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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The Wrong About “The Right Kind of Wrong”
(And no — I don’t know why there are no paragraph breaks! Technology sucks!) Canadian film seems to go through phases. Much to my surprise there’s been a recent spat of something that used to be a fairly rare beast … Continue reading
Seed — the logic of comedy
Another Huff Post piece: Seed and the Logic of the Sitcom I’m trying different types of posts to see what people respond to (my last few posts have all received at least a few comments in the comments section — … Continue reading
A Review of Masked Mosaic
I’ve written a couple of times before about the new short story anthology, Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (ed. Claude Lalumière and Camille Alexa) from Tyche Books. Mainly because I have a story published in it: “The Secret History of … Continue reading
Canadian TV Too Sexy?…and Star Trek: Kirk vs. Kirk!
Okay, yeah, that title’s an odd combo but I realized I forget to mention a previous post a few days ago — so I’m covering two at once. So, two links to Huffington Post pieces I did: Is Canadian TV … Continue reading
Orphan Black — Take Two
My general “policy” when reviewing TV series for my Great Canadian Guide to the Movies and TV site is to watch at least three episodes before setting down an “official” opinion. After all, TV series can take a few episodes … Continue reading
Orphan Black: The Good, The Bad…and The Canadian
Recently the Space Channel has premiered a new sci-fi thriller called Orphan Black — and in a rarity for Canadian TV, it actually seems to be getting a fair amount of press coverage. That may be partly because many of … Continue reading
What Lurks Behind TV’s “Motive”?
Another link to a Huffington Post piece by moi. From Wojeck to Flashpoint: The CanCon Roots of TV’s Motive (In which I reference everything from Motive to The Murdoch Mysteries, from Street Legal to Neon Rider, from Cracked to Saving Hope to Night … Continue reading
Seriously — Are You F*****g Kidding Me?!? or: The Embarrassed Canadian
What inspired that incendiary headline was a recent episode of the Canada-made sitcom, Seed. Now I’ve written about Seed a couple of times before in pieces at Huffington Post Canada (here and here), so let me just say: no, I … Continue reading
Masked Mosaic — Canadian super heroes and how I could’a beat Rick Mercer to a gag
A lot of people blog about themselves. That’s what many readers find interesting — often popular blogs being quasi-diaries. I’ve never been that good at the “personal” stuff. I’ve written extensively on the internet for years, but it tends to … Continue reading
Oliver Sherman — and (my) problems with Canadian films
I want to write about the movie Oliver Sherman, which I just caught on DVD. It might seem odd to devote an entire blog post to a movie from some three or so years ago, and one that isn’t that … Continue reading
