December 2009
20 posts
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“I am writing in regards to Adam Waldron-Blain’s review of the exhibition A...”
– Vue Weekly : Edmonton’s 100% Independent Weekly : Letters to the Editor
When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like... →
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Listen
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On Gaga
An interesting thing on the internet this week is this: “Pop Ate My Heart”: Lady Gaga, Her Videos, and Her Fame Monster, in which Oscar Moralde undertakes a reading of Lady Gaga’s filmmaking techniques.
But the introduction is long, laborious and overworked, because Moralde needs to justify Gaga as an auteur, or so he feels, in order to make his analysis stick. But there is more going on...
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Ottawa buzzing with talk of proroguing Parliament... →
SRSLY?
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“What is most discouraging about the results of this poll is the fact that it’s...”
– (From bloggedarteries)
I don’t think that the Wildrose support will last at quite this level, not unless the Tories screw some big things up, for this reason.
Yeah, it’s weird that people are willing to say they’ll vote for them when they have no idea what they stand for (and...
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“Saturday: Clearing early in the morning. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 28....”
– Awesome
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MPs join forces to order release of Afghan records →
It must be December: time for a constitutional crisis.
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Wildrose surges past Tories →
bloggedarteries:
This is crap. I can’t believe that Albertans could be so stupid that the majority now want to vote for a party they know nothing about. We should be ashamed.
Amazing.
I don’t know if this is in fact a bad thing for the left in Alberta. I hope that it will result in increased seat totals for the leftist parties.
Possibilities:
Increasing vote fragmentation on the...
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A Perfect State of Happiness →
A review.
One paragraph was removed by my editor because I am a meanie.
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“At several points during the evening, the issue of ‘should reviewers be more...”
– Unedit my heart: Panel Notes: “Bring It”
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“Brault’s pragmatic streak comes from past training as a lawyer and...”
– Simon Brault’s got the cultural community all abuzz - The Globe and Mail
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“[Canada] “is the dirty old man of the climate world,” according to a recent...”
– ‘Dirty’ image puts Canada in climate doghouse at Copenhagen - The Globe and Mail
Dear Globe and Mail:
Did you know that on the internet we have these things called “hyperlinks” and that when you mention other articles people can actually click to see what you are talking about?...
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“In the end, what the UEA e-mails really show is that scientists are human beings...”
– Climatologists under pressure : Article : Nature
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“Indeed, the self-proclaimed “I Don’t Care Girl” and the...”
– In search of Eva Tanguay, the first rock star. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
Also: Further commentary by Carl Wilson including a bonus comments-thread about whether Lady Gaga is to Madonna as Bowie was to Mick Jagger or not.
