There’s a Montreal magazine called Urbania, that happens to have its offices in the same location CloudRaker is, so we often share and comnunicate amongst ourselves. Such occurence happened today, and left me thoughtful. They will be coming out with a new issue shortly, and I’m assuming – wildly – that it will be something about beautiful ladies. So, they emailed everyone a simple question: “Who is Quebec’s female sex symbol?”

It may sound easy or obvious, but I assure you it is not so! Wikipedia defines “sex symbol” as such:

A sex symbol is a famous person of either gender, typically an actor, musician, model, teen idol, or sports star who is found to be sexually attractive by the public or by a substantial niche audience. The celebrity “star system”—the tabloid papers, paparazzi, and gossip talk shows — play an important role in creating and sustaining the public perception of which stars are viewed as attractive. These media industries are in turn sustained by a strong public demand for sexually alluring photographs or footage of celebrities, including both posed, scantily-clad publicity shots for magazines like Maxim and unauthorized beach or nightclub photos taken by pararazzi with zoom lenses.

Obviously, Quebec is not the United States: we have very little paparazzis, beaches and international celebrities. So I started thinking about who I thought was worthy of being labeled as a nation’s sexual symbol. The problem with that is pretty fast to emerge: it’s all a matter of taste. And I don’t mean taste like “I like brunettes more than blondes”, but rather one’s influence, how much one watches television, goes to sponsored parties, hang out in celebrity spots and such. There’s also a big factor to consider: generation. older people are not necessarily in touch with today’s young rising starlets, and they tend to stick with a fantasy that has stuck with them throughout the years, dating back from the days they actually paid attention to such things (on a more serious level anyway). So I made my own personal list, sent it to the editor and then figured it would be amusing to ask around and see who the people I know deem sex-symbolism worthy.

My personal choices, along with the ones I found along the way after the jump.

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There’s been a trend growing lately among the digital spheres I hang around… People have started blogging about seven things that people (their readers) don’t necessarily know about them. I think it’s a pretty nifty thing, because how often do you say things to random people that you usually don’t say to many of the people you know? I think it can tell a lot about a person, but that’s just me. There’s also the whole chain aspect. In your “Seven Things” post, you’re supposed to “tag” seven people that will, in turn, do the same thing. In the end, everyone learns about their friends, and you do some networking! Here’s my personal contribution to keeping the meme alive!

1. I have visibly chipped a tooth in a mosh pit several years ago (lower incisor) at Montreal’s Foufounes Electrique. The song was “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine. I also lost my glasses that night. And yes, I was shitfaced.
2. I have never flown. I also have never been outside my birth country, Canada. The farthest I’ve been is Halifax and Dartmouth (Nova Scotia) or sailing on Lake Champlain (up to Burlington, VT).
3. I was in a foster care for six months when I was 16. I shared my room with a guy who had blown a hole in his cousin’s stomach with a 12 gauge while I was there because my father thought I wasn’t participating enough in the household chores. I have not seen or talked to my father since. I was kicked out for smoking weed. What would YOU have done?!
4. I started on the internet back in 1993 with a site called WebDepart (who was started, I learned years later, by iWeb‘s president) who offered Java based IRC client. I was 13. I lied about my age, and it worked even when I met people from the IRC channel. It was on the WebChat network. I stayed there for a few years, and became IRCop for 2-3 years, which is how I learned english and the basics of programming.
5. I owned a high traffic site that had a million visits per month. I never put ads on it – except one: a banner for my host which in exchanged, hosted the site for free. I interviewed big names of the IRC world. The reason I stopped? It was too much work for a single person, not enough appreciation, too much competition and content stealing, and the domain expired (but was immediately re-registered by someone else, of course).
6. I sport five tattoos. In chronological order: a dragon on my right calf, Drizzt Do’Urden on my right bicep, coordinates on my collarbone, COEXIST on my right forearm and the infinity symbol wrapped in barbed wire on my nape. Two of them were re-inked, just for the feeling. Except for the dragon, they all carry extremely meaningful stories, feelings or ideas to me, and I usually dislike to talk about them except for their appearance. There’s a degree symbol missing from the coordinates, and the relativity formula from the forearm is missing the equal sign. Both are intended “mistakes”.
7. I have lived in Repentigny, Lavaltrie, L’Assomption, Dartmouth, Laval and Montreal. I first moved to Montreal in Pointe-Aux-Trembles, then Mercier, then St-Leonard, then Outremont (though I like to say it’s The Plateau).

Now, I tag these seven people to continue the chain:

• Samuel Lavoie
• Sylvain Carle
• Frederic Lemieux
• Gary Haran
• Ziggy Hagopian
• Janina Szkut
• CloudRaker (yes, a company! I want to know seven little known things about it, eat me)

These are the rules apparently:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some wierd.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

Am I the only one who wears his headphones with no music just to be left alone?

Alright so this is fairly simple. I want a tattoo that only contains text. I was looking for cool fonts, and I remembered two tattoos I had seen in the past. The only problem is I don’t know what font (if not a custom one) they’ve used. So I’m calling out to you to help me figure it out.

I’m more interested in the first two (Kai’s)

Bonus: You get to see Nathasha Kai and Megan Fox