I was going to preface this post with a Captain Stupid character but I found that the outright level of stupid going on here required a (much) higher rank in the Hurr-Durr Legion to properly accommodate the conditions being described. The leaders of the ulta-orthodox Belz sect in North
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Dead Wild Roses: Mantle Passing – Arbourist out on a Lark
Greetings and good day fair readership! I have the very good fortune of being able to travel to Iceland on a trip with my choir. Thus, my regular blogular activities shall not be pursued by myself. However, the rest of the DWR team is stepping up to fill the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dance Festivals as Transmitters of Patriarchal Values
Dancing season is rapidly coming to close. Not a moment too soon, I must heartily add, as I will miss nothing about the hot chaotic mess that is hosting a Dance Festival. Children running, crying, scurrying about, being chased by frazzled Moms – all to the backdrop of shitty canned
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why is ISIL so Darned Effective?
One retired general’s opinion on why ISIS such a force in the world. A quick yet still interesting interview tagging social media and the media cycle as contributors to the success of ISIL. Filed under: International Affairs Tagged: ISIL, social media
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Be Wary of “Liberal” Policies – The Unerring March of Corporatism
Well we can’t be posting sunshine everyday here at DWR. A small reminder of what the people of our nations are up against. From the essay titled Revolution and American Empire by Rob Urie. “Liberal economists have ‘fought the good fight’ for nominally populist economic programs for the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Late In the Evening
Chair dancing, head bopping, and of course the”air-brass” solo. 🙂 Late in the Evening is a Paul Simon tune I grew up rocking out too. So now you can too. Filed under: Music Tagged: Late in the Evening, Paul Simon, The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If Di$ney Was Doing Game of Thrones
It wouldn’t work though, there is just too much grit in the show and the source material. Although, if animated we would have much more dragon time in the series, and more dragon-time is never a bad thing. Filed under: Media Tagged: Art, Disney, Game of Thrones
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Raindrops Should Not Exist – So says Physics
Well that is a sticky wicket if I’ve heard of one. 🙂 I’ll post the answer video as well, but see if you know before you watch the second part (No peeking!). And the spoiler… Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Just say no to Raindrops, Minute Earth, Minute Physics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Hate Passwords – Here are Even More Reasons to Hate Them.
Don’t let someone who “leet speaks” onto your computer. Ever. I’m such a non-fan of passwords. Keeping track of all that shite is tedious. So here I am doing my best when along comes the CBC to make life even more difficult. “If your password is on the list below
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female/Male Lived Experiences – SinFest
Another great strip from Tatsusya Ishida. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Patriarchy, Sinfest, Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Missing Names in Matthew
Most of my readers will be shocked by the glaring inaccuracies in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. Could it be that yet another part of the bible just isn’t accurate? Filed under: Religion Tagged: Genealogy, Jesus, Matthew, The DWR Sunday Religious Disserivce
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Storm – Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
We’ve look at Beethoven’s 6th before here on a Interlude Friday, but I wanted to highlight what I think is the section of the symphony that is most likely to get me killed while driving. The last two parts in particular. 4. Thunderstorm, Storm: Allegro 5. Shepherds’ song; cheerful and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Arbourist: Winning Awards like a Champ…
Oh yaaaaa!!! Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Hari on Addiction – Isolating Addicts is not the Answer
This is taken from the interview titled: Does Capitalism Cause Drug Addiction? The piece that I am going to excerpt is about how we view addiction in society. If we are to believe Hari, it isn’t about a failure in moral rectitude or falling into a drug laden trap of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dungeon and Dragons: Character Alignments Explained
I swear, there is a helpful graph for everything on the internet. Where do you fit in? 🙂 I’m pretty sure I firmly inhabit the rectangle of snooze…*sigh*. For those of us who like lists – The list describes the basic ethos of killing in a fantasy setting according
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – DarkMatter2525 – Would You Vote for God?
A resounding hell no from me, but that was never in question. Let’s investigate what a religious government might look like if it happened to follow biblical rules and regulations. Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, The DWR Sunday Religious Disserivce, Voting for God
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So Now I Know what that Face Means.
Exhibit 1 – Cat Form Did you just eat my parrot? Exhibit 2 – Human Form Have you been fooling with the tesseract? Conclusion: This is the grin of someone who knows *exactly* what naughtiness they’ve done 🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Cats, Humour, Loki
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Elgar, March No.1 in D Major
Instrumentation The instrumentation is: two piccolos (2nd ad lib.), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, two cornets in A, three trombones, tuba, three timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, triangle, side drum, jingles, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Taxonomy of Canadian Trolls in the wake of FHRITP & Hydro One
The Arbourist: Know your troll, an informative look at the variety of Canadian dudes who still don’t get it. :/ Originally posted on Elle Beaver: Canada’s first notable instance of a ”FHRTIP” episode has become an incendiary topic on social media and comments sections after one of the participants in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thoughts on our Busy Society – The Amazing Power of “No”
You would think that this would be fairly high up on the time management scale of useful ideas. Some common sense about our over-busy life. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Carson Tate, Overbusy, Think Big
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