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[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
I'm impressed. I was nowhere near that much of a radical when I was two -- I spent that year in the kind of existential dread and ennui that pretty much precludes political action, and my great quote of the year was "I'm bored because I'm going to die."
Radical political awareness had to wait until I was three.
At two I could pick Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro out of a lineup, but I wasn't sure why they both liked red so much.
Snerk, amych.
At two I could pick Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro out of a lineupMe too! Well, Mao and Trudeau, actually. My parents would point at the picture of Mao and say "Who's that?" and I would respond "Chai'Mao". Then they would point at the picture of Trudeau and ask "Who's that?" and I'd say "Lackey Trudeau," which was, naturally, short for "Trudeau, lackey of US imperialism."
I'm impressed as well. I was four before I could tell you which presidential candidates were crooked and which were womanizers.
Of course, at the time I thought 'zipper problem' meant their fly wouldn't stay up and wondered why they didn't use buttons instead.
I'm incredibly apolitical now, but I used to have pictures of Thatcher and Indira Gandhi (I know, I know) up on my wall when I was 8, and the J'can MP I crushed on hardest then is now our Prime Minister, and it still gives me a warm feeling inside.
But now I'm shallow and care not of those workings.
My first memories are of being at demonstrations, but now I'm really nervous of attracting governmental attention. I'm still trying to work up the nerve to write to the government to say I'm in favour of same-sex marriage. I am wussy.
So, what Haligonistas want to go see Shaggy next month!?
He seems to be the only international artist, under 50 who comes here on any regular basis.
My first memories are of being at demonstrations, but now I'm really nervous of attracting governmental attention.
Because of your revolutionary past?
More from growing up knowing that the RCMP keeps files on everyone, and that the phone could be tapped and so forth. In high school I used to kind of wish that our phone was tapped so that the RCMP would have to listen to hours of physics homework every night.
I'm still trying to work up the nerve to write to the government to say I'm in favour of same-sex marriage
They might to be as unreceptive as you think since Nova Scotia (the no sunday shopping province) recently expanded it's definition of common-law partner to include same sex relationships, and granted the same rights as for heterosexual partners. Nova Scotia was actually the first province to do this.
Nova Scotia became the first province in Canada to create legislation recognizing same-sex relationships. For $15 a couple can "register a domestic partnership" at the Office of Vital Statistics. This will give them a number of rights under about 20 matrimonial laws which cover everything from pensions and wills to medical decisions, ownership of joint property, the right to request alimony, and child support. It does not give them the right to adopt children. Also, the province will not recognize union ceremonies performed in church. Couples will have to register with the government directly. Of course, nothing would prevent them from registering with the Office of Vital Statistics and then attending a commitment or union ceremony at a Unitarian Universalist, Jewish Reform or other religious institution.