Okay. Gotta do this. No backing down now. Normal wisdom says it won’t work. A blog post, missing … um … with this proviso, could I still do this? Can I post a thousand words in a blog without any shortcuts, any configurations, only applying diction with a non-consonant missing? Tough. Mighty tough. But I…
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A Prayer for Kristie
I never want to see something like this happen to anyone. Ever. But when I received this video clip from a friend of mine via Facebook – well … Background. Once upon a time, a beautiful girl named Kristie Tunick fell in love with the man of her dreams, a guy named Brian Mendenhall. They…
Read MoreMockingbird Marathon Pictures
What a great event last Saturday at the Stuyvesant Plaza Book House. The “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill A Saturday” event started at 9:00 a.m., and continued until the final page was read at about 9:30 p.m. And take a look at all the luminaries who read for the event! The full list is below. Mary…
Read MoreMoving the Mockingbird Marathon to Stuyvesant Plaza
I got the message from the “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill a Saturday” organizers the other day, that the event will be relocated from Townsend Park Bakery to the Stuyvesant Plaza Book House this coming Saturday. Okay, now there’s parking available, which is good. There’s been a lot of great things involving the Mockingbird Marathon, at…
Read MoreThe Gold Record – how to lose it and how to get it back
They are status symbols for every musician, producer, singer, arranger, songwriter or radio station. They are framed copies of popular albums and singles – but instead of a store-bought record in the frame, the record itself is made of gold. And underneath the record is a special plaque, honoring that person as being part of…
Read MoreUnited Airlines, “Passenger 1” and me – the greatest flight ever
I wasn’t planning on flying on October 27th. I was planning on going home, scanning in some Kodachrome slides that arrived from Dwayne’s Photo, and maybe watching a bit of the World Series. My travel plans were originally set for the next day, October 28th – a trip to Chicago for the Premier Basketball League,…
Read MoreCould an Islamic sitcom be a hit in America?
Throughout the history of television, there have been several TV shows in which the original concept of the show – a comedy about being a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, for example – might seem, on the top, a bit uncomfortable. So how is it that one of Canada’s most popular homegrown television shows…
Read MoreSome Television Theme Show Mash-ups
There’s a lot of these on YouTube of late. Some enterprising fan likes two different television shows, and decides to take clips from Show A, and create a TV opening theme that resembles Show B. Some of them are pretty inspired, some of them are just insipid. I’ll leave that for you to decide. Have…
Read MoreWanna watch a TV sitcom about curling?
Background. In the fall of 2002, I was in Ottawa for a few days on a business trip. I had one day to myself, and decided to just go mall-walking at the local shopping center in downtown Ottawa. The mall had a multi-screen theater in the shopping center, and I needed to kill a few…
Read MoreTen Great “Filmation” Shows
If you’re a fan of classic Saturday morning kids’ fare, you know that there were several production companies filling the networks with Saturday morning animated and live-action programs. And if I rattled those names off right now, you’d remember your favorite shows as produced by those production companies. Of course, Hanna-Barbera was the top Saturday…
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