working on for over a year and my Christmas gift to myself. (Happy()Sad) Diagram is a masterstroke my friend Ariana made. And people keep asking for "Best Before December 21, 2012" shirts so I brought it back for the season.

Top it off with the half ton of fresh pixel squid and skull socks that just landed on my door step and you've got a party!

zaggy starbucks shirt

happy sad diagram shirt

best before 2012 shirt

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Comic: The Minutia-men

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 12:00 am
posted by: [info]pennyarcaderss

New Comic: The Minutia-men

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warren_ellis

HAPPY()SAD

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 10:04 am
posted by: [info]warren_ellis

I’m not sure how the universe has withstood Rich Stevens (DIESEL SWEETIES) and Ariana Osborne (SHIVERING SANDS, this site, designing various things of mine at Avatar) teaming up to produce a t-shirt, of all things… but this is the result.

Available to order now, ships in 1 - 2 weeks.

happysaddiagram

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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warren_ellis

Simon Reynolds’ NOTES ON THE NOUGHTIES: Beard Rock

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 09:52 am
posted by: [info]warren_ellis

Simon Reynolds is one of my favourite writers. It’s funny, really: I agree with what he writes maybe half the time, at best, but he says it so fucking well, and in such a way that I always have to think about the subject again.

He’s now doing notes on the decade at the Guardian, beginning with a piece on "beard rock." I was, I admit, hoping for a clue as to why I find Will Oldham so inexplicably creepy, but, you know, it’s a fun piece anyway:

…beardedness is tantamount to a visual rhetoric, almost a form of authentication, as though the band are wearing their music on their faces…

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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Hudson River Railroad

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 11:36 am
posted by: [info]talentshow in [info]handmadebooks

[[ HUDSON LINE RAILROAD. ]]

The front of this notebook features one of my TTV photographs of the autumn view from a MetroNorth train along the Hudson River line.

TTV stands for "through the viewfinder," in this case, that of a vintage, square format camera. This gives the images a retro feel and a variance in focus that isn't common to straightforward digtal photography.

- 6.25" x 6.25" (16 cm x 16 cm)
- 200 pages.
- Bound with turquoise blue waxed Irish linen thread.


[[ kateblack.etsy.com ]]



Hudson Line Railroad
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Originally uploaded by thekateblack.

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warren_ellis

SHIVERING SANDS: One Week On

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 09:34 am
posted by: [info]warren_ellis

So, one week later. Copies of SHIVERING SANDS are now starting to arrive with people — I found this on Kat Foisy’s blog this morning:

4095065007_69e2df83fe

(If you want to send me a photo of you posing with SHIVERING SANDS? Email it to my dump address at warrenellis [at] gmail dot com, along with your website address or twitter ID or whatever, and I’ll run it and your link here)

A week since launch of the book. We’ve sold, I believe, a little over four hundred copies. Given that the production of the book involved 1) me culling from seven years of jabbering and sticking it all into a couple of RTF files 2) Ariana flowing all that into a single file and spending a couple months’ worth of spare moments fiddling with it 3) Ariana uploading the thing, ordering a proof and spending an hour checking it over… we were well into any definition of profit by the end of day one.

It is, of course, the long game that pays off. It’s interesting to look at the first week, but it’s not defining.

A persistent criticism of my interest in POD has been that only writers at my level of cultural awareness can make any kind of success out of it. And some of them will now be saying, well, even Warren Ellis can only move 400 copies in the first week of a POD project. But, for one thing, it is about the long game. For everybody. The book doesn’t go away. And, for another, if I’m not aware enough of you to order that POD project — whose fault is that, really? Because, I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t born with a book deal in one hand and an exclusive comics contract wrapped around my other flipper. Hell, when I was starting out, there wasn’t even an internet.

SHIVERING SANDS is published through Lulu.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

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urban_sustain

Tiny Homes!

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 08:52 am
posted by: [info]crankles in [info]urban_sustain

I'm not sure if I've posted this link here before.  For those of you who are interested in small living spaces, check out http://tinyhouseblog.com/

I love this blog because it shows all sorts of creative living situations, usually eco-friendly, that range from rural to urban.  Today's entry is about a little cabin in the woods of Missouri.  Another one I enjoyed was from a couple in San Francisco who knew they'd never be able to afford a real house there, so they raised a tiny home on a friend's property.  I like the tree houses, Airstream trailer conversions, yurts, and modern "gypsy wagons."  Small homes usuallly use less resources, cost less to heat or cool, and --depending on your property--leave more room for gardens.  I imagine that people probably spend less to buy or build them, so they have less debt and more money to spend on the features that really matter to them.

[info]yarrowkat has posted about her yurt, which is on a larger property and shows how a tiny home can be incorporated into an existing living arrangement.  Do any of you live in a tiny home?  In particular, I wonder how those with children manage.   The smallest home I ever lived in was a 500 sq ft mobile home, which isn't that small in the grand scheme of things.  I shared it with another person and it worked out, but I remember being frustrated that all our things were jammed together.  I now know about space-saving furniture and such, and I also simply got rid of a lot of crap I didn't need.

One risk is probably stability during bad weather.  It's scary as hell to live in a trailer during tornado season. 

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rstevens

put on your paranoid poison hats

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 09:53 am
music: I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix - Belle & Sebastian
posted by: [info]rstevens

It just hit me that the only food I know of outside of unprocessed fruit that no one talks smack about is Cheerios.

Please tell me there is no secret, horrible, deadly, Satanic component to Cheerios.

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Cheap tailor

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 08:27 am
location: Downtown
posted by: [info]winter2010 in [info]montreal

Hi everyone

I am looking for a tailor for very basic hemming. Nothing fancy. I used to pay 7 dollars when I lived in TO. Would you know of a tailor in Montreal who charges the same rate or close to that.
CDN/Downtown area.

Thank you very much.

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buzzandhum

shhhheeeeiiiiiiiiittttt

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 11:25 pm
posted by: [info]buzzandhum

I feel more confused than i ever have.

It must be spring.
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Comic for November 11, 2009

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 12:00 am
posted by: [info]dilbertdaily


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Two-Party System

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 05:00 am
posted by: [info]xkcd_rss

I favor approval voting or IRV chiefly because they mean we might get to bring back The Bull Moose party.

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DS Web: Days of Future Pasts Not Taken

Nov. 10th, 2009 | 11:56 pm
posted by: [info]dieselsweet

the butterfly ballot effect

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montreal

okay, so this might be the strangest question ever asked here....

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 12:06 am
posted by: [info]moshfloorkiller in [info]montreal

 Where in Montreal can I find a regular issue of Playboy magazine?
The November issue features Marge Simpson on the cover and my fiance is a pretty big Simpsons fan, so this would be a pretty hilarious novelty item for him to have.
I've checked numerous Couche-Tards and deps in metro stations. All I can find are Hustlers and special issues of Playboy that aren't the regular, monthly issue. 
I'm not exactly a porn magazine expert so, I'm at a bit of a loss here, haha.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

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