May
02
Osama bin Laden is irrelevant. There are always men like him and always will be. How a society reacts to them is the important thing. We failed. Osama never could overturn our civil liberties, kill a million civilians or destroy the economy. He could never have divided people so much against each other that they resort to …
Apr
27
pic nicked from here Chimps seem to have a similar reaction to the death of a group member as humans. No, they don’t all put on black ties and get drunk around the corpse. Rather, they comfort the dying and then appear to experience trauma. Some chimp mothers even refuse to let go of their …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
