Dear Halifax bars, every weekend I like to have some drinks and dance. I'm in my apartment all week, so by Friday I want to get out, mingle, and support local businesses. Unfortunately, you only cater to the top 40 and house communities. This leaves me hosting living room dance parties that don't give you any money. Is it too much to ask for a bar that reflects the Halifax festival scene that we so proudly tote year after year? I'm simply asking for a single place that would reliably play the following music: Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Beck, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, CSS, Death From Above 1979, Freeland, Girl Talk, Hawksley Workman, Hot Chip, M.I.A., Metric, MGMT, The New Pornographers, The Rapture, Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees, Slowcoaster, The Ting Tings, etc. We proudly boast when these bands come to town, but we never deliver on any follow through, which comes off as hypocritical. So please, one Halifax bar, step up and deliver on some of the music that we Haligonians so clearly enjoy! —Gatt

To the kids that use the space underneath the Cogswell ramp as a skating park: News for you, that is not a skating park. In fact it is quite annoying when people at home are unable to rest, work, study, and live life peacefully, because you decided to make that place your own private park. The noise of your skateboards hitting the concrete, screeching wheels, and your loud voices should be taken to the appropriate place, AKA the Commons. You use that spot underneath the ramp 7 days a week, most of the day, sometimes as late as midnight. It is disturbing for the people that leave nearby, and not an adequate spot to carry on your sport! I am seriously contemplating calling the cops on you very soon. Cheers! —I want some peace and quiet in my home

A while back in my hometown a great thing happened, the city sprung for a recrational trail, complete with water fountains, benches, paved trail for all methods of physical fitness. I myself took part regularly roller bladeing through from start to 15km finish. Great fun... until people started getting mugged, women groped, etc. It was like they came out of the the ground, the creeps. So my father, being an observant police officer noticed the relationship between the people attacked and their complete lack of situational awareness due to their walkmans/portable cd players. To combat this the police patrolled heavily for a while, and made the recommendation that the users of the trail should avoid distractions while out in public, especially after dark. What do you know, the occurrences of the attacks dropped off to nil, even after they stopped the heavy presence, because people LISTENED and stopped jamming their ears with headsets. Caught unawares... not them.

Fast forward to here. I shake my head to see all the early morning/late night joggers that run the streets of Halifax, and all the young teens with their gadgets jammed in their ears. Stop making yourselves more of a target. Criminals look for the quickest easiest way to capitalize on someones weakness. Swarmings, blindside attacks and attacks from behind are what is getting our citymates time and time again. I implore you all to keep your wits about you. Don't be paranoid or nothing but make it harder for the scum in this city to make you their next victim, and cause another spike in the stat columns for crime here. —Icky

If you tag a building, don't run away like a coward. Knock on the door. Introduce yourself. Tell the person what you did. Leave your name and address, not just your anonymous tag. Give them some money for the time and materials they'll need to clean up after you. If you're not brave enough to take responsibility, tattoo your own house or your own skin instead. —Tag no more

To a certain individual who keeps applying to our company: when are you going to realize that you are not qualified to work in our organization? You have a Bachelor of Commerce, so that means you think you can just apply for our positions without experience? You've applied for administrative assistant positions every time they became available, which was about 4 times in a 2-month period. When we didn't contact you, you would send your resume out to us again (assuming we didn't receive it)! Now you're applying for our customer service positions. Atleast, you could have stood to get a prescreening interview for customer service since you have some experience in that area, but your cover letter is... you know... not the greatest. We tend to lean towards candidates who can write a decent cover letter. Although you have no spelling/grammar errors, you in no way convinced us why you're the ideal candidate! What I think you don't seem to get is WE'VE HAD YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER ON FILE FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS! We'll contact you if something comes up, which will likely not happen. We're required to keep your resume on our database for a certain amount of time. But if it were up to me, or the rest of the HR dept, your resume/cover letter would have been tossed already. There is really no way in hell you'll even get an interview from us. Sorry. —Frustrated in the HR Dept

You let someone from work stay with you until his utilities got hooked up which was very nice of you. It was only 3 days, though so don't act like you're a fucking martyr... especially since it was all your husbands idea. Then you come to work and complain to EVERY SINGLE person in the office that your houseguest had a bowel movement in the washroom and then lit a match hoping to disguise the smell. On and on and on you went about the smell, how stupid it was to light a match and how you didn't want to go in there the rest of the day. Did you expect him to use the front lawn like a dog? Did you really have to discuss this with all of his co-workers? Geez, at least he tried something to cover the smell. I suppose your shit doesn't stink, does it? Well, I know what does. I notice that you leave your work shoes at work (like a lot of us do) but you leave yours tightly wrapped in not one but two bags and with a bottle of foot spray. I sent an e-mail to everyone in the office offering $50 to anyone that would dare to do a 10 second deep inhale into your shoe bag. So far no one has made it past 5 seconds without gagging but it sure makes for some funny nicknames for you. Can't wait to see you after your little vacation is over, Funky Feet. —Payback's a bitch, bitch

I bought my tickets a few weeks ago from a ticket outlet for this show that was supposed to be held last night. Due to weather the performers had to cancel. However, the promoters never announced it was cancelled and have yet to announce any refunds. When I tried to get a refund the response was "the promoters haven't decided if they want to give refunds or reschedule the show." I finally pleaded and received my refund, though I'm sure many others have yet to receive their refunds. Run your company properly or don't run it at all! —I'm pissed

To the loose girls who come to shows and tempt musicians in relationships. You are pathetic (especially since you pawn your desperation off as photography). You may be a "good time" but you are a dime a dozen. FYI, he has herpes. —Gain Respect Over Sexual Stimulation

Congrats! A new year, potentially a new you. It's great a man of your girth and weight is working on reaching a healthier weight. One suggestion though: please shower BEFORE you come to the gym. You emit an awfully, nauseating sour-milk-combined-with-rotten-tuna-cans-in-the-hot-sun smell. The locker/change room has its typical sweat smell before you come in, but afterwards guys are left gagging and rushing to change and seek fresh air. You may have even noticed that when you get on the treadmill, people quickly finish their routine and move away. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do us all a favor and grab some soap or industrial cleaner and jump in the shower. —Gilleted

"Blah blah blah... too violent, unfit for my child, too much foul language and sex... blah blah blah" bitched the mother at Bayer's Lake the other night. What did you expect from a movie that is about hit men? Of course a movie like this is going to have guns, people getting shot to death, blood, violence, explosions, and sex. Next time take your damn kid to see Hello Kitty Meets Mr. Hugsalot and quit your complaining to the staff. —ShootEmUp