Baking taboulie bread. Ick.
Well it was a ‘moderate’ success and Leslie and Carmen finally have their cracked wheat bread…
Isshy Wishy Al
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh at the Timms.
Old home week really, as it has Sandy Nichols whom I worked with in Brooks, Al Gadowsky who is Laura’s son and Glenn Nelson from Rocky Horror and Stage West days. Supposedly a Synge-ish Irish comedy, I have high hopes.
Well so far so good. Dollar for dollar, the Studio season kicks most ‘professional’ theatres’ asses…
Our House…
…from the bottom of the sewer!
She wears donna
I first thought
Hirsute.
But that was unfair
It was after all, just hair.
I saw her in a tangled
Space.
My gaze was riveted
On her shadowed face.
A razor glance
Creases.
I admired her lines
And coiffured graces.
But in the end the texture
Coarse.
The feel against my skin
Raw.
Rough.
I am too in love with skin.
A webbing we will go…
While most people were in church or napping the day away, I was back at work trying to get ahead of the curve.
All my self-fiddling got me started on a truly css-based web design so I took a swing at Hole’s new site. I think I’ve pretty much got the code down and the visuals look good so…
Next I just have to decide on php vs asp vs ruby…
Retraining really needs to happen…
…but I’m just not sure who needs the retraining in this case.
In January, Toronto Police Const. Michael Sanguinetti told a personal security class at York University that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”
Sanguinetti apologized for his comments, but his apology failed to satisfy walk organizer Sonya Barnett.
“It was evident that if you’re going to have a representative of the police force come out [and say that] then that kind of idea must be still running rampant within the force itself and that retraining really needs to happen to change that mentality,” she said.
Granted it’s not the most PC thing to say, but the message underlying the poor choice of vocabulary is nonetheless valid. Should women have to avoid dressing provocatively? Well no… but then again I, the quintessential white boy, shouldn’t have to be afraid of walking through a ghetto late at night either.
But that’s okay, if we retrain the people on our side that are talking without thinking, then the streets will be safe again for everyone… or maybe not… sheesh…
The whole CBC web story
Duuude! Ul?
The first traditionally drawn in 2002 with pen and ink.
The second done on the iPad with Brushes
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The Internet is not a community, it’s only a community hall
Not long ago, according to the new-media guru Clay Shirky, the Sudanese government set up a Facebook page call ing for a protest against the Sudanese government, naming a specific time and place – then simply arrested those who showed up. It was proof, Shirky argues, that social media can’t be revolutionary on its own. “The reason that worked is that nobody knew anybody else,” he says. “They thought Facebook itself was trustworthy.”
Oh Margie!
Margie Gillis Dance at the Arden tonight. Tired, so tired, but the arts must live on…
Tonight, Margie Gillis Dance Foundation presents Thread.
Self-indulgent, simplistic and trite. But at least it’s not “fine for a woman her age.”
Tsunami
From a bare street to floatng houses in 6 minutes…
Never, ever underestimate the power of water.