Blessed are the Bakers

Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Honoré, the patron saint of bakers. Aujourd'hui c'est la Saint Honoré, le saint patron des boulangers.


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Is that a baguette in your basket or are you just happy to see me?


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As it says here, "If anyone needed a patron saint in the Middle Ages, it was the bakers. As Phyllis Magida points out in Eating, Drinking, and Thinking, bakers suffered "bakers' asthma" from inhaling flour dust, "bakers' knee" from nearly eighteen hours-a-day bending and lifting, and "bakers' eczema" - an infectious skin disease caused by the clogging of their skin pores by the flour. Bakers who were convicted of short-changing customers or using bad grain were subject to the "bakers' gallows, a terrible contraption by which the baker was hoisted in a basket and dropped 40 feet into a pool of mud usually resulting in multiple fractures."

And you Bitches thought the Oubliette was torture.

In France, St. Honoré's feast day is celebrated with a week-long festival of bread, "la Fête du Pain."

We here at Infomaniac wish to honor this occasion with... wait for it...



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Where’s SID?

Stupid Irish Daddy



SID hasn’t updated his blog for a week.

And yesterday, not a single comment from the Oirish cunt on my blog nor on Tazzy and Piggy’s blog.

At first I thought it was just a case of him having his typing finger stuck up his arse, as usual.

Then I got to thinking that maybe SID had expired. Ceased to be. Gone to meet ‘is maker.

For a brief moment I rejoiced in thinking the time was ripe to raid his liquor cabinet.

But lo and behold if I haven’t discovered where he’s been hiding.

I think it’s safe to assume he’s still bloated and sleeping it off from overindulging at the Crawfordsburn Country Park “Potato Fayre.”

Vancouver Pride 2006

Vancouver sparkled in glitter and glam as the 28th annual Vancouver Pride Parade was held today. Here’s a few pics.



Belles of the ball




Peace to you all




Air Canada – Come fly with me




A graduate from the DJ Taz School of Broadcasting




Booty-full




Tutu much




These boys have found a creative way to store their pooper scooper bags




The End