I Don’t Like Football
Now I like it even less. Not the European variety, but North American football, which has recently decided to pimp itself even more. Much like why I dislike the Olympics–corporate sponsorship destroying pure[ish] sport–I’m growing greatly opposed to football’s corporate bondage. Now, Canadian universities’ national football championship, the Vanier Cup, is sponsored by Desjardins. BC’s [...]
USA Trapped in the Pleasantville Vortex
I saw Pleasantville for the first time last night. Boy, have I been missing out. It was stunning to see how much post-9/11 Mairka is pummelled into fear and trembling much like the Hitler Youth Monochromes were toward the end of the movie. It’s sad to see Mairka take part in an anti-post-modernist backlash of [...]
Blogger.com’s Spellchecker Doesn’t Include the Word "Blog"
I just don’t know what to say about this beyond “REVEL IN THE IRONY!” I had to actually add it to my user dictionary. Wow. Finis Questions, comments, feedback, gripes, thunderous applause? Email me…use the address at the bottom of the page. Please email me at the email address below if you would like to [...]
Real Soap, "Real" Beauty, "Real" Feminism?
Dove soap’s Campaign for Real Beauty is very interesting to me. I’ve seen the billboards and I appreciate their attempt to legitimize beauty beyond what we’re brainwashed with in Maxim, Playboy, Baywatch and the like. But I’m not so sure about Dove. I’m not so sure that even if their soap products, etc. are stupendous [...]
Who Are Our Corporate Rulers?
Well it turns out that the Trilateral Commission wasn’t just some 1970s paranoid conspiracy theory. Neither is the global trade triad of the EU, USA and Japan that account for most of global trade. But who runs the world’s most powerful corporations and what kind of incestuous relations do they partake in? TheyRule.net presents a [...]
The SFU Car Lot
Update! See below! O bliss! On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 some marketing students turned SFU into a GM car lot. They even got some advanced press about it with a truly absurd analogy from business prof, Colleen Collins-Dodd: “We have a business school on this campus. I don’t think we need to apologise for that,” [...]
Welcoming American Immigrants to Canada
I understand how tempting it is to be an American wanting to move to Canada. I’m not, of course, refering to the 59 million who voted for w.Caesar, but the rest of them. They’re welcome here. Some of my favourite people in the world are those who were displaced from the land of the free [...]
Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians
Unit, Corps, God, Country. God, Country, Corps, Unit. God, Corps, Unit, Country. Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians is a fascinating article about the religious zeal of Marines about to take on the anarchy in Fallujah. In April, w.Caesar pledged that they were not going to leave the gong show in Fallujah AS [...]
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