Year: 2009

Going to the Candidate's Debate…

There was a forum for the candidates for the NDP leadership tonight at a local restaurant so I headed over to check it out.  Here are some random

A Couple Last FTRW Links

My classmate, Lauralee, who has a history of drawing great stick figure art recently outdid herself with the FTRW poster she made for her library.  Very cool!  (I'm

Music Monday – "How I wish that there were more/Than twenty-four hours in the day/Cause even if there were forty more/I wouldn't sleep a minute anyway" – March 2, 2009

So, on somewhat short notice, Shea and I have decided to head for Sin City (except that we'll have Pace in tow so “sin” will be restricted to

I'm Published…Sort of

I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?”  It's a a

FTRW 2009 – Internet Filtering in Ontario Lbraries?

I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers.  Although this

FTRW 2009 – A Collection of Truly Offensive Jokes (Not For the Faint-Hearted) (Feb 27, 2009)

Reddit recently had a question posted asking their community to submit the most offensive joke(s) they knew.  There's some pretty disturbing material here and if you doubt the

FTRW 2009 – Burn Before Reading: A Hot List of Banned Books

Here's an article about FTRW that appeared in Xtra.ca (“Where Queers Conspire”).  They asked various Canadian literary types and free speech proponents to give their thoughts on some

FTRW 2009 – Margaret Atwood Debates Ducking Dubai While Being Challenged in Canada

What's FTRW without a couple stories about Peggy Atwood…  Her books are currently being challenged in a Toronto school by a parent who says: “…if students repeated some

FTRW 2009 – Music Monday – "You May Take Offense/To A Word Like Fuck or Shit (DICK!)" (Feb 23, 2009)

This was a popular song when I was in undergrad around the time that Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore's wife, Tipper was contributing to greenhouse gases by

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