We don't see advertisements for the future like these ads from 1940 anymore, especially when it comes to transportation. We're still clinging to an unimaginative and unsustainable model of mass transit.
Check out the rest of Bohn's Visions of the Future at Retronaught.
This is the sound Sully makes immediately after eating an entire can of cat food. I don't know what he's trying to express. I'm not sure if it's his version of loosening his belt and groaning, or if he is complaining about the food. If anyone reading this is an expert in cat psychology please enlighten me.
P.S. If you ever want to really freak out your cat, record it meowing and then play it back to them later.
Chris Hannah, on Propagandhi.com
Local artist and broadcaster Wab Kinew tells it like it is on the Strombo show.
You should follow Wab Kinew on Twitter. You should also stop saying racist bullshit. I'm tired of hearing racist/ignorant comments from Winnipeggers who blame all the cities problems on Natives.
Watch Wab’s new show, 8th Fire on CBC.
Questioning Mark Chipman about militarism
Joryh, on Twitter:
@WinnipegNews question for Mark: How do you feel about those that are offended by the Jets organizations’ link with Canadian Military?
…specifically Air Force. A few fans feel it cheapens the team. Tried to force conservative ideals with gallery dose of hockey.
I like the Jets, and even the crest but I think there is a political connection to military/conservatism that serves only to harm brand.
Winnipeg News responded:
Chipman says they’re comfortable with/proud of military connection, but respects others right to their opinions.
That’s a safe answer, and not surprising given the well executed acquisition made by True North.
From the beginning True North has been spot-on in their negotiations with the NHL, as well as their portrayal in the media. They are a well oiled PR machine.
Although I can’t say I agree with the direction they’ve taken the team’s marketing and their affiliation with the Royal Canadian Air Force, I don’t really fault True North for this. True North put their money on nostalgia and patriotism when they decided on the Winnipeg Jets brand and new logo. It’s an obvious business decision, it just isn’t very brave. It was a safe bet on the prevailing order and keeping the status quo. You can guarantee that they would not be making what they are on merchandise if they had called the team the Winnipeg Anarchists, or anything other than the Jets. Only a Stanley Cup victory could produce a better TV drama. Unfortunately not everything can be controlled as well as the franchise.
Raffi Cavoukian, writing at Rabble.ca
Hockey is a kids’ game turned into fierce contest by professional athletes, and at the NHL level it’s a tough, high flying, contact sport. Fast skating and booming shots make for exciting play, but they also bring injuries from pucks, sticks, falls, unavoidable collisions as well as body checks. All the more reason, in my view, to limit injuries to just that-the unavoidable accidents-without prompting players to harm one another in the name of toughness. That’s just stupid, and dangerous. It maims, and can kill…
The focus on rough and tumble hockey takes its toll: NHL teams are plagued with a rash of injuries, their player rosters get depleted and miss star players. Recently, concussions have knocked out some top NHL players, none more so than Sidney Crosby who’s been out for months and is not slated for return any time soon. With all due respect to Canada’s military families and their undoubted sacrifice, there’s a strong case to be made for letting a game be a game, and restoring Saturday NHL telecasts to “hockey night” in Canada. Not fight night, goon night, or injury night. Not politics night. Hockey night.
From what I can tell Raffi is mistaking two different issues: NHL endorsement of militarism and jingoist attitudes; and injuries to players as the result of violent hits and fighting.
Although I agree that the NHL is much too supportive of the military and uses every opportunity to promote a nationalistic agenda, I don’t think that has anything to do with the physicality of the game, or fighting.
Armed Forces nights with opening ceremonies featuring soldiers repelling from the arena rafters and intermission commentary about Afghanistan is more to blame for the jingoism of the game.
The physicality, and the “rough and tumble” aspect of hockey is what separates the NHL from other leagues. It’s true that no one felt there was anything missing from the last Olympic hockey finals, but none-the-less, NHL fans have come to expect a faster, higher calibre game, that is highly physical. Professional athletes assume a certain amount of risk when they sign their contracts. Injury is part of their profession. Ask most of them and they will tell you that you can’t remove fighting and hitting from the game without changing the competitiveness. Even with fighting out of the game, injuries would still be an issue, as the majority of injuries are as a result of on ice accidents, not fighting. Sydney Crosby wasn’t punched into a coma, he was clipped in an unfortunate centre ice collision.
Instead of pretending violence doesn’t exist and turning hockey into something it’s not, the league should be educating its fans that there is a distinction between warfare and sport. Rules can be adjusted to attempt to make the league safer (see Brendan Shanahan’s new role), and sportsmanship should be encouraged by coaches.
Cassius Clay proved that not all boxers are blood thirsty goons when he famously refused as a conscientious objector to fight in Vietnam. So too can hockey players prove that even if they drop the gloves they are not endorsing military actions or promoting violence off the ice.
Voivod and the 1984 demo tape that changed heavy metal
Rob Fitzpatrick, for The Guardian
Voivod recorded the album on to a specially acquired chrome cassette from which they dubbed one copy, then never played again. That dubbed copy was then dubbed on to many more cassettes, which were sent to every contact they could find on the back of their LPs. The tape was traded furiously on the metal underground scene; one landed on the desk of Brian Slagel, whose label Metal Blade had discovered Slayer and Metallica.
I missed out on the whole metal tape trading scene. I did grow up listening to mix tapes that I shared with friends, but that was in middle school before I really discovered a real music scene. It wasn't until later in high school that I discovered the punk rock scene, and by that time it was all about CDs and Napster. I hear so many great stories of the days when you'd get a tape in the mail from the other side of the continent, or Scandanavia. I've always gravitated towards that scene even though I came to it late and have never been really active in it.