Bad Design

. . . kills democracy. Interesting blog article from the New York Times here

That One Guy

I’ve been looking for a live video of this forever. The music video also doesn’t suck.

Tiña Toronto 002+003+004

Old jokes abound, but for posterity’s sake.

From the House of the Dead: A Brief Cultural Excursion

Before the snow set in, I had the opportunity to see the Canadian Opera Company’s performance of Janacek’s opera, From the House of the Dead, based on Dostoevsky’s memoirs of his time spent in prison. My overall impression was that this opera was both very well conceived and performed.
One of the distinctive features of this [...]

Just call me Cupid

Perhaps the imminence of Valentine’s Day is causing people to act a bit more amorously lately: I’ve witnessed yet another attempt at finding love on the subway.
For the record, I don’t purposely watch people voyeuristically or eavesdrop on conversations but on this fateful day, I had happened to forget to charge my iPod. So, seeking [...]

Up the Yangtze – Pun Intended

Friday night I went to see Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze. The documentary (co-produced by the NFB and shot under the Chinese government’s radar) follows a cruise ship…up the Yangtze River. We get a peek at “the culture of tourism and the tourism of culture” as Chang puts it. We learn about the lives of [...]

A Ruthless Review of V. 21, issue 4

The latest issue of the Salterrae is out. Now I’m going to review it, page by page, with each item assigned a score out of 6 (with 6 being awesome and 0 being awful).
Cover: 4
Not bad. I would note that Ben Frosh looks rather like Jack Castle, but I digress. Still not liking the san-serif [...]

Welcome to the Salterrae Blog… even though it wasn’t what you were looking for.

Happy Super Tuesday.
“Search Terms” = a new feature for the Salterrae Blog. 
WordPress provides a wonderful service in which they tell you exactly what people searched in order to get to this blog.  I now present the weekly round-up of the most absurd search terms.
Honourable Mention: 
“sloth art”
“pervert on TTC subway”
“lie or die snitch”
“glyptodont skeleton”
3rd Place:
“how to [...]

Starting to like Obama…

Galileo Five (swoon…)

Because posting YouTube videos to this blog is much easier than thinking of creative and interesting original posts, I now present what will likely be a recurring theme: scenes from The West Wing that I really like.
This one’s the opening from Season 2, Episode 9 (“Galileo”).
It’s one of my favourites from the whole series, and [...]