Davey Boy 2.0

i'd definately sue them there jaimoe

it does look totally gross but if it were 1:45 on a saturday night and someone put it front of me i might wake up the next day feeling very ashamed [color:#cccccc]and sick

happy birthday handsome I hope that wasn't a long 7 minutes that you had to wait to find a drinking partner

that explains a lot ::awaits foul and filthy attacks rumours and assumptions::

this is going to be a final to watch, no doubt about it, just wish the semis were anything but that^

yup, crainsins

...and booche gettin crunked early in the eve

that post seems replete with euphemisms

this just in: Hux is preggo

maybe they erased images and references to AM 640 announcer Bill Watters from the Air Canada Centre, not pat Quin's assistant Bill Watters that might be splitting hairs though of course

or getting beat up by Salami Breath

That's because we were only 4 feet tall and your weak defensive skills allowed me to be staring in the top corner of the net from all the pucks I kept firing up there. I don't even know how jaimoe would see it while tending to a steady dtream of nosebleeds

the snow is mesmerizing

Spurs-PSV should be a good one. Hup Eindhoven!

bouche was vying for the coveted Grilled Cheese of the Year, oh the irony when the oven died

it's not moss it's peat

Hahaha, when booche was in his 20s that was the meal he made to impress the ladies!

jazzfest news, Ott-Cit: 'As good as it gets': Jazz fest lands giants; Mehldau, Marsalis and Hancock to play Confederation Park this summer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three of the biggest names in jazz will be among the headliners at this summer's Ottawa International Jazz Festival. The Citizen has learned that pianist Herbie Hancock, fresh from his surprise Grammy for album of the year -- the first jazz recording in more than four decades to capture the honour -- will play on the main stage in Confederation Park on Sunday, June 22. Backed by an all-star band including saxophonist Chris Potter, guitarist Lionel Loueke and bass player Dave Holland, Hancock will perform music from River: The Joni Letters, his jazz interpretations of Joni Mitchell's music that won the Grammy. A vocalist for the show is still to be announced. Tina Turner, Norah Jones and Corrine Bailey Rae were among the singers on the CD. A week later, on June 29, jazz's latest crown prince of the piano, Brad Mehldau, will play on the main stage with his acclaimed trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard. It will be the third festival appearance for Mehldau's trio, but its first outdoor show since 2002, when he transfixed a large Confederation Park crowd with his bold, modern innovations. The pianist performed a pair of sold-out indoor concerts in 2006. The festival's opening night on June 20 will feature Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, whose last concert on the big stage in 1999 was among the best attended, and most memorable, in the festival's 28-year history. The orchestra ended its concert by playing as it marched, New Orleans-style, through the overflow crowd. The 15-piece band will come complete with its A-list of heavy-hitters, including a killer trumpet section made up of Marsalis, Sean Jones, Ryan Kisor and Marcus Printup. The orchestra's repertoire is expected to include music from its Congo Square project, a post-Katrina tribute to New Orleans. "I feel like we've done the impossible by nailing these three groups," executive producer Catherine O'Grady said yesterday as she confirmed parts of the lineup. "This is just about as good as it gets." O'Grady said a few more big names are close to being signed for the festival, which runs from June 20 to July 1 at its usual four venues -- Confederation Park, the Fourth Stage and Studio in the National Arts Centre and the auditorium at Library and Archives Canada. While the full lineup will not be announced until April 8, O'Grady revealed that the popular atmospheric Swedish trio E.S.T., led by pianist Esbjörn Svensson, will return on June 22 at Library and Archives. The show will be one of three "special concerts" that will require admission not covered by festival passes. Also on tap is Nordic Connect, the splendid quintet featuring the Canadian Jensen sisters, Ingrid on trumpet and Christine on saxophone, and pianist Maggi Olin. The group plays June 26 on the main stage. Another top-notch Canadian quintet, this one with saxophonists Mike Murley and Tara Davidson and pianist David Braid, is booked for the NAC Studio on June 28. For fans of more traditional jazz, the festival will offer 83-year-old swing clarinetist Buddy DeFranco on the main stage on June 21. Jazz strings will be the theme this year for the late afternoon Connoisseur series at Library and Archives. Among the artists booked are bassist Alain Caron playing with pianist Lorraine Desmarais (June 24), guitarist Mimi Fox (June 25) and Quebec vibraphonist Jean Vanasse on June 29. The festival will actually run an extra day this year so it can offer free programming in Confederation Park on Canada Day -- a Tuesday this year -- a practice started a few years ago when the festival moved its dates ahead to late June from mid-July to avoid a scheduling conflict with Bluesfest. The Canada Day lineup, done jointly with the National Capital Commission, is in the works.

cuntybollox!!!

Ott-Cit: $1B tunnel worth the cost, mayor says; Transit plan offers four options, all with underground projects -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Larry O'Brien says a downtown subway could cost $1 billion, but it will be worth the money to get the city a first-class public transit system that is reliable and cuts travel times. Yesterday, planning staff unveiled four options for a new citywide transit plan, each costing at least $3 billion. But all the options include a tunnel, or subway, to be built downtown -- a huge project intended to lead to the construction of shops and service businesses underground. The city says it must go underground because downtown is near its capacity for dealing with transit. Without a subway, a surface transit system would need a bus to arrive every 10 seconds at downtown stops by 2031, according to the city. Building a subway "takes away the bottleneck" that is choking the transit system, Mr. O'Brien said in an interview. He said the north-south light-rail plan of his predecessor, Bob Chiarelli, would not have worked because the vehicles would have been stuck in surface traffic with other vehicles. The mayor said voters "intuitively know" that the city needs to go underground to improve transit service. The subway would likely run from LeBreton Flats, near Bronson Avenue in the west, to the University of Ottawa in the east, with several stations. At a press conference at the World Exchange Plaza, where one of the subway stations could be located, Mr. O'Brien said a subway downtown could reduce travel time for commuters by 15 minutes each day and improve transit reliability from 85 per cent to 98 per cent. He said over a year, commuters could save about 55 hours of travelling time. "No more guessing. No more being late for work." He acknowledged the subway would be expensive, but "it's better to invest in something that will solve the problem rather than waste money." He also said the timing of each section of the plan will be open to negotiation and subject to the money that's available. The city says it wants to hear from the public about the four options before the transit and transportation committees meet on April 16, when planning staff will present a preferred option. Council is to make a decision on the downtown part of the transit plan on May 28. Mr. O'Brien said he will read every e-mail and letter he gets on the plan. Of the four choices, Options 3 and 4 appear to be the ones city officials are likely to favour. Bay Ward Councillor Alex Cullen said he is excited about the prospect of riders taking an escalator to the basement of downtown buildings, entering the subway and using transit. "It's going to be fantastic." Alta Vista Ward Councillor Peter Hume said while going underground is "incredibly complicated," it's the only option because a road-level system can't handle the volume of traffic the city will have. Mr. Hume, who prefers Option 4, says Ottawa's transit system will undoubtedly be built in stages, with federal and provincial government money coming from time to time. But he said it's essential that the city get a comprehensive plan so Ottawa is ready to act when the funds become available. River Ward Councillor Maria McRae said she wants to hear from citizens before making a final choice, but she favours bringing on commuter rail, rather than more "smelly, dirty buses," noting commuter trains last about twice as long as buses. She said the size and expense of the transit project can be intimidating, but the city needs good transit if it is to keep growing: "Big money, big decision. But big city." - - - Four Options for Citywide Transit Plan Option 1: The fastest to build, sticks with buses and runs them in the downtown tunnel. The existing O-Train would be the city's only rail service. Bus transitways would be extended deeper into the suburbs. This option, estimated to cost $3.16 billion, would be the easiest to implement, but it would have the highest operating costs and generate the most pollution. Option 2: A mixed rail-bus plan, with the bus transitway system left in place and extensions built farther into the suburbs, the O-Train converted to a twin-track commuter-rail service from the University of Ottawa west and south to Bowesville Road, including a spur into Ottawa Airport. Buses and commuter-rail trains would share the downtown tunnel. It is estimated to cost $3.87 billion. Option 3: Keeps the current O-Train, but the tunnel is reserved for light trains and the east-west transitway is converted to rail. This option is expected to cost $3.37 billion. Option 4: The subway would have a light-rail line and the transitway would be converted to a twin-track electric-rail system from Blair station in the east to Baseline station in the west. The O-Train would be converted to a twin-track light-rail service extending south to Bowesville Road and the airport. The rest of the system would be be bus transitway. This option is estimated to cost $3.82 billion.

sad news indeed

i prefer the bacon grease marinade recipe- satuday night, after a bunch of beers and gas bong hits splash some water on your face, stumble over to th fridge and grab that package of bacon you were saving for breakfast, slice it open with the sharpest utensil at your disposal, apply pressure to any wounds that might result, fry that shit up til it's crispy like potato chips, throw it all in a bowl and smash it up with you fist. eat. next day place the pork in a glass or ceramic dish, and blend the leftover bacon drippings with an onion, soy sauce, brown sugar, fresh ginger root, garlic and tomato puree in a food processor or blender. Cover the pork with the marinade and refrigerate for 3-6 hours.

for the record, i would eat the fack out of that dish

rock on stu-diggity, happy birthday