Writing Club is NOT on!

I'm out in Pitt this week. Unless any of you feel like travelling three hours for an hour long writing club, I am cancelling this week. It will be back on in two weeks.

R

Back from Burma...

And still not dead.

But I did just walk over the Bridge on the River Kwai. And you can bet I whistled that silly song while I did it.

Corporate Dragon Boat Team is Short FIVE THREE PEOPLE

Hey guys, I seriously need five two MORE people to commit to dragon boating (three if Lee & Mariko make the leap over the fence).

My work is short 12 people, but between the group of us, have managed to compile 7 10 (thanks Mariko, Lee, Mike, Graeme & Brendan). No, I don't need to get all of them for the company, but I think I can do my best. Some of you aren't on facebook, so I didn't get a chance to invite you there.

We're practicing 3 times in 5 weeks time before enterting the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival's competition (pfffft). This will all wrap up after the festival on June 16th.

Please, please, please join. Without you there will be no team. And that will make me very sad.

Practices will be evenings & weekends; ideally, you can commit to any time so as to create as few scheduling conflicts as possible, but I am sure some shifting will have to occur.

Pretty please?

(begging is so not becoming of me).

New fun!

Yesterday I went dragon boating with my work. It was as much fun as I expected (I really do enjoy being on the water) and it looks like my company is putting together a corporate team for the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival. I asked to join, let's see if they let me.

You kids know me, I am a wimp and a half! But my team came in second and for first timers, our team was at the upper novice, lower recreational team times. It was wicked awesome totally cool fun.


And now, to the point: Dragon Zone, for the month of May, on Sundays has $2 lessons at 2pm (all equipment included!). I'm going to leave Chinee foo at 1pm on the dot to make sure I can get into this. I'm going to try to make it out every weekend (it's a great deal compared to the season rates they charge), and if there is enough interest from Clubhousers, we might be able to even get a recreational team going. How awesome* would that be!?

So, I'm getting to Chinee Foo at 11:45am and ordering the tofu, the green onion cakes, & mushroom fried rice. Anyone interested in dragon boating on Sunday with me is more than welcome to come. If you can't make it this weekend, and you're interested in going later this month, give me a holla'! I'm also going to set up a Clubhouse series of events on facebook.


*unrealistic.

Writing Club is On - Sorry for the late post

Umm... just to be on the safe side...

OK, I couldn't quite mention this on my own blog, but I need some serious radio silence for the next few weeks. I've got to go off the grid for some fieldwork (hint: I'm posing as a missionary!). Please don't email me or comment (on my blog) about anything even vaguely connected to my work, or Thailand, or Burma, or buttsex, or my foolishness for doing this crazy shit in the first place, or anything other than pleasant wishes and the weather. Facebook commenting is likewise out. Otherwise, I'll be deported, and fired, and possibly (much) worse.

And to those with a particularly contrarian sense of humour, this is not one of those times where ignoring my plea will make it extra funny. Seriously, just don't.

P.S. This blog is probably a safe place to say whatever. Christian, I'm hoping you'll get it out of your system here.

Something Happening

Prior to Chinee Foo on Sunday May 6, 2007, the Jolly Rodger will host a rough* and tumble* Cinco de Mayo.

Byob and all smoking of all things will take place in the back alley. Tap on the window or ring buzzer 103.

8pm until everyone is sick and tired of each other (or Chinee Foo happens).

And WHY do we have four tags for alcohol consumption on here?!

anything happening?

we're planning a trip north in the next few weeks... I thought we had plans for drinko de mayo, but it turns out we probably don't. so which of the next three weekends would be best to head north? what's the most exciting thing happening?

Fine. I'll Cross-Post.

Hey, unhip kids, want to see a movie? Sure you do. Do you want to see Coupland's script on film? Sure you do.

Everything's Going Green
2:30pm Matinee, Sunday. Tinseltown. Be early. Buy tickets. Watch movie. Don't bring anything electronic because the fuzz think you, the paying movie attendee, is the reason that the movie industry is making tens of billions, as opposed to hundreds of billions, of dollars. Which is their prime concern, you know? I am bitter. But I'll get over it. By going to a movie.

And being treated like a criminal.

If you want more info, join facebook like the rest of civilization.

Karaoke Fundraiser

Lee's very cool friend Tammy is having a Karaoke fundraiser this Saturday for a documentary film she is working. Details are below the poster.



Where: 'The Met' 320 Abbot St. (Gastown)
When: Saturday, March 21st, 2007
9pm 'til your voice is gone!

Cheap drinks, no cover, a good cause! Look for the person with the big jar!

The documentary is about the non-profit organization 'agentsofchange.ca.' They are bicycling from Vancouver to Mexico to raise a $1,000,000 for microcredit initiatives. Microcredit is the concept that won Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Come see us make fools of ourselves! For more information about the documentary contact me directly, all the information for the event is on the flyer attached, feel free to share it!

Cheers,
Tammy Bannister
Producer/Director
Change Agent

Swap-o-rama-rama!

Passing this along, because it sounds awesome. I'm planning to be there around noon. Anyone else?

Swap-o-rama-rama is a clothing swap and wearable art creation event where all your fabulous fashion fantasies can come true!

The swap begins with a giant collective pile of clothing, the unwanted costumes of all who attend. Everyone is welcome to dive in and find their next new/used items from the pile. Take as little or as much clothing from this pile as you like, it's all free!

After you have chosen your new dandy duds, slide on over to a transformation station, where you can cut, sew, glue, paint, bedazzle, and otherwise renew someone else's rags into your riches. Materials and a few sewing machines will be available to help you unleash your well-dressed muse. Or, attend a workshop where you can learn to modify your re-fashioned finds in unexpected ways.

An all day participatory runway will feature the silly, the sophisticated, and the sublime. All are invited to take a playful spin down the runway in their most fabulous fashionry. Ask the audience for their opinion on the outfit you just plucked from the pile... or just show off!

Swap-o-rama-rama is coming to Vancouver and will take place April 15,
2007 from 11:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Heritage Hall.

For more information contact:
true_stitches@yahoo.ca or check out
http://www.swaporama.org/

it must be an azn thing...

I just wanted to announce to the world that miyuki has just accomplished something that to my knowledge, only alex has performed... a perfect 50,000 score at karaoke revolution! ironically enough, it was also at "time after time"... this would seem to diminish the effect of the accomplishment, except I managed a paltry 22,000 at the song on my attempt, and we all know what a karaoke genius I am...

all of you know what this means... we totally need to force her to sing next karaoke party. she's blown away my best score ever at KR, which was a paltry 45k... a perfect score is a perfect score. no more of this "I'm shy" bullshit... she's a cyndi lauper karaoke savant...

update... she just finished with a perfect score on "do you really want to hurt me"... I'm not sure if I want to press her to go for a record, 'cos this is just getting damn humiliating... she didn't even know all the words to the last one.

update #2... just scored 50k on "material girl" as well... she's got the damn hat trick. is humiliating your husband at karaoke grounds for divorce?

yeah, update #3... 50k at "I'll be" as well, and she didn't even know that fucking song. I swear, she's a KR savant. this is getting embarassing.

Grindhouse

Today 9:30pm at the Paramount, be there around 8 (per Lee). Sorry for the short notice. Any up for it call me; y'all know my digits.



G.

Klimt

7:00pm Thursday Apr. 5, Vancity Theatre.

Far from a classical historical biopic, Raoul Ruiz’s warped take on the life of famed art nouveaux symbolist Gustav Klimt—here played by one John Malkovich—treats fin-de-siècle Vienna as a vibrant, lively painting waiting to be immortalized. Ruiz sees Klimt’s life as something deeply personal that can only be understood through the painter’s own eyes, and forges a feverishly stylish portrait of erotic deception and delusion, coming and going from Klimt’s death bed, through his studio, and into smoky Viennese cafes and high society. “The time portrayed in the film was one of the highlights of Viennese culture, which had burst onto the scene very quickly and in which the first seeds of decay were evident almost straight away, since such brilliance rarely lasts. We have Klimt, his private life, the world around him in all its splendour, but in the background we feel something malignant that quietly gains prominence, something contagious.”—Raoul Ruiz

Writing Club is on

The thrills of writing club await!

Reasons to come:

• the third new layout for my place this year!
• review of Scott's revenge fiction from last time!
• apple pie!

See you there,

R

we've moved.

addy is the same, just apartment #209 instead of #206. if you're wondering why, see below:

why I don't like bleu cheese

My house is soooo cold please help me warm it.

So, for those that have not heard, I have moved. To commemorate this auspicious occasion I am inviting you, my friends, to my new home this Saturday March 31st 2007 at 7:30PM. The new home is conveniently located close to Nanaimo Station. For the exact address please call, e-mail or check the forum.

PS My new landlord room-mate is not in favor of drugs in his house, so please leave them at home or discreetly go to the park a block away.

Blaxploitation Rarities II - This Friday (March 30)

Hey Kids!

Just a reminder that Blaxpolitation Rarities II is happening this Friday, March 30th.

Doors open at 7pm, get there on time to get a good seat.

7:30pm - Black Shampoo [1976]: John Daniels (Candy Tangerine Man) plays Mr. Jonathan, a hairdresser as loved by the ladies as he is feared by the mob. When his new receptionist starts getting hassled by some mobsters, he takes matters into his own hands. With a chainsaw! Funny, fast & outrageous.

9:15pm - Savage! [1973]: Who cares what it's about, there's a big black dude named "Savage" with an all girl gang. And machine guns! Machine guns!

Admission: $5 - $10 (sliding scale)

And if you can't make it this month, here's what's in store for April & May:

April: Psych-Out!
BJ Lang Presents (The Manipulator): Mickey Rooney freaks out and kidnaps a woman so he can subject her to his "acting".
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness: Writer-Director Anthony Newly also stars as Hieronymus Merkin, a Hollywood director having a massive midlife crisis who decides to make a film about his life and all the mistakes he's made. Self absorbed? You be the judge.

May: Shatner: The Early Years
Incubus [1965]: Satanic cult? Check. Shatner? Check. In Esperanto?! Check.
The Intruder [1962]: A young and sexy Shatner plays a charismatic racist in this Roger Corman pic.

Hope to see you there!

~meeko

Because the cow content of this blog is way too low...

That's better. Laos was cool, by the way.

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!

PARTY WITH DUKE 2 NIGHTS!

FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd

The Slack Shack (Mark White) is hosting a house party on Friday night (March 23rd) starting at around 7:30pm (karaoke + sound system pending, but we're working on it). The address is in the forum if you don't recall, accessible from Holdom Skytrain or #9/N9.

SATURDAY, MARCH 24th
7:00pm - Clubhouse Restaurant (255 West 2nd (at Alberta), 879-8998)
9:00pm - The Pic Pub for TWIH $7 (620 West Pender St.)
11:00pm - The Bourbon (50 West Cordova St.)

RSVP via email or comment if you can, thanks!