(some) Lumberjacks in British Columbia do it underwater

January 5, 2005

There’s a nifty local company in Victoria called Triton Logging. It’s a fabulous project — a marriage of lumberjacking and advanced marine technology. The company harvests trees submerged decades ago during hydroelectric dam construction. According to Triton Logging, there are twenty million standing trees submerged under water in British Columbia alone, and countless more submerged […]

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I, Claudia

January 4, 2005

Several nights ago, we rented I, Claudia, a marvel of a film based on (and starring) Kristen Thomson’s one-woman play of the same name. The film was directed by Chris Abraham, and Thomson plays all the major parts with the help of masks that cover half the actor’s face: As a result, the work had […]

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Hang on!

January 3, 2005

Hang on a minute, I liked many of the Emperor’s proposals, er, plans, er… whatevers…. WTF?? See James W. Johnson’s A Man With a Plan (via Gibson). Very scary, stunning, and …duh.

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Not just any old white bread…

January 3, 2005

Elaine is on a roll — go read now: there’s this entry on the religious (in)significance of the Indian Ocean disaster; another that celebrates feedback and ends with an interesting commentary on the “Sandwich Generation”; and her most recent entry, referring to Norm Jensen‘s blog which includes a clip for this, aka GW blooping live.

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Display was tun?

January 2, 2005

I’ve been feeling nauseous whenever I spend time at my computer lately, especially if the light is dim.  I realise now that it’s the on-going problem with my laptop’s display.  After the motherboard meltdown last year and some months ago, the display went wonky, going black if the lid was jarred even one millimeter.  I […]

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Short takes: Not just any old biker queen tossing magic

January 1, 2005

Happy New Year, dear reader. Here’s a quote I came across the other day: One thing is sure. The earth is now more cultivated and developed than ever before. There is more farming with pure force, swamps are drying up, and cities are springing up on unprecedented scale. We’ve become a burden to our planet. […]

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Susan Sontag

December 29, 2004

When I heard of Susan Sontag’s death yesterday morning, this surge of anger passed through me like a bolt of electricity. It was the first time that I felt angry at the news of someone’s death. How do I explain this? I didn’t know Susan Sontag. And although I’ve read quite a bit of her […]

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On steroids

December 24, 2004

I haven’t blogged anything for a few days because I felt a real obligation, first, to follow up on my last entry about Sharia law in Ontario, and yet hadn’t the stomach for doing it. For now, you can find out all sorts of stuff yourselves by googling “sharia ontario.” I’ll follow up eventually, if […]

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This is depressing: a sad milestone for women in Canada — going backwards into the dark ages

December 20, 2004

The Toronto Star reports that Marion Boyd, a former Ontario attorney general, concluded an official report endorsing a form of Sharia law in Ontario. See today’s TO Star article here. Boyd is being criticised by a number of progressive Muslims, who accuse her of “naivete” and of caving in to pressure from right-wing Muslim groups. […]

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Keeping up appearances

December 19, 2004

It’s going to “posting lite” around here for the rest of the year — whew!, no more run-on sentences for y’all! But there’s that party coming up, last minute preparations to attend to, it’s my birthday soon (d’uh), and between all that and the chocolate and wine, I don’t think I’m going to drag myself […]

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