Almost 20 years ago I was a part of pioneering something and I had no idea I was doing that. Gathered under the creative eye of Rob Winslow at The Union Theatre in Peterborough Ontario, a small cast of us put on a weekly improvised soap opera called “The Cactus Hotel: A Western Philosophy” (My God! Here is the brochure for it!) Every Sunday night all summer we improvised a one hour show that advanced the story of a number of characters who found themselves in an imaginary world that owed its existence to the marriage of the Hotel California, …
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SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can’t be realistically completed? Eco: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die. via SPIEGEL ONLINE – Druckversion – SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.
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Feedy: Ole produces a primer to graphic facilitation. This one is going in my resources list.
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This is a quick way into understanding what we are doing in Northern Alberta, and how it contributes to a psychotic consumptive. This has to stop. I have no idea how to put an end to this insanity. We are so far embedded in the system that feeds this Windigo, that it feels like removing ourselves kills us too. Merci Jean-Sebastien.
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Food leads the feed this week: AskMetafilter has a great list of squash recipes for all those winter squash that are plentiful and cheap in the northern hemisphere right now. Terry Patten on exploring big questions in an integral world. Good notes on polarity management and conscious evolution. CassetteBoy meets Sir Alan Sugar (and Spurs fans will love this revelatory takedown). Rosa Zubizarretta on Deepening Democracy.