Recently Toronto passed some bill that allowed malls and shopping centres to remain open during statutory holidays. For most this meant that they can still go to buy their favourite Iron Maiden album while it’s Labour Day. Hats off to them.

However, for some this was a move of evil, one person saying “people should enjoy the sunshine instead of shopping.” Yeah, I don’t know if you noticed, but it’s not sunny every year. Another person called it “disrespectful.” The list of stupid comments goes on and on. If you find malls being open on holidays disrespectful then don’t fucking shop there on the holidays. It’s a nice option to have as not everyone celebrates the same shit you do. How are you supposed to celebrate Victoria Day anyways? Though it represents a patriotic thing, it’s not like we march for freedom on that day. We just drink and shoot fireworks.

I personally don’t see what’s so wrong about having the malls open. If you don’t want to go shopping, no one is forcing you to. The only “problem” would be if you were called into work, however being a holiday you would get paid time and a half, and only have to work the Sunday hours. Basically, you get more money for doing less work. What’s wrong with that?

Does it really affect my life? No, not really, there were times when I was planning to buy something but I couldn’t get it because the stores were closed. Oh well, I waited a day and got it then. But for some that’s not really an option. However I’m not complaining about it because there’s going to be a day, where I’m going to need to get a new pair of pants on Canada Day, and the stores will be closed, and to prevent that, the malls should just remain open.

Last week I watched the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street.  It wasn’t an amazing movie by any means but it was pretty decent. Keep in mind that I have never seen the original, nor do I want to. If the remake is cheesy, I could just imagine the original would be 5 times worse.

What really angered me about the movie were the reviews of it. The reviewers canned the movie for being “predictable and worse than the original.” Pardon me, but if you watched the original, then aren’t you going to know the story anyways? Sure, some minor things were changed but the core story remained the same. I watched the Simpsons parody of it so I kind of how the movie was going to end anways, but I didn’t blame the movie for poorly delivering the story.

It seems a lot of people (fans of the original) always bash the remake for some bullshit reason. I remember hearing “Freddie looks like a monster in the remake.” No you idiot, he looks like a burn victim.

 It seems people have faded memories of this movie. Sure, it might have been really good for it’s time when it was first released. However, times have changed and releasing a movie like that in today’s world would have been a joke. Admit it, your childhood sucked

The homosexual community is now up in arms after Stephen Harper announced that he will not help fund the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto this year. The gays are calling this an act of homophobia; however, Harper did give the parade money last year. $400,000 to be exact. So did Harper magically obtain homophobia over the course of the last year? Tracey Sandilands seems to believe so, saying “So the only thing it can be is some kind of homophobia.” Really? That’s the only thing that it could be? How about a stricter budget? What the Conservatives did was fund fewer major city events, and started focusing on the smaller ones.

I’ve talked about the government wasting their money on the Gay Pride Parade last year, but I was told that it brings in a lot of money. If that is true, where is the money today? Hell, I’ve heard reports that it brought in $100,000,000 if that’s true then Harper’s $400,000 means nothing. People already know about this parade, and it’s going to have the same turnout regardless of the extra Harper money. People aren’t going for the expensive fireworks at the end, they are going for the message.

It should be funded by the municipal government instead seeing how Toronto gets the tourists. The majority of the attendees at this parade are Canadians anyways, so the $400,000 is just making the Canadians waste money in Toronto instead of wasting it in Montreal.

This is a festival that should be able to support itself, it shouldn’t need to rely on the government to help it anymore. There are tons of events that make money without the help of the government, why can’t the gay community?

Is this homophobia? Hardly. I hate to use the word “butthurt” here but it is exactly how the gay community is acting right now. Calm down, no one is taking away your rights. You still have the right to vote, the right to live, and the same rights everyone else has. It’s just that your event didn’t get money. Oh well big deal, the straight-pride parade didn’t get any money either, where are my rights?

So where did all the millions of revenue from the previous parade go? Probably spent on sex toys and lube.

The other day I went to the mall to get a new pair of jeans as my current ones are starting to become torn and ripped. I’d be looking through the selection. Half of them are loose and relaxed, basically it means that they are baggy, something I am not too fond of. So I’d be looking into the regular and tight fit ones and there is a huge problem with these: they come with holes. I’ve never understood why people would pay $80 dollars for pants that are already damaged. Like hell, if you want a “worn” look then you can do it yourself, all you need is some scissors.

I was told that these torn jeans are “vintage,” bullshit. I’d admit it, I’m a sucker for vintage clothing, in my opinion it looks awesome. But there is a difference between the clothing looking old and being damaged. I eventually did find a good pair of jeans. But I had to shuffle through a bunch to find them.