reading list, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Currently reading or about to read. Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution. I figure I should know more about Ignatieff, since it’s currently looking pretty likely he will be our Prime Minister before long. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope. I meant to read this before the US…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
the hell just happened?
Jeffrey Simpson has a good essay in the Globe today, summarizing how we got to this past week of politics in Canada. I will say, this is pretty entertaining political theatre, though more the bloodthirsty backstabbing of Richard III than the noble self-sacrifice of Henry V, if I may get all English major for a…
my blatantly ill-informed predictions
Coalition replaces the government. Harper stays on as leader of the opposition, survives a leadership review. Ignatieff becomes unelected PM. Economy worsens. Coalition falls apart. Grits take most of the blame, because nobody really expected anything better from the NDP or Bloc. Election late 2009/early 2010. Grits lose seats, Tories and Bloc gain. CPC is…
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The past few years, I’ve invariably spent much of November in a moody funk. It’s not only my birthday month (which always reminds me I’m not as young as I’d like everybody to think I am), but it’s the first month of deep Vancouver gloom. I wake up before sunrise, go to work surrounded by…
random link roundup
New and upcoming media edition! Roger Ebert writes a kind of four-star anti-review of Synecdoche, New York, and is then inspired to write a rambling, poetic essay on it. Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy, which he likens to Timothy Treadwell being eaten by a bear. Just one of many reasons why Chuck Klosterman is the…