Holy crap. All I wanted to do is find movie listings. They are simply impossible to just click and find. The absolutely worst layout I have ever had to deal with ever.

Seriously fucking retarded.

I had heard that Avatar 3D was coming back to theaters. I saw the non-3D version and would like to see it in 3D. A friend also expressed an interest. So I do the simple thing, search Google for “avatar 3d hamilton burlington”.  A most logical search.  The first link was for IMAX 3D.  No use as I just wanted a local theater.  Second and second sub-link were for the Hamilton Spec “myvirtualpaper.com” but for way past dates (sep 17th and aug 31st).  Still useless.   Ooook, how do I get to the _current_ date for movie listings???

Here’s a test, go to thespec.com site and tell me how many clicks and how long it takes you to find movie listings. Shit, I tried ‘movie show times’ in their SEARCH ‘this site’ and it came up with NOTHING related to movie show times.

I mean, how hard is it for someone to design a site that is simply usable??

You want to know how I found it?  I had to use the ‘unique wording for their show listings’ to find the page that listed the ‘unique wording for show listings’.  It was the 5th link down on Google and was titled “TheSpec – AT THE MOVIES”.  Why the hell do I have to search the spec site for “at the movies”????  Why can’t I simply find it under the ‘entertainment’ section where it has always been for years?????

Sad thing is that not even the physical newspaper that I get (thank GOD it’s free for me!!!) doesn’t even list it at all.  Geezus, you’d think that with such skimpy-sized offerings, they’d want to add more to their 1/8″ thick pulp.

It’s no wonder the movie industry is slowly, but surely, tanking and that downloading is rampant.  There is no support from local communities and newspapers.  It really should not be hard at all to find out such simple information.

The aggregate movie listing sites are missing out on these key words, and out of all those websites (like tribute.ca), you’d think they’d be more popular.

Long Live TBP!

I’ve been slowly catching up on many movies that I have missed. The latest is Eyes Wide Shut. I find that the indy-style of movies are better suited for my tastes in contrast to rehashed Pocahontas plots.

The cult from the movie would be mirrored in the Hamilton Way with the following differences:

- if you show up in something OTHER than a taxi, you are immediately disqualified for being ‘above your station’….

- only the head of the party may show up in a ‘motorized vehicle’ but the best he would be allowed would be a 1986 Plymouth Reliant K car…..no AC…..

- the head of the cult (which would actually be called a schism, unfortunately none of the members can actually spell….) wears only a Mickey Mouse costume.

- in place of sex acts, there will be darkened rooms filled with people exchanging hand-jobs for information(mostly gossip on how Bob Young got invited…) and poorly grown weed from north end grow-ops (aka Wentworth st chemical plants)

- film will climax in a full-circle jerk with all aimed at a hole in the ground in hopes to fertilize the next round of mary jane, shortly there after the group is broken up by the cops who only report that one baggie of drugs were found.

So, if you know of anyone who will fund our re-make, I am open to offers.

York U to host track & Field PanAm games!

That’s right Hamilton, the games you idiots (plural to include Bob Young & gang) lost is going to York U. Congrats on being so petty and immature that you guys can’t settle differences.

Shame on Bob Young for trying to tell a City how to develop.

Shame on Hamilton for letting this go so long so that it became a bigger issue in the first place.

I think it’s great that HostCo yanked the event from Hamilton. They at least had the balls to keep their shit together, make a decision and stick with it.

I won’t be surprised that no stadium gets built at all at this rate and leave all you fools whining and pointing fingers instead of building Hamilton to be the great City it can be.

Maybe I’ll come back to Hamilton, maybe I won’t. I certainly don’t care for the attitude it has regarding itself.

Seriously, you have a major business partner in the city that refuses to behave.  The last time I was a child and said “no, I don’t wanna” to my parents earned me a good smack in the ass and sent to my room.  No single entity should tell the CITY what they should do.  Sure, they can express their concerns, sure they can say their preferences but to outright throw a temper tantrum is quite ridiculous.

I am quite glad never to have been any kind of real supporter of the team.  This latest little tactic is a fine example of the reason why.  Bob Young is simply the ‘i’ in team. (think about that one….)

It has surely been an entertaining read over the past few months but after today, it’ll be all the ‘over-the-shoulders’ type of comments as each party walks away from whatever decision is made by council.  Like the North End, it’ll be nothing more than a lingering foul smell in the air after some industrial plant produces some random material to be use in some product that’ll end up in the dump 5 years after it’s made.

To be honest, I hope the Ti Cats actually leave.  They’ll find that their ‘financial sustainability’ will drop way worse than anything they ever claimed about the West Harbour.  Oh, and good luck at having any kind of reasonable turn out from now till December.

Hey Bob, why not follow my wife & I to South Korea?  I hear they are looking for native-born english speaking people to work there…