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Hogan Constantly checking WordArc
Simon Fraser University humanities student, satirist, essayist, record collector, sex machine. My blog (which is even more neglected now that I've been writing for this site (but check it out anyway!!!)) is called Hogan's Logos.
Biography In Six Words:He loves you, you love him.
UTOPIA?: A WORLD WITHOUT THE OLYMPICS (AND OTHER THINGS)2010-02-17 18:45:21According to one reporter, the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games are threatening to become . Others have called them the "glitch games". Whether or not... |
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER (WELL, POTENTIAL MURDER)2009-07-23 02:38:41Ever smuggled things on to airplanes? Dangerous and illegal things? I have. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. Here are some examples:
Years a... |
 ON THE MOON2009-03-10 15:34:21As I watched the full moon last night, this is what I thought.
I thought of writing a book called "A History Of The Moon". It would be about th... |
 THE OPINIONATED DIC2009-02-24 19:01:33Hey there, WordArcers (what are we called, anyway? And how is that pronounced? Looks as though it should sound like "word arse-ers", but of course... |
 A SEA OF VACANT LAPTOPS2009-02-17 21:15:19I'm guilty of it, too. Right now, in fact.
When I walk into a café and see rows of zombied-out laptop users, headphones further insulating them... |
 TINKERING WITH THE LANGUAGE OF "RANDOM"2009-02-12 19:38:06George Orwell (sorry Alamir, this is an old article) advocated for the “direct tinkering” of words because, as he said, “the slovenliness of... |
LOVING TO HATE TO LOVE HATING...ETC.2009-02-06 19:36:57I have a very ambivalent attitude towards advertising: I both love and hate it. On the one hand I can see how advertising is manipulative, deceptiv... |
 THINKING ABOUT MUSTACHES2009-02-03 19:38:49I don't usually write about fashion (mostly because I don't care about fashion), but I've already posted a piece about the skull-and-bones trend, s... |
 AGAINST ANONYMITY2009-01-30 19:31:55An open-letter to everybody on this site:
This just my opinion, but I think that if anyone wants to submit writing to this (or any) site, they s... |
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You know how when someone tries to explain their crazy dream to you, and it's always extremely boring? I sure do. Unless, that is, I was part of th... |
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An open-letter to everybody on this site:
This just my opinion, but I think that if anyone wants to submit writing to this (or any) site, they s... |
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I'm guilty of it, too. Right now, in fact.
When I walk into a café and see rows of zombied-out laptop users, headphones further insulating them... |
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A friend of mine who rarely, if ever, gets angry, wrote this to me in an email a little while ago:
Can someone tell those guys at WordArc that "... |
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I'm home for the holy-days, which means I've been playing lots of Nintendo. Therefore I've been thinking about video games. In particular, their ev... |
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In response to the last article, "Bus Etiquette", by Genius_Advice, I'd like to add the following observations about bus passenger behavior.
On... |
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"Hello, fellow losers" was scrawled in black marker at the back of the bus on my first day to university last year. I remember it well. And even th... |
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Since Christmas is probably still fresh in everyone's minds, I thought I'd post an old book review of mine about the lasting and, in this case, cor... |
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Seeing that nobody has written anything here about the ongoing "global economic meltdown", as it's being called, I thought I'd offer some quick tho... |
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The not-so-famous-anymore Marshall McLuhan - Canada's so-called "media prophet" - wrote his most well-known work on communications technology, in p... |