Before trick or treating....

He's so cute...

And after...

Too. Much. Chocolate.
It's his first Halloween and he's going hard. I love the knocked over halloween bucket and the trail of candy wrappers...

"Ranch"

You know that guy who won the big bucks from Wendy's (ranch) when he kicked the field goal for a million bucks on Thursday night? He's been signed to the Blue Bombers' negotiation list.
I kid you not.

I remember when the GM Brendan Tamar put the likes of Donovan Bailey, Kordell Stewart and Deion Sanders on the negotiation list. How funny is that? I know a guy who wanted to win that Wendy's competition....to think he could be property of the Blue Bombers now. sssshudder.

Song Du Jour: Wasted Days And Wasted Nights ~ Freddy Fender
That song has been stuck in my head for 2 days now.

Sports Venting from the Journal: "Were those TSN announcers smiling when they wore their Argo's jackets out of the Rogers centre?"

"the three jesters of love...."

Gay T, OTC and Cal. Hey Cal where is your RCMP hat?
Are you actually trying to mount that girl?

Happy Halloween!

That doesn't look like Winnie The Pooh, OTC. Well this way he's wearing pants...or at least I hope he has pants on...

Golden

The transformation to Cowboy GT seems well underway but he's promised to never be a flamers fan...

"Adam Clayton on MTV Singapore last night said "Discotheque" was not only his favorite U2 song, but also their most important as a band" The Duke

Pop was confusing when it first came out but, I love that album now more than ever.
'The themes are love, desire and faith in crisis - the usual stuff.'~ Edge

I wonder why Adam Clayton thinks Discotheque is the most important to the band? It's not one of my favorites but the album is brilliant. It is so raw. 'Staring at The Sun' is my favorite track off that album. I didn't warm up to Pop right away though, it grew on me over many years. It is very deceptive because you think it will be Pop, which implies a fluffy quality, but this is such a dark album.

Brendan Kennelly in Propaganda wrote:

It is as if Bono had allowed the obscene, destructive energies of our world into his own heart so that he can give shape and authority to his vision of peace and love. Yet this vision is being constantly assaulted, even, at moments, deeply wounded, with the result that many of Pop’s memorable songs are riddled with doubt, ambiguity, a pervasive sense of hurt and a dark sense of loss. Even, or perhaps even especially, a central human relationship, that between man and woman in love, is constantly darkened by an underlying menace which will not go away because violence, in one form or another, thrives at the heart of things.

I wonder if Adam Clayton liked Discotheque because of the big, shiny, mirror-ball lemon they came out in during the Pop Tour? They got stuck in that thing once. ha ha. I know your disdain for live music Willis, but I find that seeing U2 live can be compared to nothing else and Discotheque live is something else! The songs on Pop are all so dynamic and so different it is amazing they all ended up on one album. But I like that...it's like life in the way it is complicated and contradictory all in the same moment as being wondrous and sweet. It's hopeful and hopeless all at the same time. What do you think?

Song Du Jour: If God Will Send His Angels

"Nobody else here baby
No-one else here to blame
No-one to point the finger
It's just you and me and the rain.

Nobody made you do it
No one put words in your mouth.
Nobody here taking orders
When love took a train heading south.
It's the blind leading the blond
It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs.

Hey, if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?

God's got his phone off the hook, babe
Would he even pick up if he could?
It's been a while since we saw that child
Hangin' round this neighbourhood.

See his mother dealing in a doorway
See Father Christmas with a begging bowl.
And Jesus' sister's eyes are a blister
The High Street never looked so low.

It's the blind leading the blond
It's the cops collecting for the cons.
So where is the hope and
Where is the faith and the love?
What's that you say to me
Does love light up your Christmas tree?
The next minute you're blowing a fuse
And the cartoon network turns into the news.

If God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
Well if God will send his angels
Where do we go?
Where do we go?

Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score.
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door.

It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs
But I guess it was something to go on.
Hey, if God will send his angels
I sure could use them here right now
Well, if God will send his angels...

Where do we go?
Where do we go?"

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."- Mandela

I hope you can all make it!!

What? Band Together to Make Child Poverty History in Canada.

How? By forming a Human White Band, the symbol of the international MakePoverty History Campaign. Participants are urged to wear a white shirt.

When and where? Main Quad, University of Alberta Campus, Monday October 17th
from 11:50-12 noon.

Who? Organized by Engineers Without Borders and supported by the StudentGroups for Social Justice including the Edmonton and University of AlbertaChapters of Amnesty International, Oxfam Canada, WUSC, Model UN, AfricanStudents´ Union, Kamit African Carribbean Society, Students Without Borders,Students Against Global Apathy, International Medical Students and
Journalistsfor Human Rights.

Why? In 1989, the House of Commons unanimously resolved to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. The most recent figures indicate that 1.2 millionCanadian children, or nearly one
in six, are still poor.Since poor children come from poor families, we hope to put pressure onCanadian politicians to take measures to reduce poverty in Canada. We hope to use this event to bring awareness to poverty issues in Edmonton and in Canada. This event will be running at
campuses all across Canada.The Canadian Make Poverty History Campaign is asking for more and better aid,dropping third world debt, trade justice and ending child poverty in Canada.

There are four days of action in 2005, the first preceded the G8 summit inScotland, the second was before the UN Millennium +5 Summit in New York,Monday October 17th to make child poverty history in Canada and the last preceding the upcoming WTO meetings in Hong Kong in December. This will be a great photo opportunity. We are expecting 50-100 people to
attend.

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."- Nelson Mandela, 2005.

For more information, contact:
Rachel Maser
Engineers Without Borders - University of Alberta Chapter
492-6858
ualberta@ewb.ca

"I think that EVERY chick should come with their own English-chicktalk dictionary"

"That way, men could understand them a little better. Of course, each woman would have their own manual, and they'd all be different because even chix can't understand chix. The real problem is that men wouldn't read the instructions anyway, just like the VCR..."

My friend The OTC and his wisdom...this is a gem, so I had to share it.
Here is a visual for you. Apparently, Winnie The Pooh is very popular in Japan so The Duke and OTC decided OTC should go as Pooh for Halloween.. OTC writes, "I said 'that's a GREAT idea! I'll get a red t-shirt, write POOH across the front, and wear nothing else! NO pants, NO underwear, nothing, just like Pooh-san!' We laughed pretty hard at the image of me showing up at the bar dressed only in a red t-shirt, and what the Japanese people's reactions would be."

Any REAL suggestions for Hallowe'en?
Kirny is having a nerd party...I need to get a pocket protector.

Song Du Jour: The Tide is High ~ Blondie

Raise a reader...

When I saw this I thought of Professor Pooh, my Kiddy Litter prof from last year, and his red wine addiction....I bet he'd like this book, I'll ask him the next time I see him at Scholars.

"If you don't have anything nice to say..."

I have thought about this blog post quite a bit. I could bitch about my life but what's the point in that? Really? I have nothing nice to say right this minute.

Do you ever get a course pack at school and find yourself reading things that are way off topic and wonder why the heck the prof assigned that reading? I have a History of Africa class and I found myself snoring through a reading called, "Metaphors and Representations of Pre-colonial Iron Smelting". I've made the executive decision to skip this reading. That means it will totally be on the Midterm. I'll keep you posted. And I am still waiting for the "lightbulb" moment, the epiphany when I finally get it, in my Philosophy 120 class. The only thing I get in that class is a leg-shaker sitting next to me and a chachi in front of me who is too busy hitting on the chick beside him to notice his constant chatter is causing me to lose what little sanity I have left.

Nope, nothing nice to say at all....

Song Du Jour: "Gold Digger" ~ Kanye West
This song is hilarious...props to Kanye for rhyming TYCO with lipo and Michael with GEICO. I wonder if he's pulling in some endorsement bling?

"He goes to sleep by falling down on his face"

Today was a long day. It was the kind of day you do not plan but the kind of day that just happens all of a sudden.

I ran into JK and he was wearing a suit and tie looking very handsome and he said, "Hey you should come to The Plant tonight"
I said, "I have to work..."
"Then come after," said JK.

So I did, and it was good times. Kyle was dressed like a pimp. I broke the bad news that the Smos lost...to Hamilton!
The Bears lost tonight too, but worse...Calgary won today. The Calgary Dino's logo (on the front of their jersey) in the right moment, looks like it says The Calgary Dinks.
I ended up playing Ms. Pacman at Avenue Pizza. So very Old School. And then they played Johnny Ryall...