According to the Daily News Tribune, the Montreal spring break trip is also a "dangerous, unsanctioned and unsupervised sex and booze trip to Canada", filled with "drunken rowdiness" and, two years ago, "a group was kicked out of a hotel after teens threw beer bottles and televisions off the hotel balconies". Kids come back with "frightening stories from nightclubs and strip clubs".
I don't know about the ones in Massachusetts, but our strip clubs aren't scary at all...
vendredi, octobre 29, 2004
I live in Babylon
Fears over drinking put end to high school trip, says the Boston Globe.
So parents are preventing their kids from coming to Montreal, cause they might be drinking? Ha!
I can barely spend a weekend in Montreal when there's a long holiday weekend in Vermont, Massachusetts or New York. Suddenly, the city gets filled with drunken teens, flashing their American money around like we're Cuba or Somalia and it somehow made us respect them more, and it often ends up in small group fights in the streets. Our police doesn't even pretend to care anymore.
Seriously, what do you think the kids do, when they're 19 years old and can't drink? They come to Montreal, where they can, starting at 18.
"We've heard rumors of prostitution, and lax marijuana policy means it's more accessible", said one Boston principal, after getting called by a Montreal journalist. Indeed, those things are true. And that's why your kids come here.
Plus, we've got strippers.
So parents are preventing their kids from coming to Montreal, cause they might be drinking? Ha!
I can barely spend a weekend in Montreal when there's a long holiday weekend in Vermont, Massachusetts or New York. Suddenly, the city gets filled with drunken teens, flashing their American money around like we're Cuba or Somalia and it somehow made us respect them more, and it often ends up in small group fights in the streets. Our police doesn't even pretend to care anymore.
Seriously, what do you think the kids do, when they're 19 years old and can't drink? They come to Montreal, where they can, starting at 18.
"We've heard rumors of prostitution, and lax marijuana policy means it's more accessible", said one Boston principal, after getting called by a Montreal journalist. Indeed, those things are true. And that's why your kids come here.
Plus, we've got strippers.
I haven't been posting much here lately
I haven't been posting much here, lately, and it's not for lack of things to say.
Frankly, I haven't had a minute to myself in the last two weeks or so. Between work, midterm, correcting my girlfriend's Master's Thesis, translating medical documents for my mom and sleeping a bit, there's not much time.
Midterms went well. I'm already at the 25-book mark on my list, and that's good. In order to complete the basic requirements, I only need five more between now and December. Score!
I'll try and update more frequently from now on.
Frankly, I haven't had a minute to myself in the last two weeks or so. Between work, midterm, correcting my girlfriend's Master's Thesis, translating medical documents for my mom and sleeping a bit, there's not much time.
Midterms went well. I'm already at the 25-book mark on my list, and that's good. In order to complete the basic requirements, I only need five more between now and December. Score!
I'll try and update more frequently from now on.
mardi, octobre 19, 2004
New camera!
Finally, I got myself a brand spankin' new, digital camera.
Hooray, w00t, and all that stuff.
It's the Konica Minolta Z3, and I'm pretty happy about it.
You will now be subjected, every day, right here, to a crapload of bad pictures of me, my cat and the asphalt in front of my house.
Or not.
Hooray, w00t, and all that stuff.
It's the Konica Minolta Z3, and I'm pretty happy about it.
You will now be subjected, every day, right here, to a crapload of bad pictures of me, my cat and the asphalt in front of my house.
Or not.
dimanche, octobre 17, 2004
mercredi, octobre 13, 2004
mardi, octobre 12, 2004
Pulling Back the Curtain
In Pulling Back the Curtain: What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the War, we get a glimpse of how reporters actually feel about working in Iraq, under those conditions.
Metajournalism at its finest.
Metajournalism at its finest.
lundi, octobre 11, 2004
Bush's Debate Notes
The Talent Show has the exclusive scribblings we all saw Bush jot down during the debate, this week.
Hey. It's easy. But it's fun.
Hey. It's easy. But it's fun.
A Quick Fix
To put it country simple, Earth has a lot of things other folks might want...
Like the whole planet.
And maybe these folks would like a few changes made...
Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
And room for their way of life.
We've seen this happen before, right in these United States.
Your way of life destroyed the Indian's way of life.
You gave them reservations, didn't you?
But my own position is ticklish:
I'm with the invaders, no use trying to hide that.
And at the same, I disagree with some of the things they are doing.
Oh, we're not united anymore than you are.
Oh, we're not united anymore than you are.
Conservative faction is set on nuclear war as the solution to the, uh,
"personnel problem"; others disagree.
Others disagree.
Others disagree.
I don't claim that my motives are one hundred percent humane.
But I do say, if we can't think up anything quieter and tidier than that...
We aren't all that much better than you Earthlings.
There is no place else to go
The theater is closed
There is no place else to go
The theater is closed
Cut word lines
Cut music lines
Smash the control images
Smash the control machine.
William Burroughs. Pertinent, as always.
jeudi, octobre 07, 2004
This is ridiculously obscenely disgusting
I'm fairly certain I've never seen something quite as horrible as this.
This is the kind of shit that makes me want to puke, for real.
Big time.
This is the kind of shit that makes me want to puke, for real.
Big time.
mercredi, octobre 06, 2004
A book
Right now, I'm studying, in midst of a captivating book. And it's not a normal book, too.
It's got a story, it's got an author, it's got all that a book should contain. It's La disparition, and it is an uncommon book. Distinct, unusual, dissimilar, all apply to it.
But a thing's missing. Do you know what? If you look smartly at this post, you might just find it out. But only if you look hard, or think hard.
I don't think it I'm highlighting it as obviously as I could. But as soon as you find it, you will look at this post in a dissimilar light, mayhaps.
It's in my list of books, for school. In my curriculum, if you want. I'm up to 18 out of 80, and I should go rapidly if I want to avoid having a lot of catching up to do in my final month of my annum.
First to post on this, wins a gmail invitation from yours truly! (grins)
(Still figuring it out?)
(whoa! this was hard writing! i didn't think i'd go through that much until I'd fully go crazy!)
It's got a story, it's got an author, it's got all that a book should contain. It's La disparition, and it is an uncommon book. Distinct, unusual, dissimilar, all apply to it.
But a thing's missing. Do you know what? If you look smartly at this post, you might just find it out. But only if you look hard, or think hard.
I don't think it I'm highlighting it as obviously as I could. But as soon as you find it, you will look at this post in a dissimilar light, mayhaps.
It's in my list of books, for school. In my curriculum, if you want. I'm up to 18 out of 80, and I should go rapidly if I want to avoid having a lot of catching up to do in my final month of my annum.
First to post on this, wins a gmail invitation from yours truly! (grins)
(Still figuring it out?)
(whoa! this was hard writing! i didn't think i'd go through that much until I'd fully go crazy!)
vendredi, octobre 01, 2004
Interesting political hair-splitting.
Windbag Surfing - On Kerry's flip-flops, Bush is framing the guilty is a very interesting article on the way the campaign is being handled by the GOP in this year's election, and why the Dems can't seem to fight back.
Google Local Find Weird Things
Google Local is a new product (in Canada) by Google - you search for stuff and specify which city you're in - it gives you addresses and a map to locate the stores / businesses / other you found.
Except, I decided to have a little fun, and find the limits of Google Local.
So, having the twisted mind that I have, look for "contraband", "marijuana" and "hookers", in Montreal, and find nothing funnier than the fact that the Hotel Lord Berri rooms have "computer hookers and coffee machines".
But "hooker" gave something semi-funny, at least, so I tried "prostitutes".
Number 4 result, in Montreal, for "prostitutes"? Dawson College.
Fun-nay.
Except, I decided to have a little fun, and find the limits of Google Local.
So, having the twisted mind that I have, look for "contraband", "marijuana" and "hookers", in Montreal, and find nothing funnier than the fact that the Hotel Lord Berri rooms have "computer hookers and coffee machines".
But "hooker" gave something semi-funny, at least, so I tried "prostitutes".
Number 4 result, in Montreal, for "prostitutes"? Dawson College.
Fun-nay.
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