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from Family Favourites fanzine, issue #1 (1983)
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We are all fools for advertising. I, personally, am quite the fool for a good gimmick.
*Sunscreen (of spf 8 or greater) prevents your body from absorbing ultraviolet rays from the sun.
*Vitamin D is produced by your body in response to exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun.
*It is very difficult to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet.
*Vitamin D deficiency can lead to cancer, osteoporosis, rickets, exacerbate type I and II diabetes, and to a number of other medical conditions.
*While you may be using sunscreen to protect yourself, you may be doing just the opposite.
ps. Being one of the fairest skinned people I know, I do not recommend trashing all sunscreens. Just make sure to get some sunshine before applying. The National Institutes of Health suggests that approximately 5-30 minutes of sun exposure between 10 AM and 3 PM at least twice a week to the face, arms, legs, or back without sunscreen will usually lead to sufficient vitamin D synthesis.
This crazy guy in Madison was walking around in his boxer shorts which, incidentally had a big hole in them, was bothering some college students with a profanity-laden rant about basketball and the importance of good shooters and, of course, the full court press. A drunken Irishman came out of a bar and yelled: "Put some Goddamn pants on!" It was awesome. Oh, and he looked and talked like Larry David.
Maybe the Vons up the street from my house is slated for demolition- that is the only explanation I can come with for how it got in its current hideous state.
The carts are rusted and sticky, the entry area smells, every line has a 15 items or less sign, and there is never more than 2 lines open no matter how busy they are (they aren't usually very busy.) The vegetable section is closed during rain due to heavy leaking, but I wouldn't recommend buying vegetables there anyway- they are always half wilted and old. There is one cashier who makes it a point to insult every customer in some way- he especially likes to make fun of customers' last names just before he snarles his company mandated "do you need some help out?." His line is always shorter than the others.
I wish they would just demolish it already.
Emma O'Doherty with Andy Pearse and Jill Robinson during tha iapi Rant Night in The Sgar Club last Night
I ran into Darcy Rant at the Feedback, and spoke to her for a while. This was a chemical photo I took way back in 1991 or 92, most likely at the Crocodile. This is a heavily cropped photo, as she is on stage as a sideshow volunteer.
Rant Night ……Johanna Molloy Vocal with Ali Donnelly Vizeum and Paul Bridgeman Vocal at the iapi Rant Night in the Sugar Club.
there i am snooping around the front of the audience at 'the black keys' trying to get a few sneaky pics for myself, and i start to realise just how many compact digital cameras and camera phones there are in the audience.
i got told off twice for using my camera. it's a 350D and with my 50mm lens on, i can pretty much bury it in my hands (with the strap tucked in too) making it look pretty compact and discreet. i'm not holding it aloft blocking the view for one and all and i'm certainly not using my flash. the person in front of me (in this photo) was taking a squillion photos with her flash on and being a right pain in the ass, along with 100 or so other people yet i get told to clear off! yeah yeah yeah, i know it's the fact that i have a pro (if you can call it a pro) camera and that i might make cash or something out of flogging the photos (chance would be a fine thing), but what about the general enjoyment of the show? at least i give a toss about the general enjoyment of the gig for others...... but compact digital users and especially the camera phone folk couldn't give a monkeys. i know i don't have a strong argument for anything here at all......... put it still gets up my nose.
and i don't have anything against normal cameras at all......... just at gigs
all her shots were shit anyway :)
Emma O'Doherty with Andy Pierse and Jill Robinson during tha iapi Rant Night in The Sgar Club last Night
the idea of bicyle rental seem like a good idea but so far at both cities: Toronto and Montreal I haven't seen anyone take a change on it. Both rack are full of new bikes.
Rant Night ……Trista Vincent with Dec Byrne and Gavin Eiffe from RMG at the iapi Rant Night in the Sugar Club.
For today, a rant.
There are a lot of things that I love about Vancouver. It has a mild climate, there is fantastic skiing very close by, the mountains and scenery are gorgeous, there are lots of yummy restaurants to eat at, its citizens are (for the most part) really progressive. So what am I ranting about? Real Estate.
And the rant is twofold:
First, the price tag to own a home here is insane. And I don't just mean expensive, I mean absolutely completely and totally out of reach. The average price of a house in Greater Vancouver in March 2008 was $921,000. Yeah, yeah, those are Canadian dollars, but I don't care. My earnings are in Canadian dollars so that's just as ridiculous to me as it is to you. I will never own a house here. Never. I owned a condo once, in the suburbs. +$300k for a 750 square foot 1 bedroom. Ridiculous.
Second, the quality of houses here is so poor. Sure, the Craftsman houses from the early 1900s are gorgeous and well-built. But the vast majority of the million dollar houses that are going up? Crap. It's embarrassing.
I'm standing under a house in my 'hood that is being renovated. It was a 1943-era bungalow, probably around 1200 square feet. They have ripped the siding off and have elevated it, presumably to put an addition on below. This charmer probably came with a price tag close to $500,000. It's located right next to a major road (see behind me) and at the end of the airport runway. I'm waiting for it to be covered in stucco with faux columns at the front and painted pink. Bah!!
I might be the only one (vaguely) happy about the curent economic crisis in that heck, I have no assets or savings, so if housing prices come down far enough, maybe I can take advantage?!
As usual - really interesting stuff from Chuck, and totally confusing in places. The narrative style is interestingly done - lots of different characters telling you their different view on events and chopping between them pretty much every paragraph - sometimes contradicting sometimes agreeing. The time travel stuff and being your own father sounds like he might have watch a little too much star wars recently...