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Lakeview in Mississauga looks like a good place to move to, in the event you are looking to move
/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate: A recent post, regarding related topics, is entitled: Land sale brings Mississauga closer to a waterfront that avoids Toronto’s mistakes – Dec. 22, 2016 Globe and Mail [end] We have a couple of good comments at a recent post entitled: If you receive a Notice from the Committee of Adjustment, here’s a Guide […]
Erving Goffman’s definition of the situation: Bridget Jones’s Baby and The King’s Speech
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn a Comment at a recent post, I’ve referred to commonalities between Bridget Jones’s Baby and The King’s Speech. In the current post, I will explore themes related to storytelling, Erving Goffman, storylines, narrative arcs, frames and framing, and related topics. These topics are of interest to me because I have been exploring the nature […]
Why television writing has become the new home of verbal complexity – Oct. 7, 2016 Guardian article
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn Oct. 7, 2016 Guardian article is entitled: “Why television writing has become the new home of verbal complexity: The high literary style of Woolf and Nabokov was long ago condemned as elitist and replaced by bland accessibility. But there is now a return to verbal complexity, not least in the unlikely medium of TV.” Good […]
Take your pick: Heritage Conservation Districts in Toronto (a) deaden past and future or (b) are long overdue
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFrom time to time in recent years, there has been discussion regarding the concept of pursuing a Heritage Conservation District designation for some part or parts of Long Branch. Following two links, forwarded by Michael Spaziani, are of interest. They deal with the advantages and disadvantages, as viewed from a range of perspectives, of the […]
Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word – Oct. 26, 2015 Salon article
/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn Oct. 26, 2015 Salon article is entitled: “Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word: ‘Diversity’ sounds polite and hopeful. It’s how we talk when we can’t talk about race, or when whites get nervous.” The opening paragraphs read: Our country is convulsing over the issues of diversity and race. Police […]
Presence (2015) by Amy Cuddy – Powerful Poses, Powerless Poses
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillForty years ago in Toronto – in the mid-1970s – I spent a year and a fair amount of money in the intensive study of a variation of the Alexander Technique. I really needed the training. I was born slouching. I had the appearance of a person that life had beaten down. Like many other things […]
Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840-1900 (2011)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn a previous post I’ve highlighted several books from the Toronto Public Library that I’ve borrowed after viewing a 1993 documentary entitled The Rise and Fall of English Montreal (1993). Another book about Montreal history that I’ve written a recent Comment about, and that I want to highlight in a separate post, is entitled: Peopling […]
Fascism and the Italians of Montreal: An Oral History: 1922-1945 (1998)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve added several Comments to a previous post about a 1993 documentary about English Montreal. By way of bringing attention to the Comments, I’ve created a new blog post featuring one of the Comments: Fascism and the Italians of Montreal: An Oral History: 1922-1945 (1998) I’ve also been reading Fascism and the Italians of Montreal: […]