Category Archives: personal

Songbook of Cities: Vancouver, BC

Posted on 21 November 2017 by zolltan

I’m looking forward to going back to Vancouver for the holidays / an as-yet undetermined amount of time, so I thought I’d make a playlist. There are many different kinds of Vancouver, of course, and this playlist is going to … Continue reading →

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Simone Weil v. Jarvis Cocker

Posted on 21 February 2017 by zolltan

Attention conservation notice: I take 1000 words to give you the “amazing revelation” that experience can teach you things. Then I bizarrely suggest that you should go be a dilettante hipster farmer. I finish off with a career announcement and … Continue reading →

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Protect Semaphore Lakes

Posted on 16 September 2016 by zolltan

Over the August long weekend, three of my friends and I went to camp at Semaphore Lakes, a place in the backcountry north of Pemberton where you can camp among heather meadows. It is a beautiful place, but one that is … Continue reading →

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The Cinematographer’s Apprentice

Posted on 11 August 2016 by zolltan

My first memory is of an illness. I am lying in a room with a political world map on the wall, and a big blue hot water bottle is being brought for me. My second memory is of moving. We … Continue reading →

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Zolltan arbitrates Great Man vs. Everyman

Posted on 25 July 2016 by zolltan

Last time Zuuko came to visit me, he explained why he doesn’t have much to say for the blog anymore. He’s come to realize more and more that the world’s path depends on the specific actions, quirks and foibles of … Continue reading →

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Who’s Afraid of Donald Trump (And Why?)

Posted on 6 June 2016 by zolltan

Recently I was at a fantastic wedding (how often do you hear that? Anyway, it was true) for a really good friend of mine and Zuuko’s. We had prepared a Jesus Christ Superstar-themed song tribute to the young couple, part of … Continue reading →

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Tangents

Posted on 11 October 2015 by zolltan

I hate namedropping unless I’m doing it, in which case it’s cool. In the spring of 2009 I was renting a room in T.’s house in the Wedgwood neighbourhood of Seattle. At the start of summer, I had to move because T.’s … Continue reading →

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The CCGS Amundsen is sitting idle in Hudson Bay

Posted on 30 July 2015 by zolltan

Earlier this month, with abnormally icy conditions in the Eastern Hudson Bay, the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen was diverted from its scientific mission to help escort ships providing fuel to remote Inuit communities in Northern Quebec. Highly idiotic reports crowed about … Continue reading →

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Please Assume I Don’t Know Things, But Believe Me If I Say I Do

Posted on 9 July 2015 by zolltan

I’ve been noticing that lately in arguments I have in real life and on the internet, I am less and less in a position of trying to find out the truth, and more and more in the position of trying … Continue reading →

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Advice on Buying a Car in the US and Importing it into Canada

Posted on 24 April 2015 by zolltan

When we started this blog years ago, we had hopes that it would be useful to somebody as well as entertaining for ourselves. It has been entertaining for me, but I don’t think I really wrote anything that would be of … Continue reading →

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