Everything feels like it happens so fast now and yet I have nearly no free time despite all this convenience. I did things one at a time and had to make an effort to do things like shop or go to the bank or pay bills or whatever. I cannot believe how many books I read and all the time I spent in the local library just browsing the stacks of all sorts of random shit; it was not routinely pared down to popular books, but had all sorts of odds and ends. I deliberately listened to music by putting a tape in the machine, and it was active listening. Radio was creative and beautiful. The local bar I spent time at was home to all sorts of burgeoning local bands. Food was not “small plates” at trendy bistros, but was sizeable satisfactory portions of ordinary food. A trip to the mall was an adventure, and my mall even had a library branch in it. You went to fish fry dinners at the Royal Canadian Legion on Fridays. One restaurant we used to go to we had to write our order down on a pad inside the kitchen, and the cook would come and slap your food in front of you. If you phoned someone and they weren’t home, you just phoned later on.

Nothing felt shitty and overly marketed and ads just existed and weren’t tailored to you. Television sitcoms lasted 26 seasons and you had to wait until next week to see the next one.

Even social media was better before Facebook, it felt organic and you made friends for life. Even early Twitter felt like this constant humorous conversation even if you didn’t agree with someone. Nobody was routinely crucified for misstepping in public (not that they shouldn’t sometimes). Things were definitely more generic but didn’t feel fake and marketed and inauthentic. Google was better and actually found things and didn’t just spit out a few results and then start adding unrelated things.

I’m not trying to sing the ballad of the boomer in B Minor; I appreciate convenience. I am tired of seeing bloated companies turn everything into shit. I want art and music and local watering holes to flourish. I want food to be good and satisfying. I don’t want every episode dropped at once. I just want things to slow down.

So my advice is slow down. Do one thing at a time. Go places and do one thing. Go to old restaurants. Go read paper books at the library. Go listen to a band at a bar. Do things. Don’t reduce it all to your phone. This is my goal for the new year is to do things.

They’re morons, and they’re just conservatives who want to smoke weed. Whatever your opinion of size of government, you have to have some central systems to run a society.

Feel better!

Oh that’s cool. Thank you.

I think it just also felt kind of patriotic to participate.

I didn’t watch a minute of it but I’m proud of them just the same. (I can’t stay up that late).

Thanks everyone for voting for the party who hates poor people! Next time you complain about the homeless population, you are the reason for that.

I also hate it because you used to be able to tell if cars were abandoned or stolen because of the sticker. It’s a problem with street parking because someone will dump their car for years and nobody will know until the tires flatten.

I actually called in a car at the commuter parking lot years ago because I realized the sticker was expired and all four tires were melted into the hot summer pavement and it was covered in spiderwebs. Parking enforcement had me tell them the VIN and license number and make and model, and it turns out they both belonged to a whole other car and it was a stolen vehicle. I hate giving DoFo money but God only knows what’s happened because of lack of regulation.

It is shameful. I am religious and I also don’t think religion belongs in education, and this is a prime example of why.

Def began there, but early social media like Livejournal and its crunchy moms is what caused it to thrive. And since then weaponized disinformation from Russia has kept it briskly turning.

Baby caught measles from mom, mom likely also wasn’t vaccinated, which even if she’s young predates Trump and the lowly worm. Babies can’t be vaccinated against measles until they’re older, they’ve even started doing it at 6 months but definitely not at birth. So this is a gift from religious conservatives of the sort that have always been in Alberta and not vaccinating. This trend began many years before this, and I would say really started to surge in about 2002-ish.

Well the comments on his Facebook posts are absolutely roasting the shit out of him and are so hilarious, if nothing else.

Isn’t it hilarious how he’s pretending to be a cowboy all over rural Alberta right now so he doesn’t have to get a job?

It sure is.

Well Hamilton is a city, but the metro part is still being worked on haha.

It’s overrated. Hamilton is better, and you could become RL friends with me.

A library about the history of transgender people.

I support this but I wouldn’t want you to have to live in a house he lived in. It must be crawling with filth.

I mean not for us but in general yes haha.

I hope people are starting to realize what a dork assed loser he is.