December 2011
6 posts
jjulysses:
Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, has urged countries across the globe to work together to fix the European debt crisis, and stimulate economic growth, urgently stimulate economic growth or risk a return to the Great Depression.’
Yeah, thanks, I knew it already. The IMF contributed to and even created this crisis. More free markets capitalism can’t be the...
“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
– Czeslaw Milosz (via thessaly)
de·con·struc·tion·ism: Got culture? Um, actually,... →
Got culture? Um, actually, no. By Kate Armstrong
It’s been an interesting time for artists in British Columbia. The Campbell government announced a cut to funding for arts and cultural organizations by 50 percent this fiscal year [2009], and by 92 percent for 2010–2011. The budget will go…
Unaffordable (That’s What You Are) | Sandy... →
borismann:
Long article on Vancouver real estate. The chart on median income / average house price here vs. elsewhere in the country is the most obvious sign that something is wrong.
November 2011
5 posts
US to cut Unesco funding after Palestinians... →
“This vote will erase a tiny part of the injustice done to the Palestinian people,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told the meeting of the UN educational, scientific and cultural organization in Paris, after the result was announced.
Widespread applause greeted the result of Monday’s vote in the chamber, where a two-thirds majority is enough to pass a decision.
[I]n an emotional...
“Halloween is an all-American tradition. I believe it dates back to the time...”
– Colbert (via kateoplis)
October 2011
2 posts
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July 2011
2 posts
Don't, Dad.: DONT DAD AND THE VANCOUVER RIOT: A... →
seanorr:
We spent the whole day making pancakes to confuse the police. We went and bought a whole bunch of discount rattan furniture to throw them off. In the end two of the interns had a raging fistfight over a bottle of ativan (ironic, eh?) and passed out in eachother’s arms. Bobby Digital spray painted…
STINK: An Open Letter to Ezra Levant →
stinkfiction:
Today is my birthday. Just as I was preparing to head out on a leisurely coffee date with my girlfriend, soaking up all of the good things about springtime in Canada, a friend made me aware of a recent opinion piece in the Toronto Sun written by a super-genius named Ezra Levant. The Headline? Time to Cut Public Funding for So-Called Musicians.
June 2011
1 post
Megan Amram: What I Imagine "Game Of Thrones" Is... →
meganamram:
The sun rises over a castle, a castle made of swords and pegasuses and gargoyles shaped like dongs. In the distance, 100 concubines have sex with their sisters and step-dads.
EDDARD STARK: I, Eddard Stark, am a warrior of the Dawn-Dune. I have bedded many lady-women in the dew of Beowulf’s…
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
Cute Converted Church Home
fuckyeahawesomehouses:
Note:
This was taken from my own blog without accreditation. Just because it’s tumblr doesn’t mean you can take it and not credit it, friends.
- Ouno Design
http://blog.ounodesign.com/2009/03/26/so-you-think-youd-like-to-live-in-a-church/
Cute Converted Church Home
fuckyeahawesomehouses:
November 2010
2 posts
Falling and Laughing: A diverting game to play... →
Earlier this week I found myself in an extremely interior circle of hell. I speak of the Comcast Customer Service Center in Chicago, where I thought I was just stopping by to pick up some self-install equipment. This stopping-by turned into over an hour of queueing followed by one of the most…
August 2010
1 post
“Having to contrive some ridiculous festival out of thin air for groups that are...”
– John McLachlan: What I really think of the B.C. Spirit Festival idea | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com (via noreimerreason)
July 2010
4 posts
The Work of Art in the Age of Etsy: Post Benjamin... →
seagullflight:
I was waiting for The Warren’s inaugural issue to come online; apparently it’s been here for quite some time, unbeknown to me.
I don’t expect my friends to be excited about something I wrote for an undergraduate course last year. But I thought I’d post this link as a record—really more for myself than anyone else. Flip to page seven.
More importantly, please check out pieces...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
23 posts
“No sign of anything I loved in childhood. No Tinkertoys, no basic Lego blocks,...”
– A sensitive man that I know and admire experiences a dark night of the soul in a Toys R’ Us. (via towerofsleep) (via standardgrey)
David Foster Wallace on Kafka's humor →
kateoplis:
elvira:themadeshop:
“The fact is that Kafka’s humor has almost none of the particular forms and codes of contemporary U.S. amusement. […] I opine to them that some of our deepest and most profound collective intuitions seem to be expressible only as figures of speech, that that’s why we call these figures of speech “expressions.” […] And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit...
Final destination Iran? →
kateoplis:
seaofgreen:jhnbrssndn:ledgergermane:
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo...
Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia, by Clive... →
Ancient blob named after Japanese queen by... →
Mary Margaret O’Hara →
Spring’s weltschmerz →
Modernist apartment building #2 →
Modernist apartment building #1 →
Little house in La Quinta, California →