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Rum Runners: Run Away
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on July 24th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Reviews,
Food and Restaurants
Tonight we went to Rum Runners restaurant in Charlottetown, PEI to celebrate my step-brother's graduation from college. A lot of family were there and it was a very happy event. Regrettably, the restaurant itself was not one of the highlights of the evening. Rum Runners is a terrible restaurant and I would never recommend it to anyone.
Globalization Protests
Posted in Unfounded Speculation
on June 27th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
The G20 meeting in Toronto is wrapping up with the usual protests and usual violence and destruction having entailed. It leaves me with the question, why does the Left so reliably show up to protest all forms of multilateral discussion and international cooperation? You would think that the xenophobic and isolationist Right would take that role and that the Left would be the cheerleaders of multilateralism. And yet, the opposite is usually the case. Instead, the Left engages in pointless protests which always draw violent factions, which necessitate severe security measures at these types of events. Certainly this contributes to the alienation of the Left from most of the population and their continuing slide into political irrelevance.
Hyundai is Total Shit
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on April 5th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
It will be a cold day in hell before I own a Hyundai ever again. I would sooner chug Drano. Hyundais are total shitboxes. I own a 2005 Tiburon, which by an amazing coincidence needs a whole new automatic transmission, bare months after the warrantee has expired. I could buy a resepctable used car for what this repair is going to cost me.
I Think Jason Kenney is Gay
Posted in Unfounded Speculation
on March 7th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Gay Stuff
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Recently, CBC news ran a story about how Jason Kenney, the Conservative federal government's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, had the short discussion about gay rights in Canada removed from the new edition of the handbook that immigrants seeking citizenship must study. Kenney's office received the draft handbook, with the references to gay rights in Canada, and the minister's office issued a memo ordering it be deleted. The authors of the handbook asked the minister to reconsider and were refused. I wrote a comment on the CBC article, which was not approved by the moderators, where I stated that I have always thought that Jason Kenney was gay, and that this is a classic self-hating closet-case move.
The Avatar Phenomenon
Posted in Unfounded Speculation
on March 2nd, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Reviews,
Movies
I meant to blog about this back a month or so ago when I first saw the movie Avatar (Wikipedia entry), but never got around to it. Then today, one of my co-workers told me about this clip on Youtube. Do yourself a favour and watch it - you need to see this. These people seem to be completely serious, including the dude having sex with a flower through his braid at the end of the clip. It is truly special. Yes, the special effects were amazing, and the 3D was remarkable. But I think that while most people I've talked to tend to claim they aren't as much into the story as they are into the effects, I think the popularity of the movie was actually rooted in the story and even more in the implicit ideology. Those willing to admit it, and those who go farther into the realm of farce like the LARP people are only the tip of the iceberg - something in this movie speaks to something fundamental in the collective psyche of our culture.
How Does A Gay Wedding Work?
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on February 14th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Gay Stuff
This was a question my brother asked me one night as we were coming home from karate 
. The issue has to do with the logistics... what sort of attendants do you have, what do you wear, etc. The short answer is, it works however you want. The long answer is that it doesn't work much differently than any other wedding.
Added a Topic Feature
Posted in Django
on February 14th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
I just finished adding a Topic feature to my Blog application. The concept is similar to tagging, which for good or for ill I deliberately decided not to implement. The idea is that topics will allow me to more easily connect related articles, which since creating my "Doom Series" I have had the desire to do.
Interstellar Archaeology?
Posted in Unfounded Speculation
on February 5th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Science Fiction
Randy McDonald posted a link to an interesting discussion about the idea of interstellar archaeology on his blog.
Does More Social Acceptance Eventually Mean Fewer Gays?
Posted in Unfounded Speculation
on February 3rd, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Crystal Ball,
Gay Stuff
"Randy McDonald wonders, like Sam, whether if homosexuality is genetic, there will be fewer gays born as fewer masquerade as (breeding) straight people and pass on their genes, himself suspecting that since it seems to by a byproduct of female sibling's reproductive strategies--at least among queer men--that it won't matter that much" (quoting Randy). I respond:
The Most Awesome Thing Ever
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on January 29th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
YESSSSS! Hahahahaha! Take that, you PETA bastards!