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The PM’s handcuff fetish (Things I hated in 2008)

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Movies, music and pop culture, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Does Stephen Harper even have a sense of humour? Consider this awkward moment from September 2008, when comedienne Geri Hall of CBC’s long-running fake news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes caught the PM and his staff off-guard at a press conference in Halifax.
Hall, standing in a sizable crowd of reporters, tried to ask Harper [...]

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Things I hated in 2008 – Celebrities

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to the ubiquity of gossip websites on the internet, infotainment TV shows and the glut of glossy pop culture magazines at the grocery check out, no place is safe from celebrity news.
Certain faces appear again and again, bouncing into the news because of a newly-discovered baby bump, a stint in rehab, or an imminent [...]

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Sarah Palin (Things I hated in 2008)

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John McCain’s Hail Mary Pass running mate announcement – coming practically on top of the triumphant Democratic party convention’s endorsement of Barack Obama and his VP choice Joe Biden – was one of the swiftest and most divisive political buzz kills of the summer.
I’m not sure what was more disturbing about Republican vice president hopeful [...]

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Trailer Park Boys got cancelled?!?

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yep, it’s all over for dope-smoking recidivists Ricky, Julian, Bubbles and the rest of the gang at the embattled Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia.
Director/creator Mike Clattenburg has supposedly promised another feature-length movie, but the TV series is finished. The last episode, Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys, an hour-long special involving a country and [...]

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Things I hated in 2008 – The Georgia Straight

Posted in British Columbia, Exiled in Suburbia, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

When they’re not slagging Surrey, a time-honoured Vancouver tradition that’s definitely outlived its usefulness (surely by now everyone knows Langley is the new Surrey, and South Surrey is the new West Van; although parts of North Van are STILL the Surrey of the North Shore) the misanthropic scribes at the Straight are talking s— about [...]

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Another damn weather picture

Posted in British Columbia, Exiled in Suburbia, White Rock B.C., tagged , , on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hey, what’s that blinding glowing ball in the sky?

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