Margaret Thatcher was a Girl Scout compared to this l’il viper

July 9, 2003

Chris Locke, whose blog Rageboy I’ve lurked around recently, yesterday posted a great in-your-face entry contrasting and comparing New Age Narcissists to Old Aged Bloggers. Check it out, it’s the July 8th entry. Of course I immediately narcissistically pondered myself, wondering whether I was a narcissist or a blogger… but decided that was just a […]

Read the full article →

Prairie dogs at the beach

July 8, 2003

Something medical is in the air. First it was yesterday’s Boomeritis or hip resurfacing story, and today it’s eggs, or “We all know people trying to use natural family planning, and we have a word for those people. We call them parents.” So says Dr. Roger Pierson, director of the Reproductive Biology Research Unit at […]

Read the full article →

Push-Pull

July 7, 2003

Another article (in the NYTimes) about Bikram Choudhury’s successful make-over of yoga as an American money-making-machine venture. The Monday Magazine article I mentioned in an earlier post was better than this one, but you get the idea. My two bits: the word yoga is linked to our English word “yoke.” A yoke is never pushed: […]

Read the full article →

Boomeritis

July 7, 2003

In 1980, in Vancouver, I had some pretty hoopy orthopedic surgery on my knee: arthroscopy, which today is commonplace but back then was still reserved for athletes at university medical clinics. Bingo, Vancouver had one of those at UBC, and I got in. Just luck; I’m no athlete, but it fixed the damned joint mouse […]

Read the full article →

Think about everything now

July 6, 2003

Margaret Visser is turning me into a slow reader; I have to take my time because she’s so good. Worse, she has written way more books than Much Depends on Dinner, and I’ll probably need a decade to get through it all. In the meantime, here are some of her comments from a 1991 interview: […]

Read the full article →

Astute or Astutis?

July 5, 2003

Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner, is a quote from Byron’s Don Juan, which the excellent Margaret Visser uses, abridged, as the title to her book, Much Depends on Dinner. It was a bit of a cheap shot on my part to associate her with that cannibalistic little devil, Dagol, whom I just […]

Read the full article →

Much Depends on Dinner

July 5, 2003

This is without a doubt one of the weirdest 18th century pictures I’ve seen. Here is how it’s described: “Dagol, prince of darkness” ca. 1775, possibly German, from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae. On display in “Medicine man: the forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome” at the British Museum, London until 16 November. The source: The […]

Read the full article →

Olympic blogging

July 5, 2003

Vancouver is going to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. That’s another really good topic to blog on, particularly by people close to developments in government (here, in Victoria) and in the city of Vancouver, in Whistler, in the highways department (Sea to Sky). Keep track of what the planners tell us, cozy up to […]

Read the full article →

Printer flout

July 5, 2003

Need a reason to get those printer ink cartridges refilled? Read this and weep into your champagne glass: Ink used in home printers costs seven times more than a vintage champagne, according to a study by a British consumers association. (…) While a typical colour ink cartridge costs about $3.90 per millilitre, a bottle of […]

Read the full article →

Fall into this gap

July 3, 2003

I’m going to name the names of some worthy but unsuspecting non-blogging people here in the Victoria area, and if it prompts even one to start a blog, good! First, if you’re just reading this because you’re my pal or I managed to strong-arm you somehow, but you’re wondering what a blog is, then read […]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →