Tag Archives: Pierre Vallieres

memory almost full: “je me souviens”

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Dave

Je Me Souviens! Its on the license plate. And it mean I remember. I remember what happened on the Plains of Abraham. The crushing defeat of 1759 that gave England and the English language hegemony in the New World. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Benjamin West, David Frum, Death of General Wolfe, Durham Report, FLQ Crisis, James Cross, Jean Charest PLQ, Lord Durham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major General James Wolfe, Paul McCartney, Pauline Marois, pierre falardeau, Pierre Laporte, Pierre Vallieres, The Durham Report, War Measures Act 1970, William Pitt the Elder, Wolfe and Montcalm | Leave a comment

play it again zorba: the crocodile cure

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dave

Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading →

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little criminals: occupy modify commodify

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

speak white: liberty is a black word

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Dave

Speak white. National Patriots Day coincides with Victoria Day. But, the juxtaposition is a bit peculiar, since it honors the rebellion against the British in 1837… Quebec has always been a case study in the sometimes jarring contradictions between form … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged charles papasoff, Cornelius Krieghoff, daniel boucher, francis leclerc, Jackie Robinson, leandre bergeron, Lord Durham, louis joseph papineau, michele lalonde, national patriots day quebec, Peter C.Newman, pierre falardeau, Pierre Vallieres, robertson davies, speak white michele lalonde, william lyon mackenzie | Leave a comment

MILK and HONEY and MONEY: Do What Thou Wilst

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Dave

Beatles for Sale.The early Beatle’s lyrics,were seemingly so naive, yet they revealed so much: Their plans and schemes have vanished like the merest of dreams. The occupations with which he kept himself so terribly busy were the pleasant bubbles of … Continue reading →

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No One Knows The Trouble He's Seen

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Dave

”Very often they do not even suspect that they too are niggers, slaves, ”white niggers”, while racism hides the reality from them by giving them the opportunity to despise an inferior, to crush him mentally or to pity him. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Al Jolson, Amos and Andy, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Pierre Vallieres, Randy Newman, Roy DeCarava, ÙDuke Ellington | Leave a comment

Free Falling with the Phantom Engineer

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Dave

It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry. A weather-beaten bluesy Bob Dylan composition that seems to capture something essential about writer Jack Kerouac ( 1922-1969 ); especially the discouragingly delivered second line, ”can’t buy a … Continue reading →