"[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke."
The strange story of the Fattal lofts summed up in a municipial hearing…
The facts
[9] In 1997, Mr. Fattal purchased an abandoned building on Saint Antoine Street in the City of Westmount. The building had formerly served as a technical college. Without applying for a building or occupancy permit, Mr. Fattal began converting the building into a residential property containing twenty five apartments.
"We seem to have inherited, along with its two or three blessings, the manifold curse of psychoanalysis: the assumption that the grounds of discontent, anger, rage, despair - ”unhappiness” in general - reside within the sufferer rather than outside of him."
— http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/oates-violent.html
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NEO-LIBERALISM & SEXUAL VIOLENCE
"Immigration, a lexicon. You’re a ‘migrant’ when you’re very poor; ‘immigrant’ when you’re not so poor; and ‘expat’ when you’re rich."
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Country of origin and/or ethnicity play a huge role as well… but all in all, this is the most perfect summary I’ve ever seen of what’s fucked-up in immigration speech.
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"glassed out: term coined for the weird, half-conscious expression that Google Glass wearers get on their faces when they are concentrating on doing things with the tiny little screen inside their glasses."
— http://jennydeluxe.tumblr.com/post/45774163915/relationships-with-and-around-google-glass
The Sesame Street kids chanting Borders’ I Am - Somebody back at Jesse Jackson in 1971.
“Relax…it’s a fucking Njoy.”
art work : Eric Doeringer, I Got Up (after On Kawara), 2012, stamps and ink on postcards, approx. 4x6in. (10x15cm.)
Image courtesy of the artist and {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.
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Les Saignantes is a 2005 futuristic, sci-fi, erotic thriller with a strong political sensibility. Two sexy young women win the favors of the corrupt political elite, but when one of these leaders dies in the middle of a sexual act, the friends are left with a corpse to get rid of. Bekolo eviscerates the ruling elite but with the canny use of inter-titles also leaves the audience with something to ponder. The film won the Silver Stallion (second best African film) at Fespaco 2007 and the Best actress awards with the special mention of the jury. Full video above.
"In Richard Linklater’s 1991 portrait of Austin’s freak gentry Slacker, there is a piece of recurrent graffiti that reads, “If you don’t like NYC, don’t go."
