Office Hours #109, 6-7 May 2022
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Friday, 6 May 2022
20:00 (08:00 pm)
- Greetings, Salutations, Invocation w/David
21:00 (09:00 pm)
- Evening Schedule and Community Shart Outs
Quick review of the evening schedule followed by whomever would like to do a shart out about…
22:00 (10:00 pm)
- Interview About Nordic Symbols being used by White Supremacy w/Walter K.
The Soldiers of Odin—a Finnish white supremacist movement named after another Norse god in 2015—have recently emerged in Alberta and throughout Canada.
Dr Natalie Van Deusen, Scandinavian studies of the University Of Alberta, will join us for a discussion and anwser.
In her popular courses on the religion and culture of the Viking Age and Nordic Middle Ages, Van Deusen is careful to highlight the flourishing ethnic and cultural exchange among Nordic people of the time—mainly the late eighth to early 11th centuries—including their relationships with the Sámi, indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia.
23:00 (11:00 pm)
- A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)
Saturday, 7 May 2022
00:00 (00:00 am)
- Let’s Make Hummus Together w/Joe in Norway
We’ll walk through all the important steps it take to get to a luxurious legume paste. Along the way hopefully we overcome unforeseen problems, get heckled by the crowd and return in kind.
If you would like to join and cook-a-along these are the things you’ll need:
- 500g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight (see note)
- Tahini (raw, sometimes called white), try to get Lebanese/Syrian rather than Turkish style which is roasted
- Fresh garlic
- 1 yellow onion
- Lemon or lime
- Fresh parsley (several sprigs)
- Ground cumin (or whole toasted and ground)
- Sea salt
- Baking soda
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Any of the following for garnish: pinenuts, ground paprika, ground sumac, cured olives (if you are @andy ground venison)
- Pita or some suitable gluten conveyor
- Food processor or bean masher, bowl, whisk
Note: If you do not have a pressure cooker / Instapot you can pick up 2 x tinned cooked chickpeas and we’ll make do with that.
01:00 (01:00 am)
- Available
The Witching Hours Session⌗
Open discussion.
Morning Session⌗
10:30 (10:30 am)
- Course: Jewish and Muslim Parables and Philosophical Fictions w/Prof. Adnan Husain (Donate)
Reading: Babylonian Talmud Bavli Berakhot 55b (The Rabbinic Dreambook), Artemidorus, Hadith on Dreaming, Aristotle and Freud.
Afternoon Session⌗
12:00 (12:00 pm)
- Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah
13:00 (01:00 pm)
- More Hammer and Sickle
14:00 (02:00 pm)
- Weekly Marx Reading Group
15:00 (03:00 pm)
- More Weekly Marx
16:00 (04:00 pm)
- Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)
Evening Session⌗
17:00 (05:00 pm)
- Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story w/Lane
Documentary viewing of the story of how a Memphis multi-racial homegrown soul label became a voice torch for the civil rights movement and a voice for black power.
19:00 (07:00 pm)
- The Wind Down with David Feldman
Note: all times are EST.
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