journal features

whining about the olympics

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.02.17

Thank God all this nonsense with the figure skating is over with. How un-Canadian to whine. Don't these people know that we're a brooding people?

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel