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Community centre in Dildo, Newfoundland, Aug. '09. Photo: JAC

Greetings and welcome to the inaugural edition of a new all-singing, all-dancing, self-reflexive, post-modern blog. Birth is messy and painful, and the outcome questionable—I don't expect this one to be any different. With this in mind, let me try to keep it simple; i.e., I'll attempt in as few words as possible to describe the scope of this creation.

My goal is to share my stock of conceptual jams, jellies, and preserves, both sweet and savoury, on the subject of our culture and its often wacky products and processes. I would like to tell you about my half-baked amateur theories on how it all functions and how pop-culture products reflect this.

Big topic, I know. I seem to be trying to force an octopus of an idea into a conceptual juice box.

I'll try again.

I'm interested in how we behave in society, and how our culture reflects and sometimes directs that behaviour through its stuff, such as movies, tv, media, material goods, values....well, pretty much everything. I often find cultural artifacts and events funny, but sometimes they're simply horrific. Either way, they're darned interesting. So allow me to invite those of you who share an interest to join me in my rambles, and maybe to do some hypothesizing of your own.