I’m not sure, were the Beatles on drugs?

IMDB Plot Synopsis: The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.

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Sexism / Racism

• The Where Do You Stand? Campaign
  "Men Can Stop Rape is pleased to announce the launch of WHERE DO YOU STAND?, a new bystander intervention campaign for college men. WHERE DO YOU STAND? positively portrays young men as vital allies and invites all men to consider their own stance on men preventing sexism and sexual assault."
• In the age of Internet porn, teaching boys to be good men – The Globe and Mail
  "Long-term, the aim is to combat the rates of domestic violence and sexually transmitted infections. Short-term, the goal is to tutor young men in healthy relations with women and non-destructive masculinity."
• The 5 Most Insulting Ways Products Are Advertised to Men | Cracked.com
  "Just as ads in the 1950s assumed that all women were housewives desperate for new ways to starch their husbands' shirts, advertisers today demonstrate an extremely low opinion of their male customers."
• Violence On And Off The Ice: Twitter Racism And The NHL | Racialicious
  "It would also be a mistake to particularize these tweets as evidence of the sordid debauchery of online spaces. While reflecting online culture, and the presence of “trolls,” the racism directed at Joel Ward, as with other examples, reveals the nature of racism within contemporary society."

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Can we talk about the new love of my life, the Coca-Cola Freestyle machine?

I have a long standing love for Vanilla Coke, a love that is stronger than my love of regular Coke. The tragic thing is that they stopped selling it in Canada in 2004 and so one of my primary missions when travelling in the States is to find and drink as much VC as I possibly can. You can still find it in Toronto in certain convenience stores — you know that they’ve trucked it in from Buffalo illegally — but that’s hardly the same as it being available legitimately wherever you can find Coca-Cola products. They slap weird stickers over the nutritional content labels as if they have to lie to Canadian consumers about what is in American Vanilla Coke and it’s all very weird (but very delicious).

My new love, Freestyle, brings me Vanilla Coke AND MORE. I was told that they had a Freestyle machine at the Scotiabank Theatre and we promptly chose to see Battleship there as a result, even though I normally do not like to see movies there. They’ve removed all their regular soda fountains and have installed a great big wall of Freestyle machines that allow you to self-serve. You choose a base beverage and then from within that beverage you can mix and match different flavours. I don’t think it allows you to mix across different types of beverages, though, i.e. you couldn’t do Coca-Cola Lime with Fanta Grape should your taste buds desire this curious combination.

I chose Coke and filled my cup with 2/3 Vanilla Coke and 1/3 Raspberry Coke, and I advise you all to do the same should you have the option because it is divine. If I could replace all the blood in my body and have this liquid course through my veins instead, I would.

Fun fact: the technology involved in allowing you to mix-and-match flavours is based on technology developed to deliver precise doses of drugs to cancer patients. The irony is not lost on me.

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Do not let the poor rating deceive you about how much I loved this.

IMDB Plot Synopsis: A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

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Ugh, be still my aching Herz, Bastian Schweinsteiger. ( Read the rest of this entry » )

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