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    ... of itinerant Tofino resident, arts advocate, hobby writer, environmental sedentarist, practicing minimalist and enquiring mind greg blanchette.
    Zing me, baby: aimless1@mailcan.com


    NOW READING:
    • H.P. and the D.H., by She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named. Okay, i'm the only person in the W hemisphere who hasn't read this. I got it for 50 cents at a library sale. Maybe i'll finish it.
    • Player One, by Douglas Coupland -- more listing than reading this 5-part Massey Lecture/novel.
    • Bones of the Master, by George Crane -- an account of a Buddhist monk's harrowing escape from China in 1959, and his strange life thereafter. Buddhist creative fiction ( rare genre)!
    • Darwin's Bastards--Astounding tales from tomorrow, edited by ZsuZsi Gartner -- an uneven but varired and entertaining selection of futurist tales.
    • War & Peace in the Global Village, by Marshall McLuhan] -- almost comprehensible, which is more than i can say about other things i've read by/about McLuhan
    • Walrus Magazine--I'm playing catch-up with a number of back issues. Walrus is an argument for maintaning at least some of the traditional print media: a compendium of good writing that i otherwise would never stumble across on-line.


    NOW WRITING:
    • Letter to ed., in response to an article about the Catface mine that barely mentions environmental concerns
    • Something secret for a market that has just emerged -- secret because it may or may not come off, at this point.
    • The Other Mens' Wives poetry project


    LATEST DOZEN READ:
    • The Gift--Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, by Lewis Hyde
    • Out of our Heads--Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, by Alva Noe
    • The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
    • The Big Bounce, by Elmore Leonard
    • Road's End--Tales of Tofino, by ex-Toffo Shirley Langer
    • Out Stealing Horses, novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson
    • Zen Physics--the Logic of Death and the Science of Reincarnation, by David Darling
    • End-Game, a play by Samuel Beckett
    • Presence -- Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, by Peter Senge et al
    • Head Trip -- Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness, by Jeff Warren
    • Watchmen, the comic series, by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins
    • A Theory of Everything, by Ken Wilber
    • Why Darwin Matters, by Michael Shermer

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Banksy + Tom Hanks

Posted on Sunday, 12 February, '12 by greg b

I’m a big fan of both street art and satire — seems to me we’re living in a world demanding way more of both. Here’s an interview with “Hanksy,” who provides a nice combo of the two. Particularly the trash can, eh? I wonder why we don’t have more guerrilla art here on the West [...]

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