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Archive for September, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are in for a rare treat.  It’s very seldom that I get to break stories here on Friesen Point, but today I get to do just that.
As loyal Friesen Pointers will recall, about a week ago, I posted an entirely genuine transcript of a conversation between big time Hollywood actor [...]

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A lot of you may notice that I haven’t posted in a few days, and I assure you that I have a perfectly reasonable explanation for my absence.  Actually, I have two explanations, but I’m not sure if either of them is what you might call “perfectly reasonable.”  I’m kind of hoping that you’ll think [...]

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We live in a complicated world.  We want to become energy efficient, but the powers that be are too invested in oil to ever realistically work towards that goal.  We pretend that we’re getting more evolved socially, but the fastest growing sport in our country is brutal cage fighting.  We’re told that men are sex-crazed, [...]

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If there’s one thing that history will definitely show about the nineties, it’s that there was a wide range of musical styles that got a lot of attention, most of it undeserved.  There was rap (DMX), there was rock (Metallica), there was grunge (Nirvana), there were singer/songwriters (Martin Page), there was pussy pop (New Radicals), [...]

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As you all know, Friesen Point is many things to many people.  We (I) try to cover all the important blog bases: lying, criticizing pop culture, and news analysis.  I suppose we can file this in that last category.
As you all know, I am fascinated by crime.  I love watching Court TV (or whatever the [...]

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I’ve had an evening deeply emmurged in the world of douchebags.  I have been watching a fair amount of TV, killing time until the Real World/Road Rules Challenge comes on, and I’ve been wrestling with a very serious question: Who is the biggest douchebag in the world?
I have it narrowed down to two finalists, and [...]

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Here comes another journey back to the terrible, terrible time we so lovingly refer to as “the 90’s.”  It was the time when I came of age, it was the time when I discovered masturbation, it was the time that I learned that being famous doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re good at anything.
It was impressed [...]

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When I was a young boy, I loved basketball and football.  I played both in junior high, showing enough promise to make the second junior varsity teams in both sports.  I collected cards for both sports and memorized the stats of all my favorite players.  Yet, one sport I could never love in any way [...]

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I’ve been avoiding posting for a few days out of a slight feeling of shame.  Anyone in the publishing industry knows that there is no experience quite as humiliating as having to print a retraction.  Today, I have to print not one, but two very shameful, very humiliating retractions.
This is a perfect opportunity to clarify [...]

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Today I take one step further down the dark road of overanalyzing pop songs from the 90’s.  Suffice it to say that Danielle’s recent list assignment (Top Five Pop Songs of the 90’s) has taken on a life all its own.  What was supposed to just be another one-off deal now has the potential to [...]

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