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About the House of Orange

I first wanted to name this site ANHEDONIA and although it would have better suited the darker side of this website, it would in essence no doubt have become too depressing and pessimistic to ever visit again and would furthermore needlessly have been confused with adult entertainment. Funny, how the word “adult” takes on such diverse meanings, depending on the context in which it is used. For instance, a sign on a bar that says: “adults only” is perfectly acceptable. A business card that states “adult film star” would raise expectations by some, but eyebrows with most people

Let’s be honest, anhedonia is too dull to contemplate, even as a fashionable mental anguish for Hollywood film stars. There is no need here to highlight the many causes for severe depression that we face when dealing with modern day life (whatever that means), but there are triggers. Depression is inescapable; it grabs us by the throat.

Unavoidably, the mind makes connexions that trigger our moods. So for a healthy dose of Depression (a happy contradiction in terms), focus on the following:

• television and news papers
• people’s topics of conversation and related drivel (augmented by their abuse of the English language) in cafeterias, coffee shops , trains, trams, planes, car pool vehicles, buses, lifts (elevators to some), hospital waiting rooms, check-out lines and other places described by hyphenated words. We fear SILENCE. That is why we babble, bring ghetto blasters to beaches and parks, celebrate long weekends sitting out on the balcony or back garden getting progressively drunker (how else can Canadians have fun?) and louder as the hour gets later, take our snowmobiles to remote places or go jet skiing. Let’s face it, Nature has to be enjoyed, but not without inserting some of the blessings of our civilisation, like a customs officer conducting a body search of a suspected drug runner
• faked friendliness of sales clerks
• music that seeps from supermarket ceilings like a venereal disease.

the list goes on, ad infinitem.

But there is HOPE and this site can become your sanctuary when looking for:

• a place to uplift our spirits
• a site to enjoy the Arts
• a healthy dose of Political Satire (yes, capitalised)
• a way to change the world and start the Revolution again. To re-enter an era where people have decided to think for themselves and continuously question authority; - a time for television interviewers to actually ask clear and tough questions of politicians and not let them get away with cowardly avoidance; a chance for North American news stations to again become independent, staffed with intelligent people who are not employed by Corporate CanAmerica. A time for us to change from consumers to critical, self-aware human beings and tell Corporate CanAmerica that we have won and they have lost (please keep doing what you are doing, Noam Chomsky);
• a site filled with run-on sentences where you can actually practise your language skills again.
• a site where you can participate, submit your ideas, share your opinions and even your humour;
• a site where you can make fun of everybody and anybody over the age of eighteen and where you can contribute (if you want) to proper English (or French), with proper sentences, proper grammar and syntax and where you can even make new language, as long as it is smart, funny or plain cool and not borne of laziness or just bad schooling by incompetent teachers, of which there are still too many in this country.
  

Now, THAT would be truly creative, would it not?