Teetotalling is bad for you

I'm beginning to come to a startling conclusion about lifestyle choices and their effects on health. Drinking is good for you, smoking pot is good for you, and smoking cigarettes is, ahem, kinda good, in a way.

update: as Anonymous pointed out, "smoking" pot may not be beneficial but injecting it's psychoactive ingredient THC into human tumour cells may cause them to shrink...if you are a mouse.

further update: also enjoy strawberry daiquiris as a spirited health tonic.

The Current State of Currency

Sometimes I get nostalgic when I think about how the Hotel Douglas used to take Canadian Tire dollars for beer. Bartering was so liberating to a poor student.

According to the mostly juvenile people at You're the Man Now Dawg, a woman recently posted a Craigslist ad offering sex in return for gold coins in World of Warcraft. Now, people post bawdy ads on Craigslist all the time; however, it seems the W.O.W. community is pretty upset.

Let's be honest, if a Night Elf Druid needs an epic flying mount so badly that she is willing to have sex with a mere mortal for it, it is probably a life or death situation. Who are we to judge?

A BROAD WAY

In 2006, Robert Liano and Thomas Copolla created A BROAD WAY - a collaborative film consisting of one hour in the life of 400 filmmakers at every intersection on NYC's Broadway St.

Liano and Copolla placed a call-out on MySpace and Craigslist for filmmakers interested in documenting the happenings along the 12.4 miles of Manhattan for one hour and managed to secure the largest film permit ever issued in NYC. The film is still looking for investors and those interested are encouraged to visit the site.

What everyone else is listening to

Rarely do I check in with the musical pop matrix but every once in a while I need to see what it is that makes the punters pogo. Apparently right now it's Mims's 'This Is Why I'm Hot'. As expected, it has all the usual hip-hop cliches that make it look like it's a parody of itself; braggadocio, bitches, money, cars, and a massive entourage.

For an ingenious graphical dissertation on the Mims's number one song in America click here.