One is the loneliest number that you will ever see… Working alone, originally uploaded by Jordon.
March, 2011:
What’s it like to write for the New York Times
Neil Strauss vs. the New York Times copy editor. Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. What’s wrong with it? COPYEDITOR: It’s about oral sex. The whole article hinges on that lyric. COPYEDITOR: If you want, I [...]
Contextless Links
Hamas is pissed off that the U.N. is going to teach Palestinian children about the Holocaust Four New York Times journalists outline captivity in Libya Costs in Libya: $100 million for one day of missiles; $1 billion will easily be passed Der Spiegel publishes photos of U.S. “kill team” posing with dead Afghans they murdered [...]
Contextless Links
The Cost of Urban Water | The amount of people living in cities is constantly rising. This asks for good solutions in terms of water supply and management. This visualization looks at the cost of water in major cities and their development over the past 3 years. Related Wendy and I watched Season 1 of [...]
Contract the A’s and the Rays?
Bud Selig has been thinking about contraction again. The Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays have had a hard time making it financially in recent years. A person involved in baseball labor told the New York Post that there had been some conversation in the offices of Major League Baseball of contracting the two teams. [...]
Broadway at Night
Another one of 52 reasons to love Saskatoon. Some bars are filled with university and college students, grinding the night away on sticky dance floors, stepping outside only to cool down or hop on their pub crawl bus. Bikers and metal heads are just down the street buying hot dogs and admiring the Harleys outside [...]
The cost of not using nuclear
Angelo Persichilli has a great article in today’s Toronto Star about the future of nuclear energy in this country. While I don’t trust those who tell me that nuclear energy is completely safe, likewise I don’t trust those who say we have an alternative that can sustain our demands to run our businesses, our economy [...]
Focused on the Menial
Chantal Hébert writes… These days, the most striking differences between Canada’s two main parties centre on matters such as the future of the gun registry, the public funding of sports facilities or the rate of taxation of corporate Canada. On the larger issues, the line between the two is blurred, when it exists at all. [...]
Sex in the City
From a 2001 story in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. A look at the background of almost any child in the sex trade reveals extreme poverty and a shocking familiarity with violence and drugs. Most live in or near Saskatoon’s main stroll – a residential neighbourhood extending several blocks to the north and south of 20th [...]
the gallery
Today I have been busy putting together an art gallery for the Salvation Army Community Services. In the next couple of weeks the plan is to have a public gallery in the dining room that will consist of prints, paintings, and photos from people in our community. The dining room is used by about 300 [...]
