“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption.”The economist Victor Lebow wrote these words in a 1955 paper on how to maintain the North American lifestyle. But this ...
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Bother the Muse! Fickle woman that she is, fills my head with ideas, scenes,images of scenes and images that might be, all in the context of keeping me from doing the work that puts food on the table…I must be having way too much fun. I finally figured how to mate a ‘Windows-only’ Brother MFC ...
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Ever feel like you are standing on a corner, with a thousand people – waiting for a bus, that everyone knows will not come, but nobody cares, cuz they have their Timbits – and Starbucks Coffee. Is it just me – or is this country dying, one low fat latte – at a time? Is ...
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It seems like this has been the summer that bullseyes were painted on ex-Canuck player’s chests. First we lost Ryp and then today’s horrific news out of Russia…An ENTIRE hockey team, one of the best in the KHL, lost in a single accident… man, I don’t know what to say… condolences don’t begin to tell ...
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they ...
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Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again – Simon & Garfunkel ‘Sounds of Silence’ (1970) My Dad and I were excited when the NHL granted Vancouver a franchise. I was 12.Toronto and Montreal were light years away from our house on the beach. It was time for us to have a ...
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