2010 June | New Media

Jun 30 2010

I’m Going To The Vancouver Blogger Meetup Today

Published by jnarvey under blogging,Vancouver Meetup

And so should you. Well, let me clarify that. You should attend the Vancouver Blogger Meetup today if you:

1. Live in Vancouver
2. Have a blog.
3. Want to promote said blog and other literary, artistic, theatrical or otherwise creative projects you’ve been busy with.
4. Might enjoy meeting other members of the west coast’s creative class.
5. Wouldn’t mind a pint of beer, glass of wine, or coca cola served with a straw at one of Vancouver’s finest spots on Commercial Drive.

Here’s the details:

Location
St. Augustine’s
2360 Commercial Drive
Vancouver

Date & Time
6:30 pm on Wednesday, June 30

How to find us
“Usually Jonathon, Shane and Raul bring their “Bloggable” t-shirts.”

Why should you come to the Vancouver Blogger Meetup? Here are 3 good reasons:

1. Attend this Vancouver Blogger Meetup and you could win two tickets to the Neanderthal Arts Festival. And you thought theatre was extinct!

2. Here’s your chance to tell other Vancouver bloggers about your blog so they’ll blog about your blog and then your blog will be the most famous blog in all of blog land.

3. Beer.

As usual, feel free to plug this event in your own blog post, tweet or message in a bottle. If you use Twitter, the official Twitter account for the Vancouver Blogger Meetup is @yvrblogmeetup.

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Jun 26 2010

Best Comment Yet On The G20 Protesters

Published by jnarvey under Canada,Canada G20 Protests,Current Events

From Twitter:

@chrislabossiere: I clearly see the link between burning police cruisers and ending poverty. Maybe punch an old lady too to stop global warming. #G20 #cdnpoli

Well, it’s pretty clear that the protesters in Toronto have violated the social contract by wearing masks and declaring war on the cops. As far as I’m concerned, the police can jail every last one of these masked thugs indefinitely.

There’s democratic protest and then there’s mob rule. I know which one I support and which one I condemn.

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Jun 24 2010

The View From Vancouver

Published by jnarvey under Canada,CityView,Vancouver

You can’t beat the view. Here’s my video from the top of Harbour Centre in the heart of downtown Vancouver. YouTube doesn’t quite do it justice — you really do have to be there. But it’s a rite of passage for longtime Vancouver residents and tourists alike.

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Jun 23 2010

My Latest Hate Mail From Illiterate Weirdos

Published by jnarvey under blogging,Current Events,Middle East,Turkey

Lately, I’ve been devoting a fair bit of blog space to Turkey’s role in the Middle East, so I’ve been receiving attention from a new class of weirdo.

I get a fair bit of hate mail from people who can barely spell, but this rambling stream of consciousness from muavenet_06@hotmail.com seemed funnier than usual. I especially enjoyed the part about genital herpes.

Jonathan narvey called sucka.someone is using your name to ask questions on yahoo travel Turkey section.

you better open your fukin eyes and stop this guy by reporting him.

if these are really your words about the kurdish,fukk you bastard.

Republic of Turkey is not a banana republic that will act w your comments.

Go deal with problems within Canada,as your soldiers are the most fat booty soldiers in nato,or %50 of your women suffers genital herpes.

The candle will not enlight it s bottom as i see you close your eyes to the problems in Canada but you deal with the problems of kurdish.

Kurdish got the best jobs and places on the coast of touristic cities earning more cash than any average Turkish citizen.

The ones who suffer from terrorare the ones who did not educate themselves and their kids.

If you do not speak the local language in any european country you get nothing.

We are Turkish and speaking Turkish since 1000 years.When we go to Afghanistan where you are strangers we speak Turkish and move on.

So don’t you get in to those matters again.

On a side note, someone really was impersonating my in the Yahoo! Travel Answers section. They were mis-spelling my name, but their intention was clear, since as far as I know, there are no other Jonathon (or Jonathan) Narvey’s in the universe. So I did report the impersonator.

By the way, muavenet_06@hotmail.com, I hope you noticed that my latest piece on Turkey got picked up by the National Post this morning. Enjoy.

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Jun 22 2010

A Case Study In Rhetoric

Published by jnarvey under Current Events,Middle East,terrorism,Turkey

Some interesting comments of late coming from Turkey’s leader, regarding Kurdish terrorist attacks:

“I say here very clearly, they will not win. They will gain nothing. They will melt away in their own darkness … they will drown in their own blood.” (The Guardian)

“Our fight will continue until the terrorist organization has been annihilated.” (BBC News)

Of course, Mr. Erdogan is very careful speaker and his words are not to be taken out of context. There are terrorists and then there are… whatever this Hamas guy is. Definitely not a terrorist, though.
hamas

The macho dude above is in Gaza. And you can’t be a terrorist and live in Gaza. Just like it’s impossible for a Muslim nation to commit genocide — which is certainly of great consolation to the victims of Darfur as well as a million or so dead Armenians.

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