Monthly Archives: February 2009
Burn CanWest Burn
Via Can Media Layoffs Twitter feed, I learned that CanWest is ‘in serious trouble’. I posted my own Twitter/Facebook thought on this: “Fuck CanWest. Their failure just means Canadians have taste’. All based on this article in the Globe and Mail, CanWest seeks financial saviour amid credit crisis.
Let’s review CanWest’s crappiness shall we? Via their [...]
How Soon is …
How Soon is Now at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Cdn Art World blogosphere filled up with postings for this show over the past couple of weeks.
I for one have had it with shows named after pop songs.
The Timothy Comeau Award
The Inaugural
Timothy Comeau Award
The Timothy Comeau Award has been created to recognize individuals who have shown exceptional support, interest and love for the company. Recipients of the Timothy Comeau Award will have been both audience and participant in many of our activities and have also offered insights, analysis and criticism. These are people without whom [...]
Basketball
I read this, which reminds me of this, so I post this, and I get this comment, which makes me think this: “Every time I think I’ve had some brilliant insight and I try to share it, I run into the brick walls of compartmentalized, literal thinking.” And then I get this other comment which [...]
Hipsters, 1990s and 2000s
From Wikipedia’s article on Hipsters: (found via a search for how to type the heart symbol; the Wikipedia article noted: “The widespread use of this expression has inspired many parodies. Originally pronounced “I love”, hipsters have taken to facetiously verbalizing it as ‘I heart’, in expressions such as ‘I heart you!’.”)
In the past week [...]