The fall is in full swing, and my world is getting busy again. The day job has its ups and downs, but clearly there is more activity going on, and more to come for sure.
The night job is getting much busier too. This week I’m off to the beautiful city of Kelowna, I quite like it there. The people are nice enough, and the hotel is comfortable. To me going there is sort of like a mini vacation, it’s a great place to get a few days much needed rest.
The city has a wafting smell of cedar in the air, it reminds me of being in a sauna. The streets are well manicured and its neighbourhoods are well kept. It has “Stepford Wife” written all over it. It’s a city where industry and tourism meet hand in hand, and from what I can tell, there seems to be no clash between the two.
After that, I’m home for a few days, then off to do the whirlwind tour of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. (Hopefully a few familiar faces will come out in Saskatoon…)
Lately it seems that, much like my friend Brett, I am becoming a well-read vagabond. I may maintain a home and personal relationships, but in actuality, I’m still just a man in a suitcase.
Other Stuff…
There was a thing in Dose (a daily newspaper here in Calgary…) today about how Canada is becoming a bastion of Porn entertainment production. Apparently as the article suggests, we Canadians have a more lax attitude about porn than our American cousins.
After doing the odd straw poll on stage, I’m inclined to agree. The more interesting thing to me is that women are more open about the subject. Ten years ago, most women I knew looked at porn with disgust, and identified it with objectification. Now it seems the attitude can be best described by saying, “Put it on, and put it in me…”
Whenever I approach the subject from the stage, it’s the women who are the loudest. Their reaction is almost always positive. The impression I get is that more and more women are finding porn liberating, this to me is a notable change in attitude. Men on the other had are still afraid that an admission of this nature makes them look like perverts, so hence the best response I get are some tense looks and a lot of staring at feet.
Now I realize that socially, Canada has become a little more progressive. Our attitudes towards sex, drugs, and same sex relations have become more a little more European in nature. But the claims that were made in Dose, still strike me as odd for a number of reasons. 1) America is still the front-runner (by a large margin…) when it comes to making and distributing adult entertainment. 2) There can’t really that big a market for watching pastie white people bump uglies? 3) Name more than 2 Canadian porn stars without doing a google search… I bet you can’t. 4) I suspect that little of the Canadian production is for Canadian companies. I think it’s more likely that American companies are cashing in on the fact you can videotape a blowjob here for 15 percent less. (A bargain at half the savings…) 5) It’s hard enough to get a dramatic film shot in this country. I can only imagine how hard it is to get money to make a fuck film.
I'll leave my conjecture for you to debate.
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As a native of northern New York state and one who grew up listening as much to Canadian radio and television as I did to those on the southern side of the border, I am apalled by the crass arrogance the Bush administration displays toward the people of a country with whom we have been friends for nearly two centuries.
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