Du vent Vancouver

Very reassuring windy night. The forecast says 17km per hr, (upto 50km) but I suspect it’s more km. I am loving the melancholic tones of autumn in the city. Summer is so bright and blue, which has it’s own immediate charms, but autumn can put you in the trenches and gather you in like no other. And it’s a much more interesting auditory time of year. Summer sounds can be obscured in the whirrs of fans everywhere and people declaring how lucky we are when the sun shines.

According to the BC Weather Book, one of my weather refs, storms formed in the gulf of Alaska are moving Eastward. Now I did check for a section on wind and nada. I’d like to know more about the particular vent that blowing outside the window.  BC is so broad a geographic area, that really we could use a weather book specifically for Vancouver. One for the Island.  Heck why not publish one just about Campbell River? Infact I wouldn’t mind a guide to the weather on the precise street I live on.

I must acquire a way of measuring the wind speed. I cannot be doing with such vagueness.

There is a suggestion of flurries on Thursday. A forecast will be forthcoming, once a suitable paragraph reveals itself.

Fairly soon I will have to start paying my annual attention to the weather in Edmonton also.

Flash

It was suggested to me last night at a literary gathering that I should watch The Beachcombers. Given that my history of television viewing is a bit limited I decided to give a warm up sprint of viewing before this undertaking of Flash Gordon. A remastered DVD I picked up for 50 cents. Myself and the small Puffin enjoyed some restorative post Halloween supine viewing of Flash.

It took me a great deal longer than him to figure out who Flash Gordon was. How’d you know it’s him? I’d suggested it was another fella. Easy he said I looked at the cover of the DVD and he’s identical. I temporarily could not quite see the resemblance and must get my eyes tested a toute vitesse. If you cannot recognize Flash this is a serious impediment.

We so enjoyed indulging in the Christmas present head dresses and brilliant bouncy spring machine with light bulbs on the end — very Wheel of Fortune — against which Flash agus a chairde were pressed and buzzed by the villains. The fab desk that looked like the ledge in the bank and the purposeful dialogue: “Well hello there Gordon.” at the denouement.

A perfect episode and still 2 more to go and yet another ww2 Pacific aviation adventure waiting before we comb the beach territory.

Þig eða þú

Rhotic 7

Ding

Tá an fliú muc leanaí ag an scoil

Táim ag súil beidh sé anois ag an doras go luath

Inné bhí sé an-foggy lá atá inniu ann ach bhí na sléibhte soiléir agus an spéir gheal.

Chonaic mé Primetime ar an fliú muc in Éirinn.

Tá fear an dá linn a fhios dó.  Fear ó Thuaisceart le gáire mhor.

Hyper extension

This is curious from 1964, I think French doc on gymnastics: was particularly drawn to Caslavska in the first sequence. The sport was so much more balletic, now and really since the 70’s it’s been all hyper extension of limbs and high risk and tornado tumbling. It was the repetition that I loved about being a gymnast and the lines, whether it was a tumbling sequence of the line of your leg and extended foot in relation to your arm and hand. And the way you had to use all your strength to uncurl your body to an extended straight line, relying on your shoulders and wrists to get your there because sometimes from sitting you’d have nothing other than that.

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Postal habitat

Rhotic 6

Uafásach lá Ding.

Fadhbanna an maidin leis an múinteoir ceoil

Tá maidin Dé Sathairn luath sin le linn

Chastised dom Cuanach .. “mam a dúirt mé liom a fháil ar am ceacht éagsúla nach bhfuil miondealú néaróg

Ag iarraidh a mhíniú dó nach bhfuil an domhan i gcónaí mar ba chóir é a

Ba chóir go mbeadh an domhan ar ndóigh, gach oibriú comhoibriú agus Scooby Doo agus laughter

Grá sé Nob Nation. An nach greannmhar? Biffo agus a chairde. Cad a buachaill!

Notes

These are notes (and subsequent links) I wrote while listening to Steve McCaffrey talk loosely around the topic of a multitude of topics. (Lacan was an entry point at some point) He’s a very interesting, including bloke. Initially I struggled to understand much of what he was talking about, hence there are a few pointers on how I might improve my bathroom cleaning, but eventually I settled and simmered with him and the conversation. Mainly I just grabbed words out of the air that were floating past me. Some of the names I am not familiar with hence dubiousmos spelling. This is an attempt to document what exists in auditory, no context acquisition, and what the precise words really are and relate to. Sort of like listening to any foreign language. Amendments will be added in another colour.

Badiou, multiplicity

irrefutable rhetoric

scrubbing the tub

questioning of transcindental position

lusian (sp?) position

Should have got bleach for the toilet.

propositional nature. Conceptual persona

populated with subjectivity

but. but. but. but. but

letters on thinking

letters on humanism letter on humanism

allusion to next name

rogues language

Francis Grose

Dictionary of slang

Samuel Johnson

establish orthography, class war impossible, sorry that should be class war imposition of corporate language on minimum wage workers

Wittgenstein, Dictionary of errors

end of carnival, standardisation of language.

Mass mediation. Hysterics discourse. Question. You think you’ve changed things: what is the measure of that change?

Humility: what it can be, what it can’t be? Language takes itself out of language

Philosophy trying to get rid of metaphysics.

Poetics of the local, poetics of monstration (sp?). Neoliberalism. ethics of humility. Politics without party/effect change

Airport limo driver. Focus of energy in relation to work.

How does desire operate? You can’t isolate desire, perpetual deferment.

How does subjectivity play out in notion of nation?

Constructed national identities

Areas that need emancipation.

Aristotle Acedia. Accidie

Spasmodics: male abjection. Sydney Dobela (sp?) Tennyson. Byron: man from McCain (oven chips) Cain maybe! Manfred maybe!

The Death Walk Necromon. Mushima. Mishima (Yukio Mishima)

Social subversion gay subject

Desire for non desire This may have been no desire.

No social imagination beyond capitalism.

Languages of overarching structure. Working thru the structure. Moments of access. Bataille looking to precapitalist notions.

Shiftiness topographical the shiftiness.