“Not many people got a code to live by anymore.” — Bud, Repo Man Okay, I’m obviously not going to be able to do this while saddled with grad-school debts, so this winter (2007-2008), I’ll be going on leave from UBC to work full-time for a start-up I’ve been associated with since I started my…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
Canadian Indie-Rock Primer
Don’t you love it when two awesome things come together? My fave pop-culture web site, The A.V. Club delivers a cool primer — complete with tons of videos — on the Canadian indie music scene, which has just been going from great to Ubergreat for the past few years. It’s a pretty cool introduction to…
Travel Geek: Singapore to Istanbul
Singapore to Istanbul, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird . I’m not remotely a hard-core traveller. I grew up in Saskatchewan, in a fairly large lower-middle class household (some of my early years were in a trailer in northern Saskatchewan). International travel always seemed like an unattainable, exotic thing. As a family, the Brochus took…
working stiff
morrissey and smiths free zone, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. I resumed working in Yaletown this past week. Apparently, the Morrissey Mondays I ran on the office sound system on my last stint have been recalled less-than-fondly. I’ve been associated with this start-up there since I began my PhD, and I was working there…
The Wire: “Fuck the average reader. Fuck him to hell.”
The Wire — confusing, painful, and exhilarating — may well be the very best and smartest show of the current Golden Age of TV serial drama (though I’ve only seen a few episodes of The Sopranos). Kottke has a great roundup of recent links and quotes about the series, including creator David Simon talking about…