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  • Cultural Hegemony

    Cultural Hegemony

    “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci …and then, of course, there’s: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” –William Butler Yeats I now want to share a music video that is better than…

  • Hang Down Your Head

    Hang Down Your Head

    Tom waits for nobody. This song has been in my brain for a few days, so I figured the best way to purge it is to share it. I’ve always been a Tom Waits fan–and I do mean since my pre-teen years, when a colleague of my father (father’s? Whatever, carry on) gave him the…

  • …in the meantime, Jack White, you must know something:

    …in the meantime, Jack White, you must know something:

    I’m quite busy with my day job and with writing a whole pile of stuff (my first excruciating book, upcoming blog posts about nothing of any consequence), but I have said this once, twice, three times a lady: I will never kick you out of bed for sitting on my face. I don’t care what…

  • I Am The Cosmos

    I Am The Cosmos

    I’ve been tackling my (first) book with enthusiasm, and it’s been pretty astonishing how readily the stories and experiences have been rushing back to me, all of them in a helpfully linear fashion.  I have duffel bags and duffel bags containing years and years of journals (“diaries” just sounds so juvenile) to aid me in…

  • Taylor-Made For The Masses (First Part)

    Taylor-Made For The Masses (First Part)

    I said I was going to write about this, and I generally do everything I say I’m going to do.  However, as soon as I decided to set aside the time today to finally tackle the topic of The Glittery Weekend Taylor Swift Came To Vancouver (TGWTSCTV doesn’t really work going forward, so we’ll just…

  • Do you mean this week, month, or in general?

    Do you mean this week, month, or in general?

    I have no idea how anybody could answer this one and claim the same album from, say, 10 years ago, or even five. Actually, no, scratch that: I’ve known some folks who are almost autistically fixated on the same band/artist that they liked as children and have clung fast to them for decades. To each…