but for the record, my honeymoon with the Globe&Mail has officially ended. I cite the following unforgiveable infractions: –attributing the Boxing Day shootings in Toronto to a problem with “fatherless” families for dark-skinned immigrants. That kind of thinking should sound familiar to Americans (Moynihan report, anyone?) but it is lame and ignores the specific social …
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Dis-gust-ing
I don’t normally blog about the weather but this morning’s commute took over 75 minutes. Oh, how I long for -20. It’s the north. It’s supposed to be cold. It’s not supposed to rain on top of the ice.
Psycho-Acoustic
So I learned today that the Oxford English Dictionary missed the boat on psychoacoustics. I noted some definitional errors when work on The Audible Past, so it’s fun to find another one. Allow me to quote myself: They chart the first reference to Harvard’s laboratory to 1946, though according to Harvard University’s archives the laboratory …
Twenty-Four Content Analysis
As you may know, there is branch of social scientific media research where they count the number of times a specific phrase occurs in a show. We’ve elevated it to a game with Twenty-Four. Carrie selected the phrase “we don’t have time.” I selected the phrase “you’re just going to have to trust me” our …
Conservative Chutzpah
I may have mentioned in the past that my riding is solidly Bloc. By an overwhelming majority. This is no surprise since it’s largely Francophone working class. But there’s a development of new condos and duplexes up by the old rail yard (where Loblaws is on Rachel, for the locals). This is an area for …
Scattered Thoughts
One of the best playoff experiences ever was watching Pittsburgh upset Indianapolis. And I like the Colts. Now, I’m rooting for the Stillers all the way, despite the fact that such an outcome is improbable. I guess fandom is the believing in the impossible part. In other news, I’m happy to report that changes are …
A Side Effect of Binge-Buying CDs. . .
. . .is discovering music I already own for the first time. I have this thing where I’ll buy like five new CDs at once, and then I’ll get into up to three of them and the other two sort of sit. Sometimes for months. And then one day, something will cue me and I’ll …