black comedy

Attn, all people.
Especially women.
"don't go to wal-mart. gang initiation shooting targeting women. 3 dead. confirmed by the news."

Did i get you?
I'm sorry but this is all fake. A sham. A hoax. A terrible, terrible prank.
apparently, beginning yesterday people from all around north America have been getting text messages telling them not to go to Wal-mart because of a gang-initiation shooting that had killed three women in an unnamed Wal-mart.
My mom told me this tonight. said she got the text message. i will admit that i was scared. i think anyone would be. I did a little research online to find out which Wal-mart in Vancouver had been targeted. and lo and behold!

"Reports of a text message about a gang initiation stunt requiring the random shooting of people at a Walmart are a hoax." via Now Public
(I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO READ THIS)

If i am to believe what i've read, this originated yesterday, March 19th, and possibly in Kentucky.
It then proceeded to spread like wildfire across North America.

I believed that shootings did happen in Wal-Mart was afraid, i was scared, i felt sadness and despair for the state of our community, our world.
But now that i've come to learn that this was a hoax i am even MORE afraid, scared, sad for the state of our world. What have we become? What terrible prank is this? Who would do this? Why would someone do this? Are we so amoral that we'd scare the shits out of an entire continent?
Maybe I'm just bitter because I got fooled by this hoax but you know what? I don't care.
I don't care that maybe the one that did this is concerned for the well-being of the world and it's wal-mart monoculture.
I don't care that maybe the reason they did this was to steer the public away from the capitalist Wal-Mart giant.
I don't care.
This is still mean, terrible, and horrible.

I'm not laughing.

what is stephen harper reading?

I just happened upon this website by Yann Martel (the guy who wrote Life of Pi, which by the way is an AMAZING novel).
It's Martel's project entitled:"What is Stephen Harper Reading?"
I'll let him explain in his own words the premise of his project:

“The Prime Minister did not speak during our brief tribute, certainly not. I don’t think he even looked up. The snarling business of Question Period having just ended, he was shuffling papers. I tried to bring him close to me with my eyes.Who is this man? What makes him tick? No doubt he is busy. No doubt he is deluded by that busyness. No doubt being Prime Minister fills his entire consideration and froths his sense of busied importance to the very brim. And no doubt he sounds and governs like one who cares little for the arts.But he must have moments of stillness. And so this is what I propose to do: not to educate—that would be arrogant, less than that—to make suggestions to his stillness.

For as long as Stephen Harper is Prime Minister of Canada, I vow to send him every two weeks, mailed on a Monday, a book that has been known to expand stillness. That book will be inscribed and will be accompanied by a letter I will have written. I will faithfully report on every new book, every inscription, every letter, and any response I might get from the Prime Minister, on this website.”

Yann Martel

The idea of stillness that Martel is exploring really intrigues me and really, Mr. Harper, what are you reading? I wonder if he's read any of these books. I wonder if he'll one day response to Martel's letters. I wonder if he even gets any of these books. I wonder if he practices stillness.

I just thought that this was interesting. Martel makes really cool suggestions for novels and literature for Mr. Harper to read. Some of my favorites (or at some of my favorites from the ones I've read) are: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (the movie is equally as awesome), Le Petite Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expuery, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Maus by Art Spiegelman.

I'm currently reading three books: The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky, and Metamorphosis by Kafka.

What are you reading?

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Just purchased the le sac dress from AA.
I am beyond excited to receive it and play around, ENDLESS CREATIVITY.

ps, you may have noticed i have changed the layout, look and title of my blog
i'm trying to go in a new-ish direction...?