Yesterday was one of those weird moments for me. I’m in Canada. It’s just a day here. But it’s a holiday in the U.S. I had to go in to work and a couple people asked me what I was doing there. But it’s not like there’s anything special to do on the 4th in …
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Sounds Familiar
An election too close to call, a media baiting the candidate of the left to concede before the votes are counted. Hmmm. Haven’t we heard this one before?
More Suspense Than The World Cup
I can’t stand it. Who’s going to win the Mexican election? Are we in for another neoliberal Bush-administration lapdog a la Vicente Fox, or will Mexico continue this hemisphere’s leftward drift?
Soccer for Canada Day
I loved the ending to the Portugal-England game. As usual, everyone on the TV is tsk-tsking about how it shouldn’t have ended that way. What’s wrong with a good old shootout? I haven’t really been watching the World Cup because it conflicts with my writing schedule. My mind is just a lot fresher in the …
Book Meme
This turned out be amusing. I borrowed it from Charlie. a) pick up a book which is the closest to you at the moment b) open page 123 c) find the third sentence d) post it in your Live Journal (plus the instructions) e) don’t choose the book, just pick up the one closest to …
Canadian Bands Have a Lot of People In Them
The Besnard Lakes and Dears were outstanding. The Dears were TIGHT. That was our jazzfest for the year, I think. For the inbetween country-rock band (not our thing) we walked around the festival. I don’t know about this whole “crowd” thing.
3 Banal Thoughts on 10-Digit Dialing
For those who don’t know, Montreal went to 10-digit phone dialing this month. 1. When I moved here, I enjoyed the 7-digit phone number as kind of rustic. There’s some kind of threshold between 7 and 10 numbers on the phone. Or maybe that there was a tactile distinction between local and long distance calling, …