16, first week of summer vacation, and the fair’s in town. I meet up with my best friend to drink whatever we could find before heading to the fair. Our drinking materials were: 4 juice boxes of Del Monte cherry juice + one 26er of bacardi white rum. That day, the sum total of ingested food was 1/2 bag of Doritos.

Need…

this isn’t something to necessarily be proud of, mind you.

They more than any other band defined the ‘90s mainstream alt rock video look. Vasoline, ISL, Big Bang Baby, even later ones like Sour Girl all perfectly encapsulate ‘94-2000 videos like no other. I’m not articulate enough with design/fashion terms to know exactly what it is—slightly glammer grunge, quartets playing…

nope that’s stupid

pedantic grammar alert: Mauritian, as in the copy above, is the demonym for someone from the beautiful island nation of Mauritius; Mauritanian is the demonym for someone from the desertified hellscape of rotating coups that is Mauritania.

Can we agree that this is stupid? This is kind of stupid. Small, simple words make for good writing that can be understood by anyone. I spent, like, the better part of a decade unlearning my assumption that “writing well” meant “using big words and cumbersome sentence structures.” It’s a problem that plagues basically…

i’ve never seen so many men capable of breaking my ribcage open with a single tackle so close to tears in my life. haunting.

there’s never a bad time to post this video. thanks!

I grew up next to Quebec (Ottawa area) and despite years of government-mandated French in school, I could never understand what anybody in Gatineau or elsewhere was ever saying to me. I went to France and Belgium briefly after university and was astounded to discover that I could not only speak French more fluently…

I don’t drink a lot of Vodka (or wodka, depending where your grandparents are from), but Zubrowka is my go-to—Polish stuff made with Buffalo grass that has a hint of vanilla as it goes down. Sounds more or less like Tito’s as reviewed here. Great for shots and cheap, too (at least by Canadian liquor standards),…

these were the hottest shit c. 1995-96 for dudes (well, Gr 5 dudes, at least) who wanted to let ppl know they “played soccer” and “listened to Beck”. I hate 10 year old me, but dude did have sweet kicks.

So you’re saying... the REAL sap is the guy who buys this?

I’ve *done* some gross shit on public transit, mostly back in my undergrad days in Ottawa, and mostly due to a combination of the close proximity of Quebec, its lax approach to underage drinking, and the looooooong public transit ride I’d have to take to get home from Quebexico to the ‘burbs.

**hell*. Damnhellass.

Scared the *crap* out of me.

Mike McCarthy is a stupid fat jerk who ruins every Packers game. You can point to his fingers being in the pies of every significant loss in the past three years or so. If he didn’t have a generational talent in the pocket he would have been fired in, like, 2012.

thank you for not bringing up sparta man.

A good friend of mine moved to Canada at around the age of 20 from Iran. Besides the usual “it’s not as fucked up as you think it is, although in many ways it is very fucked up” talk about Iran, he mentioned that the recreational drug scene at the time (10-15 years ago) was VERY vibrant, particularly chems (MDMA, LSD)…

hey what’s up hello. I’m curious as to how you all feel about the tie + oxford combo. I had a (far more fashionable than me) friend say that I should never ever ever go that route, esp. with a smaller-collared one—just let the collar do the talkin’. Now that I’ve invested in, like, eight of these totally average…

Packers stan that I am, I took Lacy in the first round of my auction draft for way too much $$ (I was at a wedding at the time, and could only sneak out for the first round. I ended up with five RB and Blake Bortles as my only QB. Never go to weddings.). Thank the ever living Kristol that I picked up Devonta Freeman…