About Me…
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I’ve been writing provocatively on-line since around 1998: about Canadian film/TV, Canadian culture & identity, as well as about comic books and graphic novels. But I also occasionally write fiction, with stories published in Strange Horizons, Daily SF, On Spec, the acclaimed Tesseracts anthology (the 19th volume), and other places over the years. I mention this because I’ve put out a few pulp story collections. And if you enjoy this blog, essays, reviews, and/or any of my websites, one way to show support would be to check out MY FICTION COLLECTIONS and, if they look interesting…buy one! It ain’t PATREON or anything, but it’s a way of showing you think what I’ve been doing is worth doing, and would help keep this blog and the websites up.
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Films or Filmmakers — where does the problem lie?
Why do Canadian movies have so much trouble finding success? Particularly at the box office, but even critically? Canada, after all, is a G7 nation — one of the richest in the world. So although the budgets for Canadian … Continue reading
Yeah, But… (The Rozema Manifesto)
I was doing a bit of Googling to check a couple of facts and ideas for my next post and I came upon this recent Globe and Mail piece by filmmaker Patricia Rozema that was billed as a “manifesto” for … Continue reading
The “Do What I Say, Not What I Do” School of Commentary
AMUSING POST-SCRIPT DEPARTMENT (a follow-up to my previous post): Yoni Goldstein’s piece about how terrible ALL Canadian TV is did receive a few comments on the Huffington Post – Canada site — strongly disagreeing with him. This then led to … Continue reading
Hating Canadian TV — it’s fun, easy, and requires no rational thought
So I was idly perusing a few editorials at the conservative website, Huffington Post – Canada, when… Sorry…what’s that you say? Isn’t Huffington Post considered a liberal website? you ask. No, no, you’re thinking of the American Huffington Post. Some … Continue reading
Cutting the CBC…
In the recent government budget that was announced, the budget for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been cut by a few million over the next few years (10 percent over three years…whatever that means). I wasn’t necessarily going to … Continue reading
