Archive for December, 2009

Reprieve

First, a haiku:

Winter is biting
With gharstly icicle teeth.
Please euthanize me.

Next, the cure for winter: a trip to somewhere non-wintry! By which I mean the newly-renovated, yet still wonderfully familiar, Muttart Conservatory, whence I dragged my half-frozen carcass on Sunday.

A pointy colourful thing:

A delicate yellow thing:

A fluffy pink thing that tried to assassinate me by falling onto my shoulder and tumbling pathetically to the floor:

Can you feel the warmth? The humidity? The churning processes of photosynthesis that have all but ground to a halt outside? Take a deep breath and focus on the plants.

The desert pyramid is also good for dispelling winter blues, albeit less humid.

Just think, guys, only four more months of winter to go! We can do it!

Is Someone Seriously Going to Greenlight This?

I mean, not a single word in this headline actually goes with the other words in the sentence.

Then again, if the Beatles, MC Hammer, and the New Kids on the Block could do it…

Another Voting Plea

I just found out that the Canadian Blog Award rules lets you vote once per day. Slap came in a really close second in round one, so please help push it over the top!

That one loose cannon minotaur…

More time well wasted with The Onion:

People of Walmart

Sites like this really shouldn’t waste as much of my time as they do. But, it’s just… the people…

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Vote For Slap!

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