humour

So I saw this SEO copywriter joke a bunch of times yesterday. I love it: “So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” (If you don’t know what SEO copywriting is, it means writing with specific keywords in certain orders to help sites rank [...]

Notes on Satire

by Brian on 06-05-2010

in art,civics,creativity,culture

I worry I enjoy ambiguity, irony, “meta” and satire a little too much. I’m worried my last post about copyright laws might seem too resentful (it is somewhat resentful — regretfully) because I genuinely sympathize with all sides. In the case of copyright, I appreciate the economic [and social!] stability it enables, and I want [...]

The Mandate to Make Funny

by Brian on 05-18-2009

in creativity

Whenever I do a ‘humour’ post like my last one I worry for a moment about whether people will continue to take me seriously. Usually I overcome those reservations with the thought that anyone who would dismiss me for being funny (I mean, for trying to be funny) aren’t the people I’d appeal to anyways.  [...]

  The cover came off London Ontario’s seedy social media underworld last weekend as key players met openly in what appears to be a brazen attempt to gain legitimacy and leverage into more lucrative rackets. Most interesting to authorities is the degree of collusion between these ambitious underground up-and-comers (whom some people have argued are [...]

I’m a Rational Ass

by Brian on 04-05-2009

in general

Buridan’s ass is a figurative description of a man of indecision. It refers to a paradoxical situation wherein an ass, placed exactly in the middle between two stacks of hay of equal size and quality, will starve to death since it cannot make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other. The paradox is named after [...]

B Morning

by Brian on 03-05-2009

in art,video

It’s becoming apparent that my video persona is incurably idiotic – perhaps to compensate for the over-seriousness of my writing… Or maybe it’s simply the idiocy of my non-writing persona (i.e. the real me). MPG

Why do I have a bandage on my face?

by Brian on 02-09-2009

in art

That’s right: it’s time for some social media fun! This is where the proprietor of a website solicits participation from the crowd, preferably in a way that’s both reality-based and irreverant.  So here it is… As you can see on the immediate right, I – that’s me in the picture, btw – I have a bandage on my face. If [...]

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