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psyched on divorce in mifflinburg, pa.

haha classic!

next level fabric

i have no idea!

apparently packaging IS everything

so yeah, check this out. kinda awesome. reminds me of the red paper clip guy; making something from nothing.

www.nycgarbage.com

Check out the video here and here.

next-level

i don't know if anyone is noticing how next-level myspace is getting. it IS the spot on the internet and i'm sure it's status is now hovering pretty close to other power sites like google. it's funny that bands are now forwarding people to their now primary website, their myspace site rather than their own site, which has now become secondary. everyone has a myspace site, even television shows! it's soon to be the main hub for all websites. it is now online-advertising central.

all cause someone wanted some friends.

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see it/him?

obesity pandemic a global worry

Obesity pandemic a global worry
More than 1 billion adults overweight, at risk for disease
Will overwhelm all medical systems in world, scientist says
Sep. 4, 2006. 07:58 AM
ROHAN SULLIVAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia—An obesity pandemic threatens to overwhelm health systems around the globe with illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, experts at an international conference warned yesterday.
"This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world," Paul Zimmet, chairman of the meeting of more than 2,500 experts and health officials, said in a speech opening the week-long International Congress on Obesity.
"It's as big a threat as global warming and bird flu," he said.
The World Health Organization says more than one billion adults are overweight and 300 million of them are obese, putting them at much higher risk of diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, stroke and some forms of cancer.
Zimmet, a diabetes expert at Australia's Monash University, said there are now more overweight people in the world than the undernourished, who number about 600 million. In Canada, about 5.5 million people are considered obese, while the Canadian Association of Food Banks estimates that 2.4 million Canadians suffer from hunger.
People in wealthy countries lead in overeating and not doing enough physical activity, but those in the poorer countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are quickly learning bad habits, the experts said.
Thailand's Public Health Ministry, for instance, announced yesterday that nearly one in three Thais over age 35 is at risk of obesity-related diseases.
"We are not dealing with a scientific or medical problem," said Dr. Philip James, the British chairman of the International Obesity Task Force.

`It's as big a threat
as global warming
and bird flu'
Paul Zimmet, chair of International Congress on Obesity

"We're dealing with an enormous economic problem that ... is going to overwhelm every medical system in the world."
The task force is part of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, a professional group of scientists and health workers in some 50 countries that deal with the issue.
James said the cost of treating obesity-related health problems cannot be measured on a global scale, but the group estimated it at billions of dollars a year in countries like Australia, Britain and the United States.
Among the most worrying problems are skyrocketing rates of obesity among children, which make them much more prone to chronic diseases as they grow older and could shave years off their lives, experts said.
The children in this generation may be the first in history to die before their parents because of health problems related to weight, Kate Steinbeck, an expert in children's health at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, said in a statement.
Experts at the conference said governments should impose bans on junk food advertising aimed directly at children, although they acknowledged such restrictions were unlikely to come about soon because the food industry would lobby hard against them.
"There is going to be a political bun fight over this for some time, but of course we shouldn't advertise junk food to children that makes them fat," said Dr. Boyd Swinburn, a member of the International Obesity Task Force.
Dr. Claude Bouchard, president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, an umbrella group for medical organizations dealing with weight-related and children's health issues, said the group supported advertising bans as official policy. But the policy position is unlikely to have any immediate effect on influencing governments to introduce such bans, the Louisiana researcher said.

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in case you haven't already, you might want to look into this....

Battery Exchange Program iBook G4 and PowerBook G4

life, updated

hey. not much to tell. hanging out here in PA for a few more weeks and going to NYC to shop my book around next week. i'll probably end up coming back here and then heading home to toronto late september BUT how cool would it be to land a j.o.b. in NYC? keep your fingers, toes, and anything else crossed for me.

also, check out the new dears album 'gang of losers'. how good? so good!

too funny

death from above 1979, no longer recording. eff!

AUGUST 04.2006

• from their website and blog

hey

i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. i wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. we decided to stop doing the band... actually we decided that almost a year ago. we finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy christmas presents and pay rent etc. we couldnt just cancel everything and leave them out to dry... plus i think we wanted to see if we would reconsider after being out on the road. our label was really hoping that we would change our minds, so they asked us to keep quiet about the decision for at first. well, its been quite awhile now and we are still very sure the band wont happen again, so i guess its time to say something.

we started as a punk band with pop aspirations and we met every goal we set for ourselves. a few weeks ago, the album finally went gold in canada and that was the final mark i really wanted to reach.. it was my goal to see how big we could become without ever compromising or changing what we did right from the start... and now i know. we did way more than i ever expected and i like to think the fans (you?) enjoyed it as much as we did.... watching us sneak our way onto network tv, big festivals and sports arenas... playing music that most people assumed only belonged in basements and dirty rock clubs. we played our first show in a living room on long island for about 12 people and played our last in the calgary saddledome for 12,000. ha! what more could i have ever asked for? ive been in lots of punk bands over the last 15 years and i played every basement, squat, hole and alley from here to eastern europe. dfa79 was the first time i ever really played on a stage, yet i really didnt change what i was doing from what id been doing in the past... hell i was even using the same amplifiers!

i never would have imagined that the wall of noise i love so much could have come this far. to see my silly elephant trunk idea become so popular... im sure its the greatest piece of graphic design ill ever do.

over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad.

it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.

thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out to our shows, wrote letters just to say hi, baked cakes and made your own t-shirts. i kept everything you gave me. thanks so much to the kids who came really early to see us when were were opening for bigger bands... that meant so much to me.

i hope i have been a positive example and not a bad influence and i really want you to know that when you stop me on the street and i dont know what to say, its not because i dont appreciate you, its just not something ill ever really get used to.

thanks again.

j f k

update, yes?

so, where to start....

Meph and Stike.
steph and mike got married july 22nd and had a pretty amazing wedding.... apart from the powder frosted blue tuxedos. the reception was nice and apparently "80 percent chance of thunderstorms; prepare to seek shelter" warnings aren't really that accurate. the wind picked up, it started to spit, but then it just kinda went away. could you ask for a better sign about a marriage? haha. the reception was followed by a pretty fun dinner. i was kinda bumming on that whole "head table" deal cause the whole time i wanted to sit with my cute girlfriend, but i guess it's tradition or whatever. the dinner was followed by a hilarious couple hours of karaoke. who has karaoke at a wedding? the falcones do and i guarantee anyone at that wedding that wasn't married is considering having it at their wedding. those same people are probably trying to figure out how they can contract dave malinsky and kris marsh to come out and perform "Purple Rain" hahaha!

elephants are dinosaurs and .139 is NOT good.
misty got us tickets to the phillies game for my birthday so the day after the wedding we headed to philadelphia. we had to check-out at like noon so we had a bunch of time to kill and what better way to kill time then to check out a zoo. the zoo is so amazing. it's just so gnarly to see animals that you don't see everyday. and it's also gnarly to think how effed you'd get if you ever met one of these things in the wild. could you even fathom what would and could happen if you ever encountered, say, a cheetah? or a tiger? or a lion? seeing these animals on tv is one thing. seeing this animals in person is another! elephants = amazing. have you ever looked at one of those things? they seriously amaze me. if you think about it, they are really modern day dinosaurs. a cheetah is a form of cat. so is a tiger. a chimpanzee is a monkey. a condor is a bird. what the hell is an elephant? anyway, those things are amazing. and aardvarks aren't serious. they're puppets!

after the zoo we headed to the ball game. i definitely LOVE baseball and it has been so long since i've been to a game which made it that much better. my girlfriend did good! the game was pretty good. great plays, nutty fans in superhero costumes, girls cheating on their boyfriends and hiding when on the big screen, managers putting in pinch hitters with averages like .139 in the 9th inning down by 2 none out and 2 on, shit talking critics...... great game.


so that's about it. i'm still at woodward in pa but will be heading to nyc in a few weeks and then back to toronto to collect more business cards and live off scraps. things are settling down a bit so expect regular updates again.

ps ben hittle is good!

what?????????????

i have so much to talk about from the last few weeks but for now i'll just pass along this video.

itchy and scratchy

congratulations mike falcone (or fal-cooooon) and steph.......... falcone.

more to come....

you know what's lame?

when people take your shit and don't put them back. i dont have any problem with people borrowing things as long as they do just that - borrow it. not take it, use it, and hide it under some paper, and a coffee cup, on a desk, on the other side of the office. there's almost nothing as frustrating and reaching for something that's not there, that definitely should be. then you spend time looking for whatever was taken and that turns the job you were doing from 10 seconds into 10 minutes...... or longer! makes me want to carry around a bow and arrow. EFF!

lucky for me, i have just acquired a special serum that turns figurines into ruthless killers and protectors of desk utensils. suckers!

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makeshift trailor home on rt. 219

waste not, want not.... i guess

fyi

if your dog ever gets into a battle with a skunk and comes out on the losers end, here's a home-made remedy.

1 QT peroxide
1/4 cup of baking soda
1 TBSP of Dawn dish detergent

wash 'em down!!!!!

boston who? new york what?

Five Jays on all-star team
Jul. 2, 2006. 08:27 PM
SHI DAVIDI
CANADIAN PRESS

The Toronto Blue Jays, seeking to break up the New York Yankees' and Boston Red Sox's years of dominance in the American League East, are sending more players than their division rivals to next week's All-Star Game.
Ace Roy Halladay, closer B.J. Ryan, third baseman Troy Glaus plus outfielders Vernon Wells and Alex Rios, who will miss the game because of injury, were all voted by their peers onto the AL squad announced Sunday by Major League Baseball, the second highest total in club history. Seven Blue Jays were in the 1993 game......

rest is here.

la update

hey kids. sorry i haven't been in touch for awhile. i'm spending my summer at woodward camp in pennsylvania for the 8th (or 9th - i don't remember) straight summer. it's definitely not what i had planned to be doing but it's a welcome change from the depths of my thought-box aka my basement. tropical rain storms, crazy americans, manure-scented air, what could be better?

so i just realized something; americans, on the whole, are huge. i think there's a statistic that 85 percent of them or something of them are over-weight. and having a conversation and listening to their reasoning is incredible. the argument was that "we're getting our money's worth! if i can get more for less, than why wouldn't I?" true. i completely agree but at the same time, it's ridiculous. there's another side that people are missing. just because you are getting more, doesn't mean you need to consume the same amount per sitting. put it in a box. save it for later. anything! there's nothing saying you can't save the excess of your meal. there's no one watching and making sure you finish or meal in-house. this is what happens: you feel like a combo that equals a burger, fries, and drink. you go to say, mcdonalds, and they have a special - super size everything for the amount of the normal size. "i can get more for the same money!" so you get the super-size option but the problem lies in the comsumption. you're consuming MORE per sitting. i remember going to arbys i think it was with mike bennett and because he could get more sandwiches for slightly more money, he did. not cause he was that hungry but because he could get more out of his money. so being hungry for an arbys sandwich and drink turned into eating 5 times what he originally wanted. anyway, that's my theory. makes sense in my head. think about it.

oh, and yeah, mike bennett is over-weight. he's got a portable table he takes aorund with him. it's called his belly.

what else am i up to? not much. i should be making a few trips out to nyc to pimp my portfolio around but other than that, not much. i'll be sure to get back on the ball and enrich your lives with the happenings over here.

oh, and since there's a storm happening right now, lightening is gnarly! bolts of electricity, stirking down to earth from the sky. sounds like a futuristic weapon, huh?

ps - chris o'connor is awesome.

pss - check out tv on the radios new album. soo good. it's uploading on my iDisk now.

more procrastination

100 Awesome Music Videos

draw a pig and reveal your personality. really

another personality test but i actually find this one interesting. i'd like to see the factual studies on how they determined which of the personalities suited the various types of drawing styles.

very interesing.

CLICK HERE and draw a pig.

let them live!

nice try, bush.

Gay Marriage Ban Fails in Senate Vote

mark of the beast

have a safe 666 day.

i know the day is almost over. i didn't want to freak any superstitiousers out early in the morning. haha

my style is impetuous

"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"

can't get enough of this kid. a fun read on rainy days. More Here.

owned. monkey 1 humans -4

bill, time to re-examine your career options.