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Here’s today’s SlantyWars for this very nice Halloween. I say nice cause it looks like it’s NOT going to rain tonight. It ALWAYS rains on Halloween! Guess global warming may have some good points after all…

…and speaking of good points, check out this procedure. Throught the belly button! I’d never even heard of an ‘endobam’ procedure before. Here’s a guy that does it down in the States….but be forwarned, there are before and after pictures there. That’s just crazy…what will they think of next?

Well I’ll TELL you what they thought of next! Say you’ve “shaken your mortal coil”, and someones trying to decide what to do with your body. Well now they can burn it, then crush it, and make your carbon remains into a diamond. And at only $2k a pop for the cheapy diamonds, that’s quite a deal!

“Men grow cold as girls grow old.
And we all lose our charms in the end,
But square-cut or pear-shaped,
These rocks don’t lose their shape.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.”

This story talks about an environmentalist flying up and down the california coast takig a picture every 3 seconds to document california’s coast and any illegal seawalls, etc along it. He’s got over 7 thousand pics (44 GB) so far. Their webpage is searchable by lat and long for pics (they have a laptop and gps hooked into the camera).

This falls into the “Do I laugh or Cry” category…

And damn! Now I know why Jakze wants a scooter so bad. What can’t they do?!?!

So the wife and I went to see Punch Drunk Love last night. I highly recommend it, but whatever you do don’t expect an Adam Sandler movie. It’s a bit more heady than that I’ll tell you what. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there, what was slightly more interesting was that somewhere between the start of the movie and going to have a beer to help get the knot out of my stomach afterwards, I realised that there may be hope for western pop culture afterall. By pop culture I don’t mean things only like Britney Spears and NSync, I mean the broader definition. That being things that are popular. You know, like with the kids and stuff.

Read on in the comments if you with to be immersed in a Grade 9 type tyrade!

If you were like me at all you hit the 21st century with low low expectations (not to mention in an alchoholic haze, but that has yet to lift). After having been spoon fed crap for about 5-6 years in every medium I was beginning to lose hope. Movies like Braveheart and Forrest Gump were considered cinematic triumphs. Limp Bizkit and Korn were dominating the ‘alternative’ scene on the radio. Other than the Simpsons there really hadn’t been a decent new show on the tube in years. I was being forced to actively search for stuff to watch and listen too. The downside of doing that is if you tie your boat to Steve Buscemi, for every Big Lebowski there’s a Con-Air. Troubled times indeed.

But last night I realised that there appears to be a resurgence of decent film making that is spilling over into major releases. Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia, Boogie Nights), the Coen Brothers (The Man Who Wasn’t There, O Brother Where Art Thou, and who can forget Raising Arizona), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation coming soon, look for it!), Wes Anderson (The Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore), and to some extent David Fincher (Fight Club, The Game, but hard to forgive him for Alien3), and M. Night Shyamalan (Unbreakable, Sixth Sense). Whether or not you love the movies or consider them to be great cinema they are miles ahead of the Kevin Costner/Richard Gere/insert-Baldwin-Brother-Here type movies we were (and are!) forced to sit through. Yes yes I know that most of these people were making movies through the 90’s, but they didn’t get the same sort of promotion, I didn’t hear of Bottle Rocket til a friend told a friend that some guy in Italy had enjoyed it, but he may have been hopped up on Cappucinos. The odds just seem better that if I smack my $11 down I might actually see a decent movie.

Music! Suddenly the Hives, the Vines, the Strokes and the White Stripes are getting airplay. Yes I know they all sound similar or whatever, but they’re much more interesting than Theory of a Deadman, Default, and the like who also sound the same but in a much much worse way. Also those pommies appear to have been making good music for years but I wouldn’t know about it. I have trouble forgiving them for the Spice Girls.

Books! Other than the occational Toni Morrison novel the Oprah Winfrey club has pretty much folded up shop. No longer will Oprah faithfuls have to pretend they understood what such and such a novel was on about. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Hehe, reading back on this now it’s shockingly reminiscent of something I might have written in Grade 9 (and probably failed). And I know that these things happen in cycles. People in the ’70s probably imagined that Taxi Driver, the Godfather and Apocalypse Now would set the trend for years to come. And I can tell you they probably would have burned Hollywood to the ground if they had known that someday, somewhere, someone would make a movie like Assassins.

On a side note, does this seem really weird to anyone else but me? For some reason I never thought of Pat Sajak doing something other than just looking the part of the christian right-winger.

Righto, what’s brown and sticky?

A stick!

That gets me every time…

Personally I still don’t think Northern Lights exist, so these are some funky doctored photos for halloween.

Goulie

Witchie

Ghosty

Posted by the good ole boys at SpaceWeather.

So I read in my handy dandy Elevator News Network today that it costs the Canadian Taxpayer (you and me) 189 bucks to keep a prisoner locked up for a day.

I figure I should be compensated for not committing crimes to the tune of 150 dollars a day.

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, using a technique that he had perfected on pr0n sites, an intrepid SlantyME typed in a different URL into a browser address bar and received for his troubles a not-yet-released episode of SlantyWars. ODLucas’s legal team threatened to sue, but realized that they had long since allowed the valuable franchise to fall into other hands. The current flamekeeper, realizing that there was no legal recourse (that and the bootleg episode had made it all over the Internet), promptly released the episode - solving the problem.

However, in the not-so-near future, SlantyME’s actions could be ruled illegal.

That is, of course, The Man gets his way.

Well…I’ve been up before the sun was…and I’ve watched the sun rise for the last hour or so now. Looks like it’s going to be a nice day or so. A nice day for SlantyWars!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Want more fun? Here? HA!!! Well you caaaaaan’t have it, cause we have reeeed taaaaape! Naa naa naa naa NAA naa!

But who knows, maybe the folks over at Funcouver can change that. I’m a big fan of changing governments….gives me something new to complain about. I’m going to make the BEST bitter old man!

“I wanna be the one to make fun!
That’s gonna come and take you,
make you!
Shake your bon-bon!
Shake your bon-bon!”