“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” – The Kinks – On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]
“Why am I always the one who must be the thief?” – Bob Dylan – A recent internet dust-up about Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan provided a certain amount of insight into people, the web and art, but the insights aren’t what many people believe. The insights were two and neither terribly remarkable: 1) most [...]
by Bill on March 22, 2010
How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]
by Bill on December 5, 2009
Yes, I’m being hyperbolic in my title. Given the choice between rubbish and life I’ll take life every time. But I like what is often considered to be “crap.” There are only two things about it that I object to: excess and exclusivity. I object to the way, when something has some degree of success, [...]
by Bill on September 2, 2009
I really am tired of the repetitive and now long-redundant either/or debate around traditional and social media. Apart from being well worn, it risks obfuscating other issues. A good example of what gets lost lies in the Michael Valpy essay, Is this the end of social cohesion? and David Eaves’ response, Dear Valpy: social media [...]
by Bill on August 18, 2009
Years ago I had a subscription to The Nation. Online, they pop up in Google with this description: “Weekly journal of opinion, featuring analysis on politics and culture. Founded in 1865.” I must have subscribed sometime in the very early 80s because I know it was around the time Ronald Reagan was President of the [...]
What we see dictates how we see it
by Bill on March 22, 2010
How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]
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