It's been a good bad great difficult interesting horrifying week.
Canada is all shaken up because in one week two soldiers get murdered by unstable extremists and then our favourite national radio host (Jian Ghomeshi) is so delusional that he takes his videotaped BDSM sessions to the CBC heads to PROVE his encounters were consensual, but the videos, in fact, were so violent, non-consensual, and horrifying that they escorted him out of the building and fired him on the spot.
All week, women have been telling their bad-date-with-Jian stories - to the Toronto Star, on Huffington blogs, to the police. Even the crisis management company he hired quit.
From hero to zero faster than you can say "any noisy noise annoys an oyster." -- but also upsetting for random women who've experienced any abusive relationship. No charges have been laid and may never be.
Then there's "Big Ears Teddy." Google that, kinksters.
I'd rather just go on IRC and hear some people's good news, one liners, humanodon's fast-food poetry, and the kids, who should be in bed by 11:00 galen and nowaypablo, and elizabeth - how is Montreal? although I think you're still elsewhere. Then of course, there's the west coast hubskiers, but it will be too early for them -- still basking in warm weather and sunshine. veen - they were threatening 10 feet of snow in Calgary today.
or the fast women, the musicians, newbies, eightbitsamurai and anyone who happens to see this. wasoxygen if he's up. Any topic -- just not the topic of worst date ever
If no one's there at 11, that's okay. Another time. Send me condolences hubski. It's been emotionally jarring week.
It's teen-angsty existential Sunday night Starbucks study sesh for little pabs. I'll be there at 11:30.
Well, my schedule opened up. I may spend a great deal of that time with the hot doctor who shares my house, though. If I don't make it, know that I'm there in spirit.
The show was a miserable piece of shit. And it was 12 hours a week, 5 days a week, an hour and a half in normal traffic away (thus, the bike). The fact that some chucklehead in a Lincoln knocked me across 4 lanes of the 405 on my last day didn't enamor me of the commute... but it was a phatty paycheck. That phatty paycheck was helping me warchest my way out of LA. We're still outty but it won't be as plush.
The value of consistency within a personal ethic was the primary thing. I would rather live a life with as few contradicting beliefs as possible, but I want to hear everyone else's thoughts on the issue.
For example, I don't want to support exploitative labor practices, but then I would never be able to own practically any electronic device.
Or a positive example, I base most of my life off of logic and rationality, which breaks down under close scrutiny, making it fundamentally illogical. Induction is essentially the basis of modern logical/scientific thought, and it's broken.
I think topics work if you use them as bouncing off points for the rest of the conversation, instead of trying to shoe-horn them in unnecessarily.
I'll be around for a bit. What's the link again?
I should be able to make it. Hubski irc night sounds like a good start to the week to me.
Shout me out when it starts and I'll hop on. I just woke up from a nap when my couch sunshine spot disappeared (damn you DST!). I'll be working until midnight or so.
I have maybe four active Canadian facebook friends and all four mentioned something this week. I finally decided to play catch up on the Jian Ghomeshi shit a couple mornings ago with my coffee. Worst decision ever. Holy shit - that a gnarly, vile situation.
I'll try and make it. I'm sorry you had a rough week lil, put on some Paul Simon and open a bottle of wine. It helps.
Maybe, like kb, you also have a date with a hot doctor - you young'uns.
Note: I didn't have a rough week. I wasn't beat up on a bad date. I wasn't choked and punched. But my heart goes out to all the women who were. I have to stop myself from reading all the details, but it's hard. You 'mericans have no idea how big a deal this guy was in Canada.
Still you've had videos of your sports heros and singers beating up their wives. It's hard to take and so sad that it still goes on -- but it's good that people's awareness is getting greater and greater. But it's bad that for so many years, so many people knew he was a bad date but couldn't blow the whistle on him. He was a smart guy and a good interviewer and his show was right in many ways. Sorry, I go on. New topic.