January 2010
35 posts
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Bad Romance by The Modern Elite...
December 2009
54 posts
“God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors...”
– Garrison Keillor
Women in Hollywood 2009 - At the Box Office but... →
“It’s hard to know why women have fared so badly in Hollywood in the last few decades, though any business that refers to its creations as product cannot, by definition, have much imagination. The vogue for comics and superheroes has generally forced women to sigh and squeal on the sidelines. Even the so-called independent sector, with its ostensibly different players and values, hasn’t been...
The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade →
Watch“Hell” - Tegan and Sara
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one...”
– Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“A couple of months after learning that she was about to be deployed to...”
– Kate Harding, “Lesbian soldier seeks asylum after death threats”
Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to... →
“So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a...
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s...”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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Reframing the Montréal Massacre
Feminist media criticism!
This is a phenomenal video! I used it when I used to teach mass communications.
How The Vancouver Olympics Is Fucking Over Your... →
“The artist shall at all times refrain from making any negative or derogatory remarks respecting VANOC (the organizing committee), the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic movement generally, Bell and/or other sponsors associated with VANOC.”
Words that will live in infamy…