The Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was banned from Canadian radio by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), who ruled that “the song violates the industry’s code of ethics because the lyrics include the word “faggot” three times.” This comes on the heels of the recent sanitizing of the Mark Twain classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. […]
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Turn back the hands of time
November 1st, 2009
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In honour of daylight savings time ending today, I offer you a soulful gem from Tyrone Davis. Tyrone Davis — Turn Back The Hands Uploaded by DwightFrye. — See the latest featured music videos.
Saturday night was all right
July 7th, 2009
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The recent spate of celebrity deaths have taken some amazing and talented people away from us. Ed McMahon, sidekick and Publisher’s Clearing House spokesman, was part of my parent’s Tonight Show, which I shunned because my 14-year-old, punk-ass self, completely consumed with the sardonic humour of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, thought it was passé. (It was only when I bought […]
2008: Hear, hear!
December 31st, 2008
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I’ve always been more of a movie buff so this should be a list of the best movies I’ve seen in 2008. However, with the exorbitant prices of theatre tickets and my misanthropic dislike of the common theatre-going public, I either wait for my movies to come on The Movie Network or I see them at the reperatory cinemas. […]
