About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: Steff Rants
A couple months ago, I proposed to talk about writing for therapy, how to kinda “go there”, via blogging. The conference was yesterday. It was an “unconference” put on by end-patients and people who work on the peripheries of mental care. Why did I want to get involved? For a million reasons. I’ll get to [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Hygiene & Health, Journalling, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Psychology & Moods, Society, blogging, internet, keeping it real, writing Tagged absenteeism, assholes, depression, insantiy, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, pettiness, public speaking, rant, sick, small-minded people, spineless, stigma, stimatizing 14 Comments
Jul
01
2010
RANT: Elite? Who’s “Elite”?
Yesterday, someone in the Vancouver social media scene* sort of thought it ironic that I should slag “tweetups” as being elitist and circle-jerky, since I was avoiding the whole worldwide “Social Media Appreciation Day” thing that Mashable sponsored and launched right here in Vancouver. Apparently the thought is that I am now “elite” in Vancouver. [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Communication, Dimestore Philosophy, Facebook, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, Twitter, blogging, internet, keeping it real, writing Tagged blogging, elite, facebook, following, image, image-making, images, influence, IRL, klout, life online, online life, perceptions, personas, reality, snobbery, social class, social media, socmed, Twitter, writing 3 Comments
Jun
29
2010
Diving into Safety Head-First
We have helmet laws here in British Columbia. Even if we didn’t, I’d be wearing mine. One saved my life. And still I’m different than I used to be. When I saw this article come up on Twitter, I got pretty choked about it. I started thinking of the friends I’ve seen riding without a helmet [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Hygiene & Health, Journalling, Laws, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Twitter, keeping it real Tagged accidents, brain damage, bump on the head, change your life, changing your life, coma, concussion, doing it wrong, head injuries, health, helmet safety, helmets, hurting your head, msp, preventable, what not to do 12 Comments
Jun
28
2010
An Open Letter to Our Planet
Dear Mother Earth: I’m not an environmentalist, I never have been. I’ve never donated to Greenpeace, probably never will. I’ve never protested on your behalf. But it doesn’t mean I don’t love you. I’ve not been religious since my childhood, but I have no doubt there’s something bigger than me — all I need do is [...]
Also posted in Current Events, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Twitter, keeping it real Tagged environment, environmental action, garbage island, garbage patch, Green, greenpeace, Gulf of Mexico, mother earth, mother nature, nature, ocean, oil, pacific garbage, plastic, pollution, save the earth, saving the planet, TEDxOilSpill 2 Comments
Jun
04
2010
Fuck You, Hollywood.
We’re witnessing the end of an empire at the box office. Sex and the City 2 is lying there like a dead fish, with all the appeal of a used-up 45-year-old prostitute after a night of chasing 8-balls with gin after running the line for a sex-train at a frat party. Naturally, Hollywood is CONVINCED it’s [...]
Also posted in Being me, Consumerism, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Hollywood, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Women's Department, feminism, keeping it real Tagged bad movies, box office, carrie bradshaw, cliche, failure, feminism, Hollywood, kim catrall, movies, mr. big, new york, sarah jessica parker, satc2, sex and the city 2, Sexism, stereotypes, stupidity 6 Comments
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