Monthly Archives: November 2008

uncled

so apparently i’m now an uncle.  or, i’m becoming an uncle, right now, as i type this.
you get the point.

Christmas Resolutions, and how Seuss Ruined Christmas

I don’t like new year’s resolutions, mostly because they occur at the moment when I’ve run out of time to actually do stuff. So, this year I’m going to mark off some christmas resolutions instead.
1. Read some good stuff. I’ve got four areas to cover: fiction, non-fiction, classic lit, and theory. [...]

Crashing Bores

I’ve been fairly busy this week doing coursework, which has made me one of those crashing bores our world is full of. This is because next week the hammer falls on the term, when several due dates will collide and possibly rip a hole in the space-time continuum. Either that, or I’ll continue [...]

In Honour of the Snow

So either I’m losing my mind and remembering things I never really did, or, one of you blokes broke into my account and deleted something I posted last Saturday. Either way, I’m left wondering right now, “can something be a thing if it never happened in the first place?” On the one hand, [...]

kultural imperialism

sometimes i just can’t help myself. this week, in my favourite class, “interruptions and interactions with the mba’s”, i had brought up the evil words “cultural imperialism.” there was a bit of a discussion on the go about the how great – or how evil – the One Laptop Per Child programme was, [...]

Santa Shuffle

Hey all,
so I’m going to run the santa shuffle after all.  if you feel like donating anything to the cause, then shuffle yourselves over to http://steeleworthy.ca/run to get all the details.
luv,
m.
(nike+ powersong: fire eye’d boy)

Baked

Okay, so this morning, for perhaps the third (fourth) time in my life, I actually baked! I don’t count baking cakes for The Pineapples as baking, because I’ve failed almost every time, but if even if you were to add those numbers into it we’d still be at less than a dozen instances.
I baked [...]

christmas is for shopping and the shopping god is everything

I’ve marked it, on 17 Nov 2008. There I was in the grocery store, trying to remember if the flour i needed is all-purpose or white, when I heard the christmas carols over the PA system. now,I know that the christmas music has been noticed by others since at least around hallowe’en, but [...]

Sound Recordings

I often shake my head in disgust when I think about my appreciation for Matthew Arnold. That guy was a conservative nutbar at the end of his life, but some of his lit, and a lot of his criticism really hit the mark for me (case in point: i’ve quoted his definition of culture [...]

Once More Into The Breach

[wiki Chernobyl Liquidators]
[mitchellirons.com]
[I can't categorize these brutal images with some witty or cynical phrase. Even I have my limits. your suggestions are welcome.]