this is why American politics are more interesting than Canadian politics


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from http://takeyourmedicinemp3.blogspot.com/ which took it from filter magazine.

The Go Team's top 1o of the year
1. Deus – Pocket Revolution (V2)
2. Super Furry Animals – Love Kraft (XL/Beggars)
3. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
4. Deerhoof – The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
5. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
6. Ennio Morricone – High (El)
7. Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die (Bar None)
8. Smoosh – She Like Electric (Pattern 25)
9. Various Artists – Jar: a Pickled Egg Collection
10. David Axelrod – The Edge: David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970 (Blue Note)
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Good Night, Good luck is Clooney's other throwback 70s political commentary film next to Syriana (which looks fuckin' unreal) He plans on continuing this trend with his next project, the paranoid classic, Network.

First week over. Got paid to due nothing. Yeehaw!

and, in other news, anyone interested in going to see good night and good luck tomorrow night at the Princess? It's on at both 7:10 and 9:05pm. I'll likely be going to the 9:10 showing, and it would be great to go with other people (I'd be willing to drive too).

Please let me know if you're interested. it should be a good film, but if you don't trust my word, check out the imdb page

i'm going to be entirely self-centered for a moment... please bear with me.

(or scroll on by, whatever suits your fancy)

my horoscope for the preceding 'week' in VUE magazine says this:
"About 149 light years from Earth, astronomers have discovered a planet in a solar system with three stars. If you lived on that world, you'd regularly see three different sunrises, one each by a yellow, orange and red sun. I think that happens to be an apt metaphor for your current state of affairs, Gemini. Several potent sources are competing to be your lodestar; you can't decide withich one you want to be your wellspring of meaning. I'm not saying that's bad. In fact, it could be very interesting. But if you choose to keep indulging in this division of your attention, you will have to work hard not to become scattered."

And, finally (for a horoscope), I find it rather apt. In fact, I find it rather eerie in its applicability. Like finally I have the perfect metaphor to describe the way I feel. Though, instead of having three lodestars in a sea of rather dim twinkling lights, I have some sort of vision problem preventing me from telling which stars are brightly shining at me and which ones are cloudy and far off. Like being lost in the woods and looking up only there is no Big Dipper, no Cassiopeia, no Orion, and definitely no Nort Star. I have no idea where I am, nor where to go, nor if the stars can actually give me any direction. and my compass appears to be broken.

except, of course, I'm not lost in the woods. instead, I have no idea what I'm doing, nor why, nor how. I had a meeting with two professors today to discuss the possibility of joining their research group for graduate studies. They talked about two different research opportunities looking at the post-harvest regeneration of different tree species. I thought about how long it's been since I thought about forestry. I also thought a lot about whether or not I want to do a masters in forestry. Granted they gave me the explanation that an MSc probably opens as many if not more doors than it closes, and that typically the MSc holder is not limited by what they studied, but in the end is able to prove that they know how to write, analyse, use statistics and essentially conduct 'good' science. Quite reassuring in the end, but not truly much aid in helping me decide what I want to do.

And so, here I sit, wondering what one thing (or three, or whatever number) is my 'lodestar,' coming up with none in particular. Though I have, at least limited my choices to an array (obviously) focusing on environmentally-related issues. But just as much as I fear committing to the wrong thing within that array, I do worry that I will end up too scattered and too exhausted as a result. if ECOS taught me nothing else, it was that one person cannot do all things. Like Beck's preferential phrase: "A Jack Of All trades is a pro at none;" and, not that I'm seeking to be a pro at any one thing, I would like to be at least mildly good in something. I don't want to just bumble through life, like I feel I am doing right now. And especially in this industry, it is difficult to move beyond research assistant without doing more than just a BSc.

Still, is that what I want? Do I want to have an MSc and put myself into those government/industry/research jobs? What about advocacy? what about something international? What about something urban? what about something with greenpeace, or the sierra club, or cpaws? what about the parks? will I be shutting those opportunities out by doing my MSc? . . . probably not. But, since I haven't actually looked into those opportunities, I almost feel like I will be shutting them out. what can I say, I like covering my bases, but without knowing what bases there are out there how can I hope to ever cover them all? and so I sit here not knowing what direction to go in, or whether or not I'm even ready to go in any direction right now. I just know that working at canadian tire isn't suiting me at all.

< end rant >

thanks for bearing with me, or scrolling on through. I'll try not to waste precious board space like this in the future, but i really just needed to get that off my chest.

Yay Par! BOoooo Linda, BOOOOOO.

How do you know when Paras is done his exams? Rant time!

In today's Journal, there's an article by noted journalist (?) Lynda Steele entitled "Is Christmas vanishing from our vocabulary?" (Never mind that the word "Christmas" is used at least four times in headlines on the same page.)

Now, unfortunately, the article is in the Journal's subscriber section, so I can't really link to it. Fortunately, I can quote from it gratuitously.

Yes, the word Christmas is slowly and insidiously being erased from our collective consciousness.

One fellow I know is angry saying, "It's time Canada got a backbone and told all those politically correct interest groups that Canada is historically a Christian society, and you better live with it."

"I don't want Ramadan's name changed or watered down, or Kwanzaa or Hanukkah ... why change Christmas?"

I think we could all do well by chilling out just a little.

no kidding, they could have had ratings giant Coronation Street running instead