The opening was fantastic. I was so glad to be there. Toronto’s been too boring for too long. It needed an injection of pompous pretension. Red carpet, open bar and delicately pretty glammed out art girls. Also, I find I’m now of an age when the songs that were hits when I was younger have [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Maher Arar
27 January 2007 – 4:30 pm
I’m going to start a new game show: survive Syrian torture and win 10 million dollars.
Mr. Mee
21 January 2007 – 3:45 pm
Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey (2000)
Proust has already come up twice – first in Taylor’s discussion, but also it the title of the Gordon Bell presentation. What better way to introduce Mr. Mee? The truth is I wanted to publish a review of Mr. Mee in the summer of 2005, and it is a novel [...]
A Formal Description of Cultural Movement
19 January 2007 – 11:25 am
What begins loose falls into patterns
Because people are essentially lazy
So they develop patterns/rituals to do the most with the least amount of energy
They develop the easy efficient ways, which become their rituals, their techniques, their patterns
What was once chaotic and haphazard has been systematized and has become a formality
Formalities continue until they are rigid, and [...]
On `Goodreads`
16 January 2007 – 9:34 pm
[...] Also on the urban-culture front, Timothy Comeau’s marvellous magpie project GoodReads links in its latest edition to an Los Angeles Times piece about the “art party” issue in the L.A. scene. Timothy snappily connects it with the conversations about the nightclubbing-meets-participatory-aesthetics conundrum that have been going on in Toronto for several years, including my [...]
Thoughts on Goodreads’ Third Birthday
13 January 2007 – 9:09 pm
Goodreads.ca sort of began three years ago today. I say that because it really began in November 2003, and I worked on prepping the site for a January launch. Today marks the day I sent the first email to a small number of people. It grew from there. The domain name was only registered in [...]
timothycomeau.com
7 January 2007 – 9:31 pm
Over the past couple of days I set up timothycomeau.com. Registered the domain name, bought the server space on Sat. 6 January 2007; most of this blog was set up on Sun. 7 January 2007. When I was asked on Friday what I planned to do on the weekend, I didn’t feel like answering ‘webdesign’ [...]