Shinty? What's that?
The day after the riot, I talked with a woman who was in Montreal last year
when their hockey team did quite well in the playoffs, so (almost of course)
there was a riot; she said it was worse than here. And they didn't even get
as far in the playoffs. Montreal has the biggest hockey riots in Canada.
Then, apparently, it's Vancouver. But I understand the football riots are
very similar sorts of phenomenon--but sometimes quite large indeed?
I've been a hockey fan for a long time, but it looks rather different up
close rather than on television. The hockey team doubled their profit this
year and, at the end of it all, we see lots of kids wearing their jerseys
trashing the downtown core. Some stabbings. Beatings. Damage of businesses.
And the boss of the hockey team says those aren't their fans and they take
no responsibility whatsoever. Now there's corporate social responsibility
for you.
Meanwhile, the conservative government has cut the arts funding drastically
and the general economy sucks. Writers and other artists can't make a dime
and the populace goes absolutely beserk over a hockey game.
If that hockey enthusiasm could be channeled into something more meaningful
than a hockey game, we'd have a better society tomorrow.
ja
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: vancouver riot
> Gosh amazing film -awful subject!
> P
> Ps takes me back to playing shinty at school very dangerous
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jim Andrews
> Sent: 05 July 2011 10:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: vancouver riot
>
> i recently moved to vancouver canada. from not far away in victoria
> canada.
> just in time for the hockey riot, which transpired in my neighborhood,
> which
>
> is downtown vancouver.
>
> i have come to the conclusion that the revolution, in canada, will have to
> transpire through hockey. pick your side and away we go.
>
> i've been reading the list with interest. quote of the day, eh? you know,
> everything is so fucked up corporate marketed, mediated and spun senseless
> these days (here too), and so unrealeated and disassociated, anonymized
> and
> lost in large numbers thereby, and peoples' sense of what's important in
> culture so poorly prioritized and trivialized in the spin and
> commodification, that one eventually looks simply to those people who,
> though they may run small operations, are nonetheless doing it seriously
> and
>
> publishing/producing good work. regardless of the size or monetary
> success.
>
> anyway, here is my take on the vancouver riot:
> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/vanriot . it's a video i made with dbCinema, the
> graphic synthesizer i wrote.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
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