Pony's

The Amazing thing is that even though its been pretty well 35degrees out for the past few days - I've been getting some great work done on my Victoriaville Mall chapter.

As the last few weeks have unfolded and I have been wrestling with this chapter it has felt like quite the uphill struggle, trying to fill in the parts that needed filling while trying not to write too too much.

In a sense the Victoriaville piece has come to stand, in my mind like a companion piece or an updated work of an existing thesis sitting in the Lu Library by a former student named Joe Facca. Facca's piece is a number of years old, and I felt that It could use an updating. Well, that wasn't the original intention but it did seem like a necessary by-product of writing about the Mall. An updated version, a more complete story, a new meditation.

As I said before, the Thunder Bay archives became a primary source of Materials on this subject, and without them I would not have the details of WWWWW&H the Mall came to be what it is now.

I have been regaling my partner Amy with a litany of all things Victoriaville, often comparing my own written work to food references/ descriptions of cooking and baking processes, I.e., today my paper is like a cookie thats baked to perfection, but instead of chocolate chips, there's chunks of cement - obviously I need to re-evaluate the recipe.

Today though, that cookie is tasting better and the chunks of cement are gone, but I think it's a bit over baked and needs to be reworked a bit, cook it a little less, take out that pinch of salt and add some baking powder. Mmmm - So good I can almost taste it. 1 more day that I think It will be time to switch gears. And almost on time too. As for looking at a rough draft completion date of August 31 - I better pony up.

Yee Haw.

the three way

This weeks obsessions =

"Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a
Precious delusion" - Bad Religion


"Things and products that are measured, that is to say reduced to the common measure of money, do not speak the truth about themselves. On the contrary, it is in their nature as things and products to conceal that truth. Not that they do not speak at all: they use their own language, the language of things and products. - Henri Lefebvre

"During a channeling once, the Christ said that the term the "chosen ones" is a misinterpretation. It should be "the ones who chose," because this group consists of beings who chose long ago to give their service to Earth and her people by incarnating, forgetting who they were until certain points in their evolution, and then becoming enlightened and Christed. This set the pattern of spiritual evolution for others to follow." Amorah Quan Yin

andriko

From: No Caption Needed

Animated Music Video Photo Cartooning
Posted by Hariman in No Caption Needed

Nick Anderson, editorial cartoonist at the Houston Chronicle, has created a remarkable example of next generation political cartooning. The cartoon, entitled Feel Good, Inc. combines animated figures for Bush, Rove, and Cheney, who rap and sing in front of a dense montage of news photographs and the occasional smiley button. The animation is deft and the songs are clever, but it’s the photos that provide the critical edge and disturbing emotional tone, while the pop culture icon of the smiley button really drives the point home: These people are playing with our lives and don’t give a damn about the harm they cause. Comments at the paper’s online site, Chron.com, are here.

Henry Rollins - Drawing Conclusions -

I love Henry Rollins, and perhaps you do too.

Project Brainstorm

http://www.projectbrainstorm.ca/about-project-brainstorm


My sister sent me to this website, after she had been researching her own brain tumor. there are over 120 different types of brain tumors

only 31 percent of males and 30 percent of females survive 5 years after the diagnosis


Doesn't this mad you sad, angry, scared, anything? I have grown to become quite afraid of the apathy I see around me. And I'm not talking political apathy, I'm talking apathy-apathy. I sometimes wonder If we've retreated so far within ourselves, and indulging in the "me,me,me culture" that we are incapable of empathy. Oh all things I like to ponder; but not now, because I have to go update my myspace.

Constructing the Future

Monocle News Report - Zurich

Swiss firm Keller AG and the DFAB lab in Zürich are exploring the potential of robot bricklayers.

Soda

"At that time, the uncles and cousins were starting the first chain of drugstores in the history of the country, and they were especially proud of the soda fountains in these stores, and had spent a lot of money to guarantee that the ice cream served at those fountains was the equal of any ice cream in the world." (Kurt Vonnegut. Deadeye Dick. p19)

"The birth of the soda fountain began with the drug revolution of the 1850's. People would go to the local drugstore and procure a fountain drink to cure or aid some physical malady. Many of the fountain drinks were concoctions or extracts of various drugs that were flavored and effervesced to make them palatable. Drugs like cocaine and caffeine are maybe the most famous but bromides and various plant extracts were also commonly dispensed."
(http://www.drugstoremuseum.com/sections/level_info2.php?level_id=47)

New Post - On the Yolk

Ode to the yolk...

Plus heres a Gem I posted on the yolk back in 2006.

Ft William...

The mall and the street

It's Friday the 13th and thats for sure. The above image is a link, follow it to see what kind of Art and media is being mingled with on the streets of SanFran.

At our house we have a few patches of garden, some carrots, peas, beets... The birds seem to keep coming and eating the lettuce. They also seem to keep plucking the peas out of the ground before they can get a glimpse of sun. It is mostly a hobby garden, but any humane suggestions?

I've done all the procrastinating there is to be done today, read, cleaned random things like the freezer, and put enough pressure on myself to keep me in bed for most of the week. It seems to me that in order to get the writing words flowing like blood turning fresh snow pink I have to apply the pressure, be it a deadline, or some other form of narrowed compression.

Muchos gracias to those of you who have signed up as contributors, it warms the heart.

At present I'm working on fattening up my chapter about the Victoriaville Mall. I visited the city archives a few weeks ago, fantastic staff, excellent resources, primary sources to be found in abundance. I highly recommend a trip to the archives if the need be present.

The mall. Okay I'm off.

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I define me!

A new begining

Hi.

It's me, Andriko.

I was thinking that it would be a good idea if 'we,' the Lakehead sociology graduate students started our own salon.

A place for us to wax philosophic on any topic we choose.

Hopefully this will become a venue that will evolve along with the new crop of grad students entering the program, as well as be a place for those of us already entrenched in the system at LU to foster communication and generate new ideas.

Personally I hope that we as a body of students can get to know each other better, who we are as people and what the heck we are all writing about, or trying to write about, or thinking about trying to write about, or all together ignoring.

My inspiration for this blog space came from a blog that is currently kept active by a group of students from the University of Alberta. http://www.yolksoc.blogspot.com/
Have a look, get a feel, come back and contribute to this blog. It's an open blog that allows all of the members to hold equal power to contribute and to moderate, meaning that you can edit any previous posts with ease. In this way, by equally sharing the responsibility we can avoid any kind of on-line tyranny.

The intent here is to foster a student collective that is fun and easy to use.

Here's how to join.

Step 1: If you are reading this you may have already been sent an invitation to join this blog.

Step 2: Follow the prompts, you will sign in with your lakehead email address and password. Since LU email is operated by gmail/google/blogger... you already have an account that gives you access to blogger, isn't that nice. Now if there was only a way to Fwd all of the junk mail in my Lu inbox to the person who sold our names off to make a buck.

Step 3: You will be taken to a page called Dashboard and from there you will be able to enter The Virtual Sauna

Step 4: If you have not been sent an invitation simply send me or anyone else who is already a member an email requesting an invitation. alozowy@lakeheadu.ca




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Ten Things from the past few weeks.

1. the funny look that people in cars give people on bikes, as if the people in cars want to say "wow that looks like fun."

2. the sleeping giant, climbing to the top and being enveloped in 360' of blue skies and water.

3. the use of the words 'digital jedi' in the new die hard film.

4. the way that tbay tel offers a special rate of $20/ month internet service for 8 months to new students.

5. the way that tbay tel will only allow a customer to have 1 promotion package i.e., the $20/month, unless they leave tbay tel for 3 months.

6. the way that shaw will give you a $20/month deal for 6 months.

7. the way that you can switch providers every 6 or eight months and neither company will vie for loyalty.

8. the way that the university is pretty much a ghost town at this time of year.

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

10. Zeitgeist the movie - there are 3 parts to the film, these links below only get you the first section of each. Google video has the film in 3 parts rather than 13 if you prefer.

Religion

World Trade Center

The Federal Reserve