Are we frightened, yet? If you are following the campaign which is now in Day Five and a bit, you should be. After all, you’ve been warned. A vote for the underdog is going to put Canadian Unity in danger. Stevie said so, and he’d never lie. He told me that, too.
posted in environment, politics | Comments Off on What if there is a greener way? | 309 words
Throw a mix of Beethoven sonatas into the soundtrack, get rid of the colour (black and white is the only way to make a movie about the earlier times feel real), let Billy Bob Thornton do both the lead role and the narrational voice, and then sit back and watch the master at work. I have to tell you about a movie I watched this afternoon, because it was actually much better than I would have expected. A gestalt effect, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
posted in media | Comments Off on The Man Who Wasn’t There | 267 words
Somehow a bit of snow seems like a blessing, when I see the news footage from southern California. Wildfires are exactly that. In fact, there are times when the material resembles some webcam stuff from the edge of a live volcano in Hawaii. Five hundred thousand people on the move to someplace that is less like Dante’s sixth circle. Not exactly what their tourist bureau wants as an image for the rest of the continent.
posted in media | Comments Off on Burning down the house | 313 words
We’re too close to the end of the season. People are losing their focus. How else to explain that sixty million votes were cast (that’s about twice the population of Canada, as if we counted) on American Idol this week, and still Melinda Doolittle went home. Not once, but twice, in the same broadcast. As we head into the final week, the program just earned a renaming, to American Idle, because that’s what the braintrust was on this one.
posted in Idol | Comments Off on Sometimes the talent leaves | 322 words
I’ve got to hand it to Rex Murphy. He can go anywhere and turn any topic into something worth listening to. Tonight, the show originated in Thompson, MB and was an open discussion on movement to other communities to find a job. A topic worth of a sociology course, open to the nation.
posted in media | Comments Off on Intra-provincial economic mobility | 225 words
Off our east coast, the seal hunt is underway. A few people will make a small amount of money for very physically difficult work; an opportunity that may disappear within a few years.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Vacation choice | 164 words
