Song of the Moment: On My Block (Instrumental)
Photo Credit: User Paul A. Roid via Flickr
So, to kick off a new feature on the Canasian & Friends blog, here’s a fresh summertime beat that takes you back to back in the day. It’s just a looped beat but man, I could sit outside with some lemonade and just enjoy the day, maybe shoot some hoops. It’s nostalgic and ephemeral.
On My Block – Scarface (Instrumental)
Stuff You Should Watch: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Webisodes)
Doogie Howser just got a whole load scarier. And awesomer.
Update!: Watch it all right here right now!
That’s Neil Patrick Harris dressed up as a mad scientist supervillain singing a song in a Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Serenity and the upcoming FOX series Dollhouse) written and directed free web series. Did I just die and go to nerd heaven? I think I did. If you’re not already there now (the website, not nerd heaven), you should watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and then come back and read why you did what you just did.
Culture Watch: Fail
If you’re one of those people who surfs the internet solely for the purpose for checking your ‘electronic mail’ and looking up the weather, then you are probably unfamiliar with the web fascination/amusement with FAIL. And if you’re going to spend much time here on the internet, you may as well get to know it a little better.
Review: Hellboy II: The Golden Army of Awesomeness that is Awesome
Looks like a photo from my family reunion. I would be the squinty one.
Okay, in the interest of full disclosure, this blogger has not yet had the opportunity to see Pan’s Labyrinth (aka Guillermo Del Toro finally becomes liked by people other than complete nerds). That being said, onto the review.
I am a child of the eighties. And early nineties. That means Ninja Turtles, Fraggle Rock, He-Man, Really Bad He Man Movie, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Dino Riders (oh for the love, Dino Riders!), Never Ending Story, Willow, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and David Bowie creeping the living bejeebers out of me in Labyrinth. I am a child of the era of pure imagination. This was before the airwaves were desecrated by reality TV and other programming that catered to the lowest common denominator. This was a time where we didn’t need drugs as kids because all the people making TV and Movies were taking them for us.
This is what Hellboy was like.
Who are the religious right? Am I one of them?
So, it seems to me, as compared to the last two elections (I can only remember so far back) that religion seems to be quite the talking point this time around. And the more and more I read/watch/osmosify I find more and more of a mention of a ‘Religious Right’, some hyper-powerful conglomerate of voters that needs must be appeased in order to… blah blah blah etc.
Now, I for one don’t really identify with any of the published ideology of the so-called ‘Religious Right’ (Are they self-declared group and I’m just missing an invite?). From what the mainstream media tells me about their antics, I’m far too liberal for their tastes, but in my own sphere, I consider myself to be quite the moderate. Yes, I am a religious man, and a faithful one at that, but does that place me into the ranks of intolerant, bigoted, closed-minded Christians that the pundits and the internet tell me make up my voting demographic?
This is what I’ve been ‘told’ so far: (And when I use the term ‘we’ I refer to the entire group)
Name: ‘Religious Right’, ‘Christian Conservatives’, ‘Evangelicals’, or just plain ol ‘Christians’
I’ll miss you President Hinckley
There are those sweet memories that you have, like from a favorite teacher who would always give more to make sure that you were okay, and who you would follow anywhere they would lead you because you could sense their honesty, their sincerity and their love. Then they would teach you to stand on your own so you could see for your self the self-evident truths that lay before you in life. They would teach you how to learn rather than what to learn. They would love you as you did and speak encouraging words when you fell short. You simply wanted to be better because they lived what they spoke and you knew the truth of what they said because now you had tested it and experienced it for yourself. You saw them and simply wanted to be better.
New Hampshire Primary Security Breach, on tape. It’s pretty bad.
So, a recent video published by election watchdog group blackboxvoting.org illustrates the security with which the primary ballots were kept before counting. As I watched this it became clear to me that my comic book collection is better guarded than this. Not only do they ‘interview’ (more like confront) the NH Secretary of State (who looks like a deer in headlights the entire time) but they test a spare ‘seal’ that is used to make sure the ballots aren’t tampered with. I’ll tell you, we’re better off keeping the ballots in any random ten year old’s Trapper Keeper. (Do they even use those anymore? I have stock in Lisa Frank).
Well, duh.
‘No Child Left Behind creates schools obsessed with test preparation’
My dog could have told you this 4 years ago.
I’m working on a few plans to fix this though, I’ll run them by all of you on here.
Group Discussion: Why does citizenship matter?
Citizenship describes a way of life in which people pursue shared goals for society, recognize limits to government powers and participate in political processes; where people are entitled to pursue economic well-being and loyalty and solidarity among people is nurtured. A collective sense of citizenship takes account of diversity and protects the legal and human rights of each person especially members of minority groups. As democratic societies evolve, so does their understanding of citizenship.
Citizenship is the legal status of belonging to a state, but equally important citizenship also is about how we live together in our communities and the larger society. Read the rest of this entry »
