Tyler at his home in Richmond, BC.
I care about friends more than family. It’s not as if I dislike family, I come from a large one. Between the two, I care about friends more because I have very little of them. I’m not a bad person to get along with, friendship is just a very specific thing for me.
But that’s always a discussion for another time. Continue reading
Derelict home on the way to Safeway. Bunaby.
Fight the good fight. Go out there and prove yourself. Make something out of nothing. Go further from where you were conceived.
Grow.
Look prejudices in the face and pull it forward.
But don’t get ahead of yourself. Always remember who you are and where you’re from.
The behavior of any modern chump is as follows: we always get ahead, not of the game but of ourselves. Shooting first with the ambition of rage, and never asking questions. Screaming and yelling because there’s too many voices all trying to say the same thing.
We have tenacity to get things done the way we want them to get done, but we always forget who we are in the process.
Over time that origin in which we hold so dear starts to deteriorate. A mangled mess of what once was, is now nothing how we remember it.
It’s not as though it’s beyond repair, quite fixable in fact. With the right tools and time, anything is possible.
But in a world where we have to keep going ahead, we look at the things in our lives worth fixing…
And just give up.
Picture submitted to article with ironic understanding.
It’s been a problem in Russia that surpassed the last couple of years or so. There’s a danger that the LGBT community faces just living in Russia on a day-to-day basis. 2013 marked the year where it really got out of hand. When Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a bill that outlawed “Homosexual Propaganda”, that regressive act put the LGBT in a position that seemed to threaten their well being. The bill in a nutshell, was to ‘prevent the idea/promotion of homosexuality towards youth and adults.’ Continue reading
I think the significance of the pope this year isn’t so much who he is or what he does, as it still is something that matters to the word. Why it’s so fascinating is what makes it significant. During Benedict XVI’s papacy, It felt as if the Vatican was playing catch-up while sticking to the guns of the old world.
Let’s be honest here though… This is the perspective of someone that’s on the outside looking in. Everyday we struggle to accept the ever changing ways of all people in a society just on our own. For some reason Benedict will say something that will erupt a storm of distaste, especially since the topics always seemed to be sex and homosexuality (in no particular order). Continue reading
Sometimes things no matter how small, become more significant to a person than to the rest of the world. For me, the passing of Roger Ebert was just as significant as any other major event. When a person passes, I can never really put it into the right words. I never knew him personally, but I loved his work. It may be months too late, but this is an attempt to express how I felt about the man. Continue reading
The only unpredictable thing of this apartment.
A day where I was coming home after a long day of uncertainty. Too many factors that seemed to be bringing down the mood. Detouring around the corner to buy food to eat from the grocery store close by, and arriving back to the apartment with a small crowd looking on. Police officers are checking a body on the ground. This man’s eyes and mouth wide open, body twisted, skin cold.
The man jumped.
Aside from the coyote that casually walked past everyone and disappeared into the bushes, the only other thing that caught my attention were stories a man was telling me as we shared the elevator together.
“..People are dying here all the time in the strangest ways it seems. Hell, someone died in this elevator while it was stuck overnight.”
It was a very matter of fact statement considering what just happened, but through my experience I guess I wouldn’t just shrug it off.
Not saying that the elevator is demonic in any way, but it just never works the way you want it to. It’s easy to be uncomfortable with a mechanical device that lifts you up and down, opens up between floors, takes you to the 13th before sending you back down to the 5th. If I’m in it with many other people, regardless of their floors I’m always the last one off. It seems petty, but when the elevator doesn’t do what you ask, it suddenly becomes that ride at Disneyland.
It could be fixed. It tries to be fixed… But the bare minimum only seems to happen. I’ve seen the other building get it’s elevators replaced so I wonder why not this one?
But then I remember about the laundry list of other problems this building has, and I’m perfectly fine with taking the stairs.
The internet is a big deal. I’m not just saying that to sound cynical, it’s how we function as a modern society. So on June 5th, 2013, Edward Snowden saw it in himself to do a favour for the American people.
Back in 2007, also known by the harder to say US-98XN, PRISM was a project headed by the Bush administration under the ‘Protect America Act’. During the hay-days of the war against terrorism, it was developed as a new way to spy on people. As technology progressed further, the government had to find new ways to make sure that terrorists were never going to set foot on American soil again.
So they tapped phone lines, the internet, and (the most recently outed) video games. Continue reading
It took some thinking. Last year I wrote about significant things that happened in the year, but it was much more of a short, goofy list. This year I wanted to do something different and dedicate the significant things to their own separate posts. Doing so gives them room to breathe, and hopefully room for me to write.
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I may get in trouble for using this image? Though it was released by the DPRK themselves. If not, here’s a delightful image of Militants showing Kim Jong-Il all of their favourite websites.
I would argue that North Korea had the most significant year, in terms of how much time it seemed to have spent in the news. From the strange Vice visit, to threats of missiles and assassinations, one couldn’t help but be strangely fascinated by whatever the hell was going on over there.
Media dubbed it the North Korean Crisis which seems apt. Though with it’s sauve/stubby new leader calling the shots, You Might as well dub it ‘North Korea’s Mid-Life Crisis’. Continue reading
Snow in Vancouver is a rarity more often than naught.
but even the most minimal amount can make due for anyone that loves the season.
Take this little snow man waiting for a bus. A companion in wait, keeping you company till the 144 arrives to take you to school. A mossy little hat and a twig like nose. much attune to being an ornament of nature.
It’s stay is welcome, but it knows the rain will soon come to wash it away.
Spending most of my life in Central Canada, it’s probably the one season I miss the most. Snow ball fights, street hockey, hot cocoa on a ski-coo while ice-fishing. There’s something about snow that just excites adventure and fun.
But in Vancouver, if you blink you’ll miss it…
At the very least sit on it.
It happens a lot these days doesn’t it? That feeling that something is smoldering deep within your jowls. A bitter taste builds up. You hate it so much that you just have to get it out of your mouth.
That’s right, an opinion is starting to form. Everyone else has felt it many times before, so they reassure you, “It’s just your opinion, man.”
Then again you’re not sure if they’re serious or only quoting ‘The Big Labowski’. Continue reading
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