Prolific Immigrant

The song “Dancing” by Elisa – her voice is heartbreaking and the lyrics equally so…

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
- Rumi

Serving as a sort of balance – for lack of a better word – to the neoc*n article I posted a few hours ago, here is a Frontline interview with Hamza Yusuf, a man for whom I have an endless amount of respect and admiration. He references Thoreau, Shakespeare and The Song of Roland; he discusses hegemony, foundations of democracy, need for dissent, and the role of media, etc.

It is the likes of him who make me proud. Not to mention that he’s TOTALLY cute.

“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
- Malcolm X, may he be resting in peace.

If the consequence of such thinking weren’t so devastating, it would be comical. Fundamentalists ranging from the Fundamentalist Muslim, Fundamentalist Jew, Fundamentalist Christian, Fundamentalist Anti-Religionist, Fundamentalist Anti-Crayonist, and Fundamentalist Anti-Humorist make me cry.

Here are some choice quotes from Ne*cons on a cruise: What cons*rvatives say when they think we aren’t listening:

‘”The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they’ll have the whole of Europe.”‘ (I appear to be shirking my duties as “Muslim breeder”. I should really get on that.)
‘”I went to Paris, and it was so lovely. [...] But then you think – it’s surrounded by Muslims.”‘
‘A Filipino waiter offers him a top-up of his wine, and he mock-whispers to me, “They all look the same! Can you tell them apart?”‘
‘”The coverage of this [Iraq] war is unbelievable. Even Fox News is unbelievable. You’d think we’re the only ones dying. Enemy casualties aren’t covered. We’re doing an excellent job killing them.”‘
‘”…nobody was tortured in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo.”‘
‘…black people “tend to revert to savagery”, and should be given the vote only “when they stop eating each other”‘
‘”… A white man doesn’t have a chance in this country.”‘
‘”The Mexicans are getting these benefits, the coloureds or niggers, whatever they are saying, are getting these benefits, and I as a white man am losing my country.”‘
‘Katrina showed [...] “the dysfunctionality that is evident in many black neighbourhoods”
‘”Pinochet is a hero. He saved Chile.”‘

Among the brainiacs there were Bernard L*wis and Mark Ste*n.

…as heart-warming as Jesus C@mp.

Hi everyone – I’ve been receiving all of the emails asking why I’m not responding to the many comments posted recently. I actually can’t access my blog from work (firewall) and so even though I can access blogger.com in order to post, I can’t access onefemalecanuck.com to respond to your comments during the day.

In the evenings, I am finding myself completely drained and have decided to let the comments take on a life of their own. I am writing and writing and writing because right now it feels like writing is my only saving grace. Please understand I am reading, appreciating and being moved (be it to laugh, cry or just feel warm and cozy) by each and every one of your comments and emails…but I will not be responding for quite some time. I hope that’s okay, and that you’ll cut me some necessary slack in the coming while

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
-C.G. Jung

Check out this cool photo from gorgeous sister Anjum. It’s one of the soon-to-be 365 pics in her photo-a-day (2007) set.

I’m going to COPY HER! I too am going to make a photo-a-day thing…only I don’t know when I will start it, BUT I WILL! (I wonder: Yasmine, are you doing this, too?)

“Awesomeness”.

Update 2 August 2011: I never did do this, because I am lame at copy cat-ing.

Places you must visit while in Montreal:

.1. Suite 88 Chocolatier, where you must try the Strawberry Pepper gelato.

.2. Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art by the old port. Even though there is a tendency to carry work that leans a little to the grotesque, it’s all beautiful.

I was seated with a book in hand, listening to Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B Flat minor (Allegro non troppo) and preparing to drink Cinnamon Apple Spice & Moroccan Pomegranate Red herbal teas mixed in my newly purchased teapot (isn’t she lovely?) hiding beneath The Cozy (lovelier, yes?).

…I am pointing out the spout of the teapot so you believe there is a teapot hidden beneath this The Cozy.

As I placed The Cozy over the teapot, I got to thinking that The Cozy would serve as an excellent accessory to The Ponytail in Canadian winters. It would be called The Pony Cozy: Keeping your head cozy and your ponytail snazzy.

Look, I’ve even taken two different angled photos for you to consider…

Fits perfectly and will be a very easy product to pitch.

Soon, I shall be well on my way to making my first million. (I will always appreciate that you were my friends when I was merely a thousandaire.)