Complaining With Kay

In this episode:

Complaining With Kay, Episode 67: Slow Catastrophes, Part 2

- I didn't expect to take 6 months off podcasting!

- Couldn't talk about it and didn't want to talk about anything else, then inertia took over

- There should be a law against child of former president becoming president – it's unpleasantly monarchical

- Our own slow catastrophe in Toronto: Rob Ford

- He appears to be slowly turning Toronto into someplace where you drive everywhere and then go home and watch TV and you have to pay for everything and poor people are totally fucked

- Someday I'll look back at this time and think “It would have been a different world”...

Due to disk space/bandwidth concerns, I have removed episodes 1-39 from the feed. If you'd still like to listen, email me at [email protected] and I will send you a zip file containing all 44 or so episodes.

Keep on bitching in the free world!

Due to disk space/bandwidth concerns, I have removed episodes 1-39 from the feed. If you'd still like to listen, email me at [email protected] and I will send you a zip file containing all 44 or so episodes.

Keep on bitching in the free world!

In this episode:

- Weirdest day of my life.

- Osama vs Bill Clinton: who's the monster?

- It's just ape-tastic revenge.

- Remember: we're just monkeys. Sometimes I think "For monkeys this is pretty good", and sometimes I think "Even for monkeys, this is pretty awful."

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In this episode:

- Update on dental stuff

- I had a brainwave: TELETHON!

- I'm planning on getting a ukulele because they're really cheap.

- Call of Cthulhu: The Puppet Opera!

- If space/time are truly infinite, then there is a universe exactly like ours with only one thing different

- apologies to RW relatives: i love you but GWB was a terrible, terrible president

- if it had gone the other way it would be a different world

- I remember at the time thinking: well, everything will probably be OK

because everything usually is, and I was young, stupid, and optimistic

- and of course everything has not been OK

- but the thing is, the next morning, everything was the same

- it was a slow catastrophe

- kind of like my teeth: nothing bad happened all at once, but gradually things added up and I need to fix it

- not as bad as it could be; things aren't so bad they can't be fixed - yet

- so let's fix them, OK?

Positivity:

- Clean your house in 20 minutes a day/30 days:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/cleaning/the-schedule-house-cleaning-in-20-minutes-a-day-for-30-days-131142

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In this episode:

- A thought experiment.

- How about we work on creating a world where everyone can have it pretty good all around, OK?

- I looked out the window and thought, "Have I woken up in a different universe?"

- That's Madeline squeaking her fox.

- My teeth need to be parged.

- Dental insurance: a fucking scam.

- Election time! Don't vote for Harper!

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Michael Hardner complains about how Canadians view our healthcare system. Morgan Riley and I provide backchat and questions. Lots of yelling with some constructive criticism.

Links of great interest:

- michaelhardner.blogspot.com

- The Lenihan (not Linehan) paper mentioned: http://bit.ly/fDJPRI

- cihi.ca

The episode in which I discuss my neck scar is 40: The New Year's TMI Cast.

The Absinthe Cast: Kay and Celeste Gillis (see Episode 51) drink absinthe and discuss the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud.

No, really.

- You know how people used to think fiction was bad for you? Maybe fiction is bad for you.

- I tried to keep telling myself "This is actually good! You don't have to bullshit!"

- For some reason whenever there's a deadline, that's when your printer suddenly decides that it won't print in black anymore.

- And I actually wrote that in my notes, with about 87 A's.

- I think I need to read up on Rimbaud or get really blitzed on absinthe in order to understand it.

- If you're an expert on Rimbaud: [email protected]

- I'm running around like I'm trying to stop a submarine from exploding.

- The kids will do whatever they want, because, hey, they're people!

- Hello! I'm back!

- No excuse or anything, just feeling mutinous etc

- No big topic today, just me bitching

IN THIS ORDER:

- fucking weather

- fucking stomach flu (or whatever it was)

- fucking falling from my fucking bike

YES I KNOW THAT'S A LOT OF FUCK IN ONE PODCAST

- anyway, on a positive note: Doctor Who

BONUS: Every Second Counts

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