John Hughes passed away yes­ter­day and the news made me sad and a lit­tle melancholic. You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in the movie the­atres when they were re­leased (when ad­mis­sion was only $4!). Hughes’ char­ac­ters be­came very per­sonal to me; some­how, this 30-something adult male […]

Bettie Page, fifties pinup queen and sex­ual pi­o­neer, passed away yes­ter­day at the age of 85. She wasn’t as hugely pop­u­lar as Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield or other sex sym­bols of her gen­er­a­tion, but still man­aged to de­velop a huge cult-like fol­low­ing, de­spite giv­ing up the busi­ness in 1959 to de­vote her­self to God. 
I’ve been a fan of Bettie […]

Forgive me. It’s been two months since my last post. My men­tal en­er­gies have been de­voted to school, school, school. Now that the worst is over, I can re­turn to my mus­ings.
Here are some from the past few weeks:
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I at­tended an IABC sem­i­nar a few weeks ago (All-Star Social Media). Shel Holtz gave a great pre­sen­ta­tion on the communicator’s […]

A mas­sive fire broke out this morn­ing on Queen Street West.

I ini­tially found out about the fire on a friend’s Facebook sta­tus up­date. The above photo came from BlogTO, one of my pri­mary re­sources for news on my city. The Star’s web­site even refers its read­ers to Flickr for more cov­er­age of the fire. Our friends […]

I love Tina Fey. In this world of Paris Hiltons, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohans, Tina is like the fresh air of the coun­try blow­ing in your face af­ter es­cap­ing the smog of the city . She’s in­tel­li­gent, witty, the cre­ator and star of one of the best shows on tele­vi­sion — 30 Rock — and was for­merly the […]