and now another post about domestic labor. When I need a supermarket, I shop at this huge, lovely Loblaw’s over in the old train station on the east side of town (rue Rachel, for the locals). Although Carrie sometime comes with, I’ve done the majority of grocery shopping for years now. Shortly before I left …
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Love and Bass, Mike Watt
Holy shit, what a hot weekend it’s been. New Hamshire was lovely, lush and roasting and I gather Montreal’s had a bit of it too. The wedding was fun — great band (Berklee students who were happy to goof around in interesting ways) — and the sleepy college town thing is a nice break from …
Off to New Hampshire for the Weekend
See you on Sunday or Monday.
Some Group of Business Students 21, False Consciousness 7 (Or, My New Hobby)
We only lost by two touchdowns. Too bad we were playing softball, not football. Actually Coach Greg figured out that if you leave out the two early innings where we were subject to the mercy rule (the inning’s over when a team scores 7 runs), it was a tie game. — It was a beautiful, …
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Quote of the Night From An Advice Thread on the Tape Op Messageboard
“I would add, if you are a musician and want to play in a band and just be in a band, please do yourself a favor and dont take any of this too seriously and just sit and focus on writing songs and making cool music. too many people that should be learning how to …
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Get Ready for a Big IP Fight in the Fall
Canada’s working on its own Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it suitably panders to the entertainment industry. Not surprisingly, it was introduced by the Liberals, who are busy doing cool things in other areas, like pushing through legislation to insure that people can marry other people of the same sex (one at a time limit, …
Holy Moving Faders, Batman
You may recall a post a month or more ago extolling my excitement at acquiring this item: Well, I spent some time yesterday actually using it. I don’t mean figuring out how to use it — which I had been doing (and I still have a lot to learn) — but working on an actual …