Been a fun night on air — really really needed it too.
June 2011
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A really ill mix by the man Chicken George.
listening to this week’s @gillespeterson and the all vinyl Brownswood excursion. Deep is the word.
“Intriguingly, the algorithm showed the most between-individual variation in barks made by dogs at play.”
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Thanks @Alyssa_Milano for the link
Humans Guided Evolution of Dog Barks | Wired Science | Wired.com
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Mad love and congrats to @preplove and Mrs. P for making a little P.
Reading Monocle’s article on Ethiopian jazz, and listening to kids cover Ra’s “Watusa” #music #alwaysmusic
Anyone else wondering why when it comes to Granville and Robson “this is our Vancouver,” but when it’s the DTES, silence? #Questions
“Garth Mullins, one of the organizers of last year’s Olympic protests, told The Tyee: “If anarchists are attending an event where there’s going to be a police crackdown, you bring legal observers, you bring medics, you use your cell phone for communication, not for taking photos of yourself and putting them on Facebook.”
—The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists : Canada’s online magazine: Politics, entertainment, technology, media, arts, books: backofthebook.ca
“And whatever similarities might exist between the tough economic environments of 1981 and 2011, the fact this odd, angular song could become such a massive hit might be astonishing to modern ears.”
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Props to Ian for this one.
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“It’s the needless half-hearted apologies are what brings me to the thing that really bothers me about people’s reaction to the Vancouver 2011 riot the most. The hypocrisy of the idea that this kind of violence and destruction is unusual for the city. If the citizens of Vancouver feel actually feel genuine shame when there is a big mess downtown, then how come they haven’t been rolling up their sleeves and cleaning up the Downtown Eastside everyday?”
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I don’t agree with everything that Ben says but the above quote does hit home. A lot.
My Reaction to Certain People’s Reaction to the 2011 Vancouver Riot | The Official Site of Ben Mills
“Please disregard the “analysis” of TSN’s Bob McKenzie a k a “The Hockey Insider” who blamed “left wing loons” for the rubble. Mackenzie tweeted that he was sure responsibility lay with “anarchists and some organized extremists…many of the same people and groups who orchestrated riots in Toronto last summer at the G8.” This is unsupported and profoundly irresponsible garbage with no basis in fact.”
—Understanding Vancouver’s ‘Hockey Riot’ | The Nation
“But we can’t just blame a few “bad apples.” This riot didn’t happen on its own. Society as a whole ensured that it was the only outcome, starting with the assumption that our over-amped if not war-like passion for something as inconsequential as a hockey game is appropriate to begin with, let alone officially sanctioned.”
—Vancouver hockey riot is a symptom of a larger problem | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
“We never saw the sort of looting in ‘94 that we did this time. We saw scores of people just racing into stores and coming out with armloads, armloads of electronics — iPods and gold watches, we saw go by, and perfume. Anything in the major stores display windows was gone.”
—Vancouver reels in riot aftermath - British Columbia - CBC News
“There was much talk of the “energy” in the city, but little public acknowledgement of its character. The energy was measured in units of sold merchandise. And though high policing costs were anticipated given the precedent of 1994, politicians proclaimed that the profits to be made from sales of alcohol and trinkets outweighed the costs of drunkenness and insatiable consumerism.”
—Spectacular Vancouver conquers itself | The Mainlander
Best photo from last night’s riot in Vancouver.Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images
