Monday, February 1, 2010

2009 Drivel Awards - last day for submissions

OK actually yesterday was the last day for submissions.

That being said, the selection committee understands that Drivel Induced
Coma (DIC) is indeed one of the hazards of entering the contest, and
thus, accepts that you may have been (as one of the contestants found
when he woke up on the floor this morning after several hours in an
inexplicable coma) unable to press the send button on your submission
for several hours thereby delaying your submission.

The Drivel Awards selection committee employs the liberal use of
caffeine and chocolate in the attempt to mitigate some of the effects of
(DIC), and these are not considered performance enhancing drugs, but
simply necessary measures given the circumstances.

We wish you luck in your submission, and thank you for the neurological
risks you have taken to make this competition possible.


Selina Gasolina
2009 Drivel Awards Coordinator

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Mom is on strike

List of Demands:

No litter in the house.
No clothing or other debris on the floor.
Dirty dishes go in the dishwasher.
No outdoor clothing strewn on the furniture.
No using the dining table as a dump.
When the garbage is full, take it out.
When asked, do the task.
Put the laptop back and plug it in.

Until all demands are met:

No cleaning, cooking or laundry services.
No taxi services.
No shopping services.
No, just plain no.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

2009 Drivel Awards

Fellow Drivelites:

As 2009 comes to an end, so does another year of Drivel. As usual, we
are looking for the best of the worst, and our good friend Keane will (I
hope) provide his usual brilliant translation.

So, please send me your best (worst)! Employ your co-creative essence
and fully engage in a movement that is elementally productionising a
unification of driviality!

I don't look forward to reading your submissions at all, but, "no pain,
no gain" as they say. Deadline for submissions is January 30, 2010.

Selina Gasolina (Selina@rogers.com)
2009 Drivel Award Coordinator


For Newbs - the Drivel Awards is a long-standing joke amongst the jolly
"PSI <http://www.psi-spi.com/> " gang, clearly comprised of people with
too much time on their hands. It began when Hubert and I did a contract
for CIDA, and I started gathering examples of painful prose. Hence,
this became an annual game.

The 2008 Drivel Award Winner was the "Lightworker Spiritual Network" for
this long and completely meaningless tripe:

When we unite our focused intent and higher emotions we can together
become a powerful catalyst for elevating the collective consciousness of
our world. We unite Lightworkers from all around the world and become
one in mind, heart and spirit. Lightworkers is a platform where
Lightworkers can connect in an environment that is tolerant and loving.

When we connect together in a unified thought we express our collective
co-creative essence and allow the process of ascension to unfold for all
life. As a Lightworker we simply mean a person who is co-creating a
peaceful and loving world, and there are a many of us!. We know you will
feel at home here and understand that you are a part of a world wide
movement that is co-creating an alternative way of life for humanity and
our loving world that we share. Lightworkers, we honor you. For we are
ONE!

Keane's translation:

"We think we can change the world just by thinking about it real hard,
spouting confused serial synonyms for "unity", and sucking you into our
resulting mental vacuum. Lightworkers is a noun so totally plastic, we
hesitate to call it proper. It means whatever we want it to at the
moment. Which is nice, because we think being unclear about basic
grammatical constructions makes us sound cosmic. We're uncritical
thinkers seeking airheads... if you want to be One, come on down! You'll
love us, we'll love you - and other deep, Barney the Dinosaur-ish
sentiments. "

2008 Runner Up was from the Pseudoscience category from "DNA
Perfection":

But one does not have to wait for science to catch up with a rapidly
evolving humanity in order to begin advancing the functions of their
DNA. Through the processes of bioregenesis, we are removing ancient
blockages within the human anatomy that have been blocking natural DNA
activation, and then we are restoring the Original Organic Imprint for
Health, that is the birthright of our species. We are progressively
reordering portions of the "junk DNA" and stimulating portions of the
DNA into activation.

As translated by Dolores:

If you drive around on Garbage Day, perhaps you can scavange
unstimulated junk DNA. Surely, there are a few airheads of your
acquaintance for whom you would like to assemble brains.

Previous years' winners have been NGOs, Government Agencies, and
Corporations.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

With friends like this...

Last night, one of my best friends and I were sitting in my living room
and
I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on
some
machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the
plug."

She got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.

She's such a bitch.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Double your size?

I got this email telling me I could double my size in just two weeks.
That would make me 11 feet 4 inches. I think my boyfriend wouldn't like
that.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Debt Clock

Check out this handy item from the Canadian Taxpayers Association that
shows our daily mounting debt. Our legacy will be to expect our kids to
pay for services they never asked for. In two years, the Harper
government will wipe out the debt repayment of the previous 8 years.
Scary movies kiddies.

www.debtclock.ca

James von Brunn - he denied the holocaust, we can't deny the hate

It's easy to forget that hate is real. That people like James von Brunn
can deny the horrible things that were done to Jews and others during
WWII. His shooting at the Holocaust Museum this week reminds us that
there is still much to be done to make sure that toxic ideas are not
spread in our communities, nor to our children. Reading this brought
tears to my eyes. It is a glimpse into a troubled and bitter soul that
you will not forget soon.

http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/blog/?p=463

We mustn't deny that this kind of hate is alive and working it's caustic
effect on the minds of naive, misguided people. We must be vigilant to
educate our children about the holocaust, and other dark times in human
history, so that they can make informed, clear decisions about their own
principles and values. The hatemongers would teach them what to think;
we must teach them how to think for themselves. If we can learn from our
history, then the victims of genicide will not have died in vane.