Saving the world: one secret at a time.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have taken to watching The Hour every weeknight. I’m hooked on it, and the things it makes me think about. I think the staff puts together a great show, and it certainly doesn’t hurt to have a host who’s easy on the eyes – but that’s not why [...]

A kick in the head from the Klan

For anyone who doesn’t know already, the last class of my undergraduate degree is a History course called The Social History of Popular Music. Though the title is a little misleading (it should include the adjective American), it’s an amazing course that surveys rock’n’roll music from it’s roots, right up into 1980. We spend a [...]

trendy causes and morality losses

Do any of you have Product (Red) stuff?
I do.
I have a Gap shirt, and I love it. It’s a great shirt, and I feel good every time I wear it. It’s very Oprah, very Bono, very trendy celebrity cause, but that kinda thing doesn’t bother me, so I wear my shirt proudly.
There are a lot [...]

the inactive attack/pre-occupied paranoia and the perfect world

“I haven’t done anything wrong!”
“Yes, you have.”
“What do you mean? No, I haven’t.”
“Clearly, when you were [insert random action here], you were blatantly attacking me and people like me, so now I am furious with you and will visit pain and destruction upon your house, your family, and all those things you hold dear because [...]

spray paint renegades; or: read the writing on the wall

And the issue of today is: graffiti!
There’s been a lot of talk about graffiti lately on all sorts of different levels. There has been a crackdown on it in St. John’s, there’s been lots of talk about it in the national media, and of course, the larger Canadian cities like Toronto and Vancouver are [...]

The home-steader’s agenda

I sat down to write an entry on the environment and the significant lack of attention being paid to the earth and all of the rhetoric that goes along with that argument, and I think I eventually will write that entry, but I’ve decided instead to write an entry on how listening to John Denver [...]

trouble in the middle east? really? who knew!

I’m sick of it; I’m just fucking sick of it. I apologize for the harsh language, and there’s not much in the world that has/will make me as perturbed as I am right now. My last entry was on my penchant for reading up on the world, the news, and current affairs, and it is [...]

current affairs junkie

In high school, in my spare time – when I wasn’t caught up in all the drama that permeates the teenage years – I was fairly tuned into politics and current affairs. I frequented news websites, was all about celebrity activism (and by celebrity, I mean Bono’s) , and was incredibly anxious to dedicate my [...]

web stalking and celebrity culture

The internet, the web, the great abyss that has taken over the world as we know it is the greatest and creepiest invention since… well, actually: is there anything to which it can compare? Not likely. Since the advent of this all-encompassing phenomenon, we know more about everything – most of all: each other. Social [...]

corrective vision; or: the intolerance of tolerance

Everyone is equal.

No, that doesn’t mean we’re all the same: that would be a preposterous thing to suppose. We’re all different, we all have our own strengths and weaknesses, we all bring something special to the world – we are all unique. Unfortunately, most of us have been too tied up in the superiority of [...]