Hating Ticketmaster

Regular ticket price? - check
Facility charge? - check
Convenience charge? - check
Delivery (print it yourself at home) fee? - check
Order processing fee? - check

'nuff said.
I suddenly recall why I hate concert prices. They're artificially inflated in so many ways.

Hopefully this is worth the stupidity that is Ticketmaster.

Foolishness

Sometimes the pranks work, sometimes they fall flat on their face. Of course, it seems one of these stories was more obviously a joke than the other, but I say this not having seen the original Pembroke story. It appears, though, that they made the mistake of quoting real people instead of attributing information to Dr. Jack Russell.

And sticking with the world of news, it seems the Ottawa Citizen has decided to take on racy adverts. It's the "skankification" of young women, a writer argues. I suspect he's never heard of American Apparel, but I guess it could be dismissed as not your average mom-and-pop shopping destination.

Who's the fool

Today's a good day to take bizarre news with a grain of salt. For example, here's a little gem that was sent my way. I admit I was taking it in at first, but something just didn't seem quite right. Then I got to this part:

But another genetics expert, Dr. Jack Russell, questioned how successful the program will be.
"Quite frankly, this whole scheme stinks to high heaven," he said.

Not to mention the $500 fine for the first offence. Wow. They're really into protecting shoes in Edmonton, aren't they? Oh, and the number at the bottom of the story... plugging it into a search engine reveals that it's the number to the paper.

You know what this means? Tomorrow I'll have to check the Edmonton Sun's page and see if they share the joke and let us know how many readers called the 'city.' I doubt it'll be up there with BBC's spaghetti crop, but it's got to be worth some laughs in the morning.