May 2013
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Canadian Prime Minister drinks hot bitumen in... →
The Canadian Prime Minister then produced a large beaker of warmed bitumen, swirled it in the glass a few times and took a long swig of the oozing black liquid.
“Again, let me be perfectly clear, this oil is edible,” Harper screamed, glaring at the audience with eyes that were somehow long-suffering and menacing at the same time.
“He actually drank it,” said Secretary of State, John Kerry in...
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April 2013
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“Toronto gets a bad rap. I like Toronto. I think it’s one of the top 10 cities in...”
– Brian Aylward
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“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake,...”
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The Continuous Enclave →
One feature of the Oslo Accords is the bypass road which links Israeli settlements to Israel, bypassing Palestinian areas in the process. These are essential to the freedom of movement for the settlers within the Occupied Territories. Extrapolating on the bypass, this thesis explores the ramifications of a continuous infrastructural network linking the fragmented landscape of Palestinian...
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“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped....”
– Ernest Hemingway- A Moveable Feast
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Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl. In the dialogues Plato uses the word to refer to everything from an illness, its cause, its cure, a recipe, a charm, a substance, a spell, artificial color, and paint. Plato does not call fucking pharmakon, but then again,...
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Perhaps it is becoming clearer why I felt no romance when you told me that you carried my last letter with you, everywhere you went, for months on end, unopened. This may have served some purpose for you, but whatever it was, surely it bore little resemblance to mine. I never aimed to give you a talisman, an empty vessel to flood with whatever longing, dread, or sorrow happened to be the...
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“Just when I think it’s safe to be completely apathetic about BMW, they go...”
– pauljones sums up my thougts on the 320i ZPS + ZMT
“And then the president of the United States comes by, and he praises your...”
– Tom Scocca
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March 2013
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On technology and being an asshole →
Wearing Google Glass is functionally the same as living with a smart phone held constantly at eye-level. I’ve never seen it done, but I think most of us would be comfortable labeling anyone who walked around holding their smart phone at eye-level an asshole, and not just because it looks even stupider than Glass. The smartphone eye-level guy is an asshole because most of us 1) value the...
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Gaijin Poetry
What I Sounded Like To The Japanese Lady I Met While I Was Learning To Drive My Car, Minus The Pointing And Gestures
English? Oh. Hmm. My small is a Japanese language.
I am first. Hmm. Difficult.
Car. New. It’s good. I’m good. Difficult. Okay. Thank you.
I learned to drive a manual while I was living in Japan. I found this little piece on the blog I was keeping at the time, and decided I should...
February 2013
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Pat Carney vs. Justin Bieber →
To all my peoples U make make my life so full of swag. I swag out all day just thinking about all the swag u guys inspire me to swag with.
February 16, 2013
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January 2013
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The Moon Under Water
My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights.
Its clientele, though fairly large, consists mostly of “regulars” who occupy the same chair every evening and go there for conversation as much as for the beer.
If you are asked why you favour a...
