Currently enjoying Burial’s self-titled album

, December 7, 2010

Wait, so that’s what dubstep is? Well, this is excellent! Why did I sleep on Burial for so long? For that matter, who else should I be checking out? I’ve heard good things about this Breakage character.


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The Late Great Mark Dailey

, December 7, 2010

There isn’t an awful lot that I can say about the passing of Mark Dailey that hasn’t already been said by people all over Toronto since the news broke yesterday afternoon. The man was an institution in and of himself, and certainly a caring and beloved local figure. And although I wasn’t lucky enough to […]


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An annoying, unfunny, incompetent hero

, December 7, 2010

Hey, remember yesterday’s post about Golden Words and the potential insensitivity of its annual Montreal Massacre spread? Well, my friend and fellow former editor Peter Lynn, who was the first of many former staffers to show up in the comments following the post, expanded on his response in a post on his own blog. Why […]


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Link of the Day: Project Ploughshares

, December 7, 2010

“Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches’ call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound. “The mandate given to Project Ploughshares is to work with churches and related organizations, as well as governments […]


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This was back before “Family Guy” had built an entire empire on jokes about violence against women

, December 6, 2010

Back in university, I used to write for a campus paper called Golden Words. During my third year, in fact, I was one of its co-editors. It was Canada’s only weekly campus humour paper – and “Canada’s other national newspaper,” if our billing in those pre-National Post days could be believed. But it was also […]


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Get the Conservatives out of the pocket of the gun lobby, or get them off the Hill

, December 6, 2010

Speaking of time sensitive posts and the twenty-first anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, have you seen this?


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How much of a factor is timing when it comes to blogging?

, December 6, 2010

The bulk of the traffic my site gets, or at least that my individual posts get directly, comes from social media sites. In fact, there’s a good chance that you’re reading this post because you clicked a link on Twitter or Facebook. I’m using Twitterfeed to post links to new blog posts in my feed […]


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Everyone’s a DJ’s third anniversary party is happening this Saturday

, December 6, 2010

This Saturday night at Disgraceland, we’ll be celebrating the third anniversary of Everyone’s a DJ. As always, we’ll be hosting sixteen DJs, veterans and rookies alike, spinning all different kinds of great music. There are still a few open spots on the schedule at the time of this writing, so if you’d like one, do […]


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Link of the Day: The CBC’s “Montreal Massacre” archive

, December 6, 2010

It was twenty-one years ago today that Marc Lépine killed fourteen women at L’École Polytechnique in Montreal. They were killed because they were women, by a man who believed that feminism had ruined his life. The event has come to be known as the Montreal Massacre, and the day on which it took place has […]


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Link of the Day: Meetup.com

, December 5, 2010

Maybe this one is a bit obvious. But if you haven’t seen it yet, do check it out. A word of possibilities awaits you!


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