[I wrote this early in the summer. It's been chopped down quite a bit since then, but that is more so I don't pretend I'm an article. That said I still think this particular polemic has value and I hope you'll read it in the spirit of a proposal for the future of our species.]
I’m [...]
*BANG*
Suddenly my big stupid grin is a mask of horror. On the plus side it solves a particular problem I’ve been trying to deal with, namely how to describe having a good time in a way that is interesting. It solves it because now I am having a very very very bad time. The loud [...]
An email excerpt:
Jackie: Lots of successful campaigns (most, I’d venture to say) were preceded by many failures or only partial successes. Also, how are we defining these? Do we get active members from them? Do we build up an organizer? Do we learn some good tactics? Do we raise class consciousness? All are valid as [...]
OK, today I give you 2 Easy Steps To Get So Far Out Of Your Comfort Zone That All You Want To Do Is Call Your Mommy.
It’s pretty easy.
1) Go to continental Europe
2) Take or purchase something that makes all forms of travel arbitrarily difficult.
I want to love my bicycle, but right now I look [...]
I’m going away. Forever. Or near enough anyways.
Personally, I blame the Coachella music festival. In 2007 my best friend, Josh, told me Rage Against the Machine was getting back together and were going to be playing near Palm Springs, CA. I was determined to go. Final exams were a problem, but significantly less so when [...]
So I’ll admit it. It is only in the past week that I decided to give a flying hoot about our Parliament. To be blunt, they’re all a bunch of stuck-up assholes and I don’t really care that the Conservatives feel all hard-done by now, which makes the coalition feel all persecuted, which makes the [...]
So I have a big beef. I was never really taught history. Oh sure, before university we did the world wars, the depression, colonial canada through to the modern day. You remember Social Studies? Remember wanting to bash your skull in because the Great Depression was so boring? And I LOVE history. I can’t get [...]
I have had ample opportunity over the past month to consider the oft-repeated question: “What is art?”
I find undergraduate science majors tend to try and pigeon hole art into functional spaces, but this just leads to elevating simple aesthetic composition and produces a definition that excludes many forms of creativity. The fact is it is [...]
News of the day folks. This one is pretty awesome; absolutely inhuman/degenerate/disgusting/etc. radio station affiliate gets kicked in the teeth when somebody starts going to their big advertisers and pointing out who the voice of their company is.
Response? ABC/Disney lawyers shut down…. the blogger. Not the radio station. Yeah I love the world too.
Way down [...]
So I’m stumbling around the internet looking for the source of a sound clip used in a Propellorheads song, and I come across this essay. I feel compelled to comment on it so you might want to read it.
OK, so you’re back. If you were like me the first paragraph seemed like a unique approach [...]
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