Here’s a new monthly feature that we’re running here on The Lowdown Blog. It’s a look back at some of the best features, columns and other posts from the past month in one spot. We call it Lowdown Monthly. Think of it as the best of The Lowdown Blog in one handy post. Continue reading
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Epic Meal Time – Epic Super Bowl Sandwich
This week, the crew from Epic Meal Time travels to New York for a Super Bowl Special. On the street, they run into the crew from Barely Political. So the crew from EMT cooked up a special New York style epic meal for the Super Bowl. It’s epic, filled with pastrami and bacon and deep-fried. Continue reading
Epic Meal Time – Meat Salad
This week, the crew of Epic Meal Time are back with a fresh take on salad. The old saying popularized by The Simpsons is “You don’t make friends with salad.” It looks like the EMT boys are trying to prove that adage wrong by making a salad solely with meat. Continue reading
The Best of Barrett-Jackson 2011
This week is the world-famous Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction is the premier classic and rare car auction in the world. It’s the sort of thing that rich people go to for buying new status symbols and where real men go to drool over what basically is automotive erotica. It’s basically a week-long celebration of the car where gearheads are king. So to celebrate the year’s biggest car show where the cars and not the manufacturers are the stars, here are ten of my favourite cars from this week’s auction. Continue reading
Epic Meal Time: Chili Four Loko
The latest craze to sweep YouTube is mad chefs of Epic Meal Time. They come up with some of the craziest and most delicious looking meals to ever find their way to the internet. We’re fans of good food here at The Lowdown Blog so we feel compelled to share their latest culinary creations with you every week. This week, it’s a spicy, meat-filled chili that includes a dash of Four Loko for that added kick. Continue reading
Ken Block Gymkhana: The Complete Collection
If you’re a fan of cars, drifting, viral videos or all of the above, you’ve probably heard of American rally driver Ken Block. To keep in practice for rally events, he found his claim to fame. That’s something called Gymkhana. In proper gymkhana, drivers drive a course that sees them spins, handbrake turns and other spectacular maneuvers. For Block, there is no course, just the spectacular moves of his gymkhana video series. Continue reading
The Best of The Lowdown Blog 2010
With the start of a new year today, let’s take a look back at the last 12 months on the blog. 2010 was an exciting year at Lowdown HQ with us blogging for a full year for the first time and leaving the comfort of campus radio at UWO for the wild world of podcasting. So let’s look back at the year with our most read posts from 2010, the most read posts overall in 2010 and our most listened to podcasts of 2010. Continue reading
An All-American Christmas Story
Those Taiwanese CGI news folks are back at it again. This time, the crew of Next Media Animation has put together a modern retelling of the birth of Jesus set in Pennsylvania. It’s definitely not the Christmas story that you were taught in Sunday school. Continue reading
For Thanksgiving Dinner: The TurBaconEpic
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for our American friends. Usually, Thanksgiving dinner involves a turkey and football. More recently the Turducken has become increasingly popular at the dinner table. But now, some lunatics with a very good health insurance plan have created the ultimate in Thanksgiving meals. It’s 72,186 calories and 6,451 grams of fat of a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig known as the TurBaconEpic. Continue reading
Lest We Forget
In Flanders Fields
by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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