In another rare moment, I have something cool going on in my life.
Tonight, the Rolling Stones (yes THEE Rolling Stones) play in my town of Regina. I never thought they would ever play a gig in this jerkwater berg, but here they are. I've always wanted to see them in concert but figure they's be dead before I'd ever get the chance.
They're one of my favourite bands and I saw their concert film at the Imax and they put on one hell of a show despite their senior citizen status.
The concert is about the biggest production of any band in the world:
5 storey stage.
Main stage is huge plus a 200 foot catwalk to the second stage.
80 semi trailiers to transport it.
60 foot bigscreen.
36 MILES of wiring.
And enough watts to make even Abe Simpson's ears bleed.

It'll be a 40,000 person outdoor stadium concert, the bars are open later and they lifted the smoking ban at the stadium specifically for Keith RIchards. The whole city is going Stones crazy. It may not be a big deal in a huge city but here, it's pretty elite. The band rented an entire 4 star hotel. It should be fuckin awesome!
And that is all.

Dont' know why, but I felt compelled to post this pic.

And in searching for it I stumbled across this pic which made me laugh.

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Which reminded me of this pic of a redneck palm pilot which made me laugh harder.

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Okay. I'm done for now.

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another favourite band I'd love to see!


hahaha, so simple yet so funny


at least he has his priorities straight!


where is that from?

who? haha. Just trying to be funny. that would be a good show.


that's exactly what I thought


that's exactly what I thought


all the frames I posted are from teh same ep. here's the pagewith that grab, though.

I think Keith actually is



Classic Homer

wow, just got back fronm the concert.
All I can say for now in my drunkne stupor;
was it the greatest day of my life?


looks like we have anew winner!

those dudes may be pushing 65 but they have the energy and stage presence of people half their age.
It was by far the best concert I have ever been to.
and that is all/

Better than the day your wife had a baby and you got a free burger?

Glad you dug the Stones... live music can be a magical experience

What's with you Canadians and the letter U? I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any type of phonetic sense to me. And since I only like to research things about boobs, science, definitions, and simpsons, i thought I ask you. Does that extra U create a diphthong that we just aren't covering in the States? For me favorite and color are spelled pretty much phonetically. favourite and colour just don't seem right.

And while we're at it, what's the deal with theatre?

don't ask me, ask the british, that's where we get it from. both spellings are acceptable here, I just go with the U to be different. same with words like travelling. you crazy americans spell it traveling. you talk about letter economy and then go and name your country the united states of america!

this was pretty helpful though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Spelling

these might even be more helpful if you want to read all that shit!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_...es#-our_.2F_-or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_...ces#-re_.2F_-er

Great point.

Wow. you really went the extra mile on that one. Give me a little time, I'll read it.

Okay. I'm done (actually, not really. But I will read it after work cuz that's the kind of nerd I am)

I guess it all makes sense, but it still doesn't in a way. canceled is another one that we spell with only one L... however, we lazy Americans keep fucking that one up too. I see it with 2 Ls more often than with the more correct 1.

I guess we can say the english language is all fucked up as a whole.

true, true. I had to study lots of English and grammar and stuff in college. It interests me, believe it or not. But it also possesses me.. Like when i see a billboard or commercial or something and things are misspelled or completely grammatically incorrect. and I abhor seeing "alright" tha'ts not even close to being a word. On the other hand. I make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes here along with my fair share of typos... but I'm here for fun, it's not my job.

In any case... the English language is pretty fucked up! but not nearly as fucked up as engrish!!

I usually notice a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes, but when I see it in books, advertisements and the like I always think, "retards! I should be the editor there". But then I realize there would probably be more mistakes as I would sepnd my days here and just use the spell check function.

haha, I know some good engrish:
I'm disrespectful to dirt. Can you see that I am serious?

Mr. Sparkle: Out of my way, all of you. This is no place for loafers! Join me or die! Can you do any less?
Announcer: For lucky best wash, use Mr. Sparkle.


And I hear ya about "alright". Everyone knows it a'ight

When I decided my career would no longer be my career, I considered looking into becoming an editor for a publishing company. then I decided not to. I think adverstising misspellings happen on purpose to catch your eye more. still drives me crazy though.


I'd post my microsoft word pic up here, but you've seen it already.



haha. Never even though of that. well done, fishbulb.
well, it was a good ride while it lasted. come on guys, let's go home.

A lot of people don't think speling is important. I dissagree. Even though you can understand what the person is trying to say, a misspelled word detracts from the "readability" of a sentance. But, since this is a boob site and not an English site, we need to over look bad grammer.

I agree and I agree

i see errors all the time in the newspaper, but it's not as distracting there as it is in a novel when you're trying to put yourself in the setting and get wrapped up in what's going on. i've found at least one egregious error in each of the harry potter books and some in many others. I feel proud of myself when I run across them, but it is distracting. Kind of like when someone's cell phone rings at the theater. But I get over it pretty quick.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

if a published work has a lot of errors it makes me think less of its credibility. If they can't even spell right, then what else about them is poorly researched?

harry potter?






if people read words by the letter, it would be very tedious and slow.
ever notice when you're reading something in a langauge you barely understand, how slow it is and yet you still trip over a lot of the words.

I am not reading all that shit but as Gnappy said it is the British. Aussies use the same spelling as we are a commonwealth country.

We also use the letter 's' where you guys use 'z' criticise/criticize

I never realised you only use one 'L' canceled does not seem right to me

I agree! But I also understand that if research took a long time and the article hit the editor's desk just before deadline, a pot of coffee can only make a brain function so sharply. Major errors are frustrating, though. When I used to teach, I would bring in grammar errors from periodicals and such and use them as examples.


I can see why you would say that, but HP is an enjoyable, quick read. I do enjoy the stories. I know you like non-fiction more, so I can see why HP wouldn't not appeal to you. But it is a good, fun story and I enjoy reading the series as a break from more serious reading. The movies don't do the book justice and they kind of taint the reading experience a bit. I would say the best thing to come out of those movies is Emma Watson, the girl who play Hermione... she's a hottie!!!



True dat! I actually type by the word. my fingeres just know the pattern of the word I'm thinking about. sometimes it gets difficult when I'm more used to typing a word that begins the same way as a word I type less frequently... I'll look back to see what I typed and see the completely wrong word up on the screen and didn't even realize I had typed that. I can't think of an example right now, though.

as side note, I can type the word "fluid" amazingly fast. it looks like I'm just slamming my fingers on the keyboard. Just thought you'd like to know.


we aim to confuze

we use american and british spellings to make things extra confusing



hehehehehehe you said taint
I was just bugging you about HP.
Hell, just recently, I was contemplating reading some Beverly Cleary books



bob typed this entire post in 7 seconds.



My 411 has reached a new low in nerdiness

I knew you were going to say it. i almost changed what I wrote but thought your inevitable comment would be funnier

To be fair, it was really 7.023 seconds.

YEs you love to confuse

and wasn't already at basement levels?

I was gonna make a post about it when it aired but I forgot.
Anyone catch the White Stripes cameo on the Simpsons and their remake of the hardest button to button video?. Loved it!
Great band, great song, great video, great show!

White Stripes on the Simpsons

Original White Stripes video

That season probably hasn't it made it to Aussie shores yet but I cant wait to see it now!

I dig the white stripes and I was already well aware of the original film clip... the simpsons one is way cool!!!

i got the white stripes live in blackpool, can't wait to watch it tonight.
i don't like all their stuff, but the stuff i do like, i like a lot. and gotta give them credit for always being very progressive in a dated sort of way.