Monthly Archives May 2007

Flying Higher

So the CBC previewed its new fall TV lineup today. When I arrived at work this morning, the lobby of the Broadcasting Centre was adorned with large posters not unlike this:

One of the posters features the “Flying Higher” slogan with an image of George Stroumboulopoulos floating in mid-air. Another features the cast of Dragon’s […]

Jim Dupree: Official Festival Selection Enthusiast

So a year ago, Tristan and I made thirty episodes of a video podcast called Jim Dupree: Enthusiast. It was reasonably well-received, so we stopped doing it.
Now it turns out that videoblogger extraordinaire Steve Garfield is a curator at The American Film Institute’s Pixelodeon festival in Los Angeles this year. And he’s included Jim Dupree: […]

Trivial Pursuit ketchup

On Saturday afternoon, Jenna and I went to the Hero Certified Burger at King and Yonge for lunch. I grabbed a handful of those little ketchup packets, and noticed that Heinz now prints Trivial Pursuit questions on their single-serving ketchups:

This is a great idea.
But it falls short online. As far as I can tell, the […]

The Canaries are now on iTunes

So I’m in a band, and we’re called The Canaries. A few months back, we made a recording, and had a bunch of CDs pressed. Several hundred, if I recall correctly. Though we’ve not yet “officially” released the CD, we’ve sold them at the past couple of shows.
And now, according to Frank, you can buy […]

TVO is seriously showing up the CBC

Today, when I checked out the Democracy Channel Guide, I noticed that The Agenda with Steve Paikin is available as a video podcast. If you don’t know (or don’t live in Ontario) The Agenda is TVO’s daily current affairs program, and it’s excellent. As a podcast, they offer the entire program as a large downloadable […]

Variety is the spice of life

This past weekend, I went from this pair of eyeglasses:

to this pair of eyeglasses: