Considering what we have been studying in my class on Violence and the problems with the Hero Myth, I wonder just what this board game is all about....

Last night I was listening to the CBC and heard an interview with one of the two British men who just broke the world record for high altitude ironing. I just found the news story on the internet and was reminded that I wanted to blog it. Mary Lou or Barbara, I forget who, was interviewing this guy, and asked him if he plugged in his iron...haha. I was thinking to myself that of course they would bring a battery opperated one up on Mt. Everest. No doubt with the cold tempurature it would take a while to warm up. But, it would seem that extreme ironing is not really about actually ironing, it is about the appearance of ironing, about 'pretend' ironing. It seems that the iron did not even get hot, and that the Union Jack, or what ever it was that they claimed to be ironing was not wrinkled, nor did it thus get *ironed*. Ask M's mother if she would call it ironing to run a cold iron over a piece of cloth. I think that the point of ironing is being missed here. Now I don't know about you, but I think they should only hold the world record for pretend ironing. I want to see someone really iron a flag on Mt. Everest! That would be a feat indeed.

Taking a little break, and what can I say, I had to do it.

You are red. You are impure, but noble. You are precious and true to yourself and others. When you love, you love entirely, and will do anything to make your love happy. You are sure of your identity, therefore, you cannot change others or be changed. You are a true prince, you may be forgotten, but without you, none of us could go on.

What inner color are you?

This was a cool one. I liked the images. But I must say, blue looked like some kind of orgy or something. Could be that I have been reading too much Bataille at this point. I don't know if it is just me, but it seems to be getting colder and colder in here. I am glad I have small rooms, as my little body heat does seem to make a difference. Ah well, back to the editing. :)

This is a cool quiz. Thanks J!

Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?


What Monty Python Character are you?
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Well folks, just to confuse you, I have started up another sort of blog, which can be found here. I hope to write some of my more scholarly reflections there, and for now keep this as a more personal blog. Hey, lots of people have different blogs. It is all good. More sites I won't update nearly as often as so many of my friends. But, perhaps now I will have more incentive to write more often. Who knows. The best part about the other format is that people can comment...so please go and write your comments, I would love to hear them!

Well, I will give this a try and see how it goes. I had a great Easter Weekend back in Aurora and Waterloo. I saw many people which was great, but I didn't get to see anyone for nearly as long as I wanted to. Ah well. Can't have everything. Now I have to make up for all the work I neglected. But, as a nice surprise, while M and I were in GenX there was a nice box set of three of my favourite movies...Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Trois Couleurs". M was kind enough to buy it for me as a late birthday gift, and so I watched some of the extras this weekend. I hope to sit down and watch the movies again sometime when I do not have a pile of papers. For those of you who have not seen these movies, I highly recommend them. So, I went looking for webpages which might have something to say about them. (I find movies like this are always more interesting when you read up on them a bit. That is why I was happy to have all the extras on the DVD with all the scholarly interpretations, and the insights of the actors and actresses). So, here is one link which has some intersting stuff, on the trilogy and some other movies as well, like "The Cook, the Theif, His Wife and Her Lover". He even goes into a bit of the political commentary on Thatcher which the film is supposed to reflect. I really wish I could find a better explanation of that connection. I was too young to really grasp Thatcher when it was happening. But, that is for another entry. In the meantime, happy paper writing, and for those of you with free time, happy movie watching. :)