“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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." -William Congreve It's a snowy Friday morning in River Village, just the kind of day to sip a hot cup of coffee and surf YouTube for some retro music. Fittingly enough, today is also George Harrison's birthday. Amazingly, at ...
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I am Canadian, And PROUD of it! I am not a great hockey player, And I am not a fan of Molson Canadian, or any beer for that matter. Nor am I a Communist-Socialist-Pinko, riding a bicycle, in downtown Toronto! I am not a member of the NDP, Or the Liberal Party of Canada, Or ...
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I am learning lots on this project… Coldplay and Jame Blunt are great for getting my creative juices going but nothing beats Collective Soul / GooGoo Dolls / Emerson, Lake & Palmer for getting my typing speed up… VAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! Ok… That's all… Well, I showed Benner the new opening of the book. I think he ...
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Lyrics Something is going wrong With the singer and the song And the music isn't gentle anymore There?s a mist across the moon And the sun?s too hot at noon And the house is dark behind the broken door Where the flowers used to grow With their leaves are hanging low And the constant shadow ...
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Well, this holiday season is off to a roaring start… All week we have contended with snow, snow and more snow… kids underfoot, digging out the car several times a day… puts me in a great mood for sure. Yesterday my wife and I went to Wingham (aka Wingy-ham for very good reason), she to ...
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