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By The Arbourist, on May 22, 2013, at 8:19 am We need more of this in our music scene because frankly, the omnipresent bland radio pop (A big unthankyou to CBC radio 2 for adding more of this soul withering drivel to my listening day) bores the everliving fuck out of me. So hit me with some hard rock hallelujah any day of the week and I will be appreciative.
And no, it doesn’t get better and that is why its *great*.
Speaking of the “great” category – BOOM – Cezar from Romania nails this performance. Gold pure sonic gold.
Filed under: Rant Tagged: Bland Radio (Read more…)
By The Arbourist, on May 20, 2013, at 8:13 am I’m not much for the Hollywood movie-culture scene. Either I’m getting to old or too smart for the usual smarm of what Hollywood has to offer; and on that note I’d like to think of my self in the later rather than the former category.
Ironic self-delusion aside, pop culture these days rarely entices me with its chintzy glitz and shiny images. Enter Iron Man 3. This is the end chapter for Tony Stark and the current Disney/Marvel money machine. IM3 hastily ties up the plot lines started in the previous movies and attempts to (Read more…)
By The Arbourist, on May 1, 2013, at 8:01 am The vast amount of shit the forced brith advocates spew into the interwebs lends new meaning to the word grotesque. Our anti-choice friends have been faffing on long and hard about Dr. Kermit Gosnell conveniently forgetting about Savita Halappanavar’s terminal experience with their fetid dogma .
Let me spell it out, you antediluvian, dim-witted, anti-choice bastion of fuckwitttery.
Cases like Dr.Gosnell’s are exactly what happens when you limit women’s access to abortion. His practice was under-regulated and in clear violation of any sort of reasonable set of medical expectations. We need less of what Dr.Gosnell did, not (Read more…)
By The Intransigent One, on April 29, 2013, at 8:26 pm
Filed under: Rant Tagged: heartwarming nature crap, weather whinge
By The Arbourist, on April 24, 2013, at 8:16 am Popularity? Posting “too much” on the feminism tag? Do I give two shits? Things don’t change if people don’t know about it, so off we go – a few things that feminism is actually fighting for. Oh and go read the whole post on “If I Admit That “Hating Men” is a Thing, Will You Stop Turing It Into A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?”.
(ed. Italics mine for highlighting the theme of what feminism is actually fighting.)
”Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers (Read more…) part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to have to make alimony payments. Alimony is set up to . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Setting the Straw Arguments Against Feminism Ablaze
By The Arbourist, on April 24, 2013, at 8:16 am Popularity? Posting “too much” on the feminism tag? Do I give two shits? Things don’t change if people don’t know about it, so off we go – a few things that feminism is actually fighting for. Oh and go read the whole post on “If I Admit That “Hating Men” is a Thing, Will You Stop Turing It Into A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?”.
(ed. Italics mine for highlighting the theme of what feminism is actually fighting.)
”Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers (Read more…) part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to have to make alimony payments. Alimony is set up to . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Setting the Straw Arguments Against Feminism Ablaze
By The Arbourist, on April 7, 2013, at 5:19 pm The abject fuckwittery of some people never fails to astonish. Somewhere in the universe the being in charge of giving clues just died a little on the inside. I shall deal only with the header from this particular cesspool of a blog. We’ll just file this under I’ll pull remarkably erroneous shit out of my ass and whinge about it in public ad nauseam.
Feminism – denotes women who want to be men and who act in a totally unfeminine manner, so feminism is the opposite of its definition.
This construction made entirely of straw seems to
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Stupid Places on the Web – Feminism is True
By The Arbourist, on March 18, 2013, at 8:33 am The RPOJ comes for thee BJ!
I had a sense on this one, as I was typing my reply to the burning stupid present on this site, that my commentary might not be published. Given that dudes, with what they deem to be important opinions, tend not to like being shown how audaciously wrong they are. I took it upon myself to save a copy of my reply. Much to my surprise(?) my comment did not make it past moderation, and thus, because of the supernovae grade idiocy on display, the commentary in question became a
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: *Wiggle-Wiggle* Goes the Red Pen of Justice – This is to You, Who Support Murder[!!1!1!]
By The Arbourist, on February 2, 2013, at 2:43 pm Coming to work today I was listening to the CBC morning news there was the usual doom and gloom, but what was remarkable was the amount of time devoted to telling Canadians about how awesome the commercials were going to be for the Superbowl and the lengths people were going to get the American cable feeds to be able to watch the commercials.
To watch the commercials.
I think of the amount of creative energy expended to make a mere advertising and despair. The creative genius of our society is not only being flushed down the crapper, but
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Advertising and the Superbowl – Rant
By The Arbourist, on January 26, 2013, at 2:50 pm Shall we wake up to some historical notions? Has history ever been kind to women? The short answer is no. Why?
Because, Patriarchy.
Today is not for learning about 101 level feminism. Today is calling down from pulpit the rage and the anger against the systematic oppression of women in our society. If you’re not “down” with Patriarchy and what it entails, I’m not here to explain it to your special snowflakyness (at least not today).
Today, friends, we address a structural question that I rarely see mentioned in the abortion debate. It is
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Historical Notions – Women’s Rights to Choose.
By The Arbourist, on January 19, 2013, at 10:18 am Piano makes kitty sad.
Hey there Canada. Are you enjoying the vibrant parliamentary debates going on over the contentious issues facing our country? No? Me either. The current government is running legislation through the House Fire-Hose of Commons faster than the particles being smashed at the LHC. Again, let me extend my heartfelt thanks to southern Ontario voters who just couldn’t vote for the NDP or the Liberals and held their nose and voted for the Conservatives. Good show, honest. I didn’t want our government to have to deal with those troublesome encumbrances like
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: All the f*cks the Conservative Party of Canada doesn’t give about Parliment – Love the Omnibus Bill(s).
By The Arbourist, on November 27, 2012, at 8:04 am This is what we get when people accept the idea that we are nation of consumers rather than a nation of individuals with rights and responsibilities to ourselves and others. This disgusts me on so many levels. I do not even know where to begin. Filed under: Rant Tagged: Black Friday Follies, Capitalism, Consumerism, [...] . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Fetid Consumer Society – Black Friday Feeding Frenzy
By The Arbourist, on November 17, 2012, at 11:44 am I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as [...] . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
By The Arbourist, on November 14, 2012, at 12:00 pm It is like watching a traffic accident, everyone just slows down and gawks at the spectacle at hand. The wordpress reader made me slow down and read this post from Cynthia on The Trumpet Sound. Now usually when I see the godbaggy speak oozing forth from a blog I just keep on going knowing that [...] . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: You Can’t Make Shite Like this Up – Delusional Christians and Obama
By The Arbourist, on October 24, 2012, at 8:01 am I’m not a a huge fan of snow, but I’m trying, I really am. For instance, you don’t get dinosaurs in the summer or fall…
It is a start I suppose.
Filed under: Rant Tagged: Meh, Snow, Snow Dinos, Winter
By The Arbourist, on October 22, 2012, at 2:04 am Brilliant repost straight from DAMMIT JANET! – One internetz for those folks over there, stat!
“If you are an anti-feminist woman and you vote — even for candidates who’d stop that nonsense in a nanosecond — you didn’t build that.
If you are an anti-feminist woman and you enjoy the rights of contract and property law — you didn’t build that.
If you are an anti-feminist woman but sadly divorced yet benefitting from family law reforms (allowing you to have custody of your children, for example) — you didn’t build that.
If you are an anti-feminist woman who
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Dear Anti-Feminists…
By The Arbourist, on October 16, 2012, at 8:21 am Greetings Readership, usually when I talk about magic it is context of religion and the goodly sized helping of delusion necessary to swallow that particular level of incredulity. Not today, for truly and sincerely I wish to share with you my own magical prowess and how I revel in my superpowers.
My superpowers might seem ordinary to some, but fear not gentle reader they are most extraordinary. I will enumerate the ones that float to my conscious mind in no particular order.
Superpower #1 “Dishsense” – I can spot a dirty dish with laser-like accuracy wherever they
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The Magical Powers I Possess
By Paul, on October 15, 2012, at 7:17 am So, I live near Christie Pits Park in Toronto and have for many years. It’s one of these post-War neighbourhoods of modest sized homes, small one way streets, and a neat mix of older people, new families, and young hipsters. The neighbourhood is many things, but until recently it would never have struck me as a dangerous place where a rash of sexual assaults could take place.But sadly, that’s precisely what’s been going on. In the past 3 months there have been a dozen assaults in the area. Needless to say, this has made the whole neighbourhood both . . . → Read More: Paulitical Satire: Taking Action Against Sexual Assaults – Movie Monday
By Paul, on October 5, 2012, at 5:00 pm Fight Night! (GIF from GifWich)
So, ummmm, the Obama VS. Romney rumble in the mountains (it was in Colorado…get it?) was less a debate than it was two Economics professors arguing about which shade of grey was better. Oh, and one hate’s Big Bird…seriously. Clearly, Prof. Romney won the debate and proved that his grey “with a touch of the Dark Side” was superior, but honestly, the trophy looked crappy and if I were Obama I wouldn’t be all that upset.However, if Barack is upset (which getting kicked in the nuts repeatedly can do to a . . . → Read More: Paulitical Satire: Tips for Barack Obama on How to NOT Suck in the Next Debate
By Paul, on October 3, 2012, at 5:30 am So, I’ve been following the recent chatter about Justin Trudeau (or JT as some people have come to call him, both ironically and not) with interest and a bit of a laugh. I thought that my writing about this was done with my previous post on the topic. However, I’ve now come to realize that I’ll likely be writing about this a lot in the coming months, especially now that he has officially joined the leadership race. Sorry in advance to those that don’t care.Except, that I think most people in fact do care…at least a little. Love . . . → Read More: Paulitical Satire: Justin Trudeau Excites People – And That’s a Good Thing!
By The Arbourist, on September 30, 2012, at 8:00 am We’ll see if we can make it short and quick for today’s Disservice. God has a lot of people who claim to speak for him and his will (see the mentally ill). It’s like certain people happen to have a holy transceiver installed and others, like myself most decidedly do not. I mean when I talk like my imaginary friend is watching over me – my friends make that “keep the freaky-delusional guy happy smile” while someone covertly calls for the nice men in white coats to come get me.
But if you’re wired for God it’s
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Eternal Sin
By Pamela, on September 27, 2012, at 12:01 pm Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they are interested in is the regulation and restriction of women’s rights. I am so incensed that women still have to… ..
By Paul, on September 26, 2012, at 9:47 pm Even this baby is surprised by the actions of Rona Ambrose tonight!
So, you’ve probably heard that there was a vote tonight (last night if you’re reading this Thursday morning) to strike a special committee that would look at the question of when a child actually becomes a human being. I quote:That a special committee of the House be appointed and directed to review the declaration in Subsection 223(1) of the Criminal Code which states that a child becomes a human being only at the moment of complete birth and to answer the questions hereinafter set forth;(i) . . . → Read More: Paulitical Satire: What’s That? You Want to Argue About Abortion?
By Paul, on September 26, 2012, at 9:01 am So, there are moments when I look at what’s happening with the Conservative reign of undemocratic terror in Ottawa and feel like it must be some kind of joke, some kind of bad dream. I think about old time-y Steven Harper who was for more transparency of government, against too much power held by the PM, and even railing against Omnibus bills. But it seems that when it comes to hypocrisy, Harper believes the old adage ”in for a penny, in for a pound.”While any number of occurrences since the house resumed could have spurned these sad thoughts of mine, it was this . . . → Read More: Paulitical Satire: Harper’s Hypocrisy Knows no Bounds
By The Arbourist, on September 22, 2012, at 11:10 am I’m looking for the transcript (found it)because sometimes the applause drowns out the speaker. In any case, this is a command performance and emphasizes a few important points about discourse in our society in general and feminism in particular.
I remember how the park, outside of parked cars, was frozen with quiet and darkness, when your anger shot through the night.
“Why do you call yourself a feminist? You guys are equal. And as a man, I am always expected to be a man, to make the first move. If anything, it is harder for me; you get all
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: Poetry Slam – Natasha
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