November 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
3 posts
“It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude; the predestined thing happened in any case.”
—George Orwell, 1984
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
“Its followers include not just ordinary citizens, but also members of the military, police, and trafficking organizations locked in a four-year war that has cost some 28,000 lives. At a time when the cartels have scared much of the Mexican media into submission—when papers like El Diario de Juárez feel compelled to publish front-page pleas to the cartels to “explain what you want from us”—the narcoblogger, like a journalistic masked crusader, has stepped into the void.”
—Arian Campo-Flores, on the Mexican blogger who works where reporters fear to tread. (via newsweek)
September 2010
5 posts
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August 2010
1 post
July 2010
5 posts
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March 2010
3 posts
be still my heart: canada takes gold in hockey →
thestar.com
i’m proud to be a canadian
February 2010
15 posts
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april 21 - april 26
k meets mississauga
olymmmpicmaniaaa
does not exist here. i forgot, mexico does not have snow or cold. therefore, they do not care about winter olympics, obviously.
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January 2010
19 posts
hello sunshine
extreme heat (35 degrees!)
pick up beach volleyball
meetings outside
having a meal on a patio
ice cream
Chavez escalates claims that U.S. using relief effort to invade Haiti →
nationalpost.com
where is the line drawn in development to distinguish between aid & invasion? i came across this chavez quote multiple times in mexican new outlets, but less so in canadian ones [but then again, i haven’t been keeping up as much with canadian news]. does declaring chavez’s idea so prominently validate it? or is it already valid.
"Hitting the Mark with Sarcasm" →
thestar.com
interesting concept. i probably could use one of those at the end of almost all my sentences.
down the rabbit hole
into a land where the deer graze in the vast greenery beside busy university students, and where peacocks roam the cobblestone pathways [instead of those horrid Canadian geese]. i wish i could take a picture of this.
