Looking for some good books that will expand your young person’s mind?
Have a look at the ones the idiots in the Alberta government find threatening.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-school-book-ban-order-graphic-novels-9.7118495
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Why we create music
I am so grateful that I can make music. It's a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest. And it allows me to connect with myself as well.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/why-we-create-music/
Donald Trump is such a fucking idiot and the whole world just told him to fuck off.
That’s the whole toot.
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@emilylowan look I get it. Oligarchs are connected and nasty. But it seems desperate and distracting to tie Epstein and Trump to what is otherwise a strong set of policies on LNG and taxation. I’m not voting Green to send a message to Epstein and Trump. I voting Green because you are pursuing policies that are good for this province, people and planet.
Show us how much money we are letting out of the province with current subsidy policies and tax breaks and show us where we need to put it. That is the clarity we are looking for.
Just saying.
William Lindsay's daily threads are good roundups of the history that is unfolding around us as a small group of compromised and deeply unwell narcissists kill people through intent, neglect, cruelty, glee, and sheer ignorance.
I'm hoping Trump's presidency ends soon and I'm hoping that his legacy will be a general and lasting rejection of populism in all its guises.
But I am not optimistic in the least about that. I believe that the US political system has been too compromised by manipulation and corruption to ever be something like that.
But at the very least, it would be good to get the killing to stop. With the USAID cuts, the wars and the persecution of immigrants, this administration has ended the lives of 100,000s of people. They rank amongst the worst people I've ever seen govern in my lifetime. And they are the worst Americans by far.
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@PapyrusBrigade someone should put all these on a Goodreads list owned by Danielle Smith.
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@kevinrns teh gay is very powerful magik!
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@emilylowan oh yay! Another round of leaky condos.
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@chad he’s currently playing for Winnipeg. But that’s the one you need.
Just saw Daniel Lapp and Quinn Bachand on Bowen Island, and oh man. An unreal performance. Read on....
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/daniel-lapp-and-quinn-bachand-astonishing-joy/
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@AhTheGreg@mstdn.ca and as a co-owner of a BC Premier League club I concur 100%
If Job was a sports fan…
My first live Vancouver Goldeneyes game. A result typical of the last year of sports in my life, but an amazing atmosphere and culture in the arena. Everyone watches women's sports. So here is a rundown of the last eight months of sports in my life: The ugly: TSS Rovers Men hold first position in the league until the last week of play.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/if-job-was-a-sports-fan/
A new definition of anthro-complexity
Participants in a meeting of the Japanese OD Network self-organizing in a dialogic container to discuss what they learning from an embodied experience of constraints, Kanzan University, Nagoya, 2019 Dave Snowden is publishing a TON of stuff these last few weeks, much of densely theoretical and full of references to thinkers and traditions that would probably take years to properly unpack.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/a-new-definition-of-anthro-complexity/
Spots still open for our Art of Hosting! Join us!
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/spots-still-open-for-our-art-of-hosting-april-27-29/
The Canucks are 2-25 in 2026.
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@emilylowan @trevdev to each their own. It bores me though.
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@anyGould I’ll bet the discussions about graphic novels amongst Alberta Cabinet members rival high school Reddit flame wars for nuance and opinion!
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@Maxfieldripken Kane is a walking curse.
Staring over the edge
The cliffs at the end of the world, near Sagres, Portugal. Tottenham 0 - 3 Nottingham Forest I moved to Cheshunt, Herts, in England in 1978, just six weeks after the English football season ended. Under the guidance of Brian Clough, Nottingham Forest won the First Division that season, setting them up for an epic couple of years in which they were the dominant force in European football.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/staring-over-the-edge/
Alberta wants a high price for their oil. Oil companies love it. Oil company owners love it.
So while you’re struggling to fill your tank at 2.15 a litre and the added fuel costs are added to everything else we buy remember that the champions of Canada’s Economic Engine need you to belaying through the nose for their energy, and a few wars don’t hurt either.
A reminder that the sun is still free.
(Alt text: stock price graphs for Canada four largest oil producers showing growth over the last month)
Seasons change
Here on Nexwlélexwm/Bowen Island, we are sliding into astronomical spring with a final hurrah from our rainy season. A long atmospheric river has been delivering rain steadily for five days. Rain totals have varied over the region with Point Atkinson, 8 km to our south south east, receiving 55mm of rain so far. But 14 km away, near the northern end of the Lions Gate bridge, the…
Farewell to Europe
Tottenham 3 (5) v 2 (7) Athletico Madrid It might be the last Spurs match in Europe for a while. Having navigated the league stage of the Champions League with style, Spurs were dire in the round of 16 versus Atletico Madrid. Last week in Madrid a series of goalkeeping mistakes from Kinsky and then defensive lapses from everyone else put us down 5-2 in the first leg.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/farewell-to-europe/
Quibbling over whether "harmony" or "groove" is the right way to describe coordinated action.
SPOILER ALERT: "Groove" is the correct term.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/groove-and-harmony-are-different-things/
Dave Snowden finishes his 5 part series on anthro-complexity with very important and clear perspectives on the role of the practitioner.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-role-of-the-complexity-practitioner/
Humpbacks in Howe Sound
A photo by Burns Jennings of a whale that surfaced near his boat in Seymour Bay in 2022. I'm on the shore in front of a garage door, watching through my binoculars. Back in 2005, my friend Pauline Le Bel wrote a musical about the history of Bowen Island, starting with the Big Bang and coming up tot the present day.
https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/humpbacks-in-howe-sound/
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@Nonilex@masto.ai his entire fucking presidency is about showmanship and he’s really bad at it. Cringe humour is only good if you mean it.
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