I’ve come to realize that the CBC is obsolete, and all the fuss and bother about classical music ‘disappearing’ from CBC 2 is pointless. I listen to classical on the net all the time. I prefer it actually, since I can do without the CBC hosts. (That promo guy they have on now drives me [...]
Category Archives: Zeitgeist
Slavery
19 March 2008 – 8:31 pm
[From Goodreads 08w12:3]
Society has always benefitted from unpaid or underpaid labour; in the past it was blatant slavery, but when that became unfashionable (and unprofitable contrasted to the production offered by machines rather than muscles) the emphasis shifted to calling unpaid labour ‘volunteers’ and nowadays, the most obvious example of all, ‘interns’. But since it [...]
Embrassment of the 2020s
16 March 2008 – 5:02 pm
Camilla Belle modeling this decade’s stupid haircut (from). I hate bangs; personally I don’t feel this type of ‘do is flattering on anybody.
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This is the haircut all the girls seem to be wearing right now.
A Real American Hero
4 March 2008 – 8:17 pm
Remember kids, if this asshole were killed in the line of duty he’d be called a hero.
Three Films January 2008
10 January 2008 – 11:36 pm
Two movies I have no plans to watch until they are well forgotten on DVD, if ever.
A) Juno
self-consciously cool people of any age drive me crazy
B) Cloverfield
viral marketing + monsters = a blatant attempt to get the attention of self-consciously cool people. See A
A movie I do plan on watching:
C) There will be blood
Early 20th [...]
The inability to mind our own business
25 November 2007 – 10:17 pm
John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards (1992), pages: 503-504:
Buddhist societies are horrified by a great deal in the West, but the element which horrifies them most is our obsession with ourselves as a subject of unending interest. By their standards nothing could be unhealthier than a guilt-ridden1, self-obsessed, proselytizing white male or female, selling God [...]
Classic Academic Bullshit
14 November 2007 – 7:37 pm
Goodreads | 2007 week 46 number 5 (Classic Academic Bullshit)
Worth quoting in full (after all, it is a press release) with emph mine:
What’s in a name? Initials linked to success, study shows (Link)
Do you like your name and initials? Most people do and, as past research has shown, sometimes we like them enough to [...]
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1 November 2007 – 11:16 pm
The USA is collapsing. Is this like the USSR circa 1988?
Drudgereport Headlines, 1 November 2007
American Propaganda
24 September 2007 – 7:14 pm
If anyone was unsure what to think, the Daily News has it colour coded for them.
Full Disclosure
Michael Ignatieff listening to Isaiah Berlin tell a story about Ludwig Wittgenstein, from his 1995 interview broadcast on BBC in 1998. (YouTube)
Taking the Go Train home on Saturday 26 February 2005 (I had been at that afternoon’s panel discussion put on by the Canadian Art Foundation which I reviewed for BlogTo) I picked up that [...]