so if you haven't seen The Hood Internet let's spread the wealth. Download some mash-ups that include the likes of GFK/Beirut or Michael Jackson/Ratatat. What a hootenanny!
So, alright- I must apologize for the lack of contact. Right off the bat though, collect 1000 Soles de Oro for passing the 1000 persons mark!
I've been writing barrels o' words the past weeks and am nowhere near done beating moral development, social dominance or spatial reasoning into the ground quite yet. Knew you'd be interested.
One could almost wax poetic about the Prime Minister's prorogative to prorogue yet again, but we will keep such ambitious ideas for a future day/different blogger.
Instead, here are a few stories that promise to make Canadian politics even more dramatic than ever before.
I will say this article comes across as pretty biased seeing how it ends by suggesting that the only option for voters is the NDP... and I'm not going to touch on how the polls are all self-rated in terms of ideological change. Pollsters frequently hit only those at home from 5-9pm on weekdays via land-line listings that, unfortunately, is quite an accurate depiction of those who actually vote.
so in the likeness of the Macdonald Triad (proneness to homicidal tendencies: animal cruelty, enuresis= bed-wetting, compulsive fire starting) I thought it'd be neat to improvise a diagnostic schedule on a patently less serious although regrettably more prevalent condition.
The Buzzkill Hipster Quadratic:
a) caustic
b) apathetic
c) depressogenic (causative factor in melancholic disposition- yes, taking liberties here)
d) alcoholic/narcotic-ally-inclined
If all of the a4mentioned facets are checked please refer to commune and/or guided walkabout for ritualistic spiritual cleansing in expeditious manner.
Positive results have been exhibited in the following recovered B-H Quadratic cases:
-Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
-Angelina Jolie
-Leonard Cohen
-Courtney Love and Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
-former lead singer of Ima Robot, Alex Ebert, turned Edward Sharpe
What's crazy? The guide that purports to answer this question, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) classifies clinical-PMS as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and formerly classified homosexuality as genuine mental illnesses. If there is a way to pathologize 'periodic hysterical female behaviour' and thus treat with pharmaceuticals, Caplan responds, "why isn't there a Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder for men?"
Culture-bound syndromes are fascinating. Koro or Genital Retraction Syndrome occurs quite frequently in part of Asia where an individual is overcome with the belief that his/her external genitals are retracting into the body, shrinking, or in some male cases, may be imminently removed or disappear. A penis panic is a mass hysteria event or panic in which male members of a population suddenly experience this belief.
NY Times article on the Americanization of conceptualizations of "crazy" across cultures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?th&emc=th
I can't end on that.
:)
"We're almost at 1000 peoples after almost two months- and still managed to not put my name on the worldwideweb. spread the word of mouth with your friends please!"
Y2K: A decade since the world imploded. Proved those naysayers wrong, eh?
Idea for the resolution: dance more. You will be the happiest gal/guy.
0:25 Carlton done stole his dance
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw
so what fresh hell is this then?
Minor overstatement aside, I've returned to the land of the tree-free, air-borne debris yet savvy tele(y?) to complete assignments of various assortments. In any event, what better time than now to distract oneself from the inevitable?
Here's some holiday cheer and love-infused potpourri for your pleasing! Best 2010
US of A LEFT VS RIGHT PICTOGRAPH (thank-you Information is Beautiful)
Members of Parliament: How'd They Vote?
-who all played hooky?
-who said Nelson Mandela is a terrorist?
-who sent out a memo claiming Yasser Arafat had AIDS after he passed away instead of offering condolences?
-who said, "You can't scalp me because I don't have much hair on top of my head?"
-who thinks we should lower the age to 10 (as in TEN) to be tried as an adult?
(it may or may not be the case that the above quotes represent 1 Political Party that begins with the letter 'C' and rhymes with: 'prejudice preservative'.
The aforementioned political beings entrust a tubby turtle-necked Machiavellian fuddy-duddy to helm their partisan...ship of affluence, social conservatism and impractical Libertarian dogma. So far navigating the sea of dirty oil has been smooth sailing for the Conning-preservatives through the propaganda spewed forth by CanWest and similar media conglomerates, silencing opposition (academics, opposing parties: Harper once said, "The NDP is proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men", free-speech media) and acting plain ignorant re: Climate Change, colonialism, state of minority groups...
Resolution To Do More Yoga?
who says disco isn't transcendental?
pair this vid:
with soundtrack:
(care of Crayons)
Don't Know Much?
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- Sir William Osler
Go to where the silence is and say something.
-Amy Goodman
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor
kel/ani: don't let go of your bags and i be seeing yous on the other side!
