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Showing posts with label rattling in my brain pan. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2011

May I Taxi You To Your Next Link?

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Gulp -- another Friday! I'm in constant taxi-mode, with one daughter getting schooled 20 minutes away from my computer terminal, and th...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

"Arrr, matey!" Just What Is The Groom Supposed To Wear?

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Last summer we attended a wedding where the bride, dressed in traditional white, was taken captive by pirates — dressed in traditional banda...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Whither Life? Ivan Illich & Mark Edmundson Report From The Trenches

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This link , via ALD , arrives at a remarkable juncture. Last month a friend of ours — a contemporary — died of cancer. He claimed he was rea...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Steeping, Composting, What-Have-You

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I've been scrambling after loose threads lately, hoping to pull them together for one of my rare Unified Field Theory posts. One thread ...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

“Everybody Hates A Tourist”: Can Ayahuasca Really Save Western Consciousness?

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One of the stranger curiosities to take hold of the contemporary imagination is the ayahuasca experience. What was once a fringe psychedeli...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Literary Journals: "What Is The Future? Death?"

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What is the future of the literary journal? This piece by Carolyn Kellogg tentatively posits McSweeney's as a successful model for li...
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Indie Music, RIP

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A provocative question, posed (and tentatively answered ) by Rachael Maddux of Paste : Is Indie Dead? My take? There's no such thing as...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Temptation To Tweet

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As I survey the new year and reconsider mon vie on-line (" en ligne "? Really?) I'm wondering if Twitter mightn't clear ...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

"Wall? What Wall?"

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As my wife and I pointedly reminisce about the events of 20 years ago, our children look at us with expressions of dim comprehension. My 12-...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson & My Roommate

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Dedicated to Raymond Taavel , who was there, and (of course) my roommate  John Hough, aka, "The Huffer"!   Michael Jackson died t...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Whither "Regional Identity"?

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If there's a region of Canada which might be likened to a geographical satellite dish, it's Southern Ontario. Traditionally both the...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Rattling In My Brain Pan

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The weekend edition is usually the only paper I bother with, and of my immediate choices I usually go with Toronto's national newspaper ...