Do you watch All My Children? I don’t… but these clips of the Transgendered character Zarf are certainly making me reconsider. What is going on here!?!?!
From Best Week Ever:
AKA Zarf gets his period aka The Funniest All My Children Moment of All Time. Please watch this. We are busy memorizing it in [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Zarf:
Posted in Pop culture on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Student Blogs…
Posted in soc3390 on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was marking some of my studen’t blogs, and found this post to be pretty funny.
In America today…
Posted in Naveling on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At least nine electronic devices, planted at bridges and other parts of Boston as part of a marketing campaign for a late-night cartoon, threw a scare into the city Wednesday. Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River were shut down and bomb squads were sent in before authorities declared the devices were harmless.
The [...]
The Departed
Posted in Film on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A fun thing for film nerds to discuss: Martin Scorsese’s use of X’s in The Departed.
The air hangs heavy
Posted in Naveling on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I live in a basement apartment, beneath a very sweet grandma-ish woman who is hard of hearing.
Today, I come home and the place feels different, I picked up on it instantly. You know that feeling you get when it seems like someone was in your stuff, but you can’t prove it… it is just a [...]
Song of the day: Jeremy Fisher’s “Cigarette”
Posted in Music on January 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Jeremy Fisher is from Vancouver, and sounds like a cross between Paul Simon, John Cougar Mellencamp and Joel Plaskett.
Jeremy Fisher: Cigarette
Scar That Never Heals is another last of folk-pop that leans more on Graceland era Paul Simon. This is not a bad thing.
Localized Blogging
Posted in Naveling on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have updated my set of links at the very bottom of this page.
Of interest is a group called “Certain People I Know” which are… people I know. Tonight a good friend joined the blogging order, so go say hi over at Zaph’s new venture Fearless Speech.
For a full list of the blogs I steal [...]
Blogosphere
Posted in Academic, Internet Culture on January 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I was listening to CBC this morning on my drive in, and I heard Dr. Keren (who is giving a talk on Friday on the Blogosphere) discuss about his new book. He is doing a reading at a bookstore in Feb, so I am going to try and catch him then.
This is the release for [...]
Song of the Day: The Sublimation Hour by Destroyer
Posted in Music on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Destroyer: The Sublimation Hour
(From the album Streethawk: A Seduction (2001) – download it for the first lytic alone:
So you had the best legs in a business built for kicks,
but was this changing of the guards really supposed to make you sick?
It’s alright… The Sublimation Hour!
Medium Rotation, the Shock of the New,
and a memo from Feldman [...]
Live Blogging: PhD Theory Class #3
Posted in Academic on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Start with Mark’s presentation:
Moving forward with deepening our understaning of the text and beyond.
Start with considering the linguistic meanings of the title: surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison
Surveiller: The closest we have is “to supervise” – also survey, watching in order to protect, to mind; also into proctor; lastly as in watching ones self, [...]
On: The Importance of Neon Bible
Posted in Music on January 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the key moments of my young music loving career came with the album Louder Than Bombs, the singles compilation by The Smiths. On it, one song in particular struck my young 12 year old brain – specifically the song “Panic” – with the refrain:
Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ [...]
Apologies to God!
Posted in Naveling on January 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So apparently, God reads this blog, and was highly displeased with the “light blasphemy” I committed this morning. After reading my re-appropriation of Mathew 28, God did not find the humour, and decided to punish me for committing this grave sin by re-killing my newly resurrected iPod.
Sorry big guy!
(I was about to buy the $400 [...]
AN EASTER MIRACLE
Posted in Naveling on January 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Paul went to look at the tomb where Paul’s iPod was lain to rest.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an iPod angel came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.
3 Its [...]
OMG WTF TANGERINES!!?!??!
Posted in Naveling on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OMG WTF TANGERINES!?! I HATE TANGERINES!! WHY ARE THEY SO BIG? <via>
This week in “Real Tattoos”
Posted in Naveling on January 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This guy loves his slightly modded J-Body Cavalier a bit too much.
“I wanted it on my forearm so if anyone pisses me off, I can hit them with my car and not get vehiclular assault.”
Influences: Seinfeld
Posted in Pop culture on January 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As I have been teaching this media course, I have been thinking a great deal about how my identity is almost entirely mediated: the books I read, the music I listen to, the movies I love and the television shows I buy into. On and on…
Yet, I have been thinking about specific media that I [...]
What’s that?
Posted in Music on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Neon Bible leaked today, and it is amazing.
Decisions, decisions…
Posted in Naveling on January 26, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Do I spend some money on a new iPod (those drives between the two levels of hell I live in are grueling…), or do I buy a pair of $400 jeans?
vs
Premium Baxter Low Rise Slim Boot – Dark Wash – $398.00
Specially handcrafted with premium denim fabric from the highest quality cotton. These [...]
Song of the day: “Cellphone’s Dead” by Beck
Posted in Music on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Beck’s The Information has been in heavy rotation of late, specifically because of this song. Today, they released this video, done by my favourite video director Michael Gondry, and the results simply have to be seen to be believed. Enjoy.
Video: > Beck: “Cell Phone’s Dead” [Windows Media]
[from The Information: Deluxe Edition; due 02/27/07 ]
Typical Me, Typical Me, Typical Me…
Posted in Naveling on January 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This morning, I was in the drive-through (or is it “drive-thru“?) at that Canadian coffee giant that shall not be named (ahem), and I pull through and the clerk said to me:
“Ooh! Oooh! Oooh!”
In my tired state (see: pre-caffeinated) I’m thinking “oh god… what now.”
The woman looks at me and says “The Smiths! Can you [...]
