…catastrophic…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

… cuz of the zombies…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

…environmental compliance-wise… comes news that the Cons are looking at turning another vital public sector function over to the private sector: search and rescue.

I really don’t get this one. Where’s the upside? They will piss off DND and the Coast Guard – which are two constituencies that the Harperites like to cow-tow to. They would be dismantling a Canadian institution – we are known globally to be one of the best at search and rescue. And they would be putting the safety of the public at risk, which would be odd given their focus on public safety through getting tough on unreported and imaginary crimes.

Oh wait! I.D.E.O.L.O.G.Y.

Why should the government pay to rescue some family whose boat broke down off the coast of The Rock? It’s their own damned fault! And they’re probably Liberals anyhow!

Thank you for calling Sam’s Search and Rescue – a Division of Walmart. I’m sorry that your boat is taking on water and that you and your family will surely die, but rescuing you at this time doesn’t represent a good ROI. If you would like to reach an operator, please push #.

This is dumb. Don’t even go there, Stevo!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Turkeys are causing havoc…. HAVOC I tell ya, in the burg of Barrie, Ontario!

No, not the kind who you address as Senator or Minister, but the real feathered kind.

The yummy ones.

We in O-town also have wild turkeys that you see from time to time* but I would hardly call them havoc-makers.

Though a colleague was telling me yesterday about an encounter on the 417 that left one turkey as a mess of blood, bone and feathers while causing about $1,000 worth of damage to his car. Damn thing just wandered onto the 6 lane freeway!

At least the ones who you address as Senator or Minister are a bit smarter than that.

Right?

*Again, not the kind who you address as Senator or Minister…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

These guys tattoo “hair” onto bald pates!

Here is how they describe themselves:

Bio HIS are the innovators of cosmetic scalp tattooing to create hair simulation. We use MHT™ scalp pigmentation techniques. Got a question? Just ask us!

Number 1 – if you are that upset about losing your hair, invest in a good hairpiece, because…

Number 2 – that would hurt like hell!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Then again, I don’t get why peeps get turned on by skydiving, bungee jumping or mountain climbing…

My bud Hai has probably already reserved tickets…

I guess there must be a market for everything, eh?

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Check out the video in the comments section. The link was passed along to me by the folks at Grit PR.

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…and in the wake of the election, I completely forgot about it!

But these guys didn’t!

Supporters of Zombie Awareness Month wear a gray ribbon to signify the undead shadows that lurk behind our modern light of day.  From May 1 through May 31, concerned citizens take this small step to acknowledge the coming danger.

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

and thanks to the Squid-dude, I had a good laugh that I want to share.

Check out his post.

These freaky über-Christians say that the “rapture” is coming soon! And the end of the world this Fall!

Woo-hoo!

I’m glad I locked in my mortgage! No telling what will happen to interest rates once the whole rapture thingy goes down!

And yeah, speaking of raptures, Deborah Harry was smokin’!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Has anyone ever had a day where what is usually an uncommon occurrence repeats itself more than a few times within a short stretch?

Let me give you an example: you hear a song on the radio first thing in the morning. Then, when you plug yourself into your iPod, the first tune out of the shuffle in the same one! THEN, even later in the day, you come across mention of the band in an article, or you overhear someone at work talking about the song or humming the melody.

I’d love to know if there is a name for such a phenomenon – because it happens to me fairly frequently.

Yesterday, it was all about one of my alma maters, Trent University.

Here is how the day went down.

• I had a bizarre and very detailed dream in the night where I was moving into res at my old College (Lady Eaton) at Trent – yet I was the age I am at now… and still with a family, but they weren’t with me. We had a half-ton truck full of stuff. My Dad was helping me. It was a shared room. And my new roomy was very impressed with all of the food I had brought. It was very detailed and creepy.

• After getting dressed yesterday morning, I went downstairs to make coffee. While it was brewing, I thought to head to the basement to give my pepper seedlings a quick spray (jalapenos, habaneros and cayenne – yum!). Stepping off the bottom stair, I almost went ass over tea kettle (love that expression) because I stepped and slipped on a book that had fallen out of a box…. must have happened when I was cleaning up the room a couple weekends back.

What was this deadly book that had been intent on sending me for a spill? A thin hardcover called RefLECtions.

The 1981-82 yearbook of Lady Eaton College. Bwa-ha-ha-ha…

Wait, there’s more!

• Then, on the bus this morning, I read this article on dissent in China and the author is Dr. So and So who is a prof at, yup, Trent University.

• THEN, what pops up on my news feed is a piece about how Dr. Shelagh Grant won the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize, awarded to a non-fiction book on foreign affairs.  She is the first Canadian women to win this prestigious award. And yes, she is from Trent.

But it doesn’t end there.

• I’m on the Trent U. Alumni mailing list and the university periodically sends out requests for donations (I never donate to either of my former universities – figure I gave them enough while a student!). So, you want to guess who sent me an email yesterday?

Yeah.

Weird day, eh? Kinda freaked me out.

Does this happen to others or am I all alone on some weird time/space nerdy continuum?

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario