January 26 10
It’s time for my annual Borges quotation.
Now, the conjectural “primitive language” of Tlön has found its ways into the schools . . . in all memories, a fictitious past occupies the place of any other. We know nothing about it without any certainty, not even that it is false . . . A scattered dynasty [...]
December 25 09
I took a walk up and down Kane St on Christmas Eve. It was grey and dreary outside.
October 25 09
hello. here are some things i’ve been up to lately.
- reaching for zen. i question whether buddha really is the one for me. but transcendence is a relative beast in the end, so that’s okay.
- wondering if i really do believe in contemporary popular culture. i realized this morning that i watch perhaps only one [...]
October 25 09
i’m applying for work all over this great, loyal dominion of ours right now. some of those positions are in places that can be far colder than it is where we live now. normally, i’m okay with that – after so many decades dealing with ridiculous wind chills, i can kinda-deal with the way that [...]
September 20 09
1. school is back in session. it’s the last year. that’s monumental in my world.
2. lately i’ve been posting pretty digitized things over here. i don’t know how long i’ll keep it up.
September 14 09
this is old news.
for the moment, i appreciate something that stephen harper has recently done. actually, i appreciate something he’s done twice, which is his two rounds of appointments to the senate this year.
the fact the stephen harper has twice in the past year appointed a swath of people to the senate shouldn’t be so [...]
September 13 09
i learned some things this summer. the most important thing was something that came to me in my last week of my employment, which was that the work i had been doing wouldn’t interest me as a long-term or even as a short-term career. all of a sudden the work that my position entailed looked [...]
August 16 09
it was pretty hot this weekend, which i love. it reminds me of the summers i knew in a previous life. at one point this weekend i actually called my flat, ‘the funfirmary,’ in honour a a certain place and a certain time.
i don’t normally like tv. i wish i did. i think i have [...]
August 8 09
When I think of Beck’s Odelay, I let my mind get stuck on the awesome Hammond organ sounds on The New Pollution and Where It’s At. When I listen to Odelay, though, I let my head get stuck on quite possibly the best track on the album, Jack-Ass.
Most people dig Jack-Ass when they hear [...]
July 7 09
this past year, i’ve had to fight two separate battles with the student loan people. for almost a year, i’ve tried to convince them:
1. that i’m still a student and that my loans should not come due, should not bear interest, and should not be shifted to a bank’s collections department or legal division.
2. that [...]