I used to hate Steam Whistle beer. "It tastes like a steam whistle!" I'd say and congratulate my wit. Now I really like it. Like, a lot. Delicious. And I'm fond of telling the story of how I came around to enjoying this beer. There's a free quarterly magazine in Toronto called Rosco that used to be a student paper for Winters College at York. They went indie and I now edit the new Winters paper, MONDOmagazine. Rosco got sponsorship from Steam Whistle and thus free beer at parties. Which led to me getting fucked up on free beer at parties. Which led to me, yessir, developing a taste for Steam Whistle which I am enjoying at this very moment.

I said I like telling that story and when I say it out loud in real life it takes under thirty seconds. Now that I've typed it out it seems really, totally bland and yet I gave it a whole paragraph. Whatever. The point is MASH, the movie is on TV right now and those guys drink all the time. So I was inspired. To drink.

I am all that is slack. There's all kinds of stuff I've been meaning to tell you about and I've had days and days to do it. Instead I've been sitting on my ass--often stoned--watching TV. Or lately, engaging in my newly discovered pasttime, Yahoo games. I linked to them from this crazy blog, raymi the minx. It's another good example of what I was talking about earlier. A lot of people congratulate Raymi on her writing, but I dont' think that's the real source of her success. And I'm not just talking about her tits, which are very nice. Raymi's appeal isn't her writing style exactly, it's what she writes about: being young and angsty and running around living the life of an angsty young minor celebrity. That combined with nudity equals a popular blog. If we had breasts you'd probably have heard about us way sooner.

I found out about Raymi because MONDO's arts editor, Steve, wrote about her once. She came to our release party and I got the impression that she was as unimpressed with us as we were with her. Nonetheless she mentioned us on her site here and here (you'll have to "find" the word "mondo", because those are long blog pages). I don't really go there much anymore. Steve said, after meeting her, "She's just a hipster."

These days Trevor seems to like citing evidence of how "hip" we are in the things we do. In that spirit I bring you our hipster inventory of the moment:


1 I have to stop posting in my blog to...

2 have a philosophical discussion with Trevor...

3 who is wearing a trucker cap while...

4 we listen to the Dears and...

5 get drunk on Steam Whistle and Budweiser.






I also got the Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVD which grabs more ass than you have.

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