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Tea & Two Slices: On Predictable Odysseys And Generation X

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by Sean Orr | Pot activist Dana Larsen’s NDP leadership bid could be up in smoke. Can we stop letting Dads write headlines, please?

Liberals to stay the course on tax cuts. So I had to go to some obscure business site to learn that corporations are getting yet another tax break. Weird how the corporate media wouldn’t mention this, eh?

Super-wealthy soon to get networking group. In other words, attention all scammers, spammers, phishers, and hackers: we’ve pooled all our naivety and cash into one, convenient place for you.

City may loosen reins on street food vendors. My dream of opening a cereal truck called For Cereals is getting closer. Now I just need someone to give me a whole bunch of money.

2011: a predictable odyssey of Vancouver events. I don’t know, I guess it could be funny if you happen to be a balding, middle-aged, insecure white dude threatened by any change to the status quo. You know the type. They’re still bitter about the Town Pump. They’re convinced Stella Artois is a premium beer. They talk about people being bleeding heart liberals. They think they are the only ones who have jobs and pay taxes, and they elect people like Rob Ford. There has got to be a nice little label we can fit these bitter, stubborn brats into. I’ve got it! Generation X.

10 Trends We Could Live Without in 2011. Kanye, coke, and microgenres.

Hmmm never heard of Vanmusic but it seems like they’ve only just heard of Black Mountain as they name them best band in Vancouver. That’s OK. You only passed up Shimmering Stars, Teen Daze, Walter TV, Nu Sensae, Fine Mist, Babe Rainbow, Megasoid, Baptists, Congress, Watermelon, My Friend Wallis, Slam Dunk, SSRIs, Boogie Monster, Peace, Brasstronaut, No Gold, Needles// Pins, Tight Solid, Mt. Career, Heavy Chains, Humans, Dbl Dragon, Myths, Flash Palace, World Club, Appollo Ghosts, and Diamond Rings. NBD.

There are 9 comments

  1. Wow must be a slow week for Mr Eby, now he’s making a move against the Legions. Well anything that keeps him in the limelight……yawn!

  2. Are you kidding? Because that article was satire. Very bad satire mind you, but satire nonetheless. (He was predicting 2011)

  3. “… insecure white dude threatened by any change to the status quo.”

    Nice. Will you be stereotyping other races in the future or is this a white’s only thing?

  4. Oh god, this is exactly what I mean. This white guilt cum knee-jerk reactionary pseudo-conservative, politically correct naivety. The same people that were offended by “Bike Lane’s Make Me Hornby”. I take it you were one of the people who found the article amusing – an article I might add that was chalk full of stereotypes. And yet, am I saying that all white males are insecure? Nope. Not even. Do me a favour and listen to Louis CK talk about whites and then you might accidentally get a sense of humour. You can thank me later.

  5. Well with so many good bands to choose from as you point out, the best band in Vancouver for 2010 was a difficult choice, it was chosen using a system of maths, computational algorithms, and most importantly reader submissions in order to narrow down a field of possible matches, I’m sorry you don’t agree with the choice, and you are entitled to your opinion as much as vanmusic is entitled to theirs. Sorry you haven’t heard of Vanmusic, but Vanmusic has heard Black Mountain before. Vanmusic is just trying to promote music that happens in, around and from Vancouver, sometimes it’s the smaller bands like you mention, and sometimes it’s bands that have gone on to a little greater fame like Black Mountain, I don’t see anything wrong with that. NBD.

  6. Sean Orr soon to be middle aged white man (balding) sharp as ball Sean Sharp as a B@ll.

    They call you cue tip cause your got chalked?

  7. BWHA HA HAAAA that’s amazing! I have no idea what you’re saying!!!! HA HAAAAA

  8. Vanmusic, i listened to music in a van, it was awesome wells. deep bass and bouncing like two year old on twixxx.
    Sean gots him selved a one way ticket to midday on cbc chevy metal blundah Shawny Chevy Metal Blender

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