old people can’t rap.

tragedy of the century.

midge and moose broke up!
riverdale will never be the same.

shellfish shmellfish.

“Prop 8 – The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… by Jack Black

and they wanna close it down…

• 750 – 800 visits per day
• 257,575 visits per year
• Average of 11 visits per month, per
person
• More than 10,000 unique individuals
registered at Insite to date

Harm reduction at Insite
(Figures from April 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008)
• More than 200 overdoses annually with
no fatalities
• 3,862 first aid and medical care
interventions
• 2,269 referrals to social and health
services (40% made to addiction
counselling)
• Insite users are twice as likely to
engage in addiction treatment than
non-Insite users

Benefits to health care system
• Benefit of prevented HIV infections and
deaths is calculated to be between
$1.50 and $4.02, depending on model
used, for every dollar spent. These
calculations are based upon an
underestimate of the full range of
benefits and an overestimate of the
annual costs of operation of the facility.

Community support*
• 57% of Lower Mainland residents
support Insite
• 65% City of Vancouver residents
support Insite Infectious diseases
HIV
• 3 in 10 injection drug users in the DTES
are HIV positive
• 18% of Insite clients are HIV positive
• 30 new HIV cases in the DTES in 2006
compared to 2,100 cases in 1996
• Lifetime costs for a new HIV infection
are close to $500,000US.

Hepatitis C
• 9 in 10 injection drug users in the DTES
have Hepatitis C
• 87% of Insite clients have Hepatitis C

Insite participants
• 27% of clients are women
• 19% of clients are Aboriginal
• 17% of clients are homeless
• 68% of clients live in DTES
• 80% of clients have a history of
incarceration
• 73% of users have injected in public
before

Drug use
• Heroin was used in 42% of injections
• Cocaine was used in 26% of injections
• Morphine was used in 11% of injections

pardon me sir, but you’re dreads are getting in the way of my groove.

kenna convinced me to go to reggae, which wasn’t hard because she offered to pay and buy me drinks.

i’ve never seen so many different types of people all dancing in the met. as lame as it sounds, there was a really great vibe in there. i totally forgot how much i fucking hate reggae, and actually danced. a lot.
i think i may be hooked.

things that have tried and failed to kill nick nolte.

Nick Nolte jumped out a window to escape from his Malibu home after it went up in flames on Tuesday. The fire did three million dollars worth of damage to the house while also threatening Nolte’s life. But let this be a lesson to fire. It has just joined the long list of things that have attempted to kill Nick Nolte. And failed.

Other things include:

* Drunk Driving. Nolte drives better drunk than sober.

* Divorce. Three divorces and multiple break-ups would kill most men. Not Nolte. He doesn’t pay child support.

* Making a Terrible Movie with Barbara Streisand. The important thing is he made it off the set with his life.

* Air Travel. When Nolte learned that his plane at an Hawaiian airport had it in for him, he did what any reasonable dude would do: got drunk and passed out in the terminal so he couldn’t fly.

* This Outfit.

* Passing on Han Solo. Nolte was the first choice to play Han Solo but passed on the role because he refuses to talk to guys in bear suits and thinks vests are for the gays.

* Starring in Hulk. Ang Lee’s version of the Hulk was so awful it has killed the careers of just about everyone involved. Except for Nick’s, of course. He rocked your face in Tropic Thunder. Speaking of which…

* Being in the Same Room as Robert Downey Jr. Many speculated that the two working together on Tropic Thunder would be too much combined awesomeness for both to endure. One dead hooker later, both men are alive and well.

* Bullets. Rumor has it that Nolte was shot on the set of 48 Hrs. when a real gun was mistaken for a prop gun. Supposedly the bullet passed right through and Nolte was back to making up lines after he poured some single malt on it.

* Kenny Rogers. We hear Kenny recently came after Nick for stealing his look and fried chicken recipe. We also hear Nick beat Kenny to within an inch of his life and then banged his daughter for good measure.

* Blue Chips. Holy shit that movie sucked. But Nick’s still breathing.

To put all of this in perspective, we are discussing the guy who starred in North Dallas Forty AND got kicked out of high school for drinking beers at football practice. He may damn well be invincible.