The Coast hotel resturant review

Today in Edmonton I decided to have a quick bite in the magnificent dining room at the The Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel... picking a safe lunch of turkey soup with rice, and a chicken ceasar wrap.........two things I figured impossible to screw up....however I was mistaken. My first bite into the thin cardboard wrap material revealed a tasteless chunk of chicken, that I believe must have died of old age.... a certain lack of garlic dressing was the next flavour not to tingle my tastebuds......strike one. My soup was a thin weak flavourless pale broth that revealed a multitude of celery and an overwhelming lack of turkey, the promised rice was not to be found...strike two. My waitress who was probably one of the early settlers in Edmonton disappeared shortly after dropping lunch on my table, I assumed that she had simply passed away, and hailed another waitress to get a coffee refill and my bill. I left a tip fitting the meal.............fire the cook.....strike three and I'm out of here.

World Vison

As much as it is probably a very worthy and caring charity............what's so wrong with helping out the familes in this country? We don't have the celebrities, athletes and fame chasers doing the TV ads sponsoring the starving kids in Canada, I suppose to them it's more meaningful to support some fly clustered kid in a third world country........looks better on the resume.

Charity starts at home.

Everything is wrong with Ottawa

I live in a beautiful and parinoid city, the capital city of Canada, and what's wrong with it, well everything...........we ticket tourists, we have bylaw officials that harass people without using any reason or understanding....we have laws and rules and and rules to the laws, and most are so outdated........the people that govern this city, do so without thought. The citizens of this city that try to make things a little nicer are told not to.......you can't plant flowers there, that tree is in the wrong place, take that fence down, put that fence up, let the weeds grow..........unless the city says to cut them, if you don't they cut them and fine you.........but you can't spray them. Lets have a huge concert, Bluesfest..........but make sure that you keep the noise down, don't have fun, you'll offend someone.........we'll give you a "having too much fun ticket"

The worst part..........there is nothing that anyone will ever do to change it.

The obliviously oblivious people

It's a simple thing to walk in a straight line, however some people oblivious to the fact that other people are moving around them within the same dimention, and in some cases the deeply oblivious stop, turn, change lanes and try to share the same space. These oblivious people will never change, they don't have the understanding that they are deeply oblivious, how could they, they're oblivious.

They walk into a room and stand in the doorway so people behind them can't get in, they stand in places that cause the bottlenecks, they are the obliviously oblivious.

The apple eater

Today I watched a pregnant woman eating an apple on the metro in Montreal, it wasn't so much that she was eating an apple, it was that she was flicking bits of onto empty seats, and onto the floor beside her...........it seems that she figured no one was watching her...........I guess this is an acceptable practice in the country she arrived from.

Global warming

It seems as though the fear mongers of global warming have been pretty much totally wrong. Here it is July 8th in the wonderful city of Montreal and I would have been wearing my winter clothes given the opportunity. Global warming has missed Canada, perhaps it's warmer in Africa or the outback of Australia, but it isn't happening here.

David Suzuki and Al Gore can both kiss my frozen ass.

Singing the praise of MJ

He shared his bed with little boys, he would dangle his kid out a window, it was said he slept in a hyperbolic chamber that would increase his life to 150 years, oops, I want my money back. He used child actor Emmanuel Lewis as a fashion accessory at the Grammy Awards. Having sleep overs with Macaulay Culkin, bogus wedding to Lisa Marie, blond hair and blue eyed children, if genetics have any say, it is an impossible combination with a once upon a time black man, but anything is possible in Neverland, after all it was possible for an attractive black man to become an ugly white woman..........so beat it.

Micheal Jackson memorial tickets

What are the odds that the "random" giving away of tickets for the star studded Micheal Jackson memorial and circus ( I hope bubbles has a ticket) would turn into a dream event for online scalpers. Anything to make a dollar I suppose, or in the ebay case 10 thousand dollars to sit in an arena and listen to people praise the very talented sideshow freak. I suppose if he was cremated it really would have been more of a roast.

Walking the streets of Montreal

As I slowly strolled along St Catherine street in Montreal people watching, it struck me how many beautiful women there are, they however are in the minority to the sleaze that oozes from the cracks in the sidewalks. The pimps hanging outside the strip clubs praising the "beauties" that wait inside, along with the free buffet, yummy. The Escalades parked outside the designer stores blasting re-mixes from bad 80's tunes, that now include bass only Pete Tong could appreciate.

Homeless coin chasers stand with hats and plates, offering up no entertainment for the hard earned coins I didn't toss their way, the looks of total despair on the weather beaten faces make me wonder what happened along their way through life that has them curled up on a street corner.

I never did find the art store I was looking for, I believe it was swallowed up by yet another shoe store.

St Catherines street never the same, and always the same.

Environment Canada admits to being useless

Environment Canada has admitted that they are only 45% right most of the time, not even a passing grade in any situation.........they are useless.