I don’t know about most people in the world, but I could never vote for some one who dyes his or her hair. It suggests a persona far too concerned with appearances as opposed to substance.
It would appear that 2/3s of Florida would agree with me on this one.
(And its a bad [...]
[Addendum, 25 Feb 2008: the cornucopia of awesomeness is not without its errors, or its insightful readers who help point out our mistakes (see John van Gurp's corrections (Comment No. 2) below for details). i happily accept all corrections. on this one in particular, i freely admit that i've conflated my recent dismay [...]
An older post regarding the car-crash aesthetic charm of Halifax’s Fenwick Tower has seen a number of hits as of late – its visitors have spiked over the past two days, increasing nearly four-fold in number. It would appear that the internet world, and the community of impoverished post-docs at Dalhousie University’s graduate student [...]
Pity the poor urban farmer, whose backyard chicken operation has turned into a PR disaster for the once environmentally-friendly, formally eco-cool city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
By now, most of Canada has seen one news report or another highlighting the plight of Halifax resident Lousie Hanavan, a soon-to-be former urban farmer who kept three chickens in [...]
Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1945).
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with [...]
Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”.
Berkeley, 1955.
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! [...]
Making the internet rounds this week is the January 14, 2008, video clip of GOP Candidate Mike Huckabee stating in Michigan that the American constitution ought to be amended to be more in line with Christian family values.
The clip is embedded below, in the midst of early-in-the-morning jolly-good-times by three idiot American anchors (Forgive them; [...]
Dana Gioia, “California Hills in August” (1982).
I can imagine someone who found
these fields unbearable, who climbed
the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust,
cracking the brittle weeds underfoot,
wishing a few more trees for shade.
An Easterner especially, who would scorn
the meagerness of summer, the dry
twisted shapes of black elm,
scrub oak, and chaparral — a landscape
August has already [...]
Is there anyone else in Halifax or Nova Scotia that has grown tired of the “Bring Dave Letterman to Nova Scotia” campaign? I was bored with it from the moment CBC Halifax’s Information Morning interpreted the talk show host’s witty banter with Halifax actor Ellen Page that he’d like to “one day visit” [...]
The Coast has done it again. Just when you thought it was safe to say “urban activism” or “civic renewal” in Halifax, the local “alternative weekly” has gone out and published a news piece that gives all left-leaning urbanites – hell, all urbanites – a bad name. Their 2008 Wishlist for Halifax, Nova [...]