Winding Down the Day
Oct. 27th, 2012 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineMy feet are sore. I'd been standing on them - backpack firmly strapped on - for much of the evening before getting home about twenty minutes ago.
I can safely say that the evening was worth the pain, though.
Spent much of the late afternoon and early evening at Knox Presbyterian Church, having done more of that volunteer photography stuff with the WritersFest crew. First up was Mario Beauregard from Montréal, in town to discuss his new book Brain Wars. The tone was, to be honest and fair, more academic than anything, complete with slideshow via computer/projector. Lots of discussion of whether or not materialism as a way of thinking about neuroscience was worth anything anymore, courtesy of quantum physics, or so it seemed to me.
Later on was the main event: Jian Ghomeshi.
If you listen to CBC Radio One, you'll already know him as host of Q, that channel's arts/culture talk show airing Monday thru Friday at 10 AM as a rule. If you're of a certain age range and lived in Canada at a particular timeframe, then you'll certainly recall his musical career as part of the band Moxy Früvous.
Tonight, though, he was wearing his author's hat. He's got a book out, 1982, about life as he understood it and lived it at age 14 in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, and so far as he knew at the time, his family was the only one of Iranian ancestry - they moved to Canada by way of London, England - in the neighbourhood.
Also, he was a David Bowie fan, and was, from time to time, dressed accordingly.
Not quite a recipe for complete social isolation, but it could have gone either way for a while there.
So Ghomeshi was on fire tonight as a guest speaker and interviewee, and he had good help from CBC Ottawa's TV News anchor Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld. I'm sure the WritersFest people will have either podcast or video up somewhere sooner than later, and I'm sorting through the pix I took tonight of both the Beauregard and Ghomeshi sessions to see which ones are ready for Flickr.
More on other stuff as time allows...
I can safely say that the evening was worth the pain, though.
Spent much of the late afternoon and early evening at Knox Presbyterian Church, having done more of that volunteer photography stuff with the WritersFest crew. First up was Mario Beauregard from Montréal, in town to discuss his new book Brain Wars. The tone was, to be honest and fair, more academic than anything, complete with slideshow via computer/projector. Lots of discussion of whether or not materialism as a way of thinking about neuroscience was worth anything anymore, courtesy of quantum physics, or so it seemed to me.
Later on was the main event: Jian Ghomeshi.
If you listen to CBC Radio One, you'll already know him as host of Q, that channel's arts/culture talk show airing Monday thru Friday at 10 AM as a rule. If you're of a certain age range and lived in Canada at a particular timeframe, then you'll certainly recall his musical career as part of the band Moxy Früvous.
Tonight, though, he was wearing his author's hat. He's got a book out, 1982, about life as he understood it and lived it at age 14 in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, and so far as he knew at the time, his family was the only one of Iranian ancestry - they moved to Canada by way of London, England - in the neighbourhood.
Also, he was a David Bowie fan, and was, from time to time, dressed accordingly.
Not quite a recipe for complete social isolation, but it could have gone either way for a while there.
So Ghomeshi was on fire tonight as a guest speaker and interviewee, and he had good help from CBC Ottawa's TV News anchor Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld. I'm sure the WritersFest people will have either podcast or video up somewhere sooner than later, and I'm sorting through the pix I took tonight of both the Beauregard and Ghomeshi sessions to see which ones are ready for Flickr.
More on other stuff as time allows...
