I, Ron, eek!

Where I, Ron, blog on a variety of different subjects--social theoretical, historical, cultural, political, social ethical, the media, and so on (I got the Max Weber, the Mark Twain, and the Stephen Leacock in me)--in a sometimes Niebuhrian or ironic way all with an attitude. Enjoy. Disagree. Be very afraid particularly if you have a socially and culturally constructed irrational fear of anything over 140 characters.

Wednesday, 1 April 2026

The Books of My Life: Hollywood Cinema (Maltby)

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  In Hitchcock’s Films , Robin Wood's seminal study of several of the American films of director Alfred Hitchcock, Wood opens the book b...
Sunday, 29 March 2026

Life as Crisis Management: The Costco Kiada (aka, the Costco Muck-up)

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  I recently decided to join the Costco Club. I did it for several reasons. First, Costco is coming to where I live and I wanted to have a m...
Thursday, 12 March 2026

If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Musings on Movies, Evaluating Movies, and Cultural Capital

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  Last night I watched two movies on the over the air Movie channel: Prime Cut (1972) and End of the Game (1976). I had seen both films be...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

A Critical Ethnography of Social Media: Southernbelle Reacts Reacts to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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The theory of human devolution, the notion that humans are deeply flawed, that humans have devolved rather than evolved or that devolution a...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Musings on Capitalist Free Enterprise...Again...

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  The profitic prophets of free enterprise capitalism, cheerleaders and demagogues that they inherently are, like to claim that nobody does ...
Monday, 2 March 2026

The Books of My Life: Racism, Sexism, and the University

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  In June of 1992 twelve graduate students in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver sent an an...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Anne of Windy Willows, Anne of Windy Poplars, and the Fine Art of Being Sparing With the Truth

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  I think I was around five years old when my mother started buying books for me to read. It was strange because neither my mum, who came fr...
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Ronald Helfrich Jnr.
Who am I? Wow, tough question. I am a hybrid, a blend of "genres". I am a son, a friend, a father, a lover of some art cinema (Rohmer, Rivette, Hawks, Hitchcock...), a devotee of some things Joss Whedon including Buffy and Firefly), a lover of some television (Forbrydelsen, Broen, Lewis, Morse,The Good Life...), an intellectual (or so I would like to think), a culture critic, an author, a romantic smacked in the face by reality, a cynic, a misanthrope, a lover of social theory and cultural theory, a researcher, a continuing student, a lover of knowledge for knowledge's sake, a teacher, someone bored by the banality of life, a lover of music (classical, Beethoven, Mahler, Ravel, Shostakovich, Rush, Midnight Oil, Richard Thompson, Crowded House...), a lover of books, a collector of DVD's, and a secularist among other things. I am, like we all are, to some extent, a work in progress. I see my blog as a kind of electronic journal so it is, like me, a hybrid. I apologise for its infelicities and whatever inaccuracies exist in it.
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