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centre of the universe: Whence the book?
Okay, this is going to be just a little self-serving. In that it’s not only a question that I think about at work, but it’s also something I think about when I’m not at work. Of course, the lines between … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Summer reading season begins with sales
If you’re looking for some fun reading this summer, I have a couple of books I’d like to suggest. And both can be purchased this week for less than usual. Buy it here for $3 off the cover price. That’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Progress
In Grade 10 I read The Chrysalids, a John Wyndham science fiction that starts out describing an agrarian culture where they talk of God-like old people who could move the Earth into walls and hills. There were enough clues in the first chapter that I soon figured out that the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Andrew (Andy) Suknaski of Wood Mountain and Moose Jaw
Andy Suknaski, award winning poet and visual artist, has passed away at age 69. Andy was from my home town of Wood Mountain, and I have some memories of him as I grew up. He lived only a block away (not big odds on that, when the village is only
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Haste Makes Waste
“Opposition parties accuse the Harper government of stooping to a petty, new low in the muzzling of dissent.” Note that says a “new low”, an acknowledgement that accountability is already at a low point. Rae cited the incident as one of many examples that Canadians are “now living in a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Miscellaneous Thursday
Bizarre “Fairness Advisor” position pertaining to the politically charged Roughriders sports stadium replacement process. – Calgary’s Mayor Nenshi meanwhile has this project underway for Albertan cities. – Bev Oda, fraudster, needs a Fairness Advisor to follow her around, except that would increase the ridiculous amount of money she expenses to
Continue readingthings I’m making, glasses I’m fixing and books I’m not reading
Made new art work made from felt (now if only I could figure out how to not write an exhibition submission) Carefully scoured down my old plum coloured metal glasses into foxy silver specs. And the lovely Kenny Fries gave me one of his books, which I would very
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Amazon Sells Bizarre Anti-Gay eBook
Tired of waiting for family, acquaintances, clergy, editorialists, and random strangers to remind you that they think you’re going to hell? Get bible-bashed in the comfort of your own home with the LGBT Going To Hell eBook, now apparently for sale on Amazon.com!
Continue readingArt Threat: Groucho Marx: What this country needs
This is an excerpt from Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales: Selected Writings of Groucho Marx, edited by Robert S. Bader. During the 1940s Groucho would often write about topics related to World War II while remaining, for the most part, non-political. At home, however, most discussions
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God
In this 25-minute video, Jonathan Pararajasingham, a London-based neurosurgeon, presents 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God. The writers offer both a literary homage to rationalism and humanism, and a not-so-generous critique of orthodox religious belief. …Read More
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Gossip
I’ve just learned how to gossip. I mean, not *just* now; in the last few months. I was never much for gossip when I was pupating, because I didn’t really get the point. I guess I still don’t…not *really*…I mean, … Continue reading →
Continue readingTerahertz: Management for skeptics
At some point near the end of last semester I checked out Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton from the SFU library. As a graduate student I had access to term loans from the library so I took the book out knowing
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BOOKS: PAPAL SIN AND LORD ACTON: “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks” – Lord Acton I thought that the above quote from Lord Acton was the most appropriate for our times, even
Continue readingThe Skwib: Literary horror stories
But only if the author is very, very lucky. Alltop would like to be turned into a View-a-matic slideshow.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Earth Overshoot Day – cause for a pause to reflect
Yesterday, September 27, the Global Footprint Network declared as Earth Overshoot Day: the day that humans have used up all renewable resources available for the year. Not good. This obviously cannot continue. Limitless growth in material consumption a…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Home, Home on the Strange
Isn’t it strange how oil companies can act as if they have the rights of people, but if they commit crimes or need police protection, they are suddenly special entities? If you built a pipe through your neighbours yard, and it leaked toxins thousands of times, do you think your neighbour wouldn’t sue you into […]
Art Threat: 3D Hitler photo album launched in Germany
“The Face of the Dictatorship: the Third Reich in 3D” contains roughly 100 images of the dictator shot in 3D, originally used as Nazi propaganda beginning in 1936.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: On the Summer Reading List
The Oprah Winfrey Book Club this ain’t, but for those who might be hunting around for something to read, consider these books your humble e-scribbler picked up recently: How to write a sentence and how to read one by Stanley Fish. This may …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Latest Fed decision, and de Tocqueville on bombastic simpletons
The US Fed dropped its usual pretentiousness and the technocratic language often used in its statements on interest rate decisions and was remarkably clear in yesterday’s decision, in which it pledged (by a vote of 7 to 3 with two abstentions) to…
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