Thanks to a fellow Rob (with whom I work) for pointing this out to me as an apocalyptic sign.

The Pope is releasing a spoken word CD. Good for him. Everybody has the right to express themselves. But, I’m mildly concerned by how he’s choosing to go about it.

In order to “get in touch with the young people” (I suppose), Britney Spears, *NSync, and Faith Hill will be backing him up on the CD.

Do they expect this will this make young Teenie Boppers put down their loud offensive ghetto blasters, body piercings, and premarital physical relationships and go to church? I’m not sure, they’ll try anything.

Somehow I don’t think the Pope really had anything to do with the presentation of his CD. I think it was probably whoever the Vatican hired to promote and distribute the CD. The good people and co-distributors at Compulsion Entertainment (entertaining compulsions is potentially sinful) might have something to do about that lineup.

Try this:

1. Go to a Pontiac dealership.
2. Find a dealer-man.
3. Say, with a furrowed brow, “I’m looking for a car. It needs to be able to climb a mountain. I’m looking for something with a tent and a fridge. Got anything like that?”
4. Enjoy elated dealer-man as he realizes he may be able to actually sell an Aztek!
5. Take it for a test drive.
6. Return it, stating that it won’t suffice as you need something with a parachute and toaster oven.
7. Giggle and run away.

I’m off to see U2 in Montreal. Back in three days with details.

Update:
excellent conversation, pseudo-review, and setlist

It’s true.

After writing my last post, where I linked to Online Support (OLS), I tested the links to make sure they were all pimp-tight.

I started combing through the OLS page and giggled when I saw the link “OLS is about people“.

I giggled further when I saw “Our Front Line” after that.

I turned bright purple when I saw who’s “I’m quitting on good terms and I might want a reference later” email was quoted.

As I was making my daily visit to Vince’s fine page today, the image next to the day’s post reminded me of a site I would frequent when I worked at Online Support which (among other things) made great product spoofs.

This site is the headquarters of the Afrosquad. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much it had changed over the past few years. The part that amused me specifically was the movies section. The movies themselves aren’t high quality, but, the effort put into them makes up for that. My favorite so far is the one for ‘Asswipes’ (so your hand don’t smell like ass).

They average a delicious 3 minutes each, totally worth your time. The rest of the page is also full of good material.

It’s spring clean up time in Charlottetown and that means crap on the streets. It doesn’t bother me so much, but a lot of people are understandably pissed of at how long it’s taking the city to pick up the many piles of leaves, rusty fridges, and other assorted eyesores.

In one situation, a woman’s daughter was getting married and she particularly concerned about the rubbish on her street as she would be entertaining at her house. She called her city councillor, who called the garbage people, who picked up some of it. Still, there was enough stuff let on the street to cramp the style of a good wedding party.

What’s a good city councillor to do? He, his wife, and his youngest son get a truck and clean up the street themselves in time for the wedding. There were no cameras or reporters. He didn’t even tell anyone he did it.

While I am not the son who helped him with the trash, the city Councillor is my father, Bruce Garrity. Sure, he may double-click on web links (all the time!), but this genuinely impressed me.

A great open letter to IslandTel by Peter at Reinvented.net. As a member of a company in exactly the same scenario, I won’t shed any tears for IslandTel if they can’t leverage 100 years of monopoly to provide adequate service at competitive prices.