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By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on July 31, 2012, at 12:00 pm “Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stop seeing you as dangerous….Dangerousness was sacred.”
Last night I watched Act of Valor. I liveblogged it so you don’t have to watch it. You’re welcome.
First there was The Lottery, a dystopic tale of social gruesomeness that I encountered in high school English. It got me thinking.
Then there was The Running Man and now the Hunger Games.
Now we have UFC and reality TV and their bastard child: Act of Valor, designed to both decry a life filled with
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By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on April 23, 2012, at 11:00 am Having spent some time recently examining the NHL’s and NHLPA’s collective negligence about headshots, I was inspired to address the homophobia that surrounds hockey fandom last night. Sure the Canucks lost, but before that, someone called them a bunch of faggles in Twitterland. How did that all go down, and what hope is there that the NHL actually cares about combating mindless, ignorant bigotry and homophobia? Read about it after the jump.
Sometimes I think I’m a bit ahead of some curves. Starting in the late 1990s, I developed a “gay speech” that I would use in my suburban
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By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on April 18, 2012, at 4:00 am Before I get into my increasingly radical antipathy towards the NHL and NHLPA and their callous disregard for brain injury risks, I’d like you to spend a few moments watching this gratuitous display of intent to injure at a bantam hockey game in Kelowna last month involving teenagers. It will properly explain what I am about to say about the NHL and its embrace of callous violence.
More after the jump below.
When hockey transforms into a sick, disgusting decay in the direction of Rollerball to the point where teenagers are running goalies with elbows to the head, it is
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By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on September 6, 2011, at 11:00 am Spending Labour Day with Imtiaz Popat on “The Rational” on Vancouver’s COOP Radio, talking about Christy Clark’s revocation of a pre-2013 election date [coup, not really a premier, perhaps a "notional premier"], the end of the HST, the BCTF negotiations and how the courts noted how the government yanked almost $3 billion from BC’s K-12 [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, September 5, 2011
By kevin harding, on June 17, 2011, at 3:17 pm Yesterday, I wrote about the narrative of division that’s going around in the traditional media and social media following the Vancouver Riots. Jasmin wrote about the standard leap-to-blame-the-anarchists reaction that also came up. But now I’m getting kind of creeped out by the digital witch hunt that’s taking place, with a huge amount of websites [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Canucks Riots: Turn your neighbours in?
By kevin harding, on June 16, 2011, at 5:42 pm I was saddened and disappointed to watch Vancouver burn last night. Disappointed because the Canucks played so poorly and lost a game that they didn’t deserve to win, saddened to watch how the people in the streets ‘reacted’ to the game and went on a rampage, and I’m disappointed and saddened to watch the online–and [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: On the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division
By Jasmin Mujanovic, on June 16, 2011, at 5:29 pm Good afternoon Vancouver, how’s your head? The hand-wringing and spinning has commenced in full force now in the wake of the riot which gripped the downtown core after the Canucks Game 7 loss. The narrative which emerged, both in the media and thanks to public statements by the Vancouver Police, is that—are you ready for [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: On Riots & Anarchists: the Media’s Reactionary Propaganda
By kevin harding, on June 15, 2011, at 8:35 pm Join Tia and me as we liveblog/snark our way through Game 7! Go Jets! Hockey Politics, Maybe? Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg LinkedIn StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Buzz People who read this page, also read:On the Canucks Riot, Protest, and DivisionThe American Dream, brought to you by MarvelOnce upon a [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Hockey Politics, Maybe?
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