Library Thing (again…)

February 2, 2006

Ok, Library Thing is way too addictive: just a couple of days into the process and I’m 22 books shy of upgrading to a lifetime account. And I can hardly wait because I’ve only managed to get two shelves catalogued so far — there are many more that number to go. Many more. It’s very […]

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Better Living Through Chemistry

February 1, 2006

The only benefit I can discern thus far accruing from the miserable bug laying siege this late winter to wide swathes of my circle of friends and acquaintances, and its concommitant bacterial assault on my sinus cavities, is that the bath of antibiotics at this moment swishing through my insides has rendered the possibility of […]

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Nam June Paik

January 31, 2006

Nam June Paik died in Miami on January 29 at the age of 73. Even though I never made video installations when I was still a sculpture student at the Munich Art Academy in the late 70s, Paik was definitely one of those influential artists who forced anyone working in sculpture to look at materiality, […]

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Fly away home

January 30, 2006

Continuing on the multi-cultural Canada theme, I walked the dog to our local video store yesterday and rented a wonderful film, Masala. Co-written by Srivinas Krishna, who also directed and stars, this 1991 film takes as its point of departure the Air India atrocity. On board a doomed flight to India are a mother, father, […]

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More travels, with photographic and musical accompaniment

January 29, 2006

More travels in “Canadian Style” (see previous post): listen to this MP3 for a dose of Canadian music with a beat all its own. This is Bhangra Beat, a form of traditional Punjabi tribal music fused with North American hip-hop and disco. Listen to more on Signia’s media page. Signia is a group that formed […]

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Travels in Canadian Style

January 27, 2006

Lying around in a buggy daze (sinusitis) these past few days, my surrealistic empire of serendipidous internet encounters expanded exponentially. Wow — have I been on some weird trips! Oh well, once the meds wear off, I’ll probably forget all about them… 😉 But maybe I’ll write them up sometime, if I don’t disappear down […]

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Piercing?

January 24, 2006

Who can honestly say they’d pass up an article, written by Roger Scruton who is well-known to OpenDemocracy readers the world over as a champion of conservatism, when it has a ripping title like A piercing revelation – I harm my body, therefore I harm you? Unfortunately, it doesn’t pierce very deeply or reveal much. […]

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Double post

January 24, 2006

Somehow I managed to post “Piercing” twice, which might have as much to do with a very slow server response at Harvard as with my even slower brain response due to an ever-accelerating flare-up of sinusitis.  Cotton balls for brains, and the sensation of pain where there is no brain.  Why do we have sinuses […]

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On politics, elections, and mind your manners

January 22, 2006

I will vote for Denise Savoie tomorrow. I even gave the NDP permission, two days ago, to come and put a sign in front of my house (they put it up late this afternoon). But: I really dislike Jack Layton. During dinner prep this evening, the phone rang. I picked it up and heard a […]

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Uh, Pilot? …Man!, there’s still a busy signal!

January 21, 2006

Not coming up for air any time soon, but in the interim, a bit of political humour found quite by accident on the Victoria BC Livejournal Community site (posted by Kaileocomial, aka Coleman). If you’re a Canadian voter, this will surely provoke a wry smile: Martin, Harper and Layton are flying on the Executive Airbus […]

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