Monday, April 11, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Posting again! School is done, there is time
Did you know that the York University campus has one three hole punch available for students? one. It's in Scott Library, and it's broken. This alone was enough to white-out my vision for all of five seconds.
School finished on Monday and I feel about a kajillion times better. The other thing (have I said a thing yet? ) is that I now have time to read and that rules! time to read whatever I want! Read something other than books about why western civilization looks suspiciously like Rome and we are clearly going to explode in a masterpiece of cold-war-era-worthy conspiracy-level sinful hooplah or that dance is not movement but is an illusion of force and the dancer a conduit for these moving forces, TIME SPACE ETC, and as a result I'm really enjoying my time getting to read whatever I want.
My sister's in southeast asia and I have to feed her fish while she's gone, and I'm really terrified of killing them.
School finished on Monday and I feel about a kajillion times better. The other thing (have I said a thing yet? ) is that I now have time to read and that rules! time to read whatever I want! Read something other than books about why western civilization looks suspiciously like Rome and we are clearly going to explode in a masterpiece of cold-war-era-worthy conspiracy-level sinful hooplah or that dance is not movement but is an illusion of force and the dancer a conduit for these moving forces, TIME SPACE ETC, and as a result I'm really enjoying my time getting to read whatever I want.
My sister's in southeast asia and I have to feed her fish while she's gone, and I'm really terrified of killing them.
Friday, April 8, 2011
A variety of insecurities including being not-well-informed enough to comment on political-comment-blogs
anyway sarah carr writes one of the more well-informed and interesting blogs I have ever read (in particular for this being the start and it never somethingorother ending), and recently she posted about the prejudice and bureaucratic mess of being half-Egyptian and wrote, as usual, a really thoughful and informative, and not to mention really funny, post on the matter.
I commented on it, only I commented on the wrong post, and then had to go back and post my comment AGAIN on the right post, which made me feel pretty dumb, but my comment was that I’m a canadian reader, and one thing your blog always does for me is offer a pretty good view about how people everywhere are pretty much the same, unfortunately.
to wit:
“…particularly during the revolution when I heard gems such as “we don’t want you [non-Egyptians] in our country” and “go back to your country”. Yesterday during a march I got “why are you here?” and “Get out the way, foreigner” by a Hardees delivery prick on a moped.”
Replace “Hardees delivery prick on a moped” with “Trucker douchebag in Levis” and that could be a card-carrying rural midwesterner so oft maligned. Or, in my home country’s case, like the time I heard a lunatic on the subway yelling at a (Chinese) public transit employee to “go back to his own country” (shouty man was black and wearing a JAMAICA sweater, btw, ps, sidebar, Canada is nobody’s country except the people we murdered for it).
Good to see that maddening nationalism bordering on racism exists everywhere, imagine all the people etc.
But I think the original point I failed to make in that comment was that shit like the racism outlined in this essay sort of points to something very obvious that I can't seem to put into words.
I commented on it, only I commented on the wrong post, and then had to go back and post my comment AGAIN on the right post, which made me feel pretty dumb, but my comment was that I’m a canadian reader, and one thing your blog always does for me is offer a pretty good view about how people everywhere are pretty much the same, unfortunately.
to wit:
“…particularly during the revolution when I heard gems such as “we don’t want you [non-Egyptians] in our country” and “go back to your country”. Yesterday during a march I got “why are you here?” and “Get out the way, foreigner” by a Hardees delivery prick on a moped.”
Replace “Hardees delivery prick on a moped” with “Trucker douchebag in Levis” and that could be a card-carrying rural midwesterner so oft maligned. Or, in my home country’s case, like the time I heard a lunatic on the subway yelling at a (Chinese) public transit employee to “go back to his own country” (shouty man was black and wearing a JAMAICA sweater, btw, ps, sidebar, Canada is nobody’s country except the people we murdered for it).
Good to see that maddening nationalism bordering on racism exists everywhere, imagine all the people etc.
But I think the original point I failed to make in that comment was that shit like the racism outlined in this essay sort of points to something very obvious that I can't seem to put into words.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
the internet
Alicia to me
I'M EXCITED to see what you've been up to.
also - did you know that you are one of my favourite people to internet/text? i don't know why. you have some sort of technology charm.
you can make that you new facebook status.
amelia ehrhardt = technological charms of the universe in the galaxy 2011
XOXOXOXOOXOX
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hahahahahahaha I AM HONOURED I will put that on my CV
probably comes from being a huge nerd as an adolescent, livejournal training for internet charm
I would put it on FB but I DELETED MY FB ACCOUNT a month ago
no going back!
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I'M EXCITED to see what you've been up to.
also - did you know that you are one of my favourite people to internet/text? i don't know why. you have some sort of technology charm.
you can make that you new facebook status.
amelia ehrhardt = technological charms of the universe in the galaxy 2011
XOXOXOXOOXOX
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hahahahahahaha I AM HONOURED I will put that on my CV
probably comes from being a huge nerd as an adolescent, livejournal training for internet charm
I would put it on FB but I DELETED MY FB ACCOUNT a month ago
no going back!
xoxo
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
clearly blogging and twittering more because I deleted facebook
an admission: I never used to like merce cunningham all that much until tonight.
I don't mean like as in not respect or understand why he is canonical and important and an undeniable genius: I mean there was something I guess I couldn't get over about the aesthetics and the movement itself and the sneaky little merce cunningham showing up in your own film in blue pyjamas and swimming your hands around things. and suddenly tonight I was watching his stuff on ubuweb and like, oh, I get it. I can't explain it much beyond that.
I don't mean like as in not respect or understand why he is canonical and important and an undeniable genius: I mean there was something I guess I couldn't get over about the aesthetics and the movement itself and the sneaky little merce cunningham showing up in your own film in blue pyjamas and swimming your hands around things. and suddenly tonight I was watching his stuff on ubuweb and like, oh, I get it. I can't explain it much beyond that.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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