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http://daddytypes.com/2009/12/06/quirky_canada_has_own_laws_stay_at_home_dad_videos.php
I assume that since everyone follows DadCentric's Twitter feed, you've all already seen "Stay At Home Dad," the hilarious music sensation by Canada's second most popular YouTube star after Corey Vidal [the Star Wars acapella lipsync guy, remember him?] Montreal's very own Jon LaJoie. [It's la-ZHWA, even though he's from the side of town where they pronounce the "T."]
So I'll be brief:
1) Seriously, Canada, is it not enough that you've stolen all our movie and TV series production business, now you're taking over our YouTube, too?
2) Surfing through LaJoie's oeuvre [EHHR-vruh, btw], "Stay At Home Dad" may be his most mature work, at least in the Terrance and Phillip sense of the word. But when a dad tells fake-raps to you that his favorite Disney movie is Lion King II?? How can that not raise a few red flags about his judgment? Seriously, that thing when straight-to-video!
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imomus | |
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 I'm a little too jet-lagged at the moment to claim to be whirling up the Japanese archipelago like a cultural typhoon, but I do have some early interests. Mayonaka is publisher / gallery Little More's regular magazine, and the current edition sees an inspired teaming of their regular designer Kazunari Hattori with conceptual manga man Yuichi Yokoyama, who's taken photographs of children and dropped them into his characteristic halftoned, colourblended backgrounds, or inserted his oddly abstract baseball-capped figures into their midst. Mayonaka is the most inspiring magazine I see on the Japanese racks at the moment, and Little More are little wonders. On Saturday night the gallery's biggest star, 28 year-old photographer Ume Kayo, appeared in a panel talk at Osaka's AD&A Gallery. We've met Ume Kayo before on Click Opera, in a somewhat gossipy context. In My disappearing little dick she appeared as (nudist, bohemian, photoblogger) Patrick Tsai's love interest. Pat Pat (name-checked on the Joemus album for his rock-diving exploits) was, at the time of telling, heading to Japan to pay court to Kayo, having been "thunderstruck" by her at a french photography biennial. The quest for Kayo's favour seems to have failed; Pat Pat is now with someone else.  I missed the Kayo appearance on Saturday, preferring to sleep deeply, catching up timezones one by one. But Hisae went with her friend Kazumi and reported that Ume Kayo had spoken of her influences: a Japanese wildlife photographer famous for his shots of bathing monkeys, and Ninomiya-san from Johnny's idol group Arashi, and more specifically his erect boy-nipples. (Here Hisae could totally identify.)  A cursary leaf through Ume Kayo's three photo books in, say, your local branch of Tsutaya will give you the impression that her favourite subject is people goofing around. Her first book, Umeme, won the Kimura Award and scored sales of over 100,000 copies for Little More, her publisher. That was mostly Ume and her friends goofing around, giggling at the sight of a bald man with a grain of rice on his head, and so on. The next book, Danshi, sold "only" 40,000 copies and focused on schoolboys goofing around in playgrounds. Her latest, Granpa, is a tender study of Ume's grandfather goofing around. Last night I drank a lot with some of Hisae's Osaka friends and ended up doing synchronised enka dancing and thinking -- as you do when drunk and jet-lagged -- about how different socities organise inhibition and disinhibition. I must say I admire both; a semi-legenday character like Pat Pat impresses me for his mad Baal-Byron exploits, his disinhibited impulsiveness (although only a certain tweeness saves that stuff from Dash Snow-style tragedy). But ultra-shy, ultra-quiet, inhibited people impress me too. I really identify with their interiority, their withdrawal. I wouldn't do anything as crude as align Japan with either inhibition or disinhibition. Clearly, though, this country has very distinctive ways of organising when and how you transition from one state to the other. From the extremes of one state to the other. For Japanese people can be the most massively reserved, autistically detached people in the world. And yet, as a drunken night of enka singing -- or the photographs of Ume Kayo -- demonstrate, they can be super-disinhibited when etiquette calls for it. And that -- the fact that there's an etiquette of disinhibition just as there's an etiquette of inhibition -- is an interesting paradox in itself.
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/12/06/ Up, but very good friends with her before I rose, and so to the office, where we sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, where Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess. Then after dinner, my wife and brother, in another habit; go out to see a play; but I am not to take notice that I know of my brother's going. So I to the office, where very busy till late at night, and then home. My wife not pleased with the play, but thinks that it is because she is grown more critical than she used to be, but my brother she says is mighty taken with it. So to supper and to bed. This day, in the Gazette, is the whole story of defeating the Scotch rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter.
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Friends, Back from weekend visit to St.Nicholas church in Cohoes New York just north of Albany. It is a beautiful church with a sort of jewel box quality which Orthodox churches can have sometimes have. Here is a picture from the choir loft which gets the general view. ( Read more... )And here is are a couple of others in which I appear... In the first the icon of St Nicholas on a stand in front left. ( Read more... )It is remarkable about St Nicholas how,although really all we know certainly about his life is that he was a bishop in Myra in present day Turkey in the 4th century, the stories about him spread and grew, centering on his practical help to people and standing with them in need, with sailors helping them clear the rigging in a storm, with unjustly accused people standing with them in court, appearing with money for a poor man needing it for his daughter...to be there beside the other is already a miracle perhaps,as Simone Weil says people wait for the freeing question addressed to the Fisher King in the old Grail stories ..."what ails you uncle?" for a question out of real care as to what it means to be the person we are...a rare question and a freeing one... well in any case perhaps this standing with the other is at the center of the continuing spread of the stories of St Nicholas. And after liturgy today and a wonderful festive meal there was a perforance by the children of song and instrumental play ranging from "Jesus Loves me" to Beethoven...and then a great surprise! St Nicholas himself appeared! I was in awe of a man who has been a bishop 1600 years longer than I and looking so well, and he brought gifts for all the performers. Picture at end of post. So today these and as always I am yours welcoming all response, +Seraphim  . I am to St Nicholas's right. to his left Fr Alvian Smirensky,
and the rector Fr.Terenti Wasielewski.then Victoria Serbalik
parish president. Some children who sang and played.
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  (Making cookies with Jenny; making cookies with Robert: photos by Kira.) Yesterday I woke up early, & tried desperately not to climb back into bed & bug Jenny with cuddling her. She ended up sleeping till about 9:30, by which I mean, I didn't attack her under the covers until then. We had ourselves a chuckle-time, until she decided it was game over! Sugar crash! I went to the grocery store & we had a frittata for breakfast, & then I made her a salad for lunch; also, she got a haircut. Mostly I lazed away in a haze, playing some Metroid. Then, finally, we got our clothes on & blundered out in the...snow! It was snowing & raining at the same time, ugly blots of wet flakes. I'd scoffed earlier at the idea it might snow, but darn it if the weather was not awful. We got a bottle of wine & rushed to the train-- to go make cookies! S'right, we had big plans-- a cooking class at the Oakridge Kitchen. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, this is Kira & Robert & Judy's business-- & they are my tribe. That doesn't diminish from how professional they are! All with their culinary institution time under their belt & such. They had fancy chef coats with their names on them! Judy was the boss-- she's the pastry chef. The other people in the class were Donna & Jessica, who are also our pals-- it was a more informal setting than their usual. We made the heck out of some cookies. We made green tea meringues, which I think are my favorite; meringues are mostly only one step to make, fun, awesome looking, & you can add a ton of flavors. We made Robert's Biscotti with lemon & orange zest, anise, almonds, coffee beans, & chocolate. We made fudgeroons with coconut topping which are basically huge brownies that taste like Mounds bars. We made bundernuss, caramel nut tarts, which were first invented by Judy & Kira for my wedding! They had hazel nuts, almonds, & pecans, & frangipane, all in a little pastry shell, & were drizzled in homemade caramel. We also made gingerspice linzer cookies with raspberry jam. It was pretty awesome-- & super grueling! The lesson ended up going over, & we spent like, four hours in constant hardcore lessons. Then, whew! They were done, & we made fancy boxes to take them away in, & drank a bunch of wine. There was talk-- the experimental lesson ran over, so what cookie should be removed to save time? I had to say the linzer-- we learned dough rolling with the bundernuss, & the linzer was pretty touchy-- you have to line it up & everything, so it took a lot of time. Then Kira drove us home. I had been considering going to Rachel's party, which I was bummed that I was missing (totally worth it though) but I walked in the door at 11:30 & promptly collapsed into bed.  (Making cookies with Judy: photo by Kira.) Tags: cooking, photos
current mood: Now what?
current music: crown me king- arise, sir night.
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Streamflow Conditions Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks + Timestamp 24 hours of networked writing an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ subitopress.org http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org~Beacons~ John Cayley (CA) Roderick Coover (US) Ian Hatcher (US) Mez (AU) José Carlos Silvestre (BR) Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US) Rui Torres (PT) code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST] Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means. Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists' individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, "timestampstream" and intercepted at the Subito Press web site. You are invited to follow along and respond. The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6. *see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html WHERE: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org+ twitter.com/timestampstream (follow/respond) STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves). **gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site. TIMESTAMP SHIFTS [ use this to translate into your timezone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ] 1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze 2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher 3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres 4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre 5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover 6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/12/05/ Up, and by water to White Hall, where we did much business before the Duke of York, which being done, I away home by water again, and there to my office till noon busy. At noon home, and Goodgroome dined with us, who teaches my wife to sing. After dinner I did give him my song, "Beauty retire," which he has often desired of me, and without flattery I think is a very good song. He gone, I to the office, and there late, very busy doing much business, and then home to supper and talk, and then scold with my wife for not reckoning well the times that her musique master hath been with her, but setting down more than I am sure, and did convince her, they had been with her, and in an ill humour of anger with her to bed.
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Dec 7, 2009 -- Prism Solar Technologies is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a winner of the annual New England Venture Summit Top Innovator award by youngStartup Ventures. The list of privately held companies recognizes those that play a leading role in innovation for the Technology, Life Sciences and Clean-tech sectors.
