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We Are Amused: MMO Games are Officially Boring Now
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Tuesday, August 2, 2011. MMO Games are Officially Boring Now. Awhile ago, I played a game on Facebook called Mafia Wars. I just got an awesome ice cream truck that adds to my attack score! Greasy Jeremy's doing awesome! It was after I had purchased DC Universe Online. The fault with DC Universe is not in the mechanics of the game. The mechanics are fine. The problem was that I had...Easil...
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We Are Amused: Review of "The Baby Book" by Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Thursday, July 21, 2011. Review of "The Baby Book" by Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears. Disclaimer: Apologies to my friends who are attachment parents. Please do not misconstrue this article as a reproach of how you raise your children. Continue to raise them in the best way you see fit. If your feelings are hurt, I apologize. Thank you. Attachment parenting features closeness to your b...
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We Are Amused: Review of "Insomnia" by Stephen King
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Review of "Insomnia" by Stephen King. Insomnia is a novel by Stephen King, one of many. King is one of the most successful novelists in history. He is maligned as a "popular writer" by literature-jerks. Yet despite their efforts, his books sell and sell and sell and get adapted for the screen and sell some more. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Because his pro...
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We Are Amused: The Faceless Enemy
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The Faceless Enemy has a long history. The earliest example I can remember with any clarity is the ninja. Of course, the most famous Faceless Enemy these days is the Imperial Stormtrooper. For over thirty-five years, the Stormtrooper has been a pop-culture icon. However, we must not forget that the Imperial Stormtrooper was a dream inspired in George Lucas. The ene...
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We Are Amused: Life is but a Dream
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Life is but a Dream. They say that vulnerability is the new strength. I'll share, then. Seriously, what the fuck? Not the show: it can't change. I had changed. And I wasn't enjoying it because I was waiting for it to be over. And what was I waiting for? Old thought patterns die hard, and breaking those habits is difficult. But I can already feel joy creeping...
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We Are Amused: The Disaster that is Art, Part II
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Friday, July 23, 2010. The Disaster that is Art, Part II. In my last Disastrous Art post. That collectors fawn over because they want to make themselves look worldly. I'm talking about Art. Why is this definition important? Because many institutions place high value on Art. For example, within my own experience, Grain Magazine. Lastly, and most importantly, Art is only for certain people&...
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We Are Amused: Privileged in Toronto
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Wednesday, August 3, 2016. In a red, folding audience chair of Studio Theatre at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre sits a white man. He is in the wrong place. This time, however, the speech strikes the white man as meaningless. If The Mississauga First Nation asked Jack Illingworth to vacate his house, would he be waxing this eloquent? Tired and troubled, the white man leaves the talk early&#...
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We Are Amused: For Ricky
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Sunday, March 29, 2015. On February 12th, 2015, Richard Enns went into the hospital for the last time. I saw him at my mother's house the day before. With painful steps, he hobbled from the bathroom to the kitchen and opened a container of apple sauce, mumbling. After he finished eating, he addressed a vacant chair in the living room. What was that, Ricky? Rick's boat roared forward. ...
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We Are Amused: Robin Williams, Sadness, and the Lie of Success
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The professional weblog of Jeremy A. Cook, Bard. Anything here is free to share, so please do so. www.jeremyacook.ca. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Robin Williams, Sadness, and the Lie of Success. Robin Williams was not my favourite comedian, nor celebrity. Rik Mayall. What Dreams May Come. And that concentration camp movie, the name of which I care not to remember. Yet I cried when he died. Here's why. It is not as simple as that. His death should not be the entire meaning of his life. Drawing on his energy...
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