Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Dear Blank: the death of the letter and the human soul
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For thirty years of my life, I was a prodigious letter-writer, but not now. I just don't do it any more, nor do I know anyone who d...
What do you give a woman who has everything?
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Knitted corn! Bentley with knitted corn. The corn knitter with knitted corn! Crystal liked these very much. I am...
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Why do books change?
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In my long (long LONG long) stint as a book reviewer, I reviewed well over 300 titles for the likes of the Globe and Mail, Montrea...
Election
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
It's cartoon time! The crazy world of Hieronymus Bosch
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Galloping into oblivion
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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Puget Sound, near the city of Tacoma, Washington, USA November 7, 1940 Background: The origina...
Friday, July 29, 2016
Logomania: or, the eagle bites the bolt
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Ancient TV logos are a happy obsession of mine, though some would say there are no happy obsessions (but there are, Blanche, there ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Beyond awful: two more shitcoms that never should have existed
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This is the only epsisode of Heil Honey I'm Home ever aired. No one knows how many were made. The rest were buried in a concrete bu...
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