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Essays from East Lawrencetown: June 2010
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Monday, June 21, 2010. Himself is home. And not working nights, which is not home, as far as I`m concerned. Let the normal times begin for the first time since February. For a while at least! Monday, June 21, 2010. Friday, June 18, 2010. Hoping for a white hot summer. It’s after eight pm and it’s still thirty degrees. Even though it’s only June. Everyone is hoping this will be one of those summers. We haven’t had one for a while. And when the sun went do...
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Essays from East Lawrencetown: The wearing of the poppy
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Friday, November 11, 2011. The wearing of the poppy. The many faces of Remembrance Day. Here, where there was no war, just commerce and volunteering for service overseas, it is a very sombre week, everyone wears poppies and it is full of ceremonies remembering all the soldiers who fought in WW1 and WW2 (and others of course). (it is also a big drunk for many). It was a defining issue for the young country of Canada. Friday, November 11, 2011. East Coast ...
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Essays from East Lawrencetown: To Libya with love
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. To Libya with love. We see the carnage on Twitter. We want it to stop. As Western Europeans/ North Americans, we reach for the tools to do that. Call on Obama. Email the EU Commission. March on the embassy. Campaign to motivate NATO. I am reading Amin Maalouf's " The Crusades through Arab Eyes". It is as gut-wrenching as the photos I am clicking through on Twitter. Disembowellment. Siege. Starvation. So here's the thing. Maybe...
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Essays from East Lawrencetown: Yes, it's all really funny till someone gets hurt
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Thursday, August 05, 2010. Yes, it's all really funny till someone gets hurt. Smart ass anti-baby comedy sketches inc. So we were talking about it this evening, in that part of the evening when we stand in the kitchen after work drinking tea and telling each other what really just friggin' sucked. None of us could believe it. Himself couldn't believe it. And he doesn't even know them. And then they get SHAFTED by some bureaucrat today. In Ireland, you ha...
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Beer in America | Secondhand Daylight
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Songs From Under The Floorboards. July 20, 2014. Middot; 3 Comments. A couple of weeks ago Jay Hinman pulled down the shutters on his blog Beer Samizdat. But lately I’ve begun to wonder if the proliferation of craft breweries is an unalloyed benefit, if perhaps the brewing industry might be starting to choke on its own growth? In April I went up to New York to see a couple of gigs, both in Le Poisson Rouge. The venue is only a few blocks away from the Blind Tiger. It promotes striking, aggressive flavour...
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Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? | Secondhand Daylight
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Songs From Under The Floorboards. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? January 30, 2015. Middot; Leave a comment. Magazine feuilleton All Power to the Pack Rats. Ian Svenonius nails a bizarre inversion at work in Apple’s ideal for modern living:. 8220;Apple has turned the world upside down in making possessions a symbol of poverty and having nothing a signifier of wealth and power.”. Posted in Modus Vivendi. The Smell of the Streets. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Step In The Arena | Secondhand Daylight
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Songs From Under The Floorboards. Step In The Arena. March 5, 2013. Middot; Leave a comment. I spent the weekend at the Confucius Cup. As for me, I won two, lost three; went away doubting whether if I have any hope remaining of improvement at this game, but vowing to make a renewed effort. Mercifully I was too busy cleaning up to attend to Csaba’s review of my final round game, but there was a large group gathered at the table and I could hear the sound of laughter. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Essays from East Lawrencetown: July 2010
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Thursday, July 29, 2010. On Reading Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I have been reading Coetzee again. As usual, I have only the faintest idea what the novel is about. It takes me a while with Coetzee usually. She is accompanied by her increasingly bemused physicist son. (Coetzee is a mathematician by trade). Who presumably represents the poor reader. This is what the Telegraph. Andrew Marr) said about it:. In the end, as his heroine confronts death, he ha...
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Essays from East Lawrencetown: Mothered by a warm breeze
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Essays from East Lawrencetown. A Nova Scotia blog. Monday, August 16, 2010. Mothered by a warm breeze. Tired and flat and hiccupy after an enervating week and too much emotion, I managed to force myself to put the cleaning rag down and sit out on the deck in the darkness for ten minutes. I was rewarded by a warm breeze cooling me off, playing a soft melody on the pewter wind chimes. And crickets. I will not have a meltdown and spoil what's left of you. Because you won't let me, will you.
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