Because moulds are for playdough, not people.
Would you like to come to space with me? Today I went to a conference roundtable session on Space Tourism. It was a bit surreal listening to the very real conversations about commercial space travel, how “certified space (travel) agent” is apparently a thing, how one company expects to have a fleet of spaceships in […]
Read More Come to Space with MeI may get murdered by Taylor Swift fans for what I’m about to say but: I will take a cozy living room-style show with talented local musicians over a $2000 stadium T-Swift ticket any day. Tonight I had the very cool experience of attending a “Sofar” show. Sofar hosts “secret” shows in hundreds of cities […]
Read More Sofar SecretsTonight I went to a book launch, so today’s post is dedicated to Margarita Artista, my soon-to-be cousin-in-law and now a published author, and her new book! Margarita has been working for 11 years on this magical realism urban fantasy, and launched the first book in the series today! Here’s the description of her first […]
Read More Phoenix LaunchA modest proposal to re-imagine Canada Day as Do Better Day. How do we make Canada a better place… for everyone? How do we break the moulds of racial injustice in Canada… today? Like any big important thing: we do it One Thing at a time.
Read More Do Better DayIn university I took a fascinating course called “War, Peace and Society.” We always used to joke that the class should just be called “War,” as we never made it through the “war” part to talk much about “peace and society.” In retrospect I realize the thing about peace is that it can’t really exist without […]
Read More War, Peace, Society, and Space RobotsIf you’re not from Canada, you may have heard we had an election recently, if for no other reason than John Oliver – Canadian election calling our “short” election period “adorable” and imploring us not to re-elect Stephen Harper, with the help of Mike Myers dressed in a mountie outfit driving a snow plow. In any case Canadian […]
Read More Canadian Election HaikuNope, it’s not Viagra. Someone has finally gone and invented the Birth Control Pill for men. And who? America, and its progressive, forward-thinking scientists? Germany, with all its brilliant minds? Switzerland, with its groundbreaking work at the scientific mecca of CERN? Japan, with all of its futuristic inventions?
Read More The Pill For Men That Women Have Been Waiting ForI recently attended a talk by writer/artist/designer Douglas Coupland where he mentioned offhand – as though it were common knowledge – that Google is becoming sentient. As he describes, Google the company is currently sending out its minions to collect information on anything from anywhere to add to “Google” the online entity, because it apparently expects “Google” to […]
Read More The Google Heart“Tis the reason…” quipped the cover of a shopping guide for a retail establishment that should have known better. As if the insanity of Boxing Day shopping wasn’t enough in Canada, I’ve returned after 4 years living in Japan to discover the tendrils of America’s notorious Black Friday sales creeping north of the border as well. It is clear that […]
Read More Rethinking the “Reason”The cop car that just blasted up the street outside my office window must have been going over 200 km an hour, and even as I reflect on this, the phone rings urgently: “Something is happening downtown. I don’t know what but it’s something very serious.” As my colleague speaks, more sirens, police trucks this time, blaze […]
Read More Rethinking Remembrance: Ottawa Shooting Afterthoughts
Breaking Moulds 