… for the new year. I don’t know if I’ll post again between now and then. I hope I will but in case I don’t I want to cross the threshold with a better lead post than one titled “Shameless Self-Friggin-Promotion.” Hey I’ve got different sides — as many as anyone. I don’t usually like [...]
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Did anyone see the ads for Bromance? To me it looks like the end of TV — but I’ve seen what I thought was the end of TV too many times to believe it anymore. Anyways, it reminded me of something Dave Letterman said in a Rolling Stone interview about that celebrity-offspring-doing-reality-TV crowd. This was about the [...]
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Continuing the discussion of moral codes… It’s difficult to encapsulate this creative attitude into a tidy formula, but I think this conveys my theory of the “practice of theory” as well as anything: There are exceptions to every rule, and rules for every exception. We need rules to live effectively (not just rules to live [...]
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I didn’t start out thinking this intellectual stuff is necessary, it just feels necessary. It’s just the way I am. Classifying and defining is just something I automatically do — always. It isn’t a basic need on the same level as food, sex & shelter. It’s even more basic – on the level of breathing, or maybe sleep is [...]
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by Brian on 12-29-2008
in art
Hey I finally caught up with the new millennium and got a digital camera, courtesy of my parents, for Christmas. I’ve been sort of an anti-picture person for the past few years, for no apparent reason, but blogging has made me want to add that visual element to my creative portfolio — though “portfolio” is maybe too [...]
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I love this “essay on idling,” by Mark Kingwell, in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. For those who don’t know, Kingwell is Canada’s cool philosophy professor: media darling, sometime columnist (including a stint as the token progressive for the National Post), he writes for a popular audience on wide-ranging subjects (politics, happiness, architecture, booze), and is still [...]
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by Brian on 12-27-2008
in civics
by Brian on 12-26-2008
in civics
That’s my proverbial t-shirt slogan for the new year. It’s a prediction for what 2009 will represent in historical terms, as well as a personal mantra. As a prediction it’s by no means original, but I think most people don’t appreciate either the tremendous volume of changes we’re about to experience or how the changes will become manifest. We might say something [...]
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Continued from Social and Creative Capital in London, Orchestra Edition. I meant to address the issue of Rib-Fest and the future of festivals in London but I had to cut that one off: I ended up spending a lot more time talking about the arts than I meant to. I wasn’t going to write anything tonight [...]
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I’m happy to see a lot of concentrated discussion around London about issues I actually know something about. In the past week we saw Orchestra London successfully appeal for financial support from the city, and we heard news that Ribfest might be cooked. Now I know next to nothing in terms of background specifics about either of [...]
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