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Zevia Zero Calorie Energy Raspberry / Lime

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Is this the vehicle of your spiritual journey? Have you attained enlightenment? Have you reached Nirvana? Well, since you are reading this, it is likely that you haven't since reading energy drink reviews is not something that spiritually awakened beings do. Am I a new being? An entity of light and energy? A consciousness that exists in all dimensions and in all times all at once? The answer: a firm No . But I did drink this can of Zevia Zero Calorie Energy in Raspberry/Lime flavour  and it did change my life. Here on the commune we have a maxim: work is it's own reward.  And let me tell you, we work . At first I was a little wary about the new-age spirituality stuff, but now that I have undergone the procedure  at the hands of the leader  I don't really have any problems with it anymore. Sure some people may say that we live in a dirt-floor shack and slave away in an agrarian dystopia while giving all of the fruits of our labour to the leader  so he can live a...

Perrier Energize Caffeine & Yerba Mate Grapefruit Flavour Caffeinated Energy Drink

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  An energy drink for the discerning palate..? I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Energy drinks on on sale off the street downtown. I watched neon signs glow in the dark near the drink cooler. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. I have taken up living at the homeless camp again. The camp is probably a fairly close approximation of what our prehistoric societies must have looked like: a band of desperate people barely scraping out an existence, a loose coalition led by the largest and most fearsome among us, and in my case, that is a large man of Haitian extraction that is known by the mononym "Blaster" to the other camp-dwellers. Our lives in this prehistoric state are as nasty, brutish, and short as Hobbes thought they would be. While survival is our primary goal, Blaster  is ambitious and ruthless and tries to drag us out of our rut. We truly are hunter-gatherers, and I have become one of the hunters, but the quarry t...

REV Original

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The "alcopop" of Canadian "rave culture." Long have I traveled the wastes; my bones brittle, my muscles frail, and my skin cracked and wrinkled. In the years of my journeys I have seen the rise and fall of many cultures, subcultures, and cults; one that has neither waxed nor waned is the strange drinkers of the blue, the "REVelers"... If you seek information, I wish you luck, for you will find that it is scarce , and if you seek to read the sacred texts of the cult itself, you will find that their own instructions:  " http://www.reverage.com/ " lead to an entirely new and different set of scrolls. The true nature of Rev  is obscured to all, only known by those who have imbibed the drink and those strange, arcane zealots that produce it and carefully guard its secrets. I consider myself an academic, a seeker . I will ever disparage research and the testimony of others; but, whenever possible, I prefer firsthand experience. Many times have I seen t...

Frozen Red Bull Slush from Harvey's

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Do you know the meaning of these runes? They are different from the typical mark of the Bull, but know that these engravings portent the presence of the Bull, but in a even more terrifying and horrific form, the Bull has become the Bestial King of Winter and you are within his territory, and his sight... Hail. Long has it been since I have been able to record what I have learned on my journeys and I bear grave news for all: the Bull  has aligned the stars in such a way to foment his transformation into a great monstrosity ripped from the very glaciers of the Northern Lands .  The great corrupting plague that has consumed our realm has greatly restricted my wanderings, but, with the blessing of the local Thane and his constabulary, I am able to make short travels through my local fiefdom. It is during one of these travels that I learned of the return of the Bull . There are a great many wayhouses and shrines on the roads and pathways of the Northern Lands , and while I usually...

Reign Energy Razzle Berry

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Now appearing in the Canadian Market: Reign Energy, here's the Razzle Berry flavour. Hello wanderer, I mean you no harm, I too am a lone traveler in the vast fields of perdition that extend forever beyond the horizon. Long have I hidden myself in cave-complex hermitage where I have hoped to outlast the great plague, but now that I have come back to the surface, I see that there will never be respite from our damnation, only brief glimpses of paradise through the consumption of forbidden elixirs. This particular elixir , from the lands to the South, has undergone a formulation change to appease our cautious council of elders . Part of that formulation change is a significant reduction in potency - whereas the Eagle-Men are able to consume 300mg of caffeine, those of the Beaver-People are restricted to a mere 180mg of caffeine - such is the way of this land. The inverse side of the can, with its various selling features.  It is said that this series of admixtures was developed to co...

Arizona Hard Green Tea

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Is this an energy drink? Yeah, I am so far beyond being able to care that I tragically miss the days when I was capable of feeling anything other than shame and regret. So Canada rarely gets "exclusive" product tests or reveals, so this was something of a treat when I saw that there was an Arizona Tea brand hard tea available at my state-controlled happiness beverage shop. An examination of the can reveals that this is in fact, not a "real" Arizona  tea, but one made by the Molson-Coors conglomerate.  Just in case you forgot you were in Canada, everything on the can is printed twice, English and French. I have always thought that "The Vert" was a cool name for a drink, but it isn't.  I can remember distinctly, opening the can, hearing and feeling the slight pressure being released, the odd sensations that overcame me as I sniffed the aromas exited from the recently liberated pouring spout, then the massive and obscene disappointment ...

Rockstar Blackout

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Contrast helps people distinguish objects, both in a physical sense and a conceptual one. Without contrast we would stumble around through a maze of textures and colours that merge together into a unnavigable fog without any sort of distinction. The same is true in the realm of ideas, without good, how would we know evil; without hunger, how would we know satiety? What powerful malignant forces seeks to strip our reality of these bounding rules? For reasons that I do not yet fully understand, some power of immeasurable evil is using the  Rockstar Energy  company to unbind the individual components of our shared reality. The power , and here I hesitate to use the word "god"  acts on a cosmic scale and, while it has a great potential, it only seems to be able to interact in a tenuous, ambiguous fashion, at least, so far. Even now the conflict rages. Not a war of steel or electric current, but a metaphysical war that rages in the transitory boundaries betw...