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Radio = less talk+more music Ok so, CJSW has some really good tune-times during odd hours: stellar Indie rock with solid tunes which am stoked to have found out about. But then they have this wretched DJ who's voice comes on and annoys the crap out of me.Her name is Adelle and seriously - if anyone knows her, tell her this: The movie that you couldn't put your finger on for 7 minutes is the Wizard of Oz and your story connecting it sucked ass. Your voice is uber annoying and to the point where I want to drive off the road into the river. I listen to the radio for music; not to hear about what colour socks you're wearing. Stop talking. Just stop. Stop. Don't do it.. stop. Please. OOh kinda catty, eh? Posted by Bella at 5:44 PM# "Accused rapist fit to enter guilty plea" This sick fuck is afraid of being in prison because of the assault he will receive from the other inmates. That poor girl is still in the hospital in a comatose like state because of him.I hope he gets what he deserves but unfortunatly I don't think anything will actually be as cruel to him as he was to her. Posted by Bella at 5:21 PM# "Seriously, it's easy - you just need the stance" - Scott. He just said that because he's done it for most of his 25 years. Show off.I wanted to be like this superstar skateboarder and just blow him away with my talents. Alas, I didn't have the stance and ended up falling on my ass in a rather non-eloquent way. It happened Saturday, now Monday; my hands are plagued with a red bruise, my ass is super numb and hard to sit on and my right arm is numb. Looks like I should stick to doing what I do best and that's not skateboard. I'll just try to impress him some other way: touch my elbows behind my back, pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time, or just sit there and smile pretty. Posted by Bella at 2:15 AM# Happy Birthday, mom. 
Posted by Bella at 7:54 AM# We are all a bunch of monkeys; some just know how to act nicer. Sorry for being such a failure lately kids. Found myself in a nose deep writers-rut and not sure how to escape. I do believe I am off to Revelstoke this weekend for some much needed r&r this weekend so maybe I can clear my mind and pull a good ol' scream into the infinite abyss from the top of Mount Revelstoke. Maybe eat lots of chocolate and drink margaritas... read some books and win the lottery...Anyways, thanks for hanging in there - if you even are. Or hey, maybe you guys moved on to bigger and better sites. But don't fret - I'll be back soon. Posted by Bella at 5:37 PM# This is so junior high school of me... So Brad Pitt's in town. I am secretly hoping for a run-in with him like I had with Mr. Josh Groban.My chances: Probably slim to none but I might get lucky. Posted by Bella at 7:48 AM# Peter MacKay got himself a new title. If you can't see this, you are way blind. Heh. Crazy Conservatives. This was taken off their website.MacKay Says Fix the Watch Lists Now 16 August 2005 Ottawa - Peter MacKay, M.P., Central Nova and Conservative Critic for Pubic Safety and Emergency Preparedness today reacted to reports that border crossing watch lists do not provide border officials with accurate information about travellers attempting to gain access to Canada. Posted by Bella at 6:10 PM# "I have long told you, the Undeniable Truth of Life No. 24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to society..." You sure have Mr. Limbaugh. Rrrrrrright.Good on Dove and Nike for creating ads where bodacious babes of all sorts and colours and sizes are shown off for the smile and laughter they hide inside. Those pint-sized models who are usually gawky and druggy looking are becoming a thing of the past. Almost, gone with the wind if you will. Professional models used by every other branding agency are primed up and photo-shopped where as the chicks advertising Dove are a one of a kind, real deal. And really, thighs are hot. I have 'em. But then really, who's to judge? Well maybe Mr. Limbaugh. Posted by Bella at 5:59 PM# He's just mad his mom named him "Rush". We have all heard the name Cindy Sheehan, the mother who lost her oldest son last year in Iraq while he was on duty, and we all know about her protest going on outside of the Bush camp in Texas. And to add matters even more fun and political, Mr. Rush Limbaugh made a way-out-to-lunch comment today on his oh-so accurate talk show about how he believed she was just faking her way through this; that she staged the documents and nothing is true. Rrrrrright.From the August 15 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left. Rrrright. Maybe the fact that she won't take no for an answer or that she lost her son and just wants an explanation as to why this useless act of war is going on in Iraq is even taking place. Or maybe she just misses her son and wants someone accountable for it - ahem, Mr. Bush. Posted by Bella at 5:37 PM# Maybe I need to look at mine more often... But then that raises a whole new door that I don't know if I want to open.While this sounds oddly intriguing; really not sure if I would be stoked to jump on the bandwagon. God gave me what I have for a reason... at least that's the excuse I am going to go with while contemplating this seemingly painful operation. Posted by Bella at 7:27 AM# Everything gets crossed out. For the umpteenth time yesterday, I was asked if I regretted not going by a pen name for my writing. And yesterday, I answered, "yes". I usually say that I am totally cool with people reading and trashing my name, no sweat. But yesterday I actually admitted that I was wishing I had a pen name. Then I was stuck trying to think of what name I would go with. Uh. And then I couldn't come up with anything witty.Using my actual name limits me from saying so much that I wish I could say. Like... I can't actually talk about a lot of stuff that I wish I could. Oh the perils. Posted by Bella at 5:17 PM# Whoopee - the game is back. Giddy up. Yay. Horrah. Boo ya. Uh.. If I could just get over how much these players make to play a game, I might show a little excitement in regards to the strike being over. But until I can actually comfortably handle it, I really don't need this game.Ok, I admit I am a long time Vancouver Canucks fan. Thanks to my dad, at a young age I developed a strong infatuation with the coastal team. It wasn't until the NHL players union decided enough was enough and walked out that I actually opened my eyes a little wider and gasped at the fact that these goons who skate the rink to pass a puck around make more than people who actually have real jobs, in the real world. People can argue and bicker with me all they want over how if I was able to shoot a puck like these players could then maybe I would make millions too, but I will stand firmly and say that the average salary of an NHL player before the lockout ($1.83 million) is more than anyone should be making. The strike made the players look like nothing more than greedy players who just couldn't get their own way. But at the end of the day, who actually wins? The players might win. They walk away with all the media attention they can handle along with a fat cheque. The owners are happy because they have revenue once again coming to their team. But the real winners might be the concession workers have jobs again. Maybe the fans think they won. And hey, maybe some of them enjoyed the game enough in the first place to actually believe they did. Posted by Bella at 8:43 PM# Breaking news: Jessica Alba picks wedgie, Britney Spears is pregnant and Mike Tyson wants to do Jenna Jameson. Indeed. How is it that this website has sucked me in day after day after gruelling day? Well, because of commentaries like this:MIke Tyson might do porn ESPN reports that Mike Tyson says he's open to alternative ways of raising money, including the adult film industry. "I've talked to some people, I just talked to a gentleman named Jimmy, whose involved with Club Jenna, you know Jenna Jameson," said Tyson. "They said they were interested in getting me involved in that kind of business as well." This would have been more exciting news for Tyson if it had been 10 years ago when Jenna Jameson was still hot and not incredibly old looking. Although 10 years ago he was sittting in jail for rape so I guess having sex with Jenna Jameson for money wouldn't have been very feasible. Or at least not as feasible as having sex with 10 other huge black guys. Then again, I guess nobody is stupid enough to actually try anally raping Mike Tyson in prison. Not only would he beat the crap out of you, he'd also pull out your heart and eat it. If you haven't heard, he's a little bit crazy. So I enjoy the crude humor once in a while. But like seriously, who doesn't? Posted by Bella at 7:44 PM# Sex: Do it for the kids. Not many things actually make me turn my head while walking down the street (well, besides the obvious 3 legged women, men with fishnet stockings on and grandma and gramps getting it on in the Mount Royal Park), but these, yes, these.I keep seeing interestingly fucking hilarious shirts everywhere I go. Could this place be the culprit? I know Aaron had a couple from here... ones that made me go "huh". Posted by Bella at 5:37 PM# Fantastically wonderful Peter Jennings, dead at 67 after losing a battle with lung cancer. 
Posted by Bella at 7:45 AM# Hug an old person.  Seriously, Mr. Bill Allen. So this past weekend, I got to see tons of friends and family at this anniversary party my brothers and I put on for my parents. I saw some friends I haven't seen in years, saw some family I haven't seen in equally as long too. And then the Allen's walked in. When Mr. Allen walked into the room, he gave me this hug like I have never had before. It was like one of those fun old people hugs. He actually had tears in his eyes when he started talking to me. He was telling me stories of when I was a kid, when my brothers were younger brats, stories from when he was younger, how his wife is doing this 1000 question 'question and answer' book on his life, etc. Bill is probably one of the most interesting older men I have had a chance to sit down with in a while. Posted by Bella at 5:21 PM# Crowned Miss Teen Wordpower. I wish I was that witty. And then, if I was, I could win things like money to pay for my freakin expensive car.Ok so maybe it's not that bad. Actually, Alistair the 2nd ('the 2nd' is silent) has been really good to me. Took the young pup out to the coast this past weekend and only stalled twice. And really, if I was a car, I would stall on those hills too. Ok, or maybe I would give my driver/owner some proper lessons in starting and stopping on hills. Drive by touch... If I have any more issues with the Honda corporation though, I might have to rustle up some people to lay the smack down. I called the General Manager yesterday to discuss some stuff with him and he still hasn't called back. But when I was at the dealership, again, he was standing around doing butt-fuck all. So let's discuss customer service. When a customer is dissatisfied with the service they have received, you: a) do nothing. b) do something. c) wait to see if they go away by ignoring their phone calls. d) buy a pet monkey and teach it new tricks. The proper way to make a customer smashingly happy is by: a) offering an apology and promising to change the names of their employees to Cornholio and Bungholio. b) giving them a glass of water. c) offering oil changes for life, Honda or not. d) smiling like a chotchy loser. The answer to the first question so far is C apparently. And I wish I had an answer to the last question. Morons. Posted by Bella at 8:17 AM# They shoot bears, don't they? Yah, they do, Terry. And thanks again for making me sound like a complete nincompoop. Ahhh it's ok. It's not like anyone actually reads your rag anyways. Except... well. Damn.Why does it seem attacks by bears are getting worse? It may be that we no longer seem scary to them. Terry O'Neill - August 8, 2005 Merlyn Carter, a 71-year-old bush pilot, was killed by a black bear at his remote fishing camp about 300 kilometres east of Yellowknife, N.W.T., on June 14. On the same day, a black bear charged Venetia George while she was hanging laundry in the backyard of her Londonderry, N.S., home. Less than two weeks before that, Isabelle Dube, 35, was attacked and killed by a grizzly bear while jogging along a forest trail near Canmore, Alta. On May 27, it was forestry worker Julia Gerlach, 27, mauled by a black bear near Fort St. John, B.C. In the wake of so many bear attacks, wildlife biologist Stephen Herrero of the University of Calgary probably summed up what most of us were thinking when he told reporters June 16, with so many attacks "coming in such close proximity to another, it almost seems like the bears have gone wild or something." Herrero has spent enough time in the woods to know that bears were always wild and, moreover, notes the number of attacks this year is not out of the ordinary. But it's no doubt true that some Canadians, raised on cartoon images of talking bears and indoctrinated by animal rights and preservationist philosophy through grade school, might well have formed the naive belief that the natural state of affairs between bears and humans is one of mutual respect. However, the bears responsible for the attacks were acting exactly like the wild, omnivorous predators that bears have always been. It's human attitudes towards bears that have changed--to the point where Canadians had best either readjust their attitudes, or prepare themselves for a lot more ursine horror stories. "A lot of people have kind of evolved into living in a fantasy world where they think we shouldn't kill anything anymore," says outdoorsman Gary Shelton. "There's an unreality about what it takes to survive in this world." The Bella Coola, B.C.-based author of two bestselling books about bears believes the best way to manage big carnivores is to keep their numbers in check, particularly around populated areas. Aggressive hunting not only limits bear population, but also serves to educate surviving bears about the dangers of coming too close to humans. That philosophy may run headlong into the popular pro-environment, anti-gun attitudes that prevail today, but Shelton believes it's just plain realistic. Especially compared to the sort of wishful thinking that drives wildlife management policies in this country. The grizzly that attacked Dube, for example, had ambled into Canmore only days prior and locals said it had been acting predatorily. But instead of killing the animal, wildlife officials captured it and humanely relocated it to a few kilometres from the town site. Only after it returned, and killed Dube, did they finally put down Bear 99. But even that was too much for some of the louder voices of conservationism that see the bears as victims. In the wake of Dube's death, environmental groups were quick to blame the attack on Canmore real estate developers who were increasingly encroaching on the bears' territory. Gerlach, who survived the mauling, was distressed to hear that the bear that tore her scalp off was eventually killed. "It's sad that that had to happen," Gerlach told reporters. "We are the ones who are invading their territories, so we have to be careful. But it was a natural response. It was just in him." Megan Pratt, a Calgary Herald commentator, wrote that she was "stunned" the bear that killed Dube had been shot. "This seems a little backwards to me--the bear was in its natural habitat, the human was not," she wrote. "For whatever reason, we believe we have a bigger priority over these animals. Call me crazy, but I believe these animals have a little more priority over us, especially in areas such as Canmore." When pressed in an interview, Pratt could not explain why she thought it was more "natural" for a bear to be in a forest than a human, but she did say she regretted that human development and settlement disturbs bears' natural habitat. "It just bothers me to no end that we have to develop all of this land," she declared. On the other hand, she added, "I'm definitely not condoning the animal's action in killing people." In fact, she said aggressive animals that attack people should, indeed, be put down. Asked if she was, thereby, retracting her published statements, she answered, "I have no real logical answers to what people should be doing and why the bears attacked, and what would stop them, and what we should be doing. I really don't know. I'm just a person with an opinion." It's not just Pratt (who happens to work in real estate development) who's finding it increasingly difficult to reconcile animal rights with human rights. But those who have spent their lives forced to coexist with nature know that killing a predator isn't about justice--but survival. Shelton believes Canadians have to re-educate themselves about the true nature of the natural world, and he suggests that once society re-embraces the understanding that nature is not benign, but is red in tooth and claw, fatal human-bear encounters will diminish. Herrero agrees that if bears are hunted aggressively enough, they will pose less of a threat to humans, though the trick is to ensure not to over-hunt them and threaten their existence. Humans, Herrero adds, often want to have it both ways in their interactions with nature: complete security in a completely natural setting. That's just not possible. How best to balance the need to give animals, such as bears, enough land to prosper, while at the same time providing for human needs, "is a huge issue to grapple with," he says. One radical solution, currently being examined at Lake Louise, Alta., is to surround the entire community with an electric fence to keep out dangerous animals. Such a fence would also enclose humans, of course. "You can see it as one or the other, but clearly it's both," says Herrero. The ultimate goal, he adds, is to find a way to live with nature, "without tearing it apart." (In light of the recent bear-attack fatalities, he might have added without nature tearing humans apart.) Regardless of how best to prevent fatal encounters between bears and humans, the prevailing view among most urban types is that bears are not blameworthy. "I think humans are the culprits, where they expect the animals to squeeze around the towns," says Cheryl Chetkiewicz, a wildlife biologist at the University of Alberta. As Gerlach noted, it is only "natural" for bears to protect their young and their territory by attacking humans they encounter. But how it became unnatural for humans to defend their property and families from those same predators is the question nature lovers never seem to get around to answering. Posted by Bella at 8:14 PM# The perfect way to win an argument is by saying something dumb. Ha. I am the master.Just got back from an uber long trip. Mmm my own bed. I wish I could tell you that I had oodles of stories. Um... I have some observations though: - Cars should come with built in vacuum cleaners. - I should be able to move slow cars out of the way using some sort of Jedi hand movement. - My grandma knows the word "hard-on" and is not afraid to use it. - Putting the car into a gear, such as first, would help tons when stopping and starting on a hill. More tomorrow. Posted by Bella at 11:09 PM# |
