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I am not from around here

Friday, February 26th, 2010

After a lot of time thinking about this, I think I came up with the most likely explanation for my super power.

I am not from your planet.

I think I must be from Uranus – I’ve been called or called myself an asshole more than on one occasion – or even further away from your sun. I think that would make sense since further away from the sun, or from any sun really, would explain my super power.

You wanna see what my super power is? It’s nothing too fancy, I just have some kind of ultra-vision.

But don’t take my word for it. Look at these:

Triptych? Not really.

When I look at these, I see two full trash cans and one overflowing recycling bin.

I know, it’s hard to believe. You probably see three empty containers up there right? I mean, that’s what LovelyWife and the Zadorable see when they look at these. That would explain why they keep putting things in the containers even when they overflow. That would also explain their weird flushing habit, but that might be another post. Sans pictures, of course.

What? What do you mean? Define “Bozo”?

I can prove you yet once more that I am an asshole. Thursday morning on the bus, this woman sitting behind me was reading. She kept hitting me on the back with her book – she was resting the top of her book on the top of the back of my seat. After a little while, I politely asked her to please stop touching me with her book and she made the face. You know the face that says “Shut the fuck up you moron”. So I did. When my stop came, I stood up and saw that she was reading Soul of the Fire, the fifth novel in the Sword of Truth series.  So I told her how the series ends. I made the face, and stepped off the bus.

* I’m giving full credit to Kapgar for the “TUA – Totally Unrelated Aside”, the inspiration behind the Aparté.

Right, I’m the pussy

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but last week my good buddy Dave2 called me a pussy. It’s all over the InterSphereTubes. Really.

Ever since that happened, I’ve been looking at ways to get back at him, and I explored many different options.

One was to do a video of timbagging, (a spoof on teabagging, except I would put Timbits in my mouth), but I thought that would make me look a lot pussier than already implied. Another one was to draw a map of the USA and add cutsy little graphics on top, but it’s already been done in a brilliant way. I thought about showing you how I beat Wayne Gretzky and stole his Olympic torch to play some air guitar:

Take that Wayne! Rock on!

But meh. He is the great one, but he’s no LeSombre, if you know what I mean.

Finally, I had it. Instead of proving that Canadian are manlier than Usians,  why don’t I simply show that the Usians are far bigger pussies than Canadians? That is the American way, yes?

So without furter ado, video proof that Usians are responsible for the pussification of America:

Proof #1

Usians “shopping”

Proof #2

Usians at the Mall. They have nothing on Robin Sparkles.

Incidentally, I do believe these are also Dave2’s worst nightmares. Enjoy your sleepless nights, sir.

I also believe that makes us even. ;-)

Disintegration

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Oh yeah, it’s Monday all right.

This is “Disintegration” from Luke Chueng.

I gotta keep it together. I might kill someone before the day is over*. Stay tuned.

*Of course I won’t. But if I did, wouldn’t this be messed up?

How Green Are You?

Monday, January 4th, 2010

I’m as green as the next guy,  but this green is looking slightly more like the Hulk than any nature conscious guy today.

You see, I go back to work today, but my kids are only starting school tomorrow. So of course one of us is taking the kids to the office today. It’s me.

I’m green. I take the bus to work.

Do you know how much it cost for a 8 year-old and a 11 year-old to take the bus?

It costs the same thing as an adult. 3.30$. That’s for a one-way trip. Regardless of your age, when you take the STO bus, it costs you 3.30$. For my two kids and me, we’re talking 9.90$ just to get to work, and another 9.90$ to get back home. That’s 20$ – it’s 18.80$, but really who’s counting?

It costs me 12$ to park the car at work for a day.

So guess what I’m doing this morning? I’m driving to work. I completely blame the STO (and their crappy website) for the extra pollution I will be causing today.

Seriously, who in their right mind charges the same fare for kids and adults? Even OC Transpo gets it right. Kids pay half-price. That’s the proper way of doing it.

And seriously, it’s not really about the money. It’s more about the convenience. It will take me 15 minutes to drive to work, and 15 minutes to drive back. Every day, I’m willing to take the bus (for 77$ a month since I buy the monthly pass) and take 45 minutes to get to work and about an hour to get back home. I do it because I don’t have to drive, I don’t have to pay the parking cost, and I can use the time to get ready for the day (or simply forget about the office on my way home). But when you combine almost two hours, plus a cost of 20$ it’s way too much.

Seriously.

12$ + 30 minutes versus 20$ and 120 minutes.

The choice is clear. Even if it’s not green.

Two Scores and Fourteen Years Ago…

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Rockstar2

I married a Rockstar.

*Two scores, that means two kids, right? *Wiggle Eyebrows*

Gifted

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Gifted

This is one of my favorite Larson of all times.