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Reviving Riversdale
"The slight fellow is wearing shades, but I know he's studying me as we converge at Twentieth Street and Avenue D in the heart of Riversdale, Canada's fastest-changing neighbourhood.
'Nice hat,' he beams, and I see myself in his mirrored aviators as we come around the corner of the liquor store, fall into step. We're sporting similar fedoras with upturned brims, his scuffed white, mine brand new blue. He has a tattooed teardrop peeking out from under one lens, an eagle feather below the other, and a vicious cheek scar as if someone tried to cut him down with a machete at one point. I have neither ink nor scars of note. Frankly, he cuts the kind of figure I might have crossed the street to avoid not so long ago. But there's a comforting critical mass of people who look like me on Twentieth Street now, and I make the acquaintance of Samuel Bruyere."
Continue reading HERE.
via The Walrus.
"POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
How To Use This Park
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In short, ...
... and not for the first time, Mulcair showed he can be a bigger SOB than whoever is in his face.
The rest HERE.
Game Day
GO RIDERS!!!
ETA this: We would like to thank the Esks for the excellent clinic. Rest assured, we will be reviewing the game film. Hasta luego.
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
Everybody's talkin' at me, I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Logged off of twitter.
It's the weekend, kiddies. Cut 'er loose.
You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear
Beer
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Yin and Yang
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"Fred Coyote tells the story of the anthropologist who came to Hopi country to record Hopi music. An old man sings the researcher a song and tells him it's about the times when the ancient spirits, the kachinas, came down into the mountains and clouds built up over the desert, bringing rain for the gardens, to feed the children. He plays another song, and the researcher asks its meaning. This one is about a spring the old man's wife visits for water and for medicine. A third song is also about water. The anthropologist is annoyed. Is water all you people sing about down here? Our need for water is great, says the old man. I notice all your people write about is love, he adds. Is it because you don't have much?"
Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Threading Light
The hard truth about hard power
"What's striking about the latest display of U.S. military power in Iraq is that, according to the 'hard power' theory, it should not have been necessary at all."
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"A man may keep his house decent, but he will never - if he is a proper man - do much to decorate it. Marriage forces him to live with more ornament as well as sentiment, and it protects him, also, from the extremities of his own nature - from a frigid parsimony or a luxuriant sloth, from squalor and from excessive sleeping or reading, drinking, smoking, or freethinking."
Alice Munro, Meneseteung
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
Avast!
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
I'll wait in the car
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Harper ramps up his war on independent thought
"This is the truly ugly face of the Harper government - blithely brushing aside the basic democratic principle of tolerance for dissent as it shamelessly uses state resources to crack down on an organization doing nothing more than making the case for an alternative set of policies."The rest HERE.
The way Canada is going
Back In The Day
Scene: Management meeting
Unnamed federal government agency
Circa mid to late 1990's
Lynn: "I think this decision is unprincipled. Is there anything I can do about it?"
Management: "No."
Lynn: "Can I at least say that I think this decision is unprincipled and that I disagree with it?"
Management: "Yes."
Lynn: "Okay. I think this decision is unprincipled and I disagree with it."
My colleague, Lynn.
Proud to have worked with her. To be able to call her my colleague.
Chris Hedges
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"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein
100 Great Bass Riffs
Played in one epic take: covers 60 years of rock, jazz, and R&B.
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
h/t Fraser Milne
Pilot's Tip Of The Week
Subscriber Question:
"Why are pilots so reluctant to perform go-arounds?" - Marty O.
The answer HERE.
Internet Slowdown Day
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Tweet of the day
Conservative Party of Canada so degraded elder crime boss and graft monkey Brian Mulroney seen as voice of reason. #cdnpoli #sad
— Coco Cabrera (@coco_urnews) September 6, 2014
Welcome To The Weekend, Kiddies
Congratulations! You made it! It's Friday!
Why not treat yourself? Go out! Have fun!
Go bowling, maybe! Drink beer! Eat nachos!
A message to the anti-vaxers from Penn and Teller
Happy Labour Day, Canada