Miscellaneous, etc.

I actually have an excuse for being quiet this time:  my delightful partner Tina and I have embarked on a new food blog, Choosy Beggars.

Considering that we’re about to become house poor (we sold our house, yay!  the market fucked us, boo!), this is our chance to chronicle what people of refined tastes and limited budgets can do to maintain our dignity. 

Join us, won’t you!

One of the neat things about Netvibes is how you can set up a Flickr widget, add in a search term, and then have random pictures come up that are tagged with that word.   It can sometimes produce a streak of really conventional shots (are flowers growing out of cracks in the sidwalk really that awesome?), but it never fails to liven up my page full of headlines about the Yahoo-Microsoft buyout or whatever depressing shit the CBC is reporting.   It’s fun to see what people think of when they tag words like ”flower“, or “travel“, or “beauty” or what-have-you.  

I, naturally, chose “awesome.”

You’d be amazed by what comes up: beautiful vistas, men dressed as cowboys, animals in mid-air, and people accomplishing great things.  And then, there was today’s picture:

Kid grabbing underaged titty in a nightclub while a horrified bartender looks on = awesome?  Apparently so.

You go, Supermilk.  When I was fourteen or however young that guy is, I would’ve thought I was pretty awesome too.

I’m off to a cottage for the weekend, but I leave you with this:

Genius. Happy 4th to my American boyz, and Happy Canada day to my Hoser Playaz.

…the Subway Lobster Sub.  Twelve inches of fresh, tasty lobster meat at lunch!  Yours, for only $17!  Or double the meat for an extra $3!  For an affordable $20 meal!  Holy what the fuck!

Look, I know that you get local-interest lobster-based offerings (the McDonald’s McLobster is my personal favorite), but who aside from the morbidly curious or the internet-fame-seeking is going to walk in and grab one of these?  I admit that I was going to buy one just to make fun of it, but I forgot my digital camera at home today and I’ve been saving up for a Q-Ray bracelet to make fun of it, too — I can’t afford both, and frankly cosmic rays from costume jewelry has more comic potential to me. 

Has anyone else actually secured financing to eat one of these, though?  Surely someone is willing to pay money that would otherwise get them two full pizzas, just to savor the Atlantic flavor?

Eat fresh!

…but who cares.  Good for whoever can do this, and for making it so fun for so many.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

(via Mightygodking)

Edited to add:  So, I now know how he did it.  He had a viral video of dancing ridiculously while on a trip to Asia, which got him a deal from Stride Gum to travel to other places and dance ridiculously.  He then pitched them to sponsor him again, but this time go dance with all the people who’d emailed him from around the world.

After learning this, I have decided it is no less awesome for having been paid for.  I wish I could sell out so successfully.