Posts Tagged ‘Bonnie Dean’

Son of Son of a Pitch!

UPDATE to Son of a Pitch! The day af­ter the ar­rival of Cardboard Dave, the flesh-and-blood one called me. He sheep­ishly asked me if I re­ceived his pack­age, then stated that he wasn’t ego­tis­ti­cal; the idea was his mar­ket­ing de­part­ments. (Um, you are the VP of Integrated Marketing, so I as­sume you have a say in their cam­paigns?) In my […]

Podcamp Toronto 2009

I had the plea­sure of at­tend­ing Podcamp Toronto this past week­end. Over 600 peo­ple con­verged at the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson to lis­ten to their peers talk about new me­dia, so­cial net­work­ing sites, blog­ging and pod­cast­ing (natch). The two-day “un­con­fer­ence” was free, thanks to its many spon­sors, and of­fered a venue to for so­cial media […]

A Change is Gonna Come

Barack Hussein Obama, an African-American and son of a goat-hearder from Kenya, was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Read that sen­tence a few times and savour its de­li­cious­ness as it rolls off your tongue. In a coun­try whose iden­tity was shaped in large part by slavery, racism and a blind fear of the different, this is truly a mo­men­tous and his­toric occasion. Only a cold, cold heart […]

2008: Hear, hear!

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. […]

The Notorious Bettie Page, R.I.P.

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 […]

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