I had a very white weekend. Friday night, I went to an art show opening at a gallery on the edge of sketchville. The show was entitled "Orientalism and Ephemera" and was all about the "attraction and presence of the ‘East’ within our everyday experience." Which basically meant a combination of scruffy hipsters, self-consciously quirky artist types and folks in colourful "ethnic" garb swilling wine and talking about themselves. It was interesting, but very white. The next day, Saturday, I got up and did a 5K run (running being sort of my new "thing"). That evening we went out for dinner on socio-economically diverse Commercial Drive, then watched a video (aside: can we even call them "videos" any more?). Sunday, we cleaned our apartment and watched more movies: the German film "Mostly Martha" and "No Country for Old Men." Basically, more shit from that list.
Speaking of stuff white people like, this Tyee piece would make a great addition. I’ll give the writer points for self-awareness and for not being a self-righteous dink, but in a world where 90 per cent of the population doesn’t even have the luxury of choosing to not take a weekend getaway to Whistler, is this position really all that courageous?
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