Chris

Creativity is complicated

And now for your amusement, a tour through one of the cluttered creative areas of my mind. Here’s a quick glimpse into the complicated and convoluted fictional narrative that fills my thoughts. We’ll start with a song with just the right lyric. Sometimes, it’s just a single line. The words being sung evoke an emotionalContinue reading “Creativity is complicated”

A Useful Quiet

By accident at first, and then by design, I was pretty much off the electronic grid this weekend. Minimal to no emails, phone calls, facebook, twitter, or general internet browsing. It started Friday night while playing board games with friends. In a momentary pause in the game, I dug out my phone and went tContinue reading “A Useful Quiet”

Legal but offensive

In city council chambers last night, one of our councillors decided to make her point about being offended by offending the majority of people listening. Councillor Sandy White said the “n-word”. Here’s the newspaper article with the context: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/03/05/london-politician-drops-n-word-bomb In addition to the understandable outrage that most people responded with, there were 2 interesting semi-defenses of her statement. 1.Continue reading “Legal but offensive”