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Well, I used a lot of the suggestions that came my way from that post the other day! I was pretty pleased with the turnout of readers for that question, I must admit. I guess it's because you hear a lot that people don't give a darn about history in this country, if depressing yearly polls from the Dominion Institute mean anything, but it's clearly not the case among my livejournal followers. You guys are great! I had to do a general sweep that involved a good range of places, professions, backgrounds and time periods, so you know, not everyone's favorite author is going to be in there but I sure did like the range in suggestions. Looking at it now I wish I had someone from the NWT (not one! for shame) and New Brunswick. Stompin Tom is from New Brunswick but he's also sort of from everywhere. I could have put the Irvings in there, I think they control history in NB as well as anything else. I was all crazed out with strep throat while I did this, but listening to Radiolab shows and a burning passion for Canada I guess(?) kept me going. You can find the image in today's National Post, along with an article about the Historica/Dominion merger! Interesting stuff. ( picture is under the cut because it's huge ) Here is the legend, the rows are sort of wonky but you'll figure it out: Row One (bottom): James Wolfe, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, David Suzuki, Louis-Joseph Papineau, John A. Macdonald, Terry Fox Row Two Emily Carr, Joseph Howe, Joey Smallwood, Robert Bartlett, Louis Riel, Joy Kogawa Row Three Marshall McLuhan, Samuel de Champlain, Marilyn Bell, Wayne Gretzky, Emily Murphy Row Four Rene Levesque, Sam Steele, Farley Mowat, L.M. Montgomery, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, John McCrae Row Five Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Oscar Peterson, Rush, Pierre Berton Row Six Les Filles du Roi, Mary Pickford, Skookum Jim Mason Row Seven Charles Best, Frederick Banting, Pauline Johnson, Mordecai Richler, Tecumseh, Stompin’ Tom Connors Row Eight William Hall, Tommy Douglas, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Rosemary Brown, John Diefenbaker Row Nine Shanawdithit, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, David Thompson, William Shatner |
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Check out part one here! Cross-posted everywhere I could think of.
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CLEVELAND—After strapping on inline skates for the first time ever Monday, Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal and his new teammates bonded while Rollerblading through the streets of Cleveland. |
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COCONUT CREEK, FL—"I'm back, Bayshore High," 18-year-old Henry Doyle announced as he pulled his mother's Toyota Camry slowly into the parking lot normally reserved for faculty, emerging with a knowing grin. "Bet you never thought you'd see the likes of me again!" |
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[*] Irgendwelche Ahnungen, wie das auf englisch heisst? |
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The Interfictions Auction is up & running, with 6 fabulous pieces, and a new one every day! I have bid on several. But there is one piece I seriously want, and do not intend to lose. Can you guess which one? |
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[I need to work on my advisories. With my last one I seem to have frightened people away from making any kind of comment whatsoever.] The gallows witticism circulating at Butch's wake was that he had finally managed to be the first of the siblings to do something. And it was very much on my mind how the funerals are only starting for his generation. This is also the generation of my parents, my boyfriend, and my ex, and for years now I've been morbidly wondering which would be the first to go. My father didn't expect to see his 50th, much less his 60th, and Nuphy we almost lost several years ago when a simple hernia operation took a very heinous turn. The trip I just took I've been ready to take at the drop of a hat for about two years now on account of my grandmother. She hasn't left her house in that long, probably hasn't known who I am for that long. Her children have ceased to view her impending death as a tragedy rather than a mercy; after the funeral, several of them--my mother included--visited the crypt where her husband lay and gazed wistfully up at the resting place prepared for her as they audibly speculated on how long it would be before she would be interred there. Mom, still stuck in clinical-practical mode, wanted to begin a discussion of estate planning when we came down. I'm all for that, though not at the expense of more immediate concerns like reclaiming her wreck of a kitchen or finding her a new job. I raised the subject a couple years back and found her more receptive than I'd expected; I think her mother's condition has softened her up. In fact, the main impetus between this current drive to discard and organise is not wanting to leave behind an insurmountable mess for her to have to contend with. If anything, it's my überpractical who seems to have done the least planning on this score. (Well, besides my older brother, who has no real sense of future to speak of.) She confessed to |
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Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland |
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(See more silent film / video game mashups at GamePlayGag.) [Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.] |
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Work? Who gives a fuck. Eventually we'll all be dead, and no one is going to write on my gravestone "Was associated with a really crappy project in 2009." (If I had a gravestone. Which I won't. As I prefer to be planted in a nice garden somewhere and my molecules reused, or cremated, that'd be fine, thanky.) Why do I love perfume? Because it doesn't need anything from me. It doesn't have any health issues for me to deal with, bodily or mentally. It doesn't fuck up my blood sugar, energy levels, or digestion. It doesn't require that I have slept beforehand. And it doesn't distract from reading or other intellectual pleasures except in the most fleeting and pleasurable of ways. So I've been lusting for a bottle of Montale Vanilla Extasy all year, right? Really a year. And I finally bought one. It came yesterday. I put it on this morning - restrainedly, as I'd only previously worn it in little dabs here and there. A couple of spritzes, no more. I can still smell it, and it is glorious. Rich and sweet and warm even when it's just barely there. Happiness in a sense perception. Have nice weekends if at all possible, everyone.
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Just a quick reminder what we got going on this weekend... First of all: Three Sales Over The Next Three Days!
Next, Our Special Events: Elizabeth Bear will be at Pandemonium Books & Games! Join us for a reading and signing of her new book, By the Mountain Bound (now available at Pandemonium Books & Games). She will be at Pandemonium Books & Games Friday, November 6th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Friday Night Magic: Special Edition: Pandemonium will be upping the prize stakes with some really neat Magic: the Gathering prizes for this Friday Night Magic. These special prizes will be given away at random to participants in this week's Friday Night Magic only to players who participate in this week's Friday Night Magic. Additionally, we'll host this Friday Night Magic at the Classic price of $15.00 to further celebrate our Anniversary Sale. Dungeons & Dragons: Weekend in the Realms: We'll be running Open Role Playing games as part of the Wizards Play network. Registration is up on warhorn.net, here: http://warhorn.net/PandemoniumWITR2009/ Board Game Tournaments & Open Play on Saturday Evening, We'll be holding demos and tournaments with prizes featuring some of our most popular games! Featuring Arkham Horror, Dominion, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and many others. Interested in helping to organize, run, or provide games for this event? Please e-mail us at smoagendash(AT)gmail(DOT)com Monsterpocalypse Tournament: Happening this Sunday at 1:00 at Pandemonium Books & Games. See you there! |
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Tomorrow, Saturday November 7: "HEROES" Here's the November 7 flier. Click away. DJ CHRIS EWEN mixes the music - NEW WAVE, RETRO, ELECTRO, PUNK and some Old School Goth + Industrial and TERRI mixes the cocktails in the Lounge. Only $7. And it's 18 plus. Open from 9pm until 2am. T.T. THE BEAR'S PLACE 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge MA (in Central Square). The Facebook invite is here. The MySpace invite is here.
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