Photo by Vik Nanda Some things popping up and absorbing my attention this week. Mushrooms + human hair = oil spill cleanup Customizing big flying spaces. What will the future archeologists say? The economics and ecologics of such endeavours stagger me. Wow. Ashley dreams of flying,by putting all that space on the OUTSIDE. An old friend from Peterborough, Andy Quan, comes back on my radar with a new book of poems edited by another old friend, John Barton, with whom I was a associate editor of ARC magazine in the early 1990s. I love the web. Good media (page 1, …
A summery Friday here at the Lot. Here’s what tickled my eyes this week: El Cameron, my favourite flamenco singer. Full of duende this night. A brilliantly rendered story of the four quadrants of integral theory. This map is just so helpful in looking at so many sitautions. This particular presentation is a lovely use of web technology as well. So you want to speak Danish? Who wouldn’t… The first place to start is by mastering this phrase: rødgrød med fløde. If you can’t get it on the first or second (or 27th) try, have a look at this detailed …
Starting a new regular type of posting. These are a series of short notes and thoughts, too small to warrant a post, but looking for a home nonetheless, and possibly becoming more. I invite your curiosity on any of this…queries may set me to growing these little guys into something more substantial. Conversations that matter is the home for the world cafe Europe blog. Good reading there. Dave Pollard on the distinctions between dialogue and debate. Dave wrestles with his conscience on this one and comes up with a finer grain analysis as a result. Interesting as usual, and deeply …
A little marker to note the passing of a great Canadian institution. Tomorrow night, in Massey Hall, The Rheostatics play their last gig. They’ve been at it for over 20 years and it’s coming to an end. If, like me, you never saw them live, you can download some of their shows here. Writing today in the Globe and Mail about their career, guitarist and hockey writer extraordinaire Dave Bidini explained the band’s ethos succinctly:”…We were four satellites who got a long and if you listened closely or saw us on a good night, you got bit.” …