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So I went to Super Sex with my co-workers including my boss's boss today for lunch. It was to celebrate a colleague’s end of bachelorhood. It was supposed to be a rowdy romp but had turned into an overdrawn moment of silent awkwardness. Apparently, aside from the free hot and cold buffet, Super Sex has become ghetto ass and creepy. And yes, among others, I was subjected to a 10$ lap dance. I don’t know about you guys but having some stranger’s tits and ass in my face in front of people you normally interact with on a professional level is not my idea of a good time. It was more of a humiliating spectacle for all parties involved. And that one overpriced beer did not help us reach that much sought after state of inebriated camaraderie. Props go to the boss for encouraging the effort, though.

Going Up!!!

In the immortal words of Yvan Peeling, we're "GOING UP!".

Montreal's got a new airport, check it out. Its even in another country!

Montreal's U.S. Airport



And in case you don't believe me, they even have it in French!

don't feed the octopus...

see???

Warning

Now that zoo season is just around the corner, here's a quick reminder to all you idiots not to feed the animals!



This is actually the zookeeper's hand. He's allowed to feed the animals, and look what happenned to him!

Boo-hoooooooooo.

Ooooooooooooo, what a bunch of sensitive little girls. Did you all decide to slam me while doing each other's nails, watching Dirty Dancing, and passing around Advil and Midol? Did Tony The Tiger take a crap in your Frosted Flakes? Don't get your panties in a bunch.

Oh, and Duke, only hipster Mile-Enders and high school students use abbreviations like WTF.

the guy who knew very little and assumed he knew best...

last week, i went to the dep at around 22h50. and last week, on saturday night, was the night of the saboteur ball. for those who don't know saboteur is the very imaginative label who's brought us dj champion (sigh)...
i'll admit that, as much as this label used to suck terrible balls, mostly because of the major douchebag who started it (i won't name him by his name because i've already gotten in trouble with this sort of stuff in another blog...). well, the guy's a pretentious moron who likes shitty music. so, as much as it used to suck huge balls, nowadays, with the recent addition of numéro# and omnikrom, i guess we can say that suck smaller balls.
but anyway, this is enough for me to absolutely know that i'd never want to go near a saboteur event (oops, i'm going to omnikrom's album launch tonight...) in my life, simply because this label, having been propelled by champion's success (sigh), attracts the very kind of people who listen to champion... duke, these are the people who wear matching baseball caps, buy matching lycrs suits and strollers, go to edgar and baldwin's...
so i was at the dep that's just by the sala rossa on st-laurent, at 22h50, the night of the saboteur ball, and, of course, there was a huge line up. so there i was, standing in line with my 12-pack, surrounded by a bunch of people who were obviously going to this thing. i could tell because of the numerous von dutch baseball caps, among other things.
right behind me stand a 40 year old gay bachelor (there was no way that any guy would ever want him for a partner) and his secretary, or something, who was a dumb 35-40 year old st-jérôme expat... at the beginning, i wasn't listening to their conversation, but then i overheard what was being said behind me and noticed that the guy was giving a music history 101 lesson to the girl... he seemed particularily fond of what he called "techno music"... at one point, he admited that techno music certainly hadn't reinvented the wheel, but almost had, and that it was a product of the late 1980's. then he started to talk about his roomate who listens to "indie music", which, the guy said, was absolutely unimaginative and nothing but a copy-paste of R.E.M. and U2 who, as everyone know, were the true talents in music since the beatles (yes, he said that) and who strived to innovate and find new ways to play interesting music. nowadays, he said, musicians can only copy what had been done before. then the girl said something i couldn't quite understand, at which point the guy said "no, you're referring to electronic music... they also use guitars... and you know who invented that? CHAMPION, a montrealer..." and the girl to add "oh yeah??? that's great!!!"
so there you have it, before champion, no one ever used guitars or real instruments in electro music.
and that, my friends, is why i tell you that people like stuff that they either don't know, or even worse, that they can't even tell you why they like it.

Blog It Up!

Hey guys!


As some of you may be aware, this is the time of the year for the Montreal Mirror's annual Best of Montreal readers' poll.


Best of Montreal!

One of the questions is about the best local blog. Get off your apathetic asses and fill in the 19! Wooha!

And anyways, its fun simply to participate and voice your opinion. For best souvlaki, I went for Villa du.