Archive for April, 2007

Graffiti Artists Tagged

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Back in August 2006, I posted (what I felt to be) a relatively neutral entry about the sudden spike in incidences of graffiti stencilling I had noticed in an area nearby.  Well, this past April 23rd, a defensive comment was inserted in the article from “Fubar” who appeared to be standing up on behalf of Bimo’s unique ability, as well as [...]

Uncanny Resemblance

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

For those of you that are regulars here but have never met me, and are trying to put a face to the words (and felt that this entry didn’t quite provide the necessary detail), I have decided to provide a list of the actors whom I’ve been told that I resemble, to aid your visualization.  Whether [...]

These are a Few of My Favourite Hymns

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

For fun, in some upcoming posts, I’ll share some of my personal favourites in the sphere of Sunday morning church music.  There are some pieces which just seem to me a perfect combination of both melody and lyrics.
I’ll start by mentioning the hymn O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, written by Samuel David Francis, an English preacher, in 1875.  You can listen to a [...]

Tripping Over the Road

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

My friends Brian and Dave are taking a two-week road trip through the United States.  They just left days ago, and are intending to update All Those Who Use The Internet with their experiences.  I know that those two together have a penchant for getting themselves into unexpected adventures, so it should be interesting:
Duffy’s Dubious Dictate 
The first entry [...]

A Bureaucratic Observation

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Bureaucracy is generally marked by the mindless enforcement of rules without the use of discretion.  Whether it emerges when dealing with the minutae of a bank’s loan policy, trying to obtain a permit or certificate of approval from a government body, or figuring out how to get the overpayment you made on your final cell phone bill back from [...]

The Motor City Underground (ie. the Detroit Subway)

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

We all know Detroit, Michigan as the headquarters of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers.  This is also made fairly clear in other ways; one look at the ubiquity of expressways on a map of its downtown (see here) shows how fixated on the car the city’s planners were (though believe it or not, it apparently could have been [...]

Graffiti’s Romantic Period

Friday, April 13th, 2007

In the summer, I posted a quick succession of articles with plenty of accompanying inset photos, about the prevalence of a particular style of stencil graffiti in a section of the downtown (read those two posts here and here).  Ever since I wrote those pieces, no additional ”artwork” had been added, although a fair number of them have since been [...]

Scripturally Untenable Vehicles (SUV’s)

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The sport utility vehicle, the profitable darling of so many auto manufacturers, has for a long time received the brunt of a great deal of criticism.  Much of it is well-founded; to many, this car category represents the epitome of wasteful consumerism, a position that is difficult to disagree with when presented with obnoxiously large vehicles like GM’s Hummer.  So, [...]

Animated Personality

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Though I am not an avid watcher of the cartoon ‘South Park’, I do find their style of animation and simplistic character drawing overly amusing in and of itself.  A while back, I was sent the link to a site which allows one to construct a depiction of themself as a character from the show.
Originally, South Park was [...]

An Unseemly Delay

Friday, April 6th, 2007

It has been twelve days since my most recent post, and I intend to correct this inelegant reprieve from writing in the immediate future.  Though of little excuse (since the Internet’s tendrils invade any geographic area with a phone line), I have been travelling frequently; in the last week, the Ontario cities of both Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie have exhilarated [...]