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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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10:09 am - Multiculturalism is awesome
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| Monday, July 21st, 2008
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2:06 pm
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Remember the World's Most Unwanted Song?
Well, here's the survey-produced World's Most Wanted Song. While the unwanted music is screamingly funny, the wanted one is nigh-unlistenable. I think I hear that song every single time I turn on the radio.
I find it telling that a systematically-created composite of people's favourite elements of pop music has resulted in a song that is, to my ear, indistinguishable from actual pop music.
current music: Hey, everybody, it's Christmastime!
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| Monday, July 14th, 2008
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9:26 am
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| Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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2:28 pm
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I have decided to incorporate the term "bifortnightly" into casual conversation to the extent possible. In addition to being unnecessarily cumbersome, it is also ambiguous, in that can mean either "twice a fortnight" - ie, weekly - or "once every two fortnights" - ie, more or less monthly.
I should also revitalize an old plan to substitute the nautical terms "port" and "starboard" wherever "left" and "right" occur.
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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3:09 pm - Genius.
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Ashley MacIsaac auctions off his future earnings. Here's the auction.
Thing is, MacIsaac has been so inconsistent that the starting bid of $1.5M could be the deal of the century, or a complete rip-off. At least the winner gets yearly concerts for the next decade in a location of their choosing. I hope the winner chooses their home, or a local school or something, rather than a huge concert hall.
Come to think of it, I hope the winner's local to Vancouver...
This is how publicity stunts are done, folks.
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008
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4:12 pm - I am secretly 12 years old and am consequently finding this to be extremely funny
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The American Family Association, loathe to give even the faintest suggestion that it does not condemn sodomy in the harshest terms imaginable, decides to excise the word "gay" from its articles. Hilarity ensues. (via ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) madcaptenor)
current mood: LMAO
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| Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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10:06 am - I just realized something:
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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4:33 am - yes.
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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1:18 pm
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Whenever I take the time to read anything whatsoever related to women's fashions, which is infrequently but apparently still too bloody often, I'm generally left curled up in the fetal position wondering how on earth women are expected to properly navigate a shopping expedition, or even leave the house once the implements of womanhood have been acquired. Seriously - I'm supposed to be able to walk in those? I'm supposed to spend how much money on my hair - and then how many hours maintaining it? Why the hell doesn't anything have pockets? - oh yeah, so that I can spend how much again on a handbag, no, wait, several handbags, one for each outfit, or something. And, so help me God, what is the difference between casual and business casual, and why is all formal clothing so tight?
Articles about men's fashions, however, generally amuse the hell out of me, because as far as I can tell, despite the attempts of fashion writers to make things appear otherwise, men's formalwear is all the same. $5000 suits might be better made than $250 suits, but damned if I can tell the difference by sight.
current music: Moving Violations - Mazas Comes to Montague
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| Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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9:47 pm - Opera rap, among other things
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| Monday, April 21st, 2008
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11:45 am - Thinking about something specific, but this applies in general too
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I don't claim to be able to identify, in point form or whatnot, explicitly what makes (or fails to make) something art, nor what makes (or fails to make) its creator an artist, but it seems pretty clear to me that a high level of technical control over some medium - clay, paint, wood, whatever - figures somewhat crucially into the question. Absent that, you don't have art: you have a temper tantrum; or a political statement; or a self-important display of god knows what; or a physical setup that makes no goddamned sense whatsoever out of context, context in this case being the impenetrable 300-page jargon-laden dissertation that accompanies it; but you don't have art.
Corollary: if the hullaballoo surrounding your project is centred around the involved medium, political climate, or accompanying 300-page dissertation, and not around the actual object or assemblage of objects created, then said object/assemblage of objects is primarily a temper tantrum/political statement/self-important display of god knows what, and is art at best incidentally. If you are not sure whether or not this is the case for your project, ask yourself the following question: "Would my project have elicited as huge, and as charged, a reaction from the public if I had just led them to believe that the squiggly bits on the canvas are made of dried spaghetti, as they appear to be, rather than of the entrails of the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, which I used to illustrate the crassness of our accessibility to the fragile?" If the answer is "yes", then your project has not garnered the attention that it has garnered as art, and you are not being critically evaluated as an artist.
Corollary 2: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ENOUGH WITH THE MENSTRUAL BLOOD "ART" ALREADY.
current mood: righteous
current music: Fiddlehaus - His Last Words/Hangman's Reel
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| Monday, April 14th, 2008
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9:17 am - Forecast for today: hail
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| Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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2:05 pm
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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10:00 pm - state of the refrigerator
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No longer a biological hazard.
current mood: accomplished
current music: Barrage - Sing, Sing, Sing
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| Friday, March 28th, 2008
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9:42 am - I did not expect this
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Members of my pottery studio are allowed to bring in friends on occasion. Often I'll see some of my former students showing their friends the basics of potting. Said former students vary in ability from "took one workshop with me, once, and never practiced potting since" to being relatively skilled with clay. So it's interesting to hear how my lessons get adapted. (In one especially amusing case, one friend of mine was earnestly demonstrating to his girlfriend how to centre clay, which was endlessly entertaining because he couldn't get the clay anywhere near centred himself.)
Yesterday, though, was the first time I had a former student of mine explain to a friend the basics of clay preparation in much the same way that I explained it a year or so ago, but in Hebrew.
current music: Leahy - The Call to Dance
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| Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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4:45 pm - "Fantastic as it may seem, it is a legitimate instrument"
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| Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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11:33 am - A nice birthday gift
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| Monday, March 17th, 2008
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4:24 pm - Dear Law Enforcement, Punditry, and the General Public:
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For the love of God, can we please impose a moratorium on the use of the term "cowardly" to describe heinous acts of violence? Seriously, it's not like we'd have given this shithead a Medal of Bravery if he'd instead hung around after the attack and posed with the victim's corpse until the press and paramedics arrived.
current mood:  cranky
current music: Paperboys - String of Horses
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| Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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4:48 pm - "watermelon is overrated"
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