Posted in Pop Culture, Popular Music, articles, babbling, computers, internet, music, oldies, pop music on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a retro cassette of pre-Beatles music from the 1959-1963 era. I have had it for years, and it is full of really boring tunes that I hardly ever play. It was an era of sappy sentimentalism, when torch songs reigned supreme, and everyone tried to outdo each other with the ultimate love tune. [...]
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I have a tape of John Vanier giving a lecture on CBC Ideas regarding the concept of Forgiveness. I have played it to death, and still I find what he has to share with us humbling, and very deep.
I listen to it and imagine an ideal world where the guilt of rejection for either real [...]
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As I understand it, forgiveness is something that is given after the other party has admitted wrongdoing. If they had not, then forgiveness is futile, except maybe in one’s mind. In other words, if I had wronged you, and I don’t say I am sorry — in fact, I refuse to even acknowledge that wrong [...]
Posted in Aphorisms, Cartoons, Literary, articles, comedy, humor, quotes, television, trivia, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
For some reason I am lukewarm in my view of The Simpsons, although it is difficult to deny its effect on the masses: I think it is rivalling Bonanza and Gunsmoke as one of the longest-running series in television history,but not the longest.
Notwithstanding The Simpsons, I am more of a fan of Groening’s comic strip [...]
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The fun thing about colouring my wife’s hair isn’t about the hair so much, but more about the fact that we can talk and share our feelings more. My work keeps me so busy that I had to find ways to cut down on travel time, which is a barrier to things like exercise and [...]
Posted in Aphorisms, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Thoughts, babbling, inspiration, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
(Some original, some not):
The day the opinions of other people don’t control you any more is the day you find self-acceptance.
It’s the start that stops most people. You’ve just got to get going.
The [...]
Posted in Art and Design, General Comments, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, articles, babbling, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
A while back I was fascinated by the idea that the lack of aesthetic was still an aesthetic. Sterile, no ornamentation, no frills, no distractions. Clean. Pest-free. Anaesthetic is the antithesis of aesthetic. Anaesthetic is the complete avoidance of aesthetics. Anaesthetic guarantees that you will be uncontaminated by life, love and art.
Sometimes I use the [...]
Posted in Academe, Random, babbling, comedy, computers, folklore, internet, media, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, software on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a “foggy” essay generator that just did the following, for an essay on folklore:
Of course, the characterization of critically co-optive criteria adds explicit performance contours to the profound meaning of “The Raw and the Cooked”. Conversely, a constant flow [...]
Posted in Literary, Miscellaneous, Random, articles, babbling, comedy, fiction, misc, parody, quotes, satire, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I have always been in stitches every time I read Peter Applebome’s imitation Hemingway:
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We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. …
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Literary, Miscellaneous, Pop Culture, articles, babbling, comedy, fiction, humor, misc, parody, ramblings, video, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Welcome Back, Potter
Harry Potter gets teacher training, graduates, and gets sent back to Hogwarts to teach. He is assigned a classroom of the worst students in the school, referred to as “sweathogs”, or to be more precise, “warthogs”. See what happens with our future witches and warlocks who have emotional and learning problems, who are [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Psychology, Random, Rants, Sprituality, Thoughts, articles, babbling, daily life, fiction, humor, misc, random thoughts, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Just Google’d “serenity” and the fourth on a list of over 19 million web pages is to the website for serenity incontinence products. So, that’s how old folks seem so serene. They just buy Serenity off the shelves at Sharper’s Drug Mark and take it home. Clever trick. All that being said, I am not [...]
Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I just wanted to make an observation. In the clinical sense, positive thinking is in fact a form of denial. I say “a form of”, since the difference is in who is in control. Denial is, to me the ignoring of certain aspects in your life in order to make life seem as if it [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Popular Music, Rock, articles, babbling, music, pop music, trivia, video, tagged Belleville, Can con, Canada, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Dobie Gray, Edgar Winter, Elton John, George Harrisson, Kingston, Marmora, oldies, Ontario, Paul McCartney, Peterborough, Stevie Wonder, The Carpenters on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Rosalie,
Michael Tarry (1973) (Can Con)
Peaked in Canada at #8 in the first week of July
See/Hear it here — Thanks to a denizen of the Loud Fans mailing list for the link:
If you check the Canadian charts that week, he was up against some serious competition, which included — all in the same week –
“My Love” [...]
Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, Random, Rants, Thoughts, articles, babbling, daily life, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I have never been able to reconcile myself with the contention some friends of mine hold that you need to be completely “independent”. There is much to be said regarding the need for independence in order to raise your self-esteem, but to the point of achieving much larger goals, it usually takes many people to [...]
Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, christian, christianity, faith, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I once had to confide in someone about something deeply personal, and I was told to “let it go”. It was one of those casual off-hand remarks, but later, I just got into this “letting go” groove.
Something about what he said just sunk in. It wasn’t said very powerfully; it was said offhandedly. But it [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Random, Rants, articles, babbling, comedy, computers, fiction, humor, misc, quotes, ramblings, video, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I was going to write a parody of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, but I didn’t really want to write a real story. I was going to write about a group of people who were all fans of Chris Crocker, in the same sense that some people in earlier generations were fans of Maurice Richard. [...]
Posted in Domestic Life, General Comments, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, faith, fiction, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, television, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article. It has been somewhat re-edited}
For the past 20 years or so, I had been pursuing this effort to get in some kind of mental groove that I was in in my early [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Music, Thoughts, articles, comedy, hip-hop, humor, random thoughts, rap, rappers, rednecks, sitcoms, television on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
You’ve seen it. Both wear plumber-butt pants. (In both cases, you therefore need to say “no” to crack). Both groups wear their baseball caps backwards. The women in both groups are oversexed. Rednecks live in trailer parks; Rappers will not hesitate to tell you they come from the Ghetto. Both live in varying degrees of [...]
Posted in General Comments, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Random, Thoughts, Writing about writing, articles, babbling, comedy, computers, humor, internet, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, television, trivia, video on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Wow. I was going through You-Tube, and, remembering the Chris Crocker hysteria (his and those he caused), there are now a plethora of Chris Crocker imitators who are standing up “in defense” of Jamie Lynn Spears. “Leave Jamie Lynn Alone” seems to be the most common title. All of them try to imitate the conniption [...]
Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Sprituality, Thoughts, Writing about writing, articles, babbling, inspiration, liberation, misc, random thoughts, writing on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like the fact that for the first time, I feel liberated. I get to develop the voice I want, on my own terms. I just want to say what I want. I am not seeking to be fair or unfair; good or bad; ostentatious or modest; loud or quiet. I want to be all [...]
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