tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78837368763741696582012-01-28T00:18:15.633-07:00stomping ground: n. (usu. in pl.) a favourite or familiar haunt or place of action. breeding ground: n. 1 an area of land where an animal, esp. a bird, habitually breeds. 2. a thing that favours the development or occurrence of something, esp. something unpleasant. (OCD)Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.comBlogger5541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-34075687692239273982012-01-27T23:26:00.001-07:002012-01-27T23:28:00.735-07:00

If my last post discouraged you (and I could see how one might find it discouraging), may I suggest you listen to this def poetry, Daniel Beaty's "Knock Knock":

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-73963574854391278682012-01-27T22:33:00.004-07:002012-01-27T23:11:02.430-07:00

Actually, I won't be talking at all about what I like about spoken word, and I don't like using the word hate. But I couldn't resist that title.I had been about to write a post about something else, but instead I am going to write on this before it loses any timeliness and before I cool off and don't care about it any more.Those of you who wander the Christian and atheist blogospheres have likely

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-24407306235110521862012-01-12T22:21:00.003-07:002012-01-12T22:26:42.494-07:00

I recently found this blog: http://vorpalbunnyranch.com/. It concerns the intersection of gender and sexuality studies on the one hand and gaming on the other. To my knowledge, this is far from the only blog to do so. If you don't see me for a few days, I got lost in the Internet again.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-68399286211547874072011-12-30T12:38:00.004-07:002011-12-30T14:12:58.472-07:00

[I should be writing a final paper (mimesis in The Two Gentlemen of Verona) right now; the longer I put it off, the more I'll suffer for it. In a move that may seem counterintuitive, I am going to write a blogpost instead. I intend to write on an idea that I will be employing in my paper, which will with any luck bring my brain gently back on topic and help me get something done on this paper...]

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-12174956198629624392011-11-05T17:09:00.003-06:002011-11-05T17:10:17.055-06:00

Take a look at this article from wired.com: The Importance of Mind Wandering.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-1378543350488850502011-09-10T17:57:00.003-06:002011-09-10T18:34:31.753-06:00

In my third year of my undergraduate degree, I was asked (as a member of the Department Students Council) to attend a job talk by a prospective lecturer. During this talk, the faculty began to ask the lecturer questions, and one of the junior faculty interrupted her own question to say, "I don't mean to sound conservative--I'm not conservative--but... ." I was a bit concerned by this insertion,

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-86510834681561249342011-08-26T07:59:00.003-06:002012-01-12T22:27:26.627-07:00

1. I've been moving the last couple of days (and will still be in the midst of getting my stuff together in the coming days). If you've been noticing a marked absence in posting, this is partly why. I'm moving from a basement suite into an apartment of my own. This will be the first time I'll have my own place, no roommates, no housemates, no shared accom.2. I have purchased and played Portal. I

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-39612733956534119742011-08-11T21:24:00.004-06:002011-08-11T21:36:35.894-06:00

Browsing through this blog, you might get a sense that one of the things I struggle with is a poverty of hope. From time to time TED talks do give me a little bit of hope, but often that hope collapses either because I realize that it's too much optimism and not enough substance, or because I see that it solves one problem and seriously exacerbates another, worse problem, or because the next TED

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-86630101853497415562011-08-10T15:07:00.008-06:002011-08-16T00:19:11.941-06:00

G'day, all. Welcome, if you're here from Unequally Yoked, where the guest post I wrote is now up. To be honest, I'm fairly sure I've made an embarassment of myself, but I suppose we'll have to wait and see what the response is. If you look through some recent posts, you'll see I've provided further positioning about religion in preparation for your arrival. I hope it's helpful or enlightening.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-64551172951680777162011-07-23T16:38:00.005-06:002011-07-23T17:40:47.960-06:00

or, The Separation of Church and StateI am certainly not the only one who has voiced deep suspicions regarding the idea of secular spaces and parts of life, but I have voiced them, here. On re-reading those posts, however, I realize that there may be cause for confusion, and so I wish to make a clarification: while I do not believe that I can divide my life into the religious and the

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-25794775761740705502011-07-21T12:48:00.008-06:002011-07-22T22:35:22.798-06:00

[Apologies for ugly white space errors. I seem unable to remove them.]The other day I wrote a post explaining one reason I prefered liturgical churches, and received some positive feedback on it. In this post I am not contradicting that, but I am going to suggest that that preference, though obviously shared by others, is still personal and non-objective. In so doing, I am going to explain one

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-21705222614813127952011-07-18T12:58:00.006-06:002011-07-18T13:55:18.510-06:00

I have said before that I find supremely useless the following dancing advice: "Just move to the music." People who know how to dance often offer this advice to those of us who don't, thinking it is helpful. It's not, and the reason it's not is quite simple: the person who knows how to dance knows what not to do. There are particular ways of moving your body that are disallowed, but these are not

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-67338323310419464362011-07-15T06:00:00.003-06:002011-07-15T12:01:48.372-06:00

(Quick note: Leah could yet again use your help in discerning atheist from Christian responses; since I think most of my readers are likely Christian, I'd highly encourage you to go over since for this round she'll be most interested in Christian responses.)1. On the Saturday after you last heard from me, I went shopping at Metrotown Mall for clothing with two (female) friends. I do this

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-39289537963393588432011-07-14T16:36:00.003-06:002011-07-14T16:48:09.091-06:00

I have a game for you. Please tell me what cultures the following groups of objects signal to you.1. Earl Grey tea and white sugar. (Your probable answer.)2. Tulips and fine blue-and-white china. (Your probable answer.)3. Chocolate and diamonds. (Your probable answer.)What's odd is that nothing about these items is indigenous to the European cultures we associate them with. They are all colonial

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-88076768393197151902011-07-08T17:09:00.002-06:002011-07-08T17:12:44.586-06:00

At Unequally Yoked, Leah is hosting an ideological Turing Test, in which atheists and Christians try arguing for each other's positions. To see how well they do, Leah needs folks to try and guess which are atheists and which are Christians. If you'd like to participate, there's a more in-depth explanation here (http://www.unequally-yoked.com/p/ideological-turing-test-contest.html) and the voting

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-77897331602256967792011-07-05T15:44:00.004-06:002011-07-05T19:36:26.457-06:00

I tried several times to write a post about the reaction on the atheist blogosphere to Rebecca Watson's accusations of pervasive sexism in the atheist community. You had better look at her account of it here, but I can summarize briefly. Watson was at a skeptics conference in a Dublin hotel. At 4:00 am she announced that she was tired and wanted to go to bed. As she got on the elevator to go to

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-10310476079643200422011-07-04T12:00:00.004-06:002011-07-04T12:03:18.694-06:00

HAPPY AMERICA DAY!to those south of the border.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-27031375223814286452011-07-01T07:00:00.001-06:002011-07-01T13:53:20.156-06:00

1. Happy Canada Day!2. I got Netflix, which has been trouble. I've been watching too many shows now. I have gone through the first season of Community and both seasons of Dollhouse. This has had a negative impact on my productivity.I do have a few thoughts on these, though. I really enjoy Community for its genre-savviness. I know some people find the main characters unwatchable, but I do also

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-63040937039753473172011-06-30T16:03:00.009-06:002011-07-21T14:14:10.516-06:00

Since tomorrow is Canada Day, I'm going to muse a little about what sort of narrative art would best represent this country. I do this because I have a sense that there is no form of art which could thoroughly tackle the problem of Canada.Last year, I wrote how I gave some thought to what a Canadian epic would look like, and that I hadn't gotten very far. You can see that in Take 5. I thought

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-85337887166486939252011-06-17T18:46:00.005-06:002011-07-21T14:14:10.520-06:00

or, What is our body? part 3I return to this series somewhat more hesitant about it than when I began. Much of the reason there has been such a gap between instalments is that I realized I had little to say. Or, alternately, that what I had to say was not very well considered. In my discipline, literary analysis, there is a lot of discussion of bodies; how we relate to them, how they are

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-57492362955195254022011-06-17T15:16:00.005-06:002011-06-17T16:12:33.996-06:00

1. The folks and I went to Ontario to see my brother graduate. If you are a reader in Ontario and you are wondering why I didn't visit, it's because my schedule was very full. We visited family and friends of the family. We ran some errands. We poked around Stratford, the city where I went to high school.2. For my birthday, my brother gave me a painting, among other things. You can see it here.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-30219212592632360592011-06-03T20:53:00.002-06:002011-06-03T21:00:08.747-06:00

Elizabeth Esther hosts the Saturday Evening Blog Post, this time vol. 3, issue 5. Here participant bloggers submit their best blogs of the month. For the first time in a while I've actually produced a non-summary post, so I'm participating. I'm submitting my post on Approaching Mockery from Atheists. If you want to see self-chosen best posts, please head on over to Elizabeth's to see the full

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-12726164124124531542011-06-03T07:48:00.001-06:002011-06-03T07:59:02.694-06:00

I'm doing a 7 Quick Takes for the last month or so. Wow. This should be fun.1. I returned to Fort McMurray for a brief time to visit friends and family. I'm still here as I write this but I won't be here for much longer. As usual, I'm staying with the folks.2. Twice now we have gone to Elk Island National Park. This is a lesser known park near Edmonton. We did not see a single elk in the park,

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-20114761036975398462011-05-30T15:43:00.004-06:002011-05-31T10:29:44.274-06:00

The tiny part of the atheist blogosphere that I read has in the last few months been abuzz on the topic of mockery: (when/how) should atheists mock religious people's beliefs? I refer specifically to Leah's posts (here and here to get started) at Daylight Atheism, but Leah has taken a look at in on her own blog and it seems to be a topic that recurs in other forums. In light of this, I thought

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-69779969640191346252011-05-30T13:29:00.005-06:002011-05-30T22:31:36.284-06:00

or,An Account of my AbsenceI realize that the last post I wrote here was one promising activity. It was written about a month ago. I can explain.In early May I returned to Fort McMurray to visit friends and family. I've been here since then and will be here a little while longer before returning to the beautiful British Columbia. While here I have been treating reading and writing like a

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-66866094388345297272011-05-05T20:11:00.003-06:002011-05-05T20:15:25.656-06:00

I would like to assure you all that I am alive and do intend to become an active blogger again. It might not happen until next week is the thing. I have posts just waiting to be written: I want to finish the series about bodies and identity that I started once upon a time; I have things to say about Christian unity; I have things to say about doubt, certainty, dogmatism, and postmodernism; I have

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-11814180178203011002011-04-27T17:53:00.006-06:002011-04-27T19:39:03.785-06:00

Looking through my archive, I see that I have not given you all an update of my life since 25 February. My apologies; I assure you that I have been quite busy. If you take a look at that last 7 Quick Takes, you'll see that I bought some journals, which means that I actually have a record of what happened in the meantime. Fancy that. Let's dive in.1. I have become a sidesperson and a liturgical

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-81447505132185859002011-04-22T20:47:00.002-06:002011-04-22T20:52:37.100-06:00

When this weekend ends, my life will resemble something sane again. Perhaps I will be a better blogger at that point. In the meantime, here is a poem:The Spring PoemDave Smith Every poet should write a Spring poem.--Louise GlückYes, but we must be sure of veritiessuch as proper heat and adequate form.That's what poets are for, is my theory.This then is a Spring poem. A car warmsits rusting hulk

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-11805355509679008142011-04-02T10:37:00.002-06:002011-04-02T10:44:10.997-06:00

Saturday Evening Blog Post is a blog carnival hosted by Elizabeth Esther, in which bloggers link their favourite post of the month. Today we are posting for March 2011. I have been a rather poor blogger lately due to schoolwork, a social life (I know, right?), and procrastination. However, earlier in the month I began a series on the boundaries of the self (bodily, psychological, social). I will

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-42881075789232136402011-03-21T17:42:00.002-06:002011-03-21T17:51:27.110-06:00

I'm going to direct your attention to a post by Ily of asexy beast, a blog about asexuality. This post discusses what romance is, and I think it's worth looking at. She contrasts romance with sensuality, drawing a parallel between them but also making a distinction: sensuality is about immediacy, romance about escape.I want to call your attention to this blog generally, though, for a few

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-36602481346933407212011-03-18T21:52:00.001-06:002011-07-21T14:14:10.524-06:00

Instead of updating my body-self series, I'm going to give you this video. It's well worth watching. (It helps if you already have the Cole's Notes version of Gender Trouble, but I imagine it wouldn't be necessary?)

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-8045277796933524352011-03-13T17:27:00.004-06:002011-03-16T19:03:17.946-06:00

Have you read xkcd this past week?This makes me angry. When did dismissing charity become funny? The alt-text is even worse: "I usually respond to someone else doing something good by figuring out a reason that they're not really as good as they seem. But I've been realizing lately that there's an easier way to handle these situations, and it involves zero internet arguments."It's been a while

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-76499841497257205982011-03-12T20:27:00.007-07:002011-04-29T15:28:58.282-06:00

or, What is our body?, part 2 If what does and does not count as part of my body is not determined by organic attachment (or at least not entirely), then is it possible that obedience does determine it? That is, can we say that whatever obeys our mental commands is part of our body? This is the sort of reasoning Leah at Unequally Yoked suggests, along with some commenters. Explaining why she

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-51602231015325350102011-03-04T11:13:00.004-07:002011-03-04T12:27:16.442-07:00

or, What is our body? part 1For most of us, this seems a fairly simple question because we have something to which we can refer. I can point toward my body and say, "This is my body." This is not a definition (description) but an indication. What happens, however, when we rely entirely on indication for our definitions is that we don't actually have a useful definition. Trying to determine what

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-23962809735665675122011-03-01T16:59:00.010-07:002011-06-17T19:09:34.066-06:00

Some weeks ago I told Leah at Unequally Yoked that I would write a series of posts on what constitutes "me", or the self, in relation to a conversation she had been having about transhumanism and prosthetics. I have been busy and so unable until now to think about starting that series. I do not promise that I will produce this series at anything more than snail's pace, but perhaps this outline

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-8596136689243900232011-02-25T15:53:00.009-07:002011-04-27T17:48:21.434-06:00

Yet another two-week edition.1. Last week was Reading Week. What time I did not spend procrastinating, watching Firefly, or visiting with friends, I spent working on a biography review or grading papers. I shouldn't talk about the later as a matter of professional discretion, but I can discuss the former. If I were you, I would not read Park Honan's Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. It is

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-35261506685899654282011-02-11T19:43:00.010-07:002011-02-14T12:04:09.689-07:00

1. I spent a good portion of the first week of February preparing for a seminar presentation on Henry IV 1 & 2, in case you couldn't pick that up from the rant about "gentlemen of the shade" last week. Those are some plays, folks. If you don't believe that a scene can at the same time be hilarious and horribly sad, you might want to look at Part 2 (after reading Part 1 of course). I suppose the

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-40739823818227078462011-02-05T18:24:00.002-07:002011-02-05T18:26:42.129-07:00

This open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church is well worth a read. Like most things, there may be problems with it, but I'm willing to say that it's net effect is positive rather than negative. Make sure you read the update at the end.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-86070501260375743312011-02-04T01:17:00.004-07:002011-02-04T01:27:19.505-07:00

Gentemen of the Shade is already a book title; the book in question is written by Harry Turtledove, and pertains to vampires during Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.It should be a law that no line from Shakespeare can be used as a title of a book that does not deal adequately with the themes in the work from which the line was drawn. Books about vampires should be especially forbidden.(For those

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-84411080515817115912011-02-02T19:53:00.004-07:002011-02-02T20:06:39.442-07:00

A week or so ago I went down to Wreck Beach for a photoshoot and noticed a ruined, graffitied building in the woods. I decided to take photos of it as though I were some explorer voyaging deep in the Mesoamerican Jungle, finding some opulent Mayan ruin. About 0.3 seconds later I realized how colonial this idea was, but thought I might still be able to get a good photoshoot out of it. Overall I

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-65419831619513384732011-01-30T23:50:00.006-07:002011-01-31T01:41:05.180-07:00

I absolutely should NOT be writing a blog post, especially one this long. Lucky you?Defining what is or is not fantasy is a bit of a puzzle. I long ago learned that there was trouble with the taxonomies of English literary analysis. The taxonomic word, genre, is overburdened to the point of disintegration. Northrop Frye said that English literature has a poverty of terminology. That's not quite

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-74882141773153155682011-01-30T17:29:00.006-07:002011-01-30T17:52:39.033-07:00

My apologies. These pictures are in reverse-chronological order.I took all of these pictures in the last month.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-31736811081332312822011-01-28T18:22:00.004-07:002011-01-28T19:34:34.601-07:00

1. I should not be doing this. I should be reading and editing a fragment of a novella for a friend so we can discuss it tomorrow. I should also be writing something new for tomorrow, problably a sonnet about silverfish. I should ALSO be reading Marlowe's Tamburlaine (both parts). Getting a start on Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 might also be a good idea. As would preparing for my Reported Speech class

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-72312616671682538542011-01-26T21:59:00.004-07:002011-01-26T23:08:33.418-07:00

I recently got One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal from the library. It is apparently the kind of book I would get from the library, or so I've been told. If you want to see details, here's a link to the Amazon site. The official blurb on the back is very minimal:One of Us views conjoined twins and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies,

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-45774039399870311212011-01-21T20:08:00.005-07:002011-01-23T15:23:22.998-07:00

1. Lots of photography. We've had snow, rain, and sun over the last two weeks, so I've had varied photographic opportunities. I will upload some of them.2. I've been enjoying my classes. Reported Speech is a lot of fun, in the sort of way that fuses theory and grammatical technicality together in highly localized instances.In my Research Methods class we visited the Rare Books Collection of the

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-37838001662370031702011-01-21T15:18:00.002-07:002011-01-21T15:20:31.910-07:00

I must apologise. I did intend to do something like a 7 Quick Takes today. Some people do follow my blog because they know me personally and would like to know what I'm up to. It has been an interesting two weeks, worthy of comment here. But I'm not even remotely in a headspace which would allow me to write a coherent post. I'm scattered, tired, jittery.I want you to know I'm thinking about you.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-41631434595947985382011-01-12T22:29:00.003-07:002011-01-12T22:32:08.331-07:00

...I must inform you that I may not regularly update this blog in the immediate future. There are a number of reasons for this, ranging from time commitments to concerns that I need to rethink what I am doing with this medium and whether I am doing it correctly. This is not to say that I will be leaving forever, closing the blog down, or never looking at the material my fellow bloggers produce.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-69357648321977231472011-01-10T00:45:00.003-07:002011-01-10T00:46:23.620-07:00

My 2010 review entitled "2010 in 10 Books" is finished. Please go take a look. (It's really long, though.)

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-50122943555723789472011-01-07T21:22:00.007-07:002011-01-07T23:48:56.089-07:00

1. I gave up Coke. Please notice the capitalization. It makes a difference.It's a New Year's thing. I've done this before; I will give up more on Lent, either all carbonated drinks or all caffeinated drinks. It's been hard as is (I probably have an addiction to it), so this is like not quitting cold turkey. I'll do it in stages. In the meantime, my tea intake is skyrocketing. To think I used to

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-46639486114988518112011-01-01T14:32:00.018-07:002011-01-10T00:48:10.917-07:00

Subtitle: Because I'm a Huge Nerd Like That[Once I posted the first bit I realized that this post will be enormous when it's done. This is going to rival some of Jon's stuff.]I don't usually get too worked up about New Year's Eve; the arbitrariness of it prevents my taking it seriously. That being said, many people treat it as a point of reflection on the last secular calendar year and since I

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1. Last weekend I watched some movies with the fam: Casino Royale, Blood Diamond, The Bucket List, and parts of PS I Love You. I don't think I have anything to say about any of them right now.(I am sure other stuff happened. We likely went for a walk outside; I went to church; I read The Girl Who Played With Fire; I probably read Castle Waiting Vol. 2 if I hadn't done that earlier.)2. On Monday

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1. It's Christmas Eve, so Merry Christmas! Jen won't be hosting 7 Quick Takes this week, but for reason you'll soon know today is still OK for me to do this. I haven't been on for a week, either, so perhaps it's about time I let you know what's been happening.2. I finally finished and turned in my paper. I'm not very pleased with it, but I suppose it's passable. That took far more work and stress

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I am busy with papers and grading and things. Also, I am performing penance for my general inability to not go crazy from grading and then spending too long in the archives of QC. So tomorrow I am going to try a new tactic (study in the English Graduate Reading Room) and if my productivity is as good as I'd like it to be, I won't be on Blogger at all tomorrow.Regular posting will return at some

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I'm in the midst of writing (and grading) finals, so I haven't a lot of free time to spend posting. One of those finals, the one that is currently stressing me, is about Thomson's The Seasons and Erasmus Darwin's Loves of the Plants. This means that I am writing about nature and botanical literature. In the spirit of that, I thought I would type out a passage from Wade Davis' One River, in which

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"In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."-Huston Smith, The World's Religions.I have a number of thoughts about the fantasy genre which I intend to explore here. (I should instead be using this time to read and think about The Loves of the Plants and The Seasons.) In this post,

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1. On Saturday I took part in a symposium for my Asian Canadian Studies class. It was a joint symposium with students from our class and from a University of Simon Fraser class similar to ours. We had it at the Harbour Centre in four panels. It was surprisingly professional and there were apparently people from the actual feild present. That could have been intimidating. It was a bit odd, giving

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1. Light rain and overcast. (You can tell it's been a slow week when...)2. Advent service was held in the basement so that we could have an Advent garden instead of a sermon. It was pretty, I suppose, though I wasn't sure what to make of its theological importance.3. It was the last week of classes. I planned my last discussion for the term. That being said, I do have a make-up class next week

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Hey, all.I intend to write awesome posts soon. I really do. Things are busy over here, however, and blog posts are not a priority. It will have to wait. In a few weeks I might be able to manage a few interesting posts. I have a bunch of possible topics lined up.I'll see you when I see you (or "you'll read me when you read me," but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it).Christian H

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Happy Thanksgiving to those south of the border.

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1. After writing my 7 Quick Takes last week, I heard a knock on my door. I opened it to my housemate who wanted to go slack-lining. So out we went to the park, where he taught us (a friend of his and I) how to sword-fight and where we did some slack-lining. It was a deal of fun, and his friend apparently comes from near Fort McMurray. She grew up in Edmonton, but had family in Lac La Biche. It

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According to Wikipedia, all of the following individuals have something in common. Do you know what that common trait is?In not-really-alphabetical order:Isaac AsimovDavid BowieGerard ButlerMarie AntoinetteSusan B AnthonyMuhammad AliJim CarreyJohn ColtraneRichard FeynmanKathy GriffinAnthony HopkinsElton JohnSamuel L JacksonFranz KafkaKim KardashianStephen KingAnn LandersAbraham LincolnJennifer

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1. A housemate and I went for $3 breakfast on Saturday. As it turned out, there was an enormous line-up, so we had Vietnamese instead, which wasn't $3. And by the time we got back it was already late in the afternoon, and since it was pouring we did not go slack-lining.2. I wasted a lot of time this week. I feel pretty bad about it (I spent most of that wasted time watching Legend of the Seeker),

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1. I spent most of the weekend sick and grading papers and procrastinating. As a result of stupendous amounts of time lost, I instituted new rules: no Facebook or blogs (with the exception of investigating comments to make sure they're not inappropriate) or webcomics on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays, and I'm only allowed Wednesdays if I've already completed my lesson plan for the

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G'day.I apparently had a social life today, so the regularly scheduled 7 Quick Takes will not be published. I am also giving up Blogger except for Fridays, Sundays, and sometimes Wednesdays, so you won't hear from me until Sunday. Sorry!

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Welcome to THE SATURDAY EVENING BLOG POST!This is where bloggers gather on the first Saturday of each month to share their latest and greatest blog posts. This weekend we are sharing our favorite post from October 2010! Well, actually, this isn't where all that happens. All that happens at Elizabeth Esther's blog. Go on over to participate.This month I want to showcase this post about a man with

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1. I finally got sick. I was wondering how long it would take. I've missed some classes on-and-off all week. I also went back to bed this morning and got up again three hours later. As a result, I don't really think I have a ton of (interesting) news for you, folks.2. Due to the terrible state my backpack was in (and I'd only had it a few months), I went to the mall to buy a new one. I did get a

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If you are looking for your Good Deed of the Month Opportunity, please allow me to suggest this: http://thenewanimationnick.blogspot.com/2010/11/seeking-help-for-little-dexter.html. It primarily involves purchasing cookware, the proceeds of which go towards helping a child battle cancer.If you are not looking for your Good Deed of the Month Opportunity, please ignore this message.

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1. I watched some movies last weekend: Splice and Eve and the Fire Horse.Splice is a Canadian bio-horror movie about a pair of sceintists who make designer organisms for a living. They decide at one point to (illegally) experiment with human DNA and create a human-hybrid named Dren. As Dren grows up, maturing in ways completely unexpected, she becomes harder and harder to keep a secret . . . and

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This post was written on 24 Oct 2010, though it will not be published until later in the week.[Note: I am frustrated with how the video embedding turned out, but I can't seem to fix it.]Today the church I recently began attending gave an interesting service: all of the hymns were Disney songs. The first hymn that we sang in church this morning was "Colours of the Wind," from Pocahontas. Before we

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-5936758398358565612010-10-24T23:14:00.003-06:002010-10-24T23:27:59.883-06:00

In working on a forth-coming post, I noticed something: a disproportionate number of Disney villains fall to their deaths. Sometimes the fall itself isn't what kills them; sometimes they are stabbed and then plummet as they die (ie. Maleficent), while sometimes what kills them is the sudden stop (the villian in Tarzan--artfully done, by the way). (Well, OK, technically the sudden stop is ALWAYS

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I promised to write this post a while back, and I am now fulfilling that promise.I was sitting in the Student Union Building, eating a peach and doing readings for a class about Asian Canadian Studies. The SUB wasn't empty, but it was nearly so. A few tables down from me was a group of older middle aged women, and a young man approached them. I didn't hear their exchange exactly, but I did hear

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61.11. Two Saturdays ago the housemate and I went slack-lining in the pouring rain. It was one of the first Vancouver downpours I'd been in since arriving here. Not that it was pouring when we started, but it certainly worked its way up into a heavy rainstorm. We had to give it up because the line was very slick and water was streaming into my eyes. Everything was wet; it wasn't until the next

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I am going to do something I will likely regret. Due to my continued absense from this blog, resulting in equal parts from overwork and procrastination, I feel the need to post something, even if it's not great. As such, I am going to present some shoddy poetry I wrote at the Museum of Anthropology. I thought it would be cool to go to the MOA and sit down in front of artifacts and just write free

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-52738970750247603912010-10-16T12:11:00.004-06:002010-10-19T15:38:28.703-06:00

I am busy grading papers. I will not be posting 7 Quick Takes or anything else until life calms down again.Christian H

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In my discussion group I am going to do a close reading of the following poem with my students. The poem, like the readings every week, was assigned by the professor; we TAs merely teach what she decides. Of tomorrow's readings, I found this poem the most interesting, or at least the most interesting given the time restraints of 50 minutes for the close reading. I suppose I should give you all a

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Happy Thanksgiving!...while I try to think of today as something other than a commemoration of horrific colonial violence.

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1. The weekend was very busy, as I was writing a paper. I spent almost the entire weekend working on the paper, procrastinating, and berating myself for procrastinating.2. I also had a fascinating conversation on Sunday with a complete stranger which I promise I will recount sometime. Just not right now.3. On Tuesday I forgot to bring the book that the lecture was on (A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-6201324964545339562010-10-03T23:01:00.002-06:002010-10-03T23:05:08.821-06:00

Today I had one of those experiences. You know, one of those entirely unexpected conversations with a stranger that throws you off balance for at least an hour afterwards? One of those conversations that changes things. Maybe not forever but, hell, there's no reason it couldn't be forever, either.The thing is, I have a paper due on Wednesday and the forces of the universe have aligned such that I

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Welcome to THE SATURDAY EVENING BLOG POST!The Saturday Evening Blog Post is a monthly blog carnival in which participants showcase their most favourite post from the last month. (This month I made a mistake and posted one from October. This was largely due to the fact that I didn't have any decent ones from September.) This carnival is hosted by Elizabeth Esther, so please head over that way to

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I have a thought experiment for you, to help you think about what a model society would look like, and whether your model society would work. It's also an excuse to have free reign designing things in your mind, which I always enjoy.Imagine a small village in the foothills. It could be Montana, or British Columbia, or Scotland, or Burundi. The country or continent is irrelevant. What is important

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1. I think we'll see a general decrease in the quality of my 7 Quick Takes because I am always exhausted on Friday afternoons and evenings. We may also see a general decrease in the quality of this blog. I will try not to let that happen, but I just want to throw that out there.2. I did some more slack-rope practice last weekend. Not much to report there. I feel like I'm plateauing. Part of the

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-47871255723920493172010-09-26T21:26:00.000-06:002010-09-26T21:27:38.409-06:00

I enjoyed this post:http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2007/10/curing-religious-disease-part-3-god-is.html

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-71027677100660330932010-09-24T16:06:00.004-06:002010-09-24T17:10:39.359-06:00

1. Somehow it's already Friday. Did you know that? I can't explain how it's possible, but it seems that it actually is Friday after all.2. Last Saturday one of my housemates and I went slack-lining. Slack-lining, for those of you who like me didn't know this, is tight-rope walking, except you don't actually use a rope but a nylon thingy. Anyway, said housemate is a slack-liner and has started

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-88151332174545163562010-09-17T20:59:00.002-06:002010-09-17T21:02:37.077-06:00

I read this post today. Look at Quick Take #4.Isn't this the case? Sometimes it's awfully obvious what we're doing wrong. It's easy to say, "I did wrong. This is what I did wrong." But what do we do from there? If we've screwed up often enough, we often don't know what right looks like in this particular case. If we don't know what it is to be good, how can we be good?And this is why we sometimes

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1. I am tired.This week has been exhausting. I wound up having to do the first presentation of the year in my Friday class. This meant that I had 200+ pages of Locke and Berkeley to read (and thoroughly, not skimmed) by Tuesday so I could talk to the prof. This meant that I had to do my Tuesday and Wednesday readings late the night before that class, and trying to marathon-read four chapters of

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If you are in the area because you are interested in religious things, or if you are in the area for other reasons but are nonetheless interested in reading about a religious position you likely have not heard before, I highly encourage you to read Richard Beck's posts on why he holds a universalist soteriology/eschatology. To cut through the jargon, this means that Dr. Beck believes that all

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1. I am a student again. I have attended classes. I did some readings. This is strange, and yet not strange.2. I am a TA. That means "Teaching Assistant," for those not-in-the-know on university lingo, and Teaching Assistants do things like lead discussion groups and mark papers. As a matter of fact, I hold the grades of 20-odd students almost entirely in my hands. I also have to create a 50-

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-6566241690961392412010-09-06T00:34:00.004-06:002010-09-06T19:30:04.476-06:00

Again I return to DID...I was thinking about the postmodern idea of a non-unified self, the self as fragments, masks, or identity components more than a real unified thing. I also read somewhere on-line (TV Tropes, oddly enough) about people with multiple personalities who want to be recognized as more than one person inhabiting/sharing a single body rather than fragments or parts of a whole

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-27579578164159147972010-09-04T00:58:00.002-06:002010-10-22T18:57:13.709-06:00

1. Where do I begin? I have moved to Vancouver and am about to be a grad student. That is probably the best place to start.2. At the end of last week I finished work at the Park. As a going-away present my employers gave me a pocket-watch. That was nice of them. It's classy.3. Then I packed. This was last Friday. Jon helped my folks and I load the van.4. Then we drove. The folks and I toured

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[This is part two of a series of posts. I suggest you read the first.]Another problem comes to mind when discussing literature and Art’s Four Campfires, and that is the overlap between the four.How, after all, does truth differ from content? Is truth not just a specific kind of content? And how does beauty differ from form? Is the pursuit of beauty not just a specialization of the play with form?

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Yo.I may or may not post for, say, a week starting now.Sorry.

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-78937617163513412532010-08-21T17:39:00.004-06:002010-08-21T22:17:27.444-06:00

I posted a while ago about Scott McCloud’s theory about the four campfires of art. I suggest that you read this post, but in case you do not want to, I will give you a synopsis...Scott McCloud claims that artists fall into four clusters based on the sorts of values they have regarding their art. The Classicists value beauty and mastery of form. The Animists value the content, often understood to

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-79901914842769601082010-08-20T22:46:00.003-06:002010-08-20T23:01:29.448-06:00

1. More have left work.2. I have likely attended St. Thomas' Anglican Church for the last time until Christmas. I will miss some of those folks.In case you were wondering, there were no spiritual fireworks. About half of the people I wanted to say Goodbye and Thank-you to were there, but that's more than I anticipated. I had no brilliant realizations. Afterwards, I picked crabapples from the tree

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-19717026908398101572010-08-16T18:35:00.002-06:002010-08-16T18:49:30.584-06:00

Folks,I'd love to post my thoughts on Art's Four Campfires, as promised, but I can't cut and paste to Blogger at the moment, it seems. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to wait until I can.Christian H

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1. I bought a new computer this Saturday. A laptop, for school. In general I prefer desktops, but as I have to commute to campus, I thought a laptop would be better for my needs. I could, after all, take it to class, or the TA office, or the library, or what have you.I also got jeans and socks, as all of the jeans I have are wearing out in the cuffs and pockets, and all of my socks have holes in

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-27272406327432333972010-08-09T19:50:00.004-06:002010-08-09T20:11:17.908-06:00

I looked at my Webmaster Tools stats.You know how they say that the sorts of search queries your blog answers to should reflect what your blog is about? And you know how some people say that you might want to change your blog to reflect what searches bring it up? As in, if you are blogging about the ethics of different brands of diapers but somehow Google has decided to offer your site to people

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Once again, welcome to the Saturday Evening Blog Post, hosted by Elizabeth Esther. This issue is for the month of July, 2010. I have chosen to share my post about Art's Four Campfires, as described originally by Scott McCloud. I highly encourage you to go over to EE's to post your own favourite post from the past month.

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1. We moved. I had little to do with it, besides packing and carrying a few loads up to the new apartment. My general lack of involvement was in large part because I was working overtime. (See next entry.)2. This past Monday was Heritage Day at work, our largest annual event. I have written about it before. It has assorted cultural food and clothing/jewelry vendors and we had many activities

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or,Concerning This Whole Prop 8 ThingI must say from the outset that I always thought Prop 8 (for those who don't know, Proposition 8 was a California law that banned same-sex marriage that was somehow voted in with a majority) was a horrible thing. This is not just because it was yet another blow to the equality movement, but because it indicated that a majority of California voters did not have

Christian Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10019240793982424774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7883736876374169658.post-59420682249826031542010-08-04T20:18:00.002-06:002010-08-04T20:19:09.588-06:00

I am back on the Internet. The folks and I moved, and there was also a large and important event at work. And then the Internet was not hooked up at the new place until an hour or so ago. I will try to catch up?

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