Archive for October, 2006

Oct 27 2006

the king is dead, long live the king – and his commercial earning power

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elvis has been dead for decades yet, each year he continues to make more money than an average worker will make in their entire life. but alas, the poor old king – a model of all american values – greed, obeisity, drug addiction has been ‘the king’ for several generations. well at least now he’s [...]

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Oct 27 2006

rolling down rodeo with a shotgun, canada style

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‘rollin’ down rodeo with a shotgun, these people haven’t seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one‘ – rage against the machine being that my major is canadian history one can’t help but be moved by the injustices against native/aboriginal people’s in our short history. in only a few hundred years we’ve exploited and [...]

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Oct 27 2006

dreaming – erotica sort of…

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i’ve noticed a pattern lately – extreme exhaustion, odd foods and short sleeping periods (6 hours or less) equals truly freudian and dali-esque dreams. last night’s was truly odd – melting objects, super-real colours,no determined actions or purposes to the dream – just really odd things happening. mixed and combined objects – people and clocks, [...]

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Oct 27 2006

anxiety as a motivator

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this has been a really, really busy week, busy meaning – crazy. a paper and four exams. that in itself creates anxiety, but i’ve also put enormous pressure on myself to succeed. i need good, if not great marks, to get into the faculty of education in the fall. so i’m aiming, i hope realistically, [...]

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Oct 26 2006

thank you for choosing…

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odd that signs on vending machines at the university of calgary say – “thank you for choosing pepsi”. odd in that pepsi has the exclusive rights to sell cola on campus, they are the only choice. i like pepsi better than coke, so no big deal, right? well, mysteriously the water fountains have all either [...]

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