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It's Wednesday June the 14 around 10:49PM and

Buzz Dump: Giant Cell Phone Comeback?

As hump day transitions into regular old, Thursday, let's see what's cooking:

*Gordon Gekko returns? I have to say we start off with the disturbing or wonderful news of a possible Wall Street Sequel. Golden Fiddle has the news and links to images of awesome giant cellphones and yacht computers. I guess if 61 year old Micheal Douglas is in, greed is good, and it will work.

*If that wasn't smug enough for you dear readers, there was a completely ass kissing love-in profile of Vancouver writer Alice Munro in the fabled New York Times this week. You may need a airline vomit bag to deal with this. From the get go, it's pretty darn hilarious:

IN Alice Munro's Vancouver nobody eats sushi. Nobody jogs along the seawall or browses Granville Street galleries or shops for organic herbs at the Granville Island market. Ms. Munro, the 74-year-old Canadian whom the novelist Jonathan Franzen dubbed "the best fiction writer now working in North America," set a handful of her marvelous short stories in the damp British Columbian metropolis, and the urban geography is so exact you can practically map the city off her fictions

*But seriously, Kate Beckinsale is single? Thank the maker. This almost makes up for the tragic and confusing news that James Blunt is dating Petra Nemcova. Damn you! Well at least Mandy Moore ditched Zach Braaff finally.

*I'm still smiling about director Uwe Boll challenging his biggest haters to come to his Vancouver set and getting into a boxing ring with him. This is a great stunt. As Defamer called it, "Uwe Boll Challenges Critics to Beat his Lack of Talent Out of Him." Kind of a shame he makes such worthless films.

*This is awesome - the resignation from American Apparel's most senior Canadian employee:

The stores have lost concept and look like flea markets, your products have lost quality, and your business ethics are being erased and replaced with the usual corporate shtick- in short, you are well on your way to becoming another institution, and your outrageous company has become horribly predictable. In addition to this, the exploitations of the cultures, sexual orientations, and individuality of the people featured in your advertisements only serves to show that you really don’t understand what is relevant and edgy today within youth culture; your target market. You’ve effectively moved the exploitation of workers in your “non-sweatshops” to your own retail workers and models featured on the pages of newspapers and magazines, cashing in on what you assume a generic public will perceive as subversive and political.

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Posted by: ulara

June 15, 2006 04:14 PM

Just read the NYT article. I am SO GLAD that I now know even more about Alice Munro's cool bio. (English Courses. UBC Arts Degree. Canadian content quotas). What I am really ECSTATIC about though is that I finally know 'Where to Eat' tonight! I just can't wait to get to the Watermark where "the food, like roasted duck breast and lobster ravioli, is far trendier than anything in Ms. Munro's stories" and where I might even catch sight of "a hungry movie crew outside", because afterall, Vancouver has "become a big movie-making town in recent years".