I've seen a few films in the past couple of weeks that I thought I'd mention here ... The 11th Hour - Leonardo diCaprio, Leila Connors Petersen and Nadia Connors present An Inconvenient Truth on steroids. Although it took awhile to really get going (with a "dramatic" intro that was more of a yawner than a screamer), this film mostly lives up to the idea (well, my idea) of being everything Al Gore's stake in the "look at me I'm a good guy now that I'm not a policy-maker" pile could have been. It takes aim at both industry and government, and more importantly at the generally-accepted human idea that we have the irrevocable right to exploit the planet as we see fit. For such a straight-up, hammer-you-in-the-face film, it tries a little too hard to end on a positive note (fancy eco-buildings will save us!) - but I suppose they didn't want to be held liable for mass suicides following each screening. Plus, put David Suzuki in anything and I'm happy (the soundtrack from Sigur Ros and Mogwai didn't hurt either).

My old lady recently introduced me to this podcast hosted by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. Pound for pound, i think it is one of the best constructed and compelling examples of vegan-outreach i've come across since i withdrew my support for the animal-exploitation industry those many, many moons ago. I encourage ...

Someone mentioned Zeitgeist in the comments of my last post. I found it worth watching for the perspectives on Christianity and the Federal Reserve alone. Would like to learn more about both. If anyone has seen any rebuttals or further insights concerning these two topics, please post them here! ...

Perhaps i'm a day late and a dollar short on this one, but i just watched a documentary called Occupation: Dreamland last night and thought it was pretty heavy. The whole time in was on i was thinking "well, what would i do if my city was being occupied ...

I initially began composing this here text chunk while sitting in a Super 8 in Topeka, KS. Alas, sitting in a van, hocking books and other wares, and impromptu parking lot football games got the better of my time. So it sat as a "draft", neglected, lonely, starved for human contact. Oh wait, that was me. The blog post was just fine. Now G7's Great Eastward Expansion has been completed, and I sit here in Halifax, NS. What the hell am I doing out here you ask? Well, mainly fielding calls from the immediate neighbours to G7's Winnipeg office, in which I am asked to come back and put an end to the 18-hour drunken sex orgies they have to hear coming out of the Albert Street office thrice weekly. (I did speak to Chris, and he promises to stop renting those DVDs.) Anyhoo, as a new Haligonian, I will point out that I would like to please see the sunlight soon. Also, that there are a great number of events happening here this week around the Atlantica Conference happening Thursday through Saturday. If you haven't heard of Atlantica (which I hadn't until I got here), it's basically a mini-NAFTA for the Northeast. You can read more about it on the Stop Atlantica site. Events scheduled include a town hall meeting tonight (Wednesday), and workshops, demos, a critical mass, and more throughout the week. Get the full dealio on the Resist Atlantica website. (Even though I am, as a rule, skeptical of any event which notes that "costumes are encouraged". I am also a prick.)