Marc | March 19, 2010
I am continually amazed at how “muddy” at lot of thinking is these days, and how this is reflected in a lot of the writing that I now read. I find myself yearning for the “Good Old Days”, which existed only in myth, where people would hold sensible conversations in their writing. Maybe I’m just [...]
Marc | March 2, 2010
My friend Jim Cassidy just sent me a link to this presentation. Totally cool, and a fantastic way to show the power of music.
Marc | February 1, 2010
A week ago, I posted about the medium is the message vs. massage and used a couple of YouTube Videos from the Ottawa Back Choir as example. On Saturday, I was over for dinner at an old friend’s house and he showed me one of his favourite YouTube recording artists: Pamplamoose Music. As he showed [...]
Marc | January 26, 2010
The Medium is the Massage (no, that isn’t a spelling error), is the name of a rather famous work produced by Marshall McLuhan and Quenten Fiore in 1967. It is, in many ways, a popularizing, as well as exemplar, version of McLuhan’s major research focus on how media influences messages or, in it’s better known [...]
Marc | January 15, 2010
A very interesting discussion is starting to heat up over at the Small Wars Council over a paper written by Matt Lauder called Religion and Resistance: Examining the Role of Religion in Irregular Warfare (March 2009, DRDC Toronto TN 2009-049; NB: originally posted by milNews.ca over at army.ca forums). I expect the discussion to expand [...]
Marc | January 12, 2010
CBC just carried a story that Sarah Palin will be joining Fox News as a commentator. I think that her comment that
It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.
just about says it all. Needless to say, I will continue my personal classification of Fox News as an amusing, [...]
Marc | November 26, 2009
I really don’t like rap at all, but one of my ex-students just sent me a link to an incredibly powerful rap video (hat tip to Lindsay Aranoff). The video speaks for itself. Do not watch it if you have a weak stomach.
Marc | November 13, 2009
One of the things that is often forgotten these days is why people fight – not nations, not governments; people. All to often, especially during long conflicts with not actual “fighting” in a homeland, we forget and dismiss the conflicts and blame those who go to do the fighting as being “war mongers” and “myrmidons” [...]
Marc | November 3, 2009
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has just released a briefing on anti-terrorist cartoons in the Saudi Arabian press. As with all humour, it has a cutting edge to it. My favorites, and I’ll admit I have a warped sense of humour, really capture how what Richard Dawkins calls Mind Viruses operate.
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Marc | October 18, 2009
I normally limit my posts here about music but, given the concert season, I thought I would post a few announcements about upcoming concerts. The first two are in Ottawa, while the second two are national broadcasts which can be heard online.
MM on Pentatonic power
john on Some more (!) HTS news…
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