How about this super hero?

Complete with sound!

Antigonish Bashing

Check out the ads on this web-site for Antigonish Criminal Lawyers:

"Living in Mexico"

"Teach English in Taiwan" (Korea, Japan, Mexico, U.A.E. etc.)

"USAFlowers.com" (to send back home to the missus while you're in hiding in Bangor.)

Sounds like the smart criminals in Canada save the legal fees and flee the country for warmer climes. So, "Kevlar" and "P.I.M.P." if these are your real names, what are you running from?

From my limited google searches, it seems most likely they are on the lam from several commercial fraud cases.

Did you really think you could sell "Organic Christmas Trees" and "Free Range Cod" to the public and not get caught? I am just sickened.

Update: "Rye" and "D-Wayne" apparently only thought they were wanted men and fled pre-emptively after setting of firework on the St. Lawrence.

Chinese Communist Super-Hero

Here's one of the concept comic book characters planned. Brought to you by American capitalism!

Of course, the actual Chinese communists had their own "super hero" Lei Feng, who was sort of a Joe Sixpack of the Red Army. They made whole campaigns revolving around this guy under the rubric of "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" (向雷锋同志学习)

Though, just how much can you learn from a guy who "died in 1962 at the age of 22, when a telephone pole, struck by an army truck, killed him, when he was directing the truck in backing up."

Here are a bunch of propaganda posters showing Lei Feng. Hmmmm, the Socialist Red Guardsman "Gu Lao" looks much cooler. I wonder if they will have more characters (too lazy to register with the New York Times) but I can imagine another character they will create:

LaoGai - a former dissedent who has been re-educated so well that his mind can telepathically inspire socialist thinking in others.

Oh, I almost forgot: DC comics is also creating a Lesbian Batwoman character. (note: links to political blog - may not be safe for all viewers.)

Now, in the comments: create your own Taiwanese superheroes and explain their power, how they got it, etc. (Bread, you can make up a Montana or Basque character...snicker.)

A chess game with several players

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/make.jpg

Carl could pick one up. Bread could play. They both could invite some friends. Multi-chess has so many players and a community chest, to field questions from.

Taiwan Welfare Lotto

After months of seperating receipts it was time to collect. Oh yeah Baby!

business card Scan

Lets see what embedded video looks like.

I just never grow tired of hearing nonsense.

CHICKEN RICE

CHICKEN RICE

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This is Chicken Rice at Spring Scream Monkey back in '04. I remember my brother was here visiting. We took the bus down from Chao Ma and on the bus was this guy from CR. I think his name is Allen Billy. In '05 he had a monster beard. Didn't see them around this year. Taiwanese rockabilly at its best!

Timmy! Get Your Guns, uh, Hands Up!

Sports fans are no doubt aware of Timmy Smith's most recent troubles. Well, I don't think I saw this coming but sure did have doubts about his future after me and some friends witnessed Timmy in action one night at a local bar. First, a little background. Smith grew up in Hobbs, NM and went to college at Texas Tech. He went on to play for the Redskins, and after minimal production in the regular season, ran for 204 yards in the Skins' Super Bowl win. Prior to this cocaine bust, Timmy had been having child support problems. At one point he fled back to Hobbs to avoid being arrested for non-payment. Which brings me to his stupid little stunt at a place called the Lone Star Oyster Bar. It was one or two weeks after the Super Bowl on a Friday or Saturday night out at the bar when Timmy walked in. Cheering, yelling and sloshing of beer. Timmy's king here. Everyone's congratulating him and he's loving it. The O Bar is a small, narrow place with a counter for beer and shrimp and oysters. Timmy is holding court at the counter waiting for his drink. The bartender turns his back to pour and Timmy pulls out a move he withheld from the Super Bowl. He looks slyly to the left and right. Good. No one's looking. But everybody is looking. He's our local hero in a shoebox bar jammed tight with a lot of glad-handers. It's impossible not to see him. Especially when he then belly flops onto the counter ( not the tallest guy) and reaches over and down. Head pops up with a big smile and he slides back down to a standing position while stuffing his pockets full of boiled shrimp he just snatched. We all saw it except the bartender. Silence. The silence of bewilderment and despair. We no longer had a hero and went into overdrive convincing ourselves that Billie Joe Tolliver was a great quarterback, even if he would blast a receiver's hands off at 60 yards but always bounce pass a 7 yard screen. And much beer was drunk.



Tassy says: " Today's Chinese is - hellfire missile. 獄 火 飛 彈 (yu4 hwo3 fei1 dan4). Ask for it by name."

Crushing Dissent

Frankly, I'd suggest moving the event to Antigonish. The Irish fans would be happy and there are no multi-million dollar homes to worry about. Unless you count the McCain Fish Guttery & Potato Sacking Plant as a "home."

Is it really true there are only apartments and trailers in Antigonish?

Happy Independence Day Georgia

Things that scare me:

1. Kate Blanchett, Richard Gere and others playing Bob Dylan during different phases of his life in a new movie.
2. If you add some stubble and Charles Nelson Reilly glasses to this guy you get that savior guy from U2.
3. I might witness a suicide (Lawrence) or be part of a homicide (PJ) if PJ sticks to his All Irish Music All The Time policy at Meat and Mash.
4. Tom Cruise singing Free Falling in Jerry Maguire.
5. Asshole ex-State Department officials weighing-in with their better-be-nice-to-China warnings.
6. Projectile catheterization.

Time to close The Biggest Ass poll. While it was very close, I still managed to eke out a victory with 45 votes (counting the comment section). Kevlar, you can give your clicking finger a rest now.

Today's Chinese: 試管嬰兒 (shi4 guan3 ying1 er2) ; test tube baby

Hydro-dynamics and small apartments

After a difficult installation, I caught my breathe and went for a dip.

ADVICE NEEDED - URGENT!!!!

I have to take my physical for a permanent ARC tomorrow. Haven't had to do one in years.

So, RYE, how again do I handle the stool sample?

If I recall correctly, you had the best technique...or was it J-Hole?

Antigonish goes bilingual

Yes, in a move sure to booster multicultralism, the hometown of one of our bloggers has added Gaelic to the local street signs. Now personally I thought all of Canada was already bilingual, thus making Antigonish tri-lingual, but apparently there aren't enough Acadians to merit French street signs. Personally, I hope that the Gaelic implementation is the work of the now unarmed IRA and Canada will soon throw off the final vestiges of the monarchy, but perhaps I am reaching too far. All I know is that when I visit Kevlar in Nova Scotia, he better be able to transliterate that Gaelic alphabet for me.

It seems a good practice to have multilingual street signs, especially since the Senate of the United States has recently passed a rider on the immigration bill demanding immigrants learn English (and thus abolishing a longstanding tradition in the USA of not having an official language). Perhaps when Sandy relocates to Woodstock, NB they will implement street signs which spell the town centre correctly.

QUANTUM BOGGS II TEASER, BIATCH!!!!

Wade Boggs went back in time to help Dan Marino win a superbowl in Episode I...

I've been searching for Episode II since....

Here's a TEASER!!!!

Damn you Fisher-Price

These toys are just too expensive. But I am now in the buy my kid a new toy business. It is a cool toy. This little thing costs about 800 nt. It jiggles, wiggles and sings and it is cute... but 800 nt ?? Bend over Fisher-Price coming thru!

Batting practice and the 7610

Batting practice and the 7610

Watch the video

I used the Nokia 7610 to make a short one minute video of my friend hitting some baseballs. one mega pixel is not enough!

OVERHEARD IN TAICHUNG

I was at the Fubar on Saturday afternoon watching the rugby game when I heard the following conversation.

A: What did you think of The DaVinci Code?
B: Ah, not too good.
A: I agree, I'm not sure if I know anybody that liked it.
C: I heard DeShea liked it......but she's not hard to please is she?

True story.

Canadians are International Hobbits

"What is occurring in Canadian minds is something they're not quite familiar with. Canada in a way has slept-walked through much of the past 50 years. It's one of the charms of Canadians, that you can think of them as being Hobbits on the international scene," Professor Ferris says.

OVERHEARD IN TAICHUNG

Malv to Karl: "Damn, I got some of your poo goo on my pole!"

Okay, I didn't actually overhear that, but after Karl posted that little Russian name generator, am I totally out of line in imagining that as a possibility?

ATASH

Here's another Les Arthur production on YouTube - Atash - an Austin band. I think it was shot at John Kuhel's in-laws' place in Nantou County. Enjoy!