Category Archives: Current Events

Feb
13
2010

Further Thoughts Against Olympics “Protesters”

The Games opened yesterday with the start of what I suspect will persist throughout the Games — agitators doing everything they could to dampen the party.
As the ceremonies occurred, protesters tried to push their way there, and the inevitable clash with authorities ensued. Two cops suffered minor injuries, but no protesters were harmed.
Here’s my thinking, [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Steff Rants, keeping it real | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (43)
Feb
11
2010

An Open Letter to Anti-2010-Olympics Protestors

Hi. I’m Steffani, and I’m a lifelong Vancouverite.
I voted “YES” in the Olympics plebiscite “back in the day,” when we lowly democratic peons had the chance to vote on the once-every-four-years-party that, you know, would cost a few bucks to put on.
Now, I know, that voting day was such a sunny, beautiful day so many [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, keeping it real | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (43)
Jan
30
2010

Superbowl Ad Controversy: ARE YOU JOKING?

Stop the sanctimony, PLEASE.
You know why CBS should have rejected the Mancrunch ad? BECAUSE IT’S A FUCKING STUPID AD.
It’s bad acting, bad writing, cheap filming, lame directing, and zero spent on production values.
The Superbowl is where the best commercials in the world come to play, not stupid frat-boy humour shot for $20 and a bag [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Gay or Straight?, Hollywood, Steff Rants | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)
Dec
16
2009

Things to Remember This Christmas

Since 1998, I’ve had every kind of Christmas imaginable. Lonely, magnificent, rich, broke, injured, healthy, in love, out of love. Had ‘em all.
I was raised to believe in the magic of Christmas. We’d have a houseful of people singing carols, Dad would make his famous cardiac eggnog, the house was full of decorations and laughter, [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in General, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, keeping it real | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)
Oct
06
2009

Polanski Finally Pays, Hallelujah

This op-ed assumes you know that: Roman Polanski was convicted of “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor” in ‘78, in which he admitted plying a 13-year-old full of Quaaludes & booze with the intent of having sex with her in every manner possible. He pled guilty, public opinion came against the law who were going [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Steff Rants, keeping it real | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)
Oct
05
2009

A Far-Ranging Post on Letterman’s Sex Scandal

Ten years ago this week, I moved into my apartment. Wow. In the first few months, I was at home a lot. My mother had just died. When I socialized, I’d have people over. The rest of the time I spent in a blur of drunkenness, dope, and getting by in my dayjob at a [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Ethics, Hollywood, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Steff Rants, keeping it real | Comments (0)
Sep
04
2009

Social Media Pecking Order? Must We?

I believe I’ve put my foot in it, so I thought I might as well squish it around and make a real good mess. What the hell, right?
I’ve sort of smack-talked Vancouvers “social media” scene when I read the always-awesome Raul/Hummingbird604’s blog post on same [Where is the Diversity...?] earlier today. First off, I should [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Communication, Dimestore Philosophy, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Steff Rants, keeping it real | Comments (11)
Aug
13
2009

Citizen Steff Talks About Paint

I think this is an important topic more people should speak up about, because I’m tired of seeing my alleyways filling with furniture people could’ve reinvented with five bucks and a little imagination.
For about $110, I’m completely reinventing my living area. That includes building a new pantry for storage with MDF shelving, a gallon of [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in General, Life 101, Society | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Jul
22
2009

Pop Culture Smackdown

A lot has happened of late, both in my private world and the big ol’ real world, and I’ve been focusing mostly on me.
Let’s do something different here for a change. I’m gonna weigh in on some of the things Twitter and tabloids have been talking about from the last month or so.

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Opinion (Editorial & Commentary) | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
Jul
05
2009

Why I (Love to) Hate Facebook

There I am, second-last day of vacation, scouring my deck and cleaning my deck chairs. I bought the chairs about eight years ago now. As I scoured them down, a flood of old memories came back — drinks drunk as planes soared in across the southern horizon, headed for the airport’s runways, conversations nattered until [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Communication, Dimestore Philosophy, General, Journalling, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Twitter, keeping it real | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
Jun
17
2009

A Smattering of Happenings

I’m not very comfortable posting this because there are areas in here I’m not ready to be sharing, but this is what’s going on RIGHT NOW, and sometimes accounts of these things after-the-fact are overly sanitized. But what the fuck, I’ll share.
This is turning into a monumental week for me, a week of massive change [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Hygiene & Health, Specifically Steff | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)
May
29
2009

Archie and Veronica? Let the Stereotypes Perpetuate

Reinforcing the reality that more than half of all marriages embarked upon will end in catastrophic divorce, the news has come out that Archie has popped the big question to Veronica.
Are they getting married? Well, that will all depend. This could be (and likely is) all just a big ploy to get people reinterested in [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dating, General, Hollywood, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)
May
04
2009

Miss California: The Boobs Are on the Job

I had to doublecheck my old-school calendar just now. Holy fuck, it really is 2009. Who knew?
Clearly not the folks running the Miss California Pageant.
Yeah, Miss California. You remember her? Perez Hilton went all “oh, no you didn’t [SNAP]” as a result of the ass-backward beauty’s anti-gay marriage stance she posited while she grinned and [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dimestore Philosophy, How To Guides, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Steff Rants, feminism | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (5)
Apr
24
2009

RANT: You Think You’re A Feminist?

I can’t stand elitism. I can’t stand the “we’re better than you” mentality. And I sure as fuck can’t stand when someone’s got to get their hate on just to get ahead.
A particular blog post from someone in the sex blogging community is ridiculously sexist and moronic in its simplicity, in my opinion. Because I [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dimestore Philosophy, Ethics, General, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Sexism, Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Women's Department, feminism | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)
Apr
22
2009

RANT: BDSM Films are “Torture-Based” Porn?

One of the most offensive things to me is when journalists — people who are paid to get messages right — get things wrong.
Like here, in the San Francisco News, where they describe fetish films with bondage and sado-masochism as being “torture-based” films.
Talk about an economic stimulus. California taxpayers have paid $46,791 so that employees [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Laws, Lifestyle, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Sex, Society, Steff Rants, censorship | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (7)
Mar
27
2009

In Vino Veritas: Turning Points

[One of those into-and-almost-done-a-bottle-of-wine postings. Bear with me here.]
So, Mission: Get a Life is underway.
Making friends, for me? Not very hard. Not if I am myself. If I’m relaxed, content, sociable, people warm to me quickly and easily. And why not? I’m a good person. Better yet, I’m funny. I even make the aesthete’s basic [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dating, Dimestore Philosophy, Humour, Journalling, Lifestyle | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
Mar
21
2009

The Desire to be Spent

It’s before 7 on a Saturday morning. The naive plan was, I’d get up and go swimming. I’m up. My body tells me I’m a fucking fool. Sleep, it says.
So, I’m going to. I’ll go back to bed in a few. And I’m all right with that.
The reality is, though, that I’m starting to realize [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Hygiene & Health, Sex, Specifically Steff, fitness, weight loss | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
Feb
16
2009

a lament: to beg for a season’s end

a bath, a book, a glass of wine. a fine end to a mostly long day.
the book? elizabeth smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. poetric prose. love tryst. “homewrecking”, said moralistic critics of the time. swirling romance, says i. fitting for a tub.1940s classic lost for a couple of decades, then [...]

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Jan
27
2009

Saying What’s Meant and Meaning What’s Said

We, as a society, seem pretty lost on the subject of communicating these days.
Oh, sure, we’ve got the surfacing of it all down pat. We text each other. Email abounds. Blogging has given a voice to everyone we wish never had one. Twitter makes it possible to nanobroadcast your life. Coworkers instant message each other [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Communication, Dating, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Sex, Society, Specifically Steff | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)
Dec
18
2008

Let Rick Warren Speak.

This will offend a lot of people’s sentiments, and I don’t care, I’m saying it anyhow.
I am absolutely pro-gay rights. I am completely for gay marriage and gay adoption rights. I loathe violence against gays, and think “hate crimes” prosecutions should be used not only more frequently, but more vehemently.
That said, it’s times like these [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dimestore Philosophy, Gay or Straight?, Lifestyle, Marriage & Other Commitments, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)
Nov
10
2008

Update on Murder

It’s official — my brother’s friend was murdered by a filmmaker trying to recreate a death from the show Dexter. He had paid actors and everything. John, my bro’s now-deceased friend, was indeed lured to the garage in which he would be killed (as there is no corpse, but investigators say the “forensic evidence” gathered [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in Dating, Ethics, Laws, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, casual sex | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)
Nov
06
2008

Awash in the Afterglow

I’m still in the euphoric afterglow of Obama’s victory. I suspect many of us are. I’m looking forward to the stories we’ll hear from around the world about this. It’s more healing internationally than I suspect Americans can possibly imagine.
In its most flippant terms? I believe this vote means American college kids can stop sewing [...]

By A Scribe Called Steff | Also posted in History, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (11)