Month: December 2005
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Loop Clothing’s First Birthday
“EXPERIENCE where LIFE meets STYLE” – such is the motto of hip Waterloo clothing retailer Loop Clothing. I say clothing retailer, but in fact, to label Loop as as such would be a gross understatement. Loop Clothing is so much more than just fashion…they’re culture. Why else have numerous publications covered the store’s story, and…
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The Sour Keys Keep Time
When the idea of writing an article about time was presented to me, I could not help but immediately think of The Sourkeys. Time, or more specifically timing, is the key to innovation in the music industry and The Sourkeys are proof of that. With their unique sound, off-beat rhythms and continuously-changing melodies, The Sourkeys…
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It’s About Time We Make Poverty History
By the time people are reading this article, Make Poverty History Day will be nearly a month behind us. But obviously, the problem of poverty will not. Many times I have been asked how a single day of ‘awareness’ was supposed to make a difference towards such an overwhelming situation. Some people have gone so…
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A Sweet Chunk of KW History
From the school system we were almost forced to accept that the history of southern Ontario towns were extremely dull. Epic battles of glory were for elsewhere; small town Ontario is about simple dependability and slow growth: clearing forests, setting up roads, etc etc. But despite all the tales of churches and walking, once in…
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The 7-11 Deadly Sins
The florescent overhead lights glare as you stagger through the glass doors at three in the morning with an unlit cigarette in your mouth and eyes glaring red from the 48th consecutive sleepless hour. There’s an exam tomorrow and it’s time to buckle down and crack the textbook. The counter drones glance blankly at your
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On Being a Little Kid
I remember, quite clearly, what it was like to be small. And by small, I mean really small. Knee-high, out-of-sight, toddler small. Maybe it’s the clarity of the memories, or maybe their sheer distance from my clumsy and inconveniently large current self, but I’ve been reflecting quite often recently on what it was like to…
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Now Is The Time
Now is the time I’m going to get straight A’s. It’s time I pick up that book and read it. It’s time to look for a job, begin graduate applications, meet with the prof, go to the bank, volunteer somewhere – anywhere! – take out the garbage…all before I graduate. Almost four years of student
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What You Already Know
It is said that Western people have a linear sense of time, and that other people of the world do not. In the second case, replace “other peoples” with any indigenous race or culture you would like; if they’ve been in a TLC documentary or discussed in your anthropology class, chances are they “don’t have
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Why We All Live By THEIR Time
Time, for us, is something which always has and belong to them, that is, other people. They way in which they, and therefore you, experience time is unique among living things. If you own a cat or dog you probably have observed that their time seems unstructured. Likewise, your pets probably think that your life
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The Evolution of Cine-Slang
Since the invention of cinema by the Lumière Brothers in 1895, the film has been criminally denied its deserved status in the art world. I’m not blaming anyone in particular, and I’m certainly not pointing my finger towards poor filmmaking and poor films. We can blame them for, say, school shootings and the teen suicide…