Earlier this week the Vancouver Canucks Hockey Team fired their General Manager Dave Nonis, and in apparent contradiction to the rest of the sporting world I am all for it. Now as much of a rabid and reactionary fan as I usually am, this time cold logic forms my usually fevered opinions. I know that a lot of people are saying that Nonis deserved another year to really spread his wings and blah, blah, blah salary cap. Nonis signed a fair bit of those contracts and regardless he has had 3 years to remedy the fact that we don't have a first string offensive line and all last summer and right up until the trade deadline he sat on his hands. For that reason alone Nonis earned his pink slip, I can not commend Aquilini enough for his courage and balls for this move. Nonis had more than enough time to prove that he was the man for the job and he wasted it. Our francise deserves the leadership and success our exemplary fans prove with sellout attendance and consistent ratings and merchandising. We are a serious hockey market and we are owed a serious team, and by the grace of human will, we have the owners with enough sense and initiative to deliver.

Amen

Ewwwwwww

This weeks AK goes to people who do the "Farmer Style" nose blow in public. The farmer style is when you close one nostril with your finger, push real hard and vacate your other nostril. Disgusting at the best of times, but when people are watching.........................

It is understandable that your nose is overloaded and suffering from serious back pressure, but if you don't have the proper equipment, like say....... a freaking tissue, then just subtly wipe and keep walking. I mean this is winter, you live in fucking Canada genius, everybody's nose is runny so the rules are a little loose. Besides if the whatever is stuck in there that deep and wedged that good, then it isn't going to go anywhere during the course of your normal breathing. Idiots. This is becoming far to common place.

Welcome to the day when everyone stops reading my blog…….

You must have heard the latest news about the growing debate about a Danish Newspapers publication of what many believe to be anti-Islamic cartoons. Well those of you that actually know me know that my mother is Danish, and I speak the language (poorly) and am proud of my heritage. As such several people have asked me my opinions of this issue, and after some research I thought I would share them.

1. I am insulted that so many people think that one regional newspaper’s editorial cartoons speak for all of those that share my ethnicity.
2. I refuse to believe that the threats and ignorance of a small minority of Muslims solely represents the views of all Muslims.
3. I think that if a person truly has a relationship with their God, then what other people say about them or their faith should not make a dent, unless their faith is weak…….
4. I think organized religion is a sham that exploits everyone involved, and anyone that falls into one, no matter which (that means you too Buddhists) is an utter fool.
5. Responding to another’s differing beliefs with threats and violence, makes you look like a child and a monster. It also makes your argument look stupid.
6. Fucking with Islam is a bad idea, anyone that does so draws a lot of heat to themselves and those they love, and thusly it should not be done. Don’t believe me ask Salman Rushdie. Thanks cartoon asshole, we totally needed another gasoline spill by the fire.
7. World War 3 is soon to come and if anything happens to Denmark or Canada, I am volunteering. Believe it.
8. Said cartoons were published in September, way to be on the ball protestors.
9. Freedom of speech is more important than any of this, and is what we must all be fighting for here, don’t let them distract you whether you are Danish or Muslim or a Dane of Islamic faith.

Mmmmmmmmm RJ.......

I went to see Sweden's astounding In Flames last night. It was sold out and there was no scalpers so I ended up bribing a member of some opening band to sneak in the back. $25 bribe or $26.50 plus ticket, not a bad deal. Sadly I missed "Pinball Map" (although I did hear it) and they didn't play "Clayman" but they rocked. Every individual member of the band put on a clinic, these guys are virtuosos to a man. If they come to your town, go.

Assknife of the Week

Okay so I am sitting here watching Oprah (solely because) and she is interviewing James Frey the Author of "A Million Little Pieces" and she is all after him for embellishing his book. Fuck you Oprah, you get the AK this week and I hope it gets high and deep enough to cause anal trauma. She is sitting her bitching and talking about how she is so embarrassed and blah blah blah, bo fucking hoo Hun, screw your ego. Okay so he changed details about some of the characters he meet in the course of his book, but they have a right to privacy and steps likely had to be taken. She is broadsiding him for having memory gaps and reproducing things in a less than perfect manner. I suggest Oprah go and drink herself blind and smoke crack for 10 plus years, and when you are like 2 days sober remember everything. Oh my God this woman's arrogance know no bounds, she is like that Medici Pope that killed a child by covering him in the gold paint for his coronation. I am so holy, look at me I am so holy, no Mr. Frey you can't speak I am going to hijack this conversation (now a lecture) and let all the journalists that mocked you do it to your face on live TV.

This is all bullshit, I read that book and it changed me and is making me a better person. He makes it quite clear in this book that things have been changed for reasons he explains way to fucking read it Jackass.

Did people give shit to Dostoevsky for flexing his fictional muscles in "House of the Dead"?
Do people give shit to all those bible authors for flat out lying?
Is this the first case of this happening?

no, no, no

this is all about Oprahs ego, that poor man hasn't been able to speak for like 20 minutes. The fact that he can sit there and take all this is proof that their is significant weight to his story.

James I love you, don't ever change, you are our redemptive Henry Miller
Oprah you need to get laid, and I ain't helping

you gotta see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0&search=SNL%20The%20Chronic%20of%20Narnia%20Rap

nearly peed myself

Assknife of the Week

Goes to........people who say things like "You shouldn't judge people like that, just because you think they are wrong doesn't mean they are." No shit eh? Like even you don't have a bias. Well sorry for forming an opinion about something I observed, I will now do my best to no longer think independently. Fuckers.

Rimjob of the week

This week's attentive and loving RJ goes to the December 2nd issue of Dose magazine (but not the magazine as a whole) for their informative and accurate front page article on Black Flag's influence on independent music and their pioneering work in the field of touring. It is not my place to comment on the Flag as my opinions of them are so fucking high that it would take days to do them justice. But kudos to Dose, an otherwise shitty waste of toilet paper. Some kid on a bus wearing a Good Charlotte or Simple Plan tee-shirt will get curious and likely download some of the Flag's astounding music and then it is only a matter of minutes until the are converted from poseur mall-punk crap to loving the real stuff.

Long Live the Flag