More from The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (expect more in due time; I wrote down tons of gems from his gorgeous book on architecture, The Architecture of Happiness, as I read it earlier this year, far too many to excerpt here). In this scene, the author watches via closed-circuit television [...]
From The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton, about a cookie company: Partially undermining the manufacturer’s ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee [...]
Day after day, the vomitorium continues spewing. Controversy after controversy related to Islam keeps seeping into what passes for national dialogue. Lately, I’ve felt the urge to completely disconnect from it all. You know, go live in the mountains, grow a long beard. Of course, I’d probably be mistaken for bin Laden. Wonderful. On the [...]
Strange morning. I was listening to CBC Radio as I usually do. On The Current, they interviewed George Monbiot, a writer for The Guardian, who was talking about air travel within the context of global climate change. Pretty heavy stuff. I agree with all of it. We’re sitting in a closed garage with the car [...]