Apr 25
The Conservatives are distributing talking points to their followers via Tory Nation. (The “24/7 virtual campaign office” of the Conservative Party of Canada.) Here’s the screenshots and my understanding of them. Click on any of the images for a larger version. A log-in screen to find out about calling talk radio. It’s odd that the …
Jun 29
Friday was George Orwell’s birthday. We have an odd way of celebrating such things in Toronto. We like to mark occasions like this with large art installations featuring performances by the local police. There was a moment,when I thought of the old fellow. Not in a This is so 1984 sense (that got old about …
Jun 26
G20 T-Dot from Ryan Oakley on Vimeo. A short video about the G20 Summit (Copstock) in Toronto featuring never before seen footage of my sock.
Jun 17
A group of women from Virginia are concerned about what they call an “epidemic” of Internet pornography. Like all puritans they cite the safety of children. In this case, not their physical safety but the safety of their “innocence.” This is, I assume, code for ignorance. Because kids aren’t all that innocent. They spent months sucking …
Jun 07
It’s a subject I’ve often gone on about here: That access is used as bludgeon and bait to control media opinion. It happens with big subjects, it happens with little ones but I was surprised to see it happen in baseball. Mike Wilner, who hosts the Fan 590′s post-game, baseball call in show was suspended …
May 22
“Media stars are spectacular representations of human beings, distilling the essence of the spectacle’s banality into images of possible roles. Stardom is a diversification in the semblance of life – the object of an identification with mere appearance which is intended to compensate for the crumbling of directly experienced diversification of productive activity. Celebrities figure …
Apr 26
Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown on Vimeo on Vimeo via Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown on Vimeo.
Apr 13
YouTube – PIL CAREERING POPTONES USA TV 1980. This is, I think, the purest moment of anarchy and punk in the whole media. It amazes me every time. It’s never been about a haircut, spitting, fighting or breaking things. Sometimes you have to do all of that because sometimes things are in your way. But …
Apr 05
During a bungled night-time raid in Afghanistan, NATO troops killed two pregnant ladies, dug the bullets out of their bodies, poured alcohol on the wounds then claimed that Afgan militants had bound and murdered them before NATO ever got there. Our enemy is so very inhuman. Oh wait, that inhuman shit was done by us. …
