Tumblr.  I guess we can call this my “blog” now.  It’s a record of the detrius that sticks as I make my way through the depths of the Internets.  Don’t expect much of my voice in a direct way, but those of you who know me will recognize my personality and perspective through my choices of objects to showcase.

Twitter.  For those of you who want to hear what I have to say, it seems that short-form blogging is the way to go.  I love Twitter.  It works for me.  Come and join me!

Flickr.  I like to take pictures with my recently acquired digital camera.  Most of them are shit, but the ones that aren’t I tend to post quite regularly here.  Now you can see my world!

I still occasionally update my music blog, Suicide Snail, and every now and then I post a new playlist to 8tracks.  Music is a significant part of my life, but it ebbs and flows in relative importance.

I’ll probably keep this blog up for as long as WordPress will let me, or until I am satisfied that it has fully decomposed.  Seriously, join me in one or more of these other venues.  Many of them are more interactive and more immediate than traditional blogs, which is one of the reason I find them so satisfying.

Phew.  This is a relief.  I’m too old for homework anyway…

You can watch the trailer here.  I know you want to.

The final 2006 census data will portray the richest 5 per cent of Canadians as dramatically accumulating more wealth, the incomes of most residents showing perhaps the greatest stagnancy in the developed world and the nation’s poorest falling further and further behind.

Immigrants and Canada’s native-born youngest male adults will be identified as the prime victims of a 25-year trend in widening income inequality – an inequality some economists believe reflects systemic long-term changes to the labour market rather than transitional bumps in demographics and swings in the business cycle…

The census numbers are expected to show that the rich are driving up shelter prices beyond reach of increasing numbers of people whose earnings are inert, a situation impacting heavily on immigrants arriving in major cities where the housing markets are already stressed.

All this rosy news apparently spells doom for me and my future (which perhaps makes my musings about a possible career change this weekend especially fun!). Oh, and in other news on the “Ed Stelmach is a liar” front: experts (i.e. people with training in economics, not people who come into Pier 1 and proclaim that it doesn’t make sense that Canadian and US prices are different when our dollars are at par) are already claiming that the increasingly unattainable costs of shelter will ultimately lead to the ruination of our economy:

Accommodation is the biggest bite out of the basket, and it goes straight to the heart of how income inequality is not about poverty, it’s about affordability.

And affordability is key. You know our macro-economic policy . . . the portion of the population that consumes the most is lower income people who don’t save, they spend. Anyone in the bottom half is spending more of their income than they’re saving. You want to keep them spending. So don’t keep chewing up their disposable income with housing costs, which is what growing inequality does. It just grinds down the wheels of commerce.

This year, if I haven’t already ranted to you about it, the front-runner for my favorite album of the year is The Midnight Organ Fight another Scottish band: Frightened Rabbit. More accessible but just as affecting, I have been listening to this collection of well-written songs about love and sex and drinking more or less non-stop since it was released a few back. You probably should be doing the same.