Archive for April, 2007
How Well Do You Know Your Advisor?
Posted in Naveling on April 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On: Grouphome work.
Posted in Naveling on April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I left the grouphome for the last time this morning. The staff (most of whom I had never had the privilege to meet) pitched in and got me $40 in Tim Horton’s gift certificates (which was sweet, if not random). This gesture just makes me feel even guiltier about leaving (seeing as how they have [...]
Funny
Posted in Love on April 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Western Ontario Gazette are Pro-Rape
Posted in Naveling on April 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I leave that as a statement.
This is from my friend Melanie Thomas’s blog, and is directed at all of you who claim to be feminists, but with the qualifier that “you know, not the kind that hate men.” AKA: being part of the problem.
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From Anita:
The IDIOTS at the Gazette at the University of Western Ontario [...]
Vonnegut, RIP *
Posted in Naveling on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 “His death was reported by Morgan Entrekin, a longtime family friend, who said Mr. Vonnegut suffered brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago. Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics [...]
The Shins – Sleeping Lessons (alternate version)
Posted in Naveling on April 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I own all the Shins albums on vinyl – except Wincing the Night Away. I think I burned out on it, and haven’t really listened to it in the last two months. Yet, if I hear one more person tell me that the Shins are boring, I am going to do some physical damage.
This [...]
Pouring my watercolours into the ocean…
Posted in Naveling on April 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Is there anything more demoralizing than “Heavy Snowfall Warning” in mid-April?
I quit my group-home job. After next week, I no longer need to spend time in what was turning into an increasingly putrid sleeping environment. One of the newer clients has this thing where he dips towels/face cloths/clothing/stolen baby diapers etc. in urine, then stretches [...]
Live Blogging: Seminar in Sociological Theory #13 – FIN
Posted in Academic on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last class of the semester!
Positive and critical program in Sociology.
OR:
Sociology is often uncomfortably seated between two poles of self awareness. One pole is consious self awareness that gives rise to a sense of control (“I am seeing the world”). Consiousness is the determining factor. “Master of the Ship” – “Seize your own fate!” The other [...]
A Very Special Square Waves Weekend
Posted in Naveling on April 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Square Waves are taking over the Tongue n Groove on April 20 and 21.
The first show on Friday, April 21 with local IDM superstar Bonnaventure James and the Deluxe Belgium.
On Saturday, April 21, Square Waves will be opening for Azeda Booth from Calgary.
Grindhouse
Posted in Film on April 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last night I went to see….
GRINDHOUSE
There is so much I want to say about GRINDHOUSE that I will leave until I have seen it a few more times. I just want to ask a quick question.
When is the last time you saw a movie where people erupted with a loud cheer, screaming, yelling, clapping and [...]
Tim Hortons = The Roll Up Scam
Posted in Calgary, Pop culture on April 6, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Dear Tim Hortons:
In years past, you always threw me a few bones come Roll Up The Rim season. This year, I have a big goose egg. No free donuts, small coffees, let alone anything valuable. I have had probably over a hundred coffee’s from you assholes, and I am winless. Now, being a stats guy, [...]
Pffff….
Posted in Naveling on April 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What’s Wrong With YOU!
Posted in Naveling on April 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Dear Qmass: Why did you stop blogging?” God, enough already. I will start again.
I didn’t stop blogging. I just stopped for a while. Now that the page-view stats have cooled off, and hopefully people aren’t following it as closely. I felt for a bit there like I was living under a microscope. Totally self-imposed, uv [...]
Live Blogging: Seminar in Sociological Theory #12
Posted in Academic on April 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Burger and Luckmann – by Agamben (p. 66). All societies are built in the face of chaos.
A lot of Parsonian theory hangs on the assumption that if you don’t stay within the functional boundaries…
Agamben feels that Durkheim had succumbed to the “psychologization of religious experience” characteristic of the “European bourgeoisie” of the time (78). It [...]
