A motley assortment of anecdotes, thoughts, comments, observations, idle speculation, rantings, ravings, tirades, attempted wit & humour, pop culture references, expostulations, hypotheses, and whatever the hell else I feel like posting...
posted by Blake @ 8:47 p.m.
I'm a twentysomething Canadian (and damn proud of it, too!) who's still trying to figure out his desired career path. Living in a small town just outside of Ottawa (Canada's capital, for those of you who don't know that already). Cohabitating there with my dear mother (go ahead, make your jokes ;-) until I start making enough money to securely move out. Recent university grad (Bachelor of Arts - With Distinction - History, Minor in Political Science - Carleton University - Class of 2003) and aspiring casual intellectual. Unapologetic user of "big words" and other esoteric jargon. Occasional cynic and purveyor of dry wit. Renowned for my near-encyclopedic knowledge of obscure facts and trivia, as well as of Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama references. Non-practicing Christian (nominally United - The United Church of Canada, that is) with a generally inclusive, pluralistic, relativistic, deist outlook. Chronically overweight, with the accompanying self-esteem/self-conscious and body image issues. And, oh yeah, compulsive and frequent user of brackets, the semicolon, the hyphen and other sentence-lengthening grammatical devices... :-)
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4 Comments:
At 5:53 p.m. ,
Anonymous said...
I don't get it. Please explain.
At 9:04 p.m. ,
Blake said...
I just thought the article was interesting, that's all. Wanted to share it with the blogging public. I found it funny that 1) the people of San Francisco at the time were so willing to tolerate and even humour the delusions of someone like Joshua Norton, and 2) he proclaimed himself emperor in a country that's always been ardently devoted to its republicanism (indeed, the USA is probably the most famous republic in modern history, and will remain so I think for a very long time!) Appreciated a certain sense of irony in that regard...
At 11:01 p.m. ,
Anonymous said...
Sorry, couldn't see the forest for the trees.
I guess too many years of school have trained me to look for some deeper meaning and I missed the irony completely.
Now that you've pointed it out, I do see the humour.
Miss your regular blogs, hope everything is ok.
At 10:12 p.m. ,
~ said...
Hello Blake:
Oy ... oy, oy, oy! Poor Emperor Norton. Damn ... why didn't we think of naming Langley Norton? Or even better yet Emperor Norton. Huzzah!
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