Media

Back to Melonville (May 10, 2008)
After last week's post on Bob and Doug Mackenzie, I thought I should mention the dozens of classic SCTV videos on YouTube. Watching these stirs a bit of teenage nostalgia for me. Many of these episodes were filmed in Edmonton,...

How to get a mouse in a beer bottle (Apr 26, 2008)
My son has recently taken an interest in talking like a hoser. And rather than explaining how that whole caricature came to be, I've been looking through the original sketches on YouTube. They're not as funny as they were--probably due...

Serials (Nov 14, 2006)
I have in my drafts folders a long post about the rise, fall and rise again of serial storytelling. The thesis was basically this: About 130 years ago--give or take twenty years--serialized fiction reached its creative peak. And then for...

Earlier Posts

Nova's The Deadliest Plane Crash (Oct 20, 2006)

Galactica, Season One (Aug 24, 2006)

Mindfreak (Jun 8, 2006)

David Blaine's latest, uh, stunt (May 8, 2006)

The Search (Oct 21, 2005)

Summer of Karla (Jun 29, 2005)

Contrast (Sep 24, 2004)

The Fixer (Mar 14, 2004)

Story of a (missed) photo opportunity (Jul 18, 2003)

Good night, Alberta Report (Jun 30, 2003)

Those genius Orbitz ads (May 5, 2003)

Regarding Dubya (Apr 13, 2003)

Of 2002 (Jan 1, 2003)

Do publication bans still work? (Dec 11, 2002)

Merchants of Cool (Dec 6, 2002)

At the BearingPoint (Nov 26, 2002)

Ages five and up (Nov 23, 2002)

Thrift, c'est chic (Nov 18, 2002)

PaveRoadToHell("Big Gulp","44 oz.") (Oct 23, 2002)

Nothing Hilarious About It... (Oct 14, 2002)

Examining, if not completely understanding, the mass appeal of NBC's Friends (Oct 11, 2002)

Kazaa, P2P and Morality (Oct 2, 2002)

Remembering September 11/Sorting Out 'Evil' (Sep 5, 2002)

Mmmm... Mme. Le Pen (Aug 31, 2002)

Canada Day (Jul 1, 2002)

The Russell Mills Incident (Jun 23, 2002)

Internet Dropouts (Jun 12, 2002)

Blogosphere & Journalism (May 29, 2002)

Gay prom date (May 12, 2002)

I guess that's why they call it collateral damage (Apr 19, 2002)

New media's baggage (Apr 9, 2002)

Kim Phuc: The Myth of the Girl (Mar 4, 2002)