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Monday, March 23, 2009



The train wreck that is Fox News, continues with this brilliant commentary from Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News' Red Eye. The show is an incredibly amusing roundtable discussion on the world's hot topics and mildly controversial subjects as interpreted by the brightest political pundits that answer craigslist ads.

The show's humour is a by-product of Gutfeld's fervent attempt to be provocative and witty. At a 3am time slot, it's a show reserved for insomniac's, new mothers and people in Australia. Unfortunately, the latter can't access it due to the truncated broadcast range of Fox.

Please watch the above clip, while Greg and his guests, try to wrap their heads around Canada's exodus from Afghanistan - Greg looks towards Alfred E. Neuman for advice. Are these brawny men getting manis & pedis? How will they defend Sarah Palin & Alaska from the Cold World Threat? And apparently the hot guy from Wings is concerned about Mexican's taking siestas over defending Mexican US borders.

What is going on with this gong show!?! LOL
Whatever this fucked up shit is, I love it and I'm a little bit hooked.
American's seriously aren't this misinformed, are they?

BTW, there's also a sexy topless Matthew McConaughey correspondent. A MCCONAUGHEY CORRESPONDENT!!! ahahahahaha

Can we trust the opinion of a man who probably didn't vote for Obama?

Saturday, March 21, 2009


Since Karmacake is about to relaunch, I find that many of my brilliant story ideas are being stockpiled and saved up. Which, I know is counterproductive to maintaining hits on the existing Karmacake, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. So I come across this post, where a media arts student has figured out how to get a houseplant to play a first-person shoot 'em up game.

Which is so flipping cool! The plant is interacting with a game in order to stimulate the monitor to produce light to feed it. Basic elementary school science taught us that plant go ape shit for light and water, because that helps them produce chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a green pigmented product that feeds the plants, helping them grow big and tall.

The average person may be more familiar with chlorophyll as the flavour of gum you accidentally bought instead of mint, but didn't realize it until the gum was in your mouth and you were gagging infront of your date. At that point you may have wished for the soap flavoured Thrills, as you embraced one defining characteristic of being human - only plants and animals that chew cud would ever get off on chlorophyll gum.

Who ever invented it probably likes giving high end fanny packs to friends as gag gifts.

ANYWAY!

So there's this plant, who raves on first person shooter games. Obviously, there's a complex set of mathematical equations to make it run in real time, but it's happening.

Meanwhile, somewhere in China, there are legions of individuals called "Gold farmers" who are hired in sweatshop like conditions to play World of Warcraft (WOW) for 10-12hour shifts. Basically they kill important characters over and over to maximize gains to resell to addicted WOW players online for profit.

Human ingenuity never fails to impress me. Here we live in a world where we used to think that technology would replace jobs and create unemployment. However, the opposite holds true! Now there is a technology that is creating a whole lot of nontraditional jobs, like gold farming, blogging, squatting on domains, and so on.

So what is hilarious to me in all this, is that little chlorophyll loving plant who is playing video games. Technology is starting to exploit the natural qualities of this stationary metaphyte in order to create an impression of intelligence in order to operate a game, that previously only computers and humans could do.

*BIG BREATH!*

Just to sum it up, does this mean that now plants will inherit the Earth?

OMG, gold farmers are going to get OWNED when that plant starts playing WOW.

Owned.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009



Hey everyone! I did another commercial and it was wicked fun. I play this bitchy woman who only makes fun of people and is apparently double the size of everyone else.

If you want to enjoy the services we speak of in the ad then rock on over to http://www.acupunctureview.com/

Enjoy!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009



What is wrong with me!? Today I'm having the worst time trying to get started with writing. This mild form of writer's block doesn't do much to give a girl confidence. Truthfully, I only want to write about lemon cakes - this tasty crunchy topped sponge cake that has been a staple in my life since I was 11 years old.

I nearly forgot about it, until I saw Lily Allen post a photo of her crunchy topped lemon cake on Twitpic (see above photo) and I fell a little bit in love again. These cakes are like a staple to any church supper, school bake sale or simply a get together with friends. It's incredibly simple to make, but when it comes out of the oven, the sweet, saccarin scent of baked lemonade cannot help but make mouths water. More than once I scalded my mouth as I foolishly snuck a premature corner when it was a little less than scalding hot.

Oh man oh man...

I was introduced to the cake by my aunty Muzna, who gave me a copy of her recipe that my own mother has commandeered for her own. I can't blame her, it is so friggin good!

Heck, if Lily Allen digs it... then it has got to be tasty! Right? Celebrities only like tasty things.


Here's the recipe I found online - This is the recipe, enjoy enjoy enjoy!

Crunchy Topped Lemon Cake

Cake
4oz (100g) soft margarine
6oz (175g) caster sugar
6oz (175g) self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 extra large eggs
4 tablespoons milk
zest of 1 lemon

Crunchy topping
juice of 1 lemon
4oz (100g) caster sugar

Pre-heat the oven to 350f, and line and grease a 7in deep round cake tin.

Beat all the cake ingredients together until light, smooth and fluffy, turned the mixture into the tin and baked for 40 minutes.

Made the sugar and lemon juice into a paste, and prick the surface of the hot cake with a fork. Spread the paste over the top, leave it in the cake tin to cool, turn out and eat.

mmmyum mmmmyum mmmmmyum!

Monday, March 09, 2009


Anyone else want to congratulate Ontario Police for their team's ability to ID a victim from a 1967 slaying?

I can ID the slain youth as well! It's Donald Trump... waaaaaait a minute! If that's the REAL Donald Trump then who's this guy on TV? Methinks this plot thickens very quickly.

Also, 50% of Torontonians believe that Barbie is a bad role model. She's hot, can fly planes, sing songs, teach and has cross cultural appeal. Yeah, sounds like a real shit role model for young girls.

Maybe if Mattel released, "Underacheiving Betty" as the antithesis to Barbie. She smokes, steals cable and eats frosting from a can. There are multiple male counterparts with names like "Uncle Lebron" and "Uncle Whatshisface", all reflecting how she introduces them to her ever growing litter of children.

NOW THAT's a bad role model.
Or how about the 14 year old child who played with plasticine up there on the skeleton of the 18 year old?

Even more reason to not stop funding arts in schools.

This is a piece I'm thinking of producing for the big Karmacake. A series of food adventures exploring the ethnic neighborhoods of the city. There will be lots of food posts - there are a few things Toronto does well.

1. We throw a great weekender party
2. We have great diversity of food - AND WE LOVE IT!

Surely every city has diversity, Toronto is no exception. However, it is the enthusiasm in which the city embraces it's multiculturalism that is second to none. From busy Chinese bakeries, bustling dim sum shops and overflowing pho stops, Toronto has a lot to offer in the way of Chinese cuisine. Here's my thoughts on where to eat in the busy strip.

Pho - After sampling pho shop after pho shop in Chinatown, it became clear that Toronto has a love for the steaming bowl of Vietnamese beef soup. For days on end, my friend Brady and I declared Saigon Palace (454 Spadina St) the best pho in Chinatown. The steaming bowls of broth and noodles with a side of crispy pork filled spring rolls were our favorite lunchtime meal.

Then on a tip, I discovered Pho Pasteur (525 Dundas St. W) a pho hotspot that's open 24 hours, located next to a parking lot with an $8 maximum and serves up massive bowls of pho. Everything about it was so good. The beef! Oh man, they carve up insane amounts of beef to top the soup with and it's cheap! A bowl rings in less than $10 and is enough to fill you up.

Dim Sum - Rol San is a stand by, but when the line ups are too long. I double back and hit up Noble Chinese Restaurant (530 Dundas St. W; Across the street from Pho Pasteur). I particularly like it for the noticeable lack of Westerners, and the dim sum is solid. Shu Mai are large three bite dumplings - juicy and tender. Har Gow are brimming with whole shrimp and the sticky rice in a lotus leaf always has a slice of sausage in it.

There will be more to come, but I just had to get it published...


Yeah, I've been talking about it for ages, but it's finally coming true. My beloved Karmacake blog is soon going to be relaunched as a bonified online publication.

With writers and everything!

You'll be able to read articles, see photos, laugh and be entertained by our politics and witticisms. Finally, after working towards this for so long, the site is turning into a reality!

Some of the writers featured include:

Comedienne, Stacey Prieur
Photographer, Matt Pfaff
The Green Foodie, Julie Audette
Tech writer, Matt Read
Me!
And more to come!

Right now were in the process of finalizing our logo... it's looking pretty sweet as you can tell. But, we're not there just yet.

What do you think of the logo so far?