Aqua Books and Eat! Bistro announced they're closing today

August 11, 2011 - 3:37pm - by admin

which is super sad

the restaurant had a really bright, cheerful atmosphere and their food was top notch. Not to mention their cupcakes.

CBC says the owner's reasoning behind the closure is a "cultural shift away from reading" which on one hand I understand, but that place was always packed to the tits whenever I went there so it eludes me as to how it's gone under

I'll never know, I guess but it's sad that the used bookstore's failure cause the restaurant to go down, too. I feel like I didn't eat there enough.

isn't that how it always is?

last night we went to Rumors Comedy Club with Komus and Shawnypoo and saw Reese Waters who was way funnier than I'd expected



The tickets were free (thank you @rhondalmartens) so it didn't really matter if he was dunny or not, so it was a pleasant surprise. We had a few Fort Garry Darks while the he told some jokes and I realized I hadn't been there in ages, either

though comedy is hit-and-miss and usually I prefer my stand-up on YouTube so I can close the browser if it sucks unless it's Daniel Tosh, who we saw at the Centennial Concert Hall last Friday and was so funny I almost cried

I love when American comedians come to Canada because they can pick on all the sensitive topics that we're way too polite to discuss and when they say what everyone's already thinking it's just that much better because you think "see, they get it"

there was a dude in front of us who got offended over some of the comments but honestly you can't come to a Tosh show and not expect to have your gender/sexual preference/race/sports team/etc mocked and belittled

besides mockery is the sign of a good friend which is why I need to make sure I have a thick skin tonight when @rhondalmartens and @kenquist come over for wine and Scrabble

generally I'm good with words but Scrabble stresses me out and Ty gets all Nazi about which words you can and can't use on the board he's like Hitler or something

and yes I realize that calling someone a 'Nazi' and 'Hitler' over Scrabble is horrible and offensive but if Michelle Bachmann can run around saying that Minnessotas' educations standards could lead to Auschwitz and comparing raising taxes to the Holocaust then obviously the words don't mean anything anymore

I'm being sarcastic, of course, hopefully the meaning of those words will never lose their meaning and will always remind us of how evil and cruel humans can be to one another.

Besides which, the only person who's acting like a Nazi is Michelle Bachmann.

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