I want to know more about the unhinged performance art, but looking at your username I’m a bit apprehensive.

This past one, did some geocaching with my lovely lady, followed by a nap, some errands and popping into my local haunt for a pint and a little pinball (this has been becoming rarer as of late but I like stopping by and saying hi when the opportunity arises).

Been really into geocaching recently, it’s a fun excuse for a walk :)

Why do you think that? It’s as easy as striking up a short conversation with a waiter at a restaurant or someone at a coffee shop.

If someone chooses one tent pole thing to check out and otherwise just putzes around it doesn’t seem all that strange.

I LOVE Morel Orel. It’s shockingly heavy shit. Alone in particular fucking killed me.

Congratulations, you have now introduced me to Thee Ultra Bimboos and I will be forever grateful. Deep pool of stuff with this venue, excellent comment!

Edit: Holy shit, this place has been around forever! Found some stuff from a DVD rip for a show in 1974. God damn, thanks dude!

Not everyone likes your country-fried music, Bluegrass_Addict!

(This is a joke, good to hear from you dude. You are right, this is a glaring omission and has been rectified).

Unfortunately, I’ve only heard legends about Zaphods, missed the boat on that one personally. Lots of band footage on the web though!

Well whaddya know, we just got one of those ourselves! History Ottawa.

Will probably update as I think of more/add common genre family tags. If other Ottawans (the like between three or five of you I know are here) see this and want to add something, particularly for the defunct list, let me know.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada🇨🇦

Active
House of Targ
Dominion Tavern
Rainbow Bistro
Irene’s
Gabba Hey (active-ish, kinda sorta)
Cafe Nostalgica
Overflow Brewing Company
Bronson Centre (usually slightly bigger, by my definition, acts)
Avant Garde Bar (may need to phrase as Avant-Garde Bar sometimes)
Jazz@248 (also search Jazz 248 or Jazz248)
The Twenty Seven Club
Meow! That’s Hot
Minotaure (technically Hull but I’m adding it)
Live on Elgin
Red Bird

Defunct
Cafe Dekcuf
Barrymore’s
Brass Monkey
Ask a Punk (noted there might be some newer stuff tagged with this anyway)
Pressed Cafe (there was actually a series on local cable called ‘Live at Pressed’, if memory serves)
Zaphod Beeblebrox (also search just Zaphod’s)
Cinqhole
Glue Pot Pub (there’s also one in Australia you may get footage from)

First video I saw was for Electric Riders - oh fuck yeah bud, thank you!

I feel like this is something I’d hear discussed on the Park After Dark podcast (Trailer Park Boys thing, now with 100% less Bubbles for obvious reasons)

Just when I thought I was done with it forever, back to topics in Digital Humanities I go. Surely differences in generational attitudes towards AI art is something someone in a DH department has been diving deep on these days…

‘Ordinary’ is doing a lot of work here. I can think of a lot of ordinary people I’ve met who hate AI art. Seems more accurate to say that not everyone is put off by it.

Does seem to be a generational element though, with older generations not caring as much. Case in point is one of the pinball places here. The owner’s been an AI art enthusiast for a while, younger folks hate it to the point that they’ll actively avoid the place, the older ‘I was a pinball wizard in the 80s’ crowd don’t seem as bothered.

QUIET

Oh fuck they said it, HIT THE DECK!!!

IMO It’s some pretty dubious stuff, but you may find stuff about The Global Consciousness Project interesting.

Well that’s the point, you’re not supposed to, no matter how well it’s crafted or warm it is.

Gotta keep your comfy q***ts on the d/l.

There’s a word - starts with Q, ends with T. It is never to be uttered with regard to work conditions, ever.

Yes. One person in particular comes to mind - very nice guy, but has some obvious learning disabilities. He mispronounces words very often and mistates stuff frequently (a lot of ‘hims is’, that kind of thing). He doesn’t seem to have much of an inner life, though perhaps its more that he doesn’t have the facility with language to express himself well. He also doesn’t seem to understand a lot of things that people around him talk about.

But he’s a kind dude - frankly, that’s the important bit imo.

Most of the other folks I’ve met and considered dumb were seen only for limited duration and in specific contexts. They might indeed be, on the whole, dumb. But I’ve always felt those small interactions aren’t enough evidence of that - after all, I’ve met objectively brilliant people that, in certain contexts, have done phenomenally dumb things. Heck, we all do (or rather, I sure as fuck have).

For demonstration of this theory, see Pink Flamingos

I think the unspoken part here is the frame of reference used when defining what the norm actually is. Something your family does that you also do can be considered normal in that context, but abnormal in your wider community. Something people in your community do (Mennonites driving horse and buggies comes to mind) might be considered normal in that context, but abnormal within the broader society that community exists in relation with.

So someone could be doing something they consider to be normal that, from a broader or different perspective, would be abnormal. And it’s usually exposure to that outside/broader position that characterizes behaviour you’d consider normal as abnormal - it’s exposure to a different frame of reference for normalcy.

Yay semantics!

How I do it: Make text, create a new background layer, make the same text but slightly bigger in the colour you want your outline to be, align background text as needed. Save as .png and import into new image if you’re looking to add the outlined text to somewhere else (though I suppose you can just merge layers, I do my crap in fits and spurts so I often prefer having the little pieces as discrete files so it’s easier to come back to it. Also I’ve fucked up and merged when I probably shouldn’t have a LOT).

Takes some futzing about for sure but that’s part of the fun for me.

Edit: Super shitty outline done just by doing the same font size bolded in black. Can obviously be done much better but you’ll get the idea.