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Archive for December, 2007

Family Entertainment

Posted in Family Fun, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We don’t do cable except for the web (which maybe a bit like saying you’re a vegetarian except for bacon). There is no doubt that what counts for family entertainment around here is far more strange than the steady diet of Mr Dress-up and The Friendly Giant I was nourished on.
The Yellow Submarine is [...]

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Reprieve

Posted in Capital "E" education, Uncategorized, tagged on December 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Tonight the VSB Trustees, along with Committees II/III, met to listen to delegates’ presentations against the possible closure to close Garibaldi. There were eight or nine delegates [actually 11 delegates represented Garibaldi], covering many aspects of why Garibaldi should stay open. The Trustees decided to amend the motion to allow for the school to stay [...]

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School blues

Posted in Capital "E" education on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The little school around the corner from us is up on the chopping block so tonight we’re heading off to a school board meeting to show support for keeping it open, even though we are one of a number of families who have gone elsewhere. Apparently our reasons are fairly typical. We heard rumours of [...]

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For your pre-Christmas viewing pleasure

Posted in Consumerism, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We finished watching the 4th episode “The Century of the Self” last night, the BBC documentary that explores the influence of Freud’s ideas on marketers, public relations and politics. “The Corporation” analyzed corporate behaviour through the lense of psychosis; Century of the Self explores how psychoanalytic understandings and techniques made possible the sweep [...]

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Special Libraries

Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dreams/Nightmares? by Giampaolo Macorig
I wasn’t going to share my dream from last night until I was checking out my blog feeds and came across this dream post from John Crowley. I haven’t remembered my dreams much the last five years which is, coincidentally how long Harry has been around. Unless I have earplugs in, I [...]

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