Bio

Originally from Belcarra, British Columbia, Canada, Kyle MacDonald has planted more than one hundred thousand trees, delivered more than one thousand pizzas, but eaten only one scorpion. He has also traded one red paperclip for a house only once.

He coordially invites you to edit his wikipedia bio as creatively as you desire.

When he's not stealing a flag from the Prime Minister's office or promoting Alberta Beef by hitch-hiking in a parade, you might find him leaving his wallet in El Segundo or hanging out in Bangkok modeling Italian Soccer jerseys to fund 4am Red-Bull and Rum-fueled urban hitchhikes. He also enjoys writing third-person bio pages for his website and loves to stand on street corners in Montreal hawking shoddily-bound English literature to Francophones in sub-zero temperatures.

His mom still cuts his hair.

O Coinada

I just wrote a petition to the Queen of England: ocoinada.blogspot.com

I guess you can think of this as kind of like an internet petition version of the American Revolution - albeit with less spilled tea and without all those midnight horse rides. Hey, if anybody has a few spare horses and wants to organize some late night equestrian activites, be sure to let me know.

Kyle

Corey Hart Drives a Fiero

Apparently Corey Hart Drives a Fiero and he's a blogger, which is awesome. He seems to be blogging like it's 1990 or something, which is rad.

http://coreyhartdrivesafiero.blogspot.com

Facts:
-Corey Heart invented awesome.
-Corey Hart invented the Fiero.
-Corey Hart invented Corey Hart.

En Why See

New York was fun. We did lots of stuff, sold lots of Table Shox, and my Mom even gave me a haircut. Good times.


Scott saw some pigs


We saw this guy.


My car's the red one in the middle.


My new super-hero name is "Bag of Chinese food Carrying Steam Man"


The name says it all.


We saw this guy.


Evian lived on "the wild side".



Scott's first bite of Peking Duck....ever. Rachel was very proud of him.


Jeep makes "off road" vehicles.


Subways are fun.


Dom got a new bird shirt.

Not Many Posts

Yeah, been kinda busy with oneredpaperclip.com

You can follow along there for more info on my whereabouts and miscellaneous happenings.

I'll post some good pictures and stuff here at kylemacd.com over the next few days.

have fun.

kyle

Canadian Cigarette packs

Heading south tomorrow on good ol' I-87 to NYC. Gonna be there till next Wednesday. Table Shox stuff.

Probably won't be seeing any of these wonderful Canadian Cigarette packages for nearly a week!

I don't smoke or anything, this is just a roundabout way of bringing the ridiculously-awesome Canuck smoke pack warning labels to your attention.

Later, Kyle

And it's only Nov 10th

Ok, I'm not sure if you're into web design or whatever, I'm not, but I'm slowly being sucked into it. This is my traffic for goingpostal3000.com, my old site. This traffic is because pretty much all of my pictures are hosted there and 25 000 people a day just started showing up to these sites instead of the usual 100 or so. Up until yesterday, I only ever went through about 10% of my max-allowable bandwidth a month.

Yesterday I went through 50% of my enite bandwidth for November.

So I signed up for a flickr pro account and now have the painstaking task of recoding everything away from the Going Postal 3000 site. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this but flickr seems to be rad and tredy and all the mega web geeks are in there, so it's gotta be good.

Check out my flickr site and comment and stuff if you like. I'll post lots of really sweet pictures there now that it's way easier to do so.

Later

kyle

Black cats are good luck: PROOF

A couple of days ago, I made a post about a black cat that crossed my path and how this means good luck to me. I then made an attempt at 'humour' by trying to shine a positive light on all the FREE or YOU JUST WON or DEAR RESPECTABLE SIRS Nigerian email scam stuff that ends up in my, and everyone else on the planet's, email box every day. I thought it was funny, and I had a little chuckle to myself.

Then a few big time blogs somehow got their hands on the site feed for one red paperclip, posted it, and the next thing you know my phone rings and I hear: "Hey Kyle, it's so and so from (enter media outlet here) in (enter city here) in (enter coutry of choice here). Do you want to go on the air and tell you story about the one red paperclip to (enter number here) million listeners?

Needless to say, this was a bit better proof that the black cat was good luck than those shallow attempts at shine-the-best-light-on-those-spam-emails style humour I tried on Tuesday.

If you wanna fan the flames to help the whole 'trade from one red paperclip up to one house' thing actually happen, feel free to post a link to http://www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com at as many of these websites as you can!

In related good luck news, I always take it as a sign of good luck everytime I see a white goat. White goats are cool.

There's this lady that lives at the outskirts of Dom's village, St-Alexis-Des-Monts, who has this crazy stash of white goats, and everytime we go up to St-Alexis, I look to see if her white goats are out of the barn. If they aren't, no biggie, it's not bad luck, but if they are out - oh boy, it's blues skies for the foreseeable future.

It'll be cool to see if the white goats are out of the barn next time we roll into St-Alexis. I'll keep you posted - maybe I'll take a picture of them.

Bye for now,

Kyle

hits

My websites got about 100 unique visitors yesterday.

Then last night, while we all slept, Boing Boing and digg caught wind of one red paperclip and posted a link to it on their sites.

My websites got more than 20 000 unique visitors today.

Needless to say, this makes blogging a lot more fun. Later. Kyle.

Black Cat

A black cat just crossed my path on my way home. Now, the current popular superstition is that this is bad luck, but my outlook is a little different.

The first 25 years of my life were spent in the vicinity of black cats. My parents got Ebony, black cat #1 before I was born. When they brought me home from the hospital back in good old 1979, Ebony arrived at my bedroom with a present.

A mouse.

Ebony crossed my path daily and brought hundreds more presents to the family right up until she packed it in eight years ago. Within a matter of months though, black cat #2, Diva, came on the scene and she's brought nothing but good luck - and presents.

So, to all of you who think black cats are bad luck, I say phooey. Black cats are good luck. That's it. Hang on, I'll prove it, let me go check my email...

Guess what was in my inbox!

-Get a complimentary Sony VAIO Laptop!
-Market Research Get an Ipod Video on us!
-Find out how you could receive a Free PS3 when they become available!
--Designer Accessories You could be stylin' with new LV accessories Get them free!
-Designer purse You could get a LV purse and matching wallet we'll pick up the tab!
-Get a Sony VAIO Laptop on us!

Wow, 2 FREE Sony VAIO laptops, FREE IPOD, FREE PS3, a FREE designer purse, and FREE designer accessories! I told you black cats were lucky. This is perfect, I've been holding back on purchasing designer accessories. Now I know why!