I remember seeing this video over and over when I was a little kid watching TV and I always liked it. Every kid that grew up anywhere in Canada with a TV before the 90’s will have to recognize this piece of canadian heritage and will most likely love it. So, without further adieu, I present to you, the Log Drivers Waltz by Wade Hemsworth and the National Film Board of Canada:
It was clear from the get go that Jerry Springer, host of the Jerry Springer Show, didn’t have a hope in hell at winning Dancing With the Stars, but now his chances are even lower then before, if that is actually possible.
Jerry’s Dancing With the Stars partner, Kym Johnson, has developed a knee injury and has been forced to withdraw from the competition. Tragedy of all tragedies, whatever shall we do!
You know they’ve got to bring someone else in to repalce Kym Johnson and I can’t help but feel sorry for whoever that unlucky soul is. Sure, getting on a show like Dancing with the Stars can do wonders for your career if you’re a relative unknown, but if you’re partnered with Jerry Springer you’re not going to be around for very long and the air time you do get will be about as good for your career as being on the Jerry Springer Show.
In other Dancing with the Stars news:
Mario Lopez is being accused of cheating and being a ringer.
A women that was allegedly his former dance partner has said Mario Lopez is far from being an amateur and won a series of dance competitions when he was younger.
Mario’s reps came back by stating that he is in no way a professional or ringer, and the only dance competition’s he’s performed in where hip-hop dance-offs. Ooh, how ghetto.
Dancing With the Stars
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My friend and fellow Vancouver Blogger Andrew of GoldenGod.net asked me to get the word out about an upcoming Vancouver Flash Mob event, celebrating the annual Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Check it out, September 19th, 2006 @ 4:30pm PST at Grandview Park on Commerical Drive.
For more information, visit GoldenGod.net.
A fellow Vancouver Blogger that goes by the name Gus Greeper has a really interesting entry about this season’s Survivor Cook Islands. Apparently she went to the Cook Islands with her family in 1998 and from how she’s describing everything, it sounds like a lot of the aspects of this seasons Survivor are complete bs. Just a few points out of the post that make me go hmmm, are:
To find out more about this season’s Survivor Cook Islands and the Cook Islands in general, check out the story over at GusGreeper.com.
Related Links:
Segregated Survivor Cook Islands
Survivor Cook Islands: Sekou Eliminated
Well, my dumb ass forgot that the Amazing Race 10 season premier was on tonight so I missed the first 15 or so mins of the show and didn’t take any notes on the show. Boooo. I also forgot that a new Simpsons was on that was going to feature one of my favorite bands, The White Stripes, which really sucks.
Anyways, I’ll give a very brief recap of the premier episode of Amazing Race 10 as best I can, and by very brief, I mean very. 🙂
Everyone started off somewhere in Washington state, I think Seattle, and the first leg of the race was to get to Seatac airport and catch a flight to Beijing China.
Once everyone arrived in China they were set out to find thr Golden House restaraunt where 1 member of each team had to eat the eyeballs out of 3 stewed fish heads, for a total of 6 fish eyeballs each. Ewwwwwwwww.
After they finished the eating challenge all teams took a ww2 motorbike w/ sidecar to a market where that got the first Detour, choosing between Labour and Leisure. The labor challenge required each team to take a penny cab 1 mile where they would lay stones as part of a walk way in a specific pattern, which turned out to be pretty hard and looked rather difficult, actually. The Leisure challenge required a 2 mile penny cab trip to a square/monestary/something rather where each team must learn a specific set of Tai Chi movements, completing them together and correctly before being allowed to move onto the next leg of the race.
Once each team finished the Labor or Leisure challenges, each team hopped in a cab to the great wall of china where they had to scale the side of the wall and run a few feet to hit the closing marker for the first portion of the race. The last team to arrive at the location were Vipul & Arti, though they were the second team eliminated, as Bilal & Sa’eed were eliminated when they came in last for an earlier challenge.
So, here we are, the official first episode is over and the season has no kicked off. I’m looking forward to this season, it looks to be quite an interesting crew and I’ve already taken a liking to a few of the teams. It’s going to be a good.
Stay tuned for more Amazing Race 10 recaps.
As most of you probably know, Starbucks let leak a free starbucks coffee coupon that was originally intended for use in the southern US only, and only for friends and family of staff. And, as most of you likely also know, Starbucks let that campaign run for not even 24 hours before cancelling the free coffee coupon and pissing off a whole lot of people as it had hit the internet and spread like wilfe fire. Although some people got a great deal more pissed off than others, one inparticular even decided to filed a class-action lawsuit against Starbucks.
I’m guessing you probably don’t want to get involved in a class-action lawsuit just to get your hands on some more free starbucks coffee. So why not screw starbucks the honest mans way?
My friend and fellow Vancouver Blogger Andrew from GoldenGod.net informed me of another way to take advantage of Starbucks that has become fairly popular. And no, this isn’t the poor-mans americano trick that involves getting half a cup of coffee and filling the rest with milk from the condiments bar, though I do admit that it a cool idea too.
Do things the old fashion way, call them up and bitch, bitch, bitch! Apparently anyone that calls up and complains about the entire free starbucks coffee coupon debaucle is given a $5 giftcard as a bit of a piss off tactic. Whatever, works for me, the more money I can cause Starbucks to lose, the better!
Update: The guys over at the Consumerist made another post where they have recorded a phone call held with a Starbucks rep where they were issued the gift card. How cool is that? Give is a listen here.
Read more @ The Consumerist
My wife just got a phone call from some friends in Nebraska so I took the oppertunity to pause the movie, put down the beer and get some quick blogging in. So here it goes, lazy man style:
Alright folks, that’s enough of the quick hits for now. I have a Red Stripe Beer and movie waiting for me. Hooray Beer!
[Um… What? Sorry, did I read that right?]
Airforce Secretary Michael Wynne wants to see “non-lethal” weapons like microwave powered devices tested against American citizens (see also Anti-War Protesters) before they are used in the battlefield.
Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
[Um… Yeah, who cares about the safety of dirty hippy protesters, as long as we don’t hurt the enemy. Riiiiiight, makes sense to me?]
”If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. ”(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”
[Where as is you injured a protester no one but the protesters and sympathizers would care, and they don’t support the war anyways, so who cares about them. Great line of reasoning.]
[I love when government and military officials say stupid things like this. I guess ole’ Georgie boy has been able to get away with say things a hell of a lot worse, so why not everyone else, right? Oh well, it’s pretty safe to say the entire system is screwed anyhow, what difference is another crackpot wanting to make protesters into guinea pigs going to make, not much.]
Read more @ Ny Times