The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives

What: The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: learn to balance your work and your life as a literary professional
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy at gmail dot com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation and dinner
When you love what you do, how do you know when to stop doing it? When you’re the one who sets your work/life boundaries, how do you incorporate and benefit from structure, and should you in the first place? Author, media personality, and life coach Alanna Fero will discuss achieving a prolific and rewarding work/life balance for those in the literary arts.

Your admission includes a dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one glass of pop, wine or beer, and all the literary bon mots you can handle.

Alanna FeroBio: Alanna Fero M.A., L.S.C., is the author of Love Made Visible: Values-Driven Approaches to Work/Life, coming out August 15th. She’s a regular media commentator and former radio host, career/life path and employee engagement expert, and keynote speaker. She is passionate about helping people to do good in the world and do well for themselves at the same time.

7-7:30: meet and mingle
7:30-8: listen and learn
8-whenever: Aussie Rules match: free verse poets vs obsessive proofreaders

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reddit be hackt, yo!

reddit headerUnless the “IAUP VIOLATOR” title is one they wear proudly.

Test it yourself: go to reddit.com and look at the header image. Instead of its usual friendly, literate alien, you’ve got a couple of incestuous-looking aliens with some rather emphatic text above them. IAUP, by the way, stands for Internet Acceptable Use Policy. The hacked image is meant to imply that reddit does not abide by basic internet standards.

Is anyone taking credit for this yet? Leave your breadcrumbs in the comments section, please!

UPDATE: reddit be not hackt. Reddit be self-mocking. This is an improvement; now if we could only get them to stop lol-ing and get fixing things.

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THIS is Sparta?

Yep, danged overqualified immigrants. We’re in ur office, kleenin ur mess.

caution THIS is SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA

Stolen from Neatorama

 

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and now, at the end of days, as the sun sinks, spent, into eternal darkness through sulphurous, striated clouds of irradiated effluence, R’lyeh rises from the abyss, and Nyarlathotep writhes and shrieks in unholy glee at his anchor desk, at last we see the signs clearly

The man who took this iconic photograph:

Kim Phuc

is also the man who took this iconic photograph:

Paris Hilton

And there you have it; the devolution of civilization, right before our very eyes. As Jezebel says, Paris Hilton is the Kim Phuc of 2007. And Nick Ut is apparently the Cassandra.

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the finest piece of tabloid reporting in history

taken just before the little boy ripped her arm off and shattered her skull with it 

Bar none. From TMZ.

Victoria Beckham blah blah shopping blah L.A. blah blah Friday. Blah blah!

Posh, 33, blah blah Kitson — blah blah purple dress blah, Spice blah blah photogs blah blah blah blah!

Paparazzi crush blah blah Robertson Blvd., blah blah emaciated blah blah blonde bob blah blah blah. Blah!

Sheer Genius! Also: 33? O rly??? See the site for the several PAGES of comments this post generated!

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