Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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2010 = 2009, Post Wise
Wow, it’s been a productive year here at Silent Cacophony. As of today, I have posted 214 blog entries this year. The total number of entries I posted last year = 214. So, for today only, 2010 = 2009 for the sheer number of blog posts I have published. It’s only August 9th and I’ve already […]
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Where The Ladies At?
“I’ve been known to talk about women on a track or twoI talk to womenI just can’t talk for women, that’s for youWe need more women for thatMore women in rapEven tracks like Kweli’s ‘Four Women’That’s still only half the view of the world.There’s no girls rapping so we only hearing half the truthWhat we […]
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Don’t Flaunt It
I found this image on the ever captivating Tumblfrog site and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. It really says a lot about how we perceive romance and love. Most people don’t even notice the small signs of affection that many men and women share with each other while out in public. I know […]
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Dorchester Mill Pond (Visual Tour)
“The Dorchester Mill Pond is located on the Dorchester Creek. It feeds into the Thames River and then into Lake St. Clair. The pond is fed by the streams of the Dorchester Swamp and agricultural land drainage. The Mill Pond Trail provides 3.5 km of walkways through a variety of natural habitats around the pond.” […]
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It’s Okay to Call Him NGA
This is the second part of the transcript of the interview I did with hip-hop artist Ngajuana, aka NGA. If you missed Part 1, you can go back and read it. You can also download this interview for free or stream it with the player at the bottom of the post. Without further ado, here […]
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Ngajuana – Don’t Dismiss the Name
Ngajuana has a controversial name. When I first heard this cat on the Internet, I wasn’t quite sure how to pronounce his name. When I learned how to, I was a bit uncomfortable calling him by his rap moniker simply because it starts off with the n-word and ends with the last two syllables of […]
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Chasing Content – August 2009
It’s that time again. As we approach a brand new month, we think of all the potential that lie in front of us over the next 31 days. Welcome to the latest installment of Chasing Content. This feature allows us to look back and see where Silent Cacophony was last year at this time. You […]
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Q&A vs Articles
I’m extremely lucky to be doing what I am doing. I never thought that my blog would open up so many doors for me. I started it primarily to be a platform to get my name known so that I could eventually get some of my fiction published. That was the original goal for this […]
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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Autograph
It was amazing to watch Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. They were just breath-taking on the ice. They captured the hearts of Canadians and viewers across the world while they also took home Gold Medals. I still can’t believe that I had the opportunity to meet and interview these […]
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A Beautiful Symbol
You can learn a lot from fiction, even a comic book. The panels below are from Y: The Last Man. This brief conversation made me pause and consider something that I’d never thought about before. Good fiction can always do that. Here’s a bit of a set-up for you. Yorick wants to buy a ring […]