I never reported on Maurice Richard and there’s much to say. For now, I’ll just say that it was very good, especially given that I don’t like biopics. So in that spirit, tonight we went and saw Good Night, and Good Luck which was supposed to be its own kind of hagiography. Except that I …
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Good News/Bad News
Good news: I’ve hired an awesome designer to update the site. Her name is Miriam and she’s at http://flinknet.com. The first bit of business was moving this blog to WordPress from B2, which is evil and unmanageable. Note the new address for the blog. The bad news is that in the fight against comment spam, …
A Taste of Canadian Racism
Well, after all that stuff about the Milwaukee paper, here’s a letter to the editor straight outta 1845 from today’s Globe and Mail — authored by one Wayne Valeau of Calgary: The Black-Eyed Peas are a perfect fit for the CFL (Imported Peas — editorial, Nov. 29). What we saw at the Grey Cup’s half-time …
Report on the Ongoing Canadianization Project
The Milwaukee trip over thanksgiving was its usual pleasure (though this was our first trip to Milwaukee for said purpose). One of my colleagues commented that she found Americans’ devotion to thanksgiving bizarre, a sentiment echoed by other Canadians I’ve met. I don’t have a profound answer except to say that like Halloween (my other …
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Reading + New Pub + Meditations on Communication Studies
This week’s reading for my Repetition seminar was particularly easy (compared with the thicker theoretical stuff we’ve been doing), but I found it quite refreshing, actually. Probably because the authors are quite clever. Anyway, this was a good thing, because next week we’re going to slog through Derrida’s differance essay. That should be fun in …
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Lost as Morality Tale
Spoiler Alert So as you may know, I am a fan of Lost, an ABC series that’s been quite popular lately. On Wednesday’s episode, Shannon, an annoying white woman, sleeps with Said, a “strong silent type” Iraqui character. It’s network TV, so you just know because there’s a shot of them lying together in a …
Profound Thought of the Night
Courtesy of Norbert Elias, in The Civilizing Process, in his section “On the Eating of Meat”: Although human phenomena–whether attitudes, wishes or structures–may be looked at on their own, independently of their connections with the social life of people, they are by nature nothing but substantializations of human relations and of human behaviour, embodiments of …